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Humans almost became extinct 70,000 years ago. A new study says a drought may have reduced world population to as little as 2,000 people at one time.
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8 Fictional Cities You Wouldn’t Want to Live in. In this case, fiction is stranger than truth.
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Break Free from the Tyranny of the Clock! Using your body’s natural rhythms has to be good for you, but your boss probably won’t like it.
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When you plan your summer vacation, you might want to check out 18 Of The Best Places To Swim With Sharks. That is, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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Watch a kitten chorus line. The ten of them will be ready for Broadway with a little practice.
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An affordable electric car may be available in the US in 2009. The Th!nk City electric car holds four people and retails under $25,000. Yes, they spell it like that.
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Never microwave an egg in its shell. Here’s why.
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The world’s biggest balls. What compels people to make their balls so big? We may never know — we can only admire them.
Comments (4)
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Its funny that one of your links is a swimming with sharks link, when earlier today someone got killed by a shark… what terrible luck…
posted by Jeff on 4-25-2008 at 11:53 am
A great place to swim with Whale Sharks is in Holbox, Mexico. There’s a great company called Dove6 that runs the tours. Soooo cool! Click my name to check out the site.
posted by Jen on 4-25-2008 at 1:37 pm
I’ve been to Cocos Island… it was freaking awesome.
posted by Sarah on 4-28-2008 at 12:42 pm
The shark link is pretty lame. It doesn’t tell you what kind of sharks to expect or what would be the right season and the sie is dead wrong in a number of cases (Galapagos: not just a few, but chances of seeing 100s, 5 to 10 different species including whale sharks; Sharm al Sheikh is the worst place to look for sharks in the Red Sea).
posted by SK on 4-30-2008 at 5:14 pm