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40 Freaking Creepy Ass Two Sentence Stories. JAXON DRUMS. Noah Beschen Is A 13-Year-Old Surfing Prodigy. You could say that Noah Beschen was destined to take an interest in surfing: His dad is legendary surfer Shane Beschen and he grew up on the North Shore of Oahu (Hawaii's surfing mecca).

Noah Beschen Is A 13-Year-Old Surfing Prodigy

But not even his family could have predicted just how talented the 13-year-old would become at the sport. Noah was identified as a child surf prodigy around the age of nine and he's only gotten better since then. The little grommet (surfer slang for "young surfer") has shown off his talents in a number of videos over the past four years and he's won over almost 13,000 Instagram followers. Pocket-Sized Wonder-Printer Would Work Its Own Way Across a Page. The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator. So with all the recent news about the Large Hadron Collider, many of you may have this nagging question: what, exactly, would happen if you stick your head in the particle accelerator?

The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator

Well, actually, we know the answer to that because someone did stick his head into a particle accelerator. This Is What Happens When A Teachers Homework Assignment Gets Out Of Hand... SERIAL KILLERS. NASA’s 6-foot tall, humanoid Valkyrie robot prepares to prove its mettle. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) aims to spur the development of humanoid robots that can complete the same tasks we mere mortals might engage in, but in more dangerous conditions.

NASA’s 6-foot tall, humanoid Valkyrie robot prepares to prove its mettle

When the various teams participating in the challenge were announced last year, one entrant stood out. Could Soylent solve world hunger? Soylent creator and CEO Rob Rhinehart says he'd like to take on world hunger, "but we have to be profitable first.

Could Soylent solve world hunger?

" Soylent has raised millions in seed funding and preorders The meal substitute caters to the young, healthy and brokeExperts say people shouldn't solely rely on it for nutrition (CNN) -- It's a thick, light beige goop. Depending on who you ask, its taste is described as "bland" or even similar to Play-Doh unless other flavorings are added. 10 Creepy Mysteries You Haven't Heard Of. Mysteries We have had numerous mystery lists in the past, but, due to a recent question I asked on the Listverse fanpage on facebook, I decided to put together a new one.

10 Creepy Mysteries You Haven't Heard Of

True Justice. The 37 most astounding facts about sex you'll ever read. 1.

The 37 most astounding facts about sex you'll ever read

13 World Mysteries Without Explanation. Chinese mosaic lines These strange lines are found at coordinates: 40°27’28.56″N, 93°23’34.42″E.

13 World Mysteries Without Explanation

There isn’t much information available on these strange, yet beautiful mosaic lines carved in the desert of the Gansu Sheng province in China. Some records indicate they were created in 2004, but nothing seems official. Nice To Get Helped For A Change » Bad customer service, bosses and co-workers – Not Always Working. Wysips light-powered technology makes sure your phone is ALWAYS charged. Wysips technology converts artificial and sunlight energy into electricityIt can be fitted to the screens of phones, tablets and watchesPrototype converts 10 minutes of light energy into four minutes of batteryThe technology could be used in phones as early as 2014 By Victoria Woollaston Published: 12:46 GMT, 5 September 2013 | Updated: 15:30 GMT, 5 September 2013 There is already technology that will can save your phone's location if its battery dies or can send text messages after the power has gone, but what if you could buy a phone that never lost power again because it was permanently on charge?

Wysips light-powered technology makes sure your phone is ALWAYS charged

Science is awesome. Don Harper Mills: 1994's Most Bizarre Suicide. This story can be found in many places on the Web, usually without attribution, and claims that it is true.

Don Harper Mills: 1994's Most Bizarre Suicide

But the story of its origin, and how to spot it must be an UL, can be found at Deconstructing Ronald Opus At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Sciences, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story... On March 23 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a gunshot wound of the head caused by a shotgun. WATCH: How a Colorblind Cyborg 'Hears' Color. TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk.

WATCH: How a Colorblind Cyborg 'Hears' Color

This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post from the featured speaker, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below. Become part of the conversation! Since 2004, an antenna sticks out of my head that allows me to hear the color spectrum, from near infrared to near ultraviolet. Touch Screens that Touch Back. Forget putting your phone on vibrate. A novel “high-definition” touch-feedback display can give a touch screen the feel of a textured surface. The technology was developed for mobile devices by the San Jose CA-based company Immersion, and is a step toward mimicking the feel of physical buttons on flat screens. Simple haptic interfaces have been used in cell phones for years, to create silent alerts or provide limited tactile feedback when an onscreen button has been pressed.

