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The World’s Greatest Drinker - The Tree Shrew

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Think we have a drinking problem on our hands with beer-guzzling Friday nights?   Mother Nature introduces to you the champion of drinkers  -  the pen-tailed treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) - a tiny rodent seen in Malaysian forests known locally as the tupai ekor kembang. This animal, which has not been allowed into human pubs perhaps because [...]

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Ever Seen A Tornado Close-Up?

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

This is one reason why you should have a digital camera handy wherever you go.  On Tuesday June 10, Lori Mehmen, who lives in the small farming town of Orchard in northeastern Iowa, U.S.A., looked out her front door and saw a funnel cloud bearing down.  She had the presence of mind to run indoors [...]

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Making An Internet Phone Call? Beware Of Eavesdroppers!

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

A new startup IT company has come up with a novel new way of making money on the internet - to use software to listen to internet calls, and then display ads on the computer screen related to whatever the net user was talking about.  For example if you were talking to somebody else on [...]

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Tags: interesting items · internet · inventions · science

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