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Digg - The Latest News Headlines, Videos and Images. 2leep.com: Connecting Bloggers. Cracked.com - America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958 | Cra. Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse. Top 10 Incredible Sounds. Technology I think sounds are always underrated. There are plenty of famous pictures, graphs, and movies out there, but for a sound itself to be famous (other than music), or to even really be that interesting, takes something special.

So here’s some strange sounds – some may be familiar, hopefully others won’t be – but all are definitely incredible. The “Slow Down” is a sound that was first recorded on 29 May 1997, on an autonomous hydrophone array in the Equatorial Pacific, coming from a southerly direction. It lasted about 7 minutes, and has been recorded several times every year since it was first detected. In 2002, it was suggested that the sounds could be caused by the friction of ice in Antarctica moving over the land, as the spectrogram of the sound is very similar to the sound of two objects rubbing together – if you rub your fingers along a table, record the sound, and slow it down (as the scientist who proposed it did) you end up with a strikingly similar sound. Jamie Frater. 10 awesome pictures of waves - All4yourfun. 10 Fascinating Cases of Mind Control. Animals Controlling the minds of other living creatures is simply the stuff of science fiction right? Well for some creatures becoming a real live zombie is a daily hazard.

Here are 10 examples of real parasitic behavior modifications. These are in no particular order. Phorid flies Pseudacteon The genus Pseudacteon, of which 110 species have been documented, is a parasitoid of the ant in South America. Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite the definitive host of which is the cat, but the parasite can be carried by all known mammals including humans. Euhaplorchis Californiensis This parasite lives in the gut of shorebirds and produces eggs that are released in the bird’s stool which are spread into the salt-water marshes and ponds of southern California.

Jewel Wasp Ampulex Compressa When a female jewel wasp is ready to lay its egg it finds a cockroach and administers two stings. Hairworm Spinochordodes Tellinii Costa Rican Parasitoid Wasp Hymenoepimecis Argyraphaga Lancet Liver Fluke Bonus. Funny Videos, Clips & Funny Pictures | Break.com.