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Kraft Has a 400,000 Sq. Foot Underground Cheese Cave
That Kraft cheese slice you might chomp for lunch today? It came from a mammoth subterranean dairy bunker the company uses as dirt cheap refrigeration and storage, Wired reports . Inside a 70 year old mine that's still rocked by explosions. The cheesy compound is filled to the ceiling with 680-pound drums of sandwich wonderfulness, kept at a chilly 36 degrees Fahrenheit through a combination of being one hundred feet below ground, and a powerful liquid cooling system. The adjacent area is still an active limestone mine, but luckily, thick walls keep the cheese cache safe.UFO-Like Clouds Linked to Military Maneuvers?
Three nearly identical, UFO-like cloud formations recently appeared over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina , sparking online discussions linking the features to everything from the Second Coming to recent mass bird deaths to secret military experiments. At least one scientist believes the so-called hole-punch clouds have a military explanation, though it may not be quite what conspiracy theorists expect. On January 7, IT technician Wesley Tyler was running out to his car for a computer part when he noticed the saucer-like formations. (See other cloud pictures .) "At first we thought they were tornado clouds, but the air was so still—like mausoleum still," Tyler said. "You just knew it was unusual.
China's New Super-City Will Merge Nine Urban Centers into a Single, 16,000-Square-Mile Megatropolis | Popular Science
The Pearl River Delta The new super-city will take in all the cities above (excepting Macau and Hong Kong), as well as Zhaoqing (due West of Foshan but out of frame. Croquant via Wikimedia If you’re going to build the world’s biggest megatropolis in the world’s most populous country, you don’t start from scratch. You take nine existing population centers and merge them. At least, that’s the thinking behind the “Turn the Pearl River Delta Into One” initiative, which aims to do exactly that. Merging nine cities , China plans to create a 16,000-square-mile urban swath populated by 42 million people in the southeast near Hong Kong.
"Buy A Gun" Google Queries Hit All Time High, And Other Off The Grid Economic Indicators | zero hedge
In lieu of a credible macroeconomic data reporting infrastructure in America, increasingly more people are forced to resort to secondary trend indicators, most of which have zero economic "credibility" within the mainstream, yet which provide just as good a perspective of what may be happening behind the scenes in this once great country. A good example was a recent Gallup poll , which contrary to all expectations based on a now completley irrelvant and thoroughly discredited ADP number, which led some br(j)okers such as the Barclays Insane Predictions Team to speculate a 580,000 NFP number was in the books , indicated that the jobless situation barely improved in December. Sure enough, this was promptly confirmed by the January 7 NFP number.
The Australian Floods, Before and After
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Don't Worry About Those 1,000 Dead Birds that Fell From the Sky
High Water: Hottest year ends with unprecedented, “biblical” Australian floods covering an area “the size of France and Germany combined.” « Climate Progress
One of the most basic predictions of climate science is that global warming will cause more intense precipitation. As Dr. Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, explained it , “ there is a systematic influence on all of these weather events now-a-days because of the fact that there is this extra water vapor lurking around in the atmosphere than there used to be say 30 years ago . It’s about a 4% extra amount, it invigorates the storms, it provides plenty of moisture for these storms and it’s unfortunate that the public is not associating these with the fact that this is one manifestation of climate change . And the prospects are that these kinds of things will only get bigger and worse in the future.”
The Year In Illegal Downloads
Whether you disapprove of illegal downloading, or are happily BitTorrenting Hot Tub Time Machine right now, there's no debating that BitTorrent's Zeitgeist 2010 makes for an interesting read. Find out what the 100 most searched-for phrases and keywords were, below. It's worth noting this list might not be entirely accurate, as there are literally hundreds of sites using BitTorrent, but KickassTorrents (in the top 10 of torrent sites) pulled together a list of their 100 search terms for the year, from millions and millions of searches. Unsurprisingly, the most searched-for download was Inception , following by Iron Man 2 . James Cameron won't be too pleased by Avatar clocking in at number six, though it did beat "porn" at number nine.
The University of Osaka's Singing Mouse University of Osaka A laboratory at the University of Osaka running an ongoing study on evolution has revealed that they’ve produced a genetically engineered mouse that tweets like a bird . They’ve produced more than 100 of them actually, as well as a mouse with short limbs and one with a tail like a dachshund.
Japanese Create A Mutant Mouse That Tweets Like a Bird | Popular Science
Voyager 1 Arrives at the Outward Reaches of the Solar Wind, Prepares To Enter Interstellar Space | Popular Science
The Heliosphere, Annotated NASA/JPL NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, now in its 33rd year on the job, has reached the very edge of our solar system and is nearing the cusp of interstellar space. How does NASA know? The wind has died down.
For the first time, a man has been declared officially cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good. Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease , though certainly a terribly burdensome one. What brought the 42-year old Brown under the care of Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin hospital was the more immediate threat his cancer posed.
Man Officially Cured of HIV
Americans are now spending as many hours online as they do in front of their TV screens, according to a survey released by Forrester on Monday. The average American now spends roughly 13 hours per week using the Internet and watching TV offline, Forrester finds , based on its survey of more than 30,000 customers. The Internet has long captivated the attention of younger Americans to a greater extent than TV and is now proving more popular to Gen X (ages 31 to 44) for the first time ever. Younger Baby Boomers (ages 45 to 54) are spending the same amount of time per week using both media.
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From a computer virus named for a stripper to swarming botnet attacks on the Pentagon and Microsoft, The Daily Beast lists the 10 most infamous hacks, worms, and DDoS takedowns in the last 25 years. The unending cyber assault executed last week by a group of anonymous “hacktivists” instilled fear and loathing in the hearts of network administrators at some of the world’s most powerful governments and corporations . It was unprecedented in its scope—attracting thousands of amateur users willing to do battle in the name of free speech on the web. But amongst the real hackers out there is a feeling of indifference. These “script kiddies”—as those using software to attack Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal are being called—weren’t the cyber warriors the media set them out to be, but amateur, talentless teens launching assaults with the click of a mouse.
The 10 Most Destructive Hacker Attacks In The Past 25 Years
This is not part of Dan Brown's novel. Researcher Silvano Vinceti— chairman of the Italian national committee for cultural heritage—has found a secret code in the Mona Lisa by scanning her eyes. A code that could reveal her mysterious identity: