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18 Tricks to Teach Your Body Neat feats include overcoming the urge to pee, stopping a brain freeze and clearing a stuffy nose. Link via Boing Boing.

Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet “Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users’ movements and habits, the UN’s telecommunications agency predicted.”

Very cool little NASA visualization of the 21 named storms from the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Link via Metafilter.

Italy is finalizing plans for the longest suspension bridge in the world. Spanning 3.3 kilometers (2.05 miles), it will finally connect Sicily to the Italian mainland. Also, the foundation has been completed for the Burj Dubai, set to be the tallest building in the world at 800 meters (0.5 miles) when finished. For those of [...]

The country that brought the world anime, robotic dogs, plasma televisions and sushi is beginning to look like the futuristic utopia portrayed in the movies. Case in point: here’s a screenshot of an insanely large building from the anime movie Appleseed: Note the building is covered entirely on one side in solar panels. This makes [...]