This Prototype Hoverbike Could Land In A Year! It was bound to happen sooner or later and we’re so happy it finally has. An Australian man by the name of Chris Malloy has built a functioning prototype of what can only be called a Hoverbike. It may not be the Speeder or Swoop bike Star Wars had us fantasizing about all these years, but there’s no denying the cool factor. According to a recent article over at Gizmag, the Hoverbike sports an 1170cc 4-stroke engine. Its 10-feet long, weighs 231 lbs and will supposedly travel 92 miles on a single tank of gas. The frame is made of kevlar-reinforced carbon fiber and while it hasn’t taken to the sky yet, its creator plans on running the first true test flight in a couple of months. Polish woman claims she'll attempt to sleep with 100,000 men in global sex marathon. Don’t try this at home, folks. A Polish woman is making a bizarre attempt to sleep with 100,000 men in a global sex marathon.

Ania Lisewska wants to travel to every city across the world, dedicating 20 minutes to each … experience. “I want men from Poland, Europe and all around the world. This Augmented-Reality Sandbox Turns Dirt Into a UI. Developed by a team of researchers at UC Davis, these augmented-reality sandboxes let kids learn while getting their hands dirty. Photo: Rhys George We’ve seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks. It’s a little bit eerie, watching a youngster prod his or her way around an iPad; it makes you wonder if future generations will ever have a chance to foster any of the skepticism we feel towards cyborg enhancements and brain implants and other unsavory flavors of invasive, singularity-style computing.

Did you know? 459.2K Amazing Shares Facebook 1.5K Pin It Share 49 49 Twitter 117 Google+ 50 StumbleUpon 457.5K Email -- Email to a friend 459.2K Amazing Shares × My spouse sent this to my email, I thought it was really interesting! I actually “didn’t know”. Scientists Grow Human Brain From Stem Cells. Ear, eye, liver, windpipe, bladder, and even a heart. The list of body parts grown from stem cells is getting longer and longer. Now add to it one of the most complex organs: the brain. Carbon nanotubes could make t-shirts bullet proof. This dude is insane: Ozell Williams. Top 10 More Mysterious Phenomena. The $35 Do-It-All Computer. The Raspberry Pi sets the bar, and then raises it. Twice. Bar: The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into a TV and keyboard to produce full PC functionality in the form of spreadsheets, word processing, games, and HD video projection. Raise 1: The Raspberry Pi was created by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charity with the goal of giving schoolchildren and areas lacking the power and hardware needed to run a traditional desktop computer access to affordable, capable, and contemporary technology.

Scientists find way to silence extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome. University of Massachusetts Medical School. Google Being Pressured Into Crippling Self-Driving Cars. World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine? Can this machine operate forever? Since at least the 12th century, man has sought to create a perpetual motion machine; a device that would continue working indefinitely without any external source of energy. A large scientific contingent thinks such a device would violate the laws of thermodynamics, and is thus impossible. How One Teacher Turned Sixth Grade Into An MMO. 2928636_460s.jpg (JPEG Image, 460 × 2883 pixels)

A Modern Pop-Up Children's Storybook That Uses Augmented Reality. Australia-based Resin is a company that has recently developed a modern pop-up book using augmented reality. By taking an existing storybook, “Two Left Feet”, they have brought it to life using 3D animation and augmented reality. Why the mantis shrimp is awesome. Increasingly Popular Drones Cause Privacy Concerns.

Are Humans Getting Smarter or Dumber? 10 More Enigmas That Defy Explanation. LIFX: The Light Bulb Reinvented by Phil Bosua. What wizardry is this?! 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012. The future of tire design. The super supercapacitor. Now with five more facts that everyone should know. Nikola Tesla Part 01 of 01 pages(1-249) MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver. List of unusual deaths.

Badass of the Week: Anthony Omari. Meet Frane Selak The Luckiest/Unluckiest Man Alive. How to play the Midnight Man Game with Rules. The Vibram Lawsuit, Explained. 201011191019.jpg (JPEG Image, 442 × 700 pixels) - Scaled (99%) Clever Man Unknowingly Debunks Ancient Aliens — What Blag? Dyatlov Pass incident.

Random funny pictures. Hope you’re not too tired to read this… We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction - Ross Andersen - Technology. U.S. student who electrocuted his nipples sues teacher...for not warning him it was… – In the News – Last.fm.