Geek Out
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This Downhill Bike Race On A Glacier Is So Insane That Everyone Crashes
Video: You know you’re in some deep sludge of brown goo when a bike race starts and pretty much everyone around you immediately loses control and crashes. That’s what happens when you ride a bike downhill on a glacier. That’s what happens when you ride the Megavalanche race.
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Here’s The First Penile Prosthetic That Didn’t Stay Erect (NSFW)
Until the early 1970s, if problems with penile blood flow or nerve function meant a guy couldn’t get it up, his choices for treatment were pretty limited, and certainly did not mimic nature.
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Architect Of London’s Shard Explains How To Craft A Better Sandcastle
Here’s something to try once summer comes along (though judging from the last few weeks in Australia, that could be never). Architect Renzo Piano, the man behind The Shard in London, has a few tips on how to construct a sandcastle that should better withstand nature’s assaults.
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Electric Blue Fireworks Light Up The Sky Behind A C-130 Hercules Plane
Photo: Here’s a pretty picture perfect scene of fireworks exploding behind a C-130 Hercules aeroplane at Yokota Air Base, Japan. I like to imagine all those fanciful blue explosions as a swarm of alien planes that are waiting to come back to the mothership Hercules. Or something like that.