Friday Stuff

Yeah, I know it's been a while.  I'll try to do better.

 

Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?

 

Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany.

 

Abandoned Houses of Super Villains.

 

World’s Strongest Drinks & Strange Liquor.  Sort of related: New key to longevity: Alcohol.  Also, Alcoholic Art: Liquor Under a Microscope.

 

Boy with 24 fingers and toes.  "Strangely, three months before the birth of Guangchun, his family's sow also labored a weird shaped piglet, which had eight legs, two mouths and four ears. The pig died two days later. It possibly was a bad omen to the family, leading to the birth of my son with extra fingers and toes," the mother added.

 

"Hamburger-related injuries are on the rise, he warned."

 

Most Colorful River In The World.

Biggest canal ever built by Romans discovered recently.  Also, Ancient Roman Way of Multiplying Big Numbers.

 

Four Friends Go Bar-Hopping For 26 Years.

 

Neat blog: Fake Science.

 

What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain.

 

Building a Homemade Nuclear Reactor.

 

Rome: Albino python on cocaine confronts police.

 

Bugs that 'bully females' into having sex.  These bugs are even worse: "Because the female bedbug has no genital opening, the male inseminates her by using his hardened, sharpened genitalia to punch a hole through her abdomen. With no elaborate courtship ritual, males in a frenzied pursuit of sexual congress often blunder into and puncture the bodies of other males, occasionally inflicting fatal wounds."

 

LEGO Tower Bridge of London, video interview with designer.

Visual illusions - keep hitting "next" to see them all.

Weird beauty devices.

The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

From UK's Telegraph.