• Entertainment & Gaming

    A Table-Sized Weight Bench for a Shoebox Sized Apartment

    By Posted on 7.1.2008 8 Comments

    A 450 square foot shoebox apartment was once a valid exemption from owning fitness equipment (and merely one component of your preemptive exercise avoidance plan). But you soon may have one less excuse for that gut.  The Otto-Bench, a concept created by Gabriel Prero, presents the first chink in your oversized armor. The aesthetically pleasing ottoman or coffee table, transforms seamlessly into a weight bench and houses all the required hardware needed to get buff.

    7.1.2008 at 08:38pm - Comment by knd123

    put it on an info-mmercial and everyone and their dog will have one...promise

  • Science

    The Voodoo Wasp

    By Posted on 6.20.2008 3 Comments

    Let's hope the Glyptapanteles wasp continues to find caterpillars tastier than humans — otherwise mankind might be in some trouble. As if laying 80 eggs inside of a caterpillar's body weren't bad enough, a new study published by the Public Library of Science details how the wasp larvae then take over the mind of the caterpillar, turning it into a zombie-like bodyguard.

    6.21.2008 at 03:56pm - Comment by knd123

    ahahahahaha that brings me back

  • Science

    The Voodoo Wasp

    By Posted on 6.20.2008 3 Comments

    Let's hope the Glyptapanteles wasp continues to find caterpillars tastier than humans — otherwise mankind might be in some trouble. As if laying 80 eggs inside of a caterpillar's body weren't bad enough, a new study published by the Public Library of Science details how the wasp larvae then take over the mind of the caterpillar, turning it into a zombie-like bodyguard.

    6.21.2008 at 03:55pm - Comment by knd123

    ahahahahaha that brings me back

  • The Environment

    Jellyfish Invasion

    By Posted on 6.4.2008 17 Comments

    For most of us, jellyfish are nothing more than a nuisance. They drift toward beach shores and into our consciousness each summer near the end of their life cycle, making a refreshing dip in the water a bit less carefree for a few weeks. But that may be changing. Last November, a 10-mile-wide and 42-foot-thick swarm of baby mauve stingers (Pelagia noctiluca) decimated Northern Ireland’s farmed-salmon population. Overnight,120,000 fish were reduced to a floating mass of carcasses by billions of the small jellies native to warmer waters thousands of miles to the south. The salmon, which were killed by stings and oxygen deprivation, had a market value of $2 million.

    6.7.2008 at 12:23pm - Comment by knd123

    I'm sorry I had to sign up and comment just once and this is all I have to say.....NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY AT THE END OF THESE ARTICLES, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM PUTTING IN YOUR 2 CENTS BECAUSE I HAVE A NASTY HABIT OF READING THEM THINKING IT WILL BE AN INTELLIGENT VIEWPOINT COVERING WHAT I JUST READ. YOU PARTICULARLY DARKFX YOU ARE THE KING OF THE NERDS, YOU HAVE AN ANSWER TO EVERYTHING SO DO THE WORLD A SERVICE AND FIX ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS. IT'S OBVIOUS YOUR SMART ENOUGH TO DO SO. Please don't respond to this comment in an attempt to defend your own dignity, instead think about what I said and don't, from your computer chair in your one bedroom apartment or parent's basement, indulge in your own sense of egotism and self-worth. Just take a deep breath and try not to say stupid things anymore, better yet keep your comments to yourself unless you really can change the world which I doubt you can because those able to do so don't spend there time commenting on jellyfish articles acting like a know-it-all. Good-bye and good luck trying to bite your tongue from now on.



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