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Richard Florida wrote an interesting editorial for The Atlantic about how the current economic crisis will shape the future for Americans: The historian Scott Reynolds Nelson has noted that in some respects, today’s crisis most closely resembles the “Long Depression,” which stretched, by one definition, from 1873 to 1896. It began as a banking crisis [...]

20 Wonders of the Microscopic World featured” /> The devil’s in the details, and detail is something these unusual photographers know best. You won’t find any grand landscapes or celebrity portraits in this collection. These are the best of the best in photomicography, exploring the world in all its microscopic glory. On October 16, respected [...]

Amazing Story of a Man Who Survived Being Buried 40 Days featured” /> Image by Margaret Bourke-White, 1946 According to a fascinating report printed in the London Telegraph in 1880, a man was buried ‘in a condition of apparent death’ for 40 days and survived. No tricks or tomfoolery were involved, so how did he [...]

The Orchestra Made of Ice featured” /> Ice Orchestra Now we know why all our glaciers are disappearing, no, it’s not due to global warming after all, it’s because a Norwegian percussionist needs the ice for his instruments. Sounds bizarre? Well, that’s probably because it is. Musician Terje Isungset has been carving his chilly instruments [...]

5 Amazing Blue Holes [pics] featured” /> *Update: we originally had 6, but now have 5! * Image via travelpod Have you ever swam out in the sea and not been able to see the bottom? All you can feel is the freezing cold water beneath your feet, all you see is dark blue water [...]

This should go without saying, but for those who are thinking of cheating on their spouses, check this story out. After traveling for 9 hours on a journey from his home in South Yorkshire to North Scotland, Stuart, 39, was ready for an exciting sexual weekend with Emma, the attractive twenty-something he had been exchanging [...]

The Charcoal Children of Manila featured” /> As part of the Environmental Graffiti’s partnership with the Sony World Photography Awards 2009, we’ve been given privileged access to these spectacular but sobering images by one of last year’s finalists. Small figures writhe and wriggle through a seething mass of stinking garbage, searching for something so precious [...]

Little People Invade London [PICS] featured” /> All images via Little People Haven’t we all been there, lost somewhere and then faced with a map that adds to the confusion rather than helping out? Street artist and photographer Slinkachu magnifies our big city experiences by shrinking the actors. He recreates city scenes for one-inch tall [...]

Google Maps: Link Has Google Ocean finally found the missing city of Atlantis? A curious rectangular pattern 100 miles wide was spotted off the coast of Spain, in 17,800 ft deep water: Situated in an area called the Madeira Abyssal Plane, the grid was spotted by aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford as he browsed through Google [...]

Five months after being laid off from his job as a mechanical maintenance engineer,  39-year-old Jason Fruen had tried almost everything to find another job.  Finally he made a sandwich board sign advertising himself and his phone number, and spent two days standing near a major intersection in Manchester, England.  Surprisingly enough, the ploy worked, [...]

5 Most Epic Japanese Tea Houses featured” /> Image Edmund Sumner via Inhabitat The art of tea drinking was fiirst introduced to Japan in the 9th century by the Buddhist monk Eichu upon his return from China. Over the centuries, tea drinking became ingrained in Japanese culture; in the 13th century it was a status [...]