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It's pretty much conventional wisdom that you don't head to McDonald's for a healthy treat. And, if you've seen Fast Food Nation, you'll know that the chain's offerings have got a whole lot of icky ingredients. Though we don't really like to think about that while munching on a Big Mac, NYC artist Sally Davies did, creating the Happy Meal art project that provides evidence that Mickey D's food re
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We’re straddling the line between summer and fall. It’s cooling down but thoughts are still on one last trip to the beach before full committing to work and school. Why not celebrate this in-between time with fall flavors in a summer package?
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CLA researchers may be tripping, but they say a new study shows that magic mushrooms can help ease anxiety for patients with advanced-stage cancer.
Twelve volunteers were given psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, or a placebo. Then they were asked to lie down, wear dark eye shades and listen to music - in essence space out.
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The Transportation Security Administration has published new posters that explicitly insinuate that if you are taking a picture of an airplane, you must be a terrorist and be reported to the authorities.
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This well done documentary covers John Chiara's photographic process and work flow. It is well worth the seven minutes. Chiara shoots with a ultra-large format camera cityscapes by building his own equipment and processes. His intensely analog techniques capture something unique. He lives in san Francisco, california.
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Ridley Scott has teased that the prequels to his 1979 horror movie Alien will be "really nasty". The 72-year-old director, who recently revealed plot details of the upcoming films, warned Virgin Media that his intention to explore the back story of the extraterrestrial monsters would not make for easy viewing.
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Author Neal Stephenson has been credited for inspiring today’s virtual world startups with his novel Snow Crash. Now he’s launching a startup himself: Subutai, where he is co-founder and chairman.
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Matthew David McConaughey (born on November 4, 1969) is an American actor who had his breakout role in Dazed and Confused (1993). He is best known for his
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Richard Li sealed a deal over the weekend to pay about $500 million for part of American International Group Inc.'s asset-management business, a bold new venture for the Hong Kong tycoon after recent high-profile setbacks. read more...
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Here are some of the funniest accidents ever collected in one video clip!
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A collection of clips of people falling over and over and over again!
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Pat "HD" Barry High Kicking the Punch Machine in the CagePotato.com booth at the UFC Fan Expo in Boston.
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Airing live on Fox Sports Network on September 2, 2010, Bellator Featherweight Champion Joe Soto defends his title for the first time against Season 2 Tournament Champ Joe Warren. After a dominating first round by Soto that made the fight appear to be a mismatch, Warren comes out swinging in Round 2 to stage a huge comeback TKO victory and captures the Bellator Featherweight Championship belt.
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A new report released on Sunday, according to the New York Times, says that the rate of childhood obesity in New York City in the 2008-9 school year was higher than it was nationally. To be exact, 40 percent of the 637,000 children from kindergarten through the eight grade were either obese or overweight in the 2008-2009 school year.
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Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
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The conclusion of the explanations of this post is a stable hard constraint system that uses Verlet integration and constraint resolution. You can hover over the illustrations to run their simulations, press reset for a reset and click into the canvas to remove points.
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Rocket Engine: JavaScript Game Development, Rocket Engine is a new game development library and IDE for the web. It is designed to make developing games that work cross browser and on mobile...
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