That chocolate chip link was an interesting explanation of microwaves and how they work...or rather dont work well at cooking things evenly when they don't spin the food. I gather if you disabled the carousel and position the bulb in the most intensive part of the wavelength it would probably pop quite a bit faster.

I thought this had been posted before?

I would love to collect all the ridiculous iPod accessories or iAccessories available and destroy them for I am sick of the iCulture movement, but alas I would still enjoy seeing a toaster with an iPod dock.

Those are pretty good, I made a Paul Senior Mii from American Choppers on my Wii.

I agree this data could vary well be confounded by current detection abilities being better than past ones, however there is also the possibility that disasters are on a slight rise with the advent of global warming and more and more naturally at risk areas becoming populated.

I hope they all washed up, there is enough plastic pollution floating out there already.

This has great potential for hydrogen fuel production.

I remember this one being up on neatorama before too. I am fairly certain of it ;-)

Where is my beloved Chicago Tribune?

I thought star boards were cool already, being realtime electronic "chalkboards" but now I am blown away entirely.

It seems like an albino moose would be at a disadvantage during hunting season and simply as a herd member. A white moose is easier to see whether its a predator or just a hunter. Nature will take its course, recessive albino traits are not going to weaken their moose population...

In response to Erik,
A study being double blind has to do with the researcher knowing what condition the participant is going to experience. Although, Sheldrake's experiement seems to have the researcher informed, the random selection of whom is called is most likely not handpicked. Research in remote viewing and telepathy involves random number generators for chooseing levels of a variable, in this case who is called.

In response to Ted,
I would agree this experiment clearly does not prove telepathy, but its purpose is to investigate a specific phenomenon with telephones.

People cannot be proven as "good guessers". Guessing 1 correct answer out of 4 possible should always result in about 25% accuracy. That is probability. Anything statistically significantly higher would mean something is influencing the choice. Is it a telephone telepathy phenomenon? perhaps poor research design? We cannot say for sure without replication.

At any rate take the results with a grain of salt, but don't discredit it the US Government researched remote viewing extensively and so do many scientists today. I myself have worked on the research at Eastern Illinois University and we found some interesting results. Sadly no telepathy or other fun mind powers proven yet. We shall continue to be skeptics.

Olney, Illinois is "home of the white squirrel" and the white squirrels are actually protected to increase their numbers and cause the recessive trait to be displayed in the majority of the squirrel population.