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85th Academy Awards Nominees

85th Academy Awards Nominees

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Storchen Chocolate Cake Easter just wouldn’t be the same without chocolate and here’s a moist and tender chocolate cake shared a while back by Axel Giese, then the pastry chef at the Hotel Storchen in Zurich. The recipe is no more difficult than boiling water. In the photo the top of the cake is spread with a little melted chocolate and served with a drizzle of chocolate sauce and some whipped cream. I think the whipped cream is indispensible, but you can omit spreading the top of the cake with chocolate as well as the sauce – the cake is quite chocolaty without them. Meet the Veneno, A $4 Million Lamborghini Made for Just 3 People By: Jeremy Helms | March 5th, 2013 Of all the world’s supercar makers, none stretch the idea of an ultimate sports machine quite so far as Lamborghini. For its 50th anniversary, the Italian automaker has created its most bizarre car yet: Meet the Veneno, a $4 million alien craft that will be assembled for only three buyers who’ve already put down their deposits — and being sold out before it goes into production is only a hint of the Veneno’s speed. Built from the Aventador chassis, Lamborghini says the Veneno was designed to come as close as possible to a Le Mans-quality race car that’s still usable on public roads. Power comes from a 740-hp version of the Aventador’s 6.5-liter V-12 linked to a 7-speed automated manual transmission and permanent all-wheel-drive, good for a top speed of 220 mph and 60 mph in less than three seconds. Thanks to our friends at Yahoo for this information.

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. There isn’t much information available on these strange, yet beautiful mosaic lines carved in the desert of the Gansu Sheng province in China. MeCam $49 helicopter follows you and streams live video to your Android A company you've probably heard of before called Always Innovating is working on a pretty awesome little project for smartphones. It's called the MeCam and is essentially a mini helicopter they're calling a Nano-Copter complete with video recording and streaming capabilities. The MeCam is designed to follow you around and record every moment.

NIGHT BIRD SONG: The Thomas Chapin Story by Stephanie J. Castillo About the Thomas Chapin flim project In the world of music, there are special people who come along and open the door to new levels, who take a genre and expose dimensions that have never before been heard. That was Thomas Chapin! In 1995, in the New York Times, Peter Watrous wrote: “Chapin… is a virtuoso… also one of the more schooled musicians in jazz, both technically and historically, and for his set he dug into the styles of everyone from Benny Carter to the 60’s avant-gardists, screeching and howling and huffing as if this were 1964 and he was breaking the rules of jazz into pieces.”

300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok Nowadays, finding a strange artifact in coal is a relatively frequent occurrence. The first discovery of this sort was made in 1851 when the workers in one of the Massachusetts mines extracted a zinc silver-incrusted vase from a block of unmined coal which dated all the way back to the Cambrian era which was approximately 500 million years ago. Sixty one years later, American scientists from Oklahoma discovered an iron pot which was pressed into a piece of coal aged 312 million years old. Then, in 1974, an aluminum assembly part of unknown origin was found in a sandstone quarry in Romania. Reminiscent of a hammer or a support leg of a spacecraft “Apollo”, the piece dated back to the Jurassic era and could not have been manufactured by a human.

Mission SeedBomb – Seeds of Revolution : Guerrilla Gardening Drone Warfare This title maybe misleading but the intention is pretty peaceful! Legend has it that after the World War II got over, American pilot Gale Halvorson airdropped candies in the name of hope, for the Berlin children. War equals devastation, so dropping candies instead of bombs was probably personal retribution. Inspired by this incident, designer Hwang Jin wook and pals have come up with a plan to combat deforestation and desertification of land in a similar fashion.

Audit reveals new details about motion picture tax credits New Orleans, La. - The Destruction of Detroit (Photo Essay) Michigan Central Station Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station The main concourse looked like this in 1913. Now it looks like this, with all of the copper skylight stolen. Carlo Van de Roer's Auracam 6000 photographs capture the colors of a person's soul By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 01:54 GMT, 21 July 2013 | Updated: 14:01 GMT, 21 July 2013 Carlo Van de Roer doesn't just capture a person when he takes their photograph, he captures the color of their soul. In his psychedelic collection of images, the New Zealand-born snapper used an AuraCam 6000 camera to tune into the colors - or aura - that surround his different subjects - and the result is nothing short of spectacular. The innovative camera gathers biofeedback through hand sensors that measure the electromagnetic fields emitted from the person he's shooting.

Amazing Video: A Year In The Life Of The Sky: 360 Panels Show A Day Time Lapse Of The Sky And A Year In Under 5 Minutes Each panel shows one day. With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse format as recorded by a video camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California. The camera recorded an image every 10 seconds from before sunrise to after sunset and from mid-2009 to mid-2010. A time stamp showing the local time of day is provided on the lower right. What English Sounds Like to People Who Don't Speak It Because I'm sick in bed with nothing to do, I have interpreted the dialogue. Ready? Read along, kids: Here's lace, want me to hold onto that? Sure. I bought you like sir raw eggs and porn nation.

18 Paintings You Won't Believe Aren't Photos Some paintings seem SO real, you can’t believe someone was talented enough to create them. Then, some paintings seem SO real you can’t even tell they are paintings. Below are 21 of the most amazing works of art you won’t be able to tell are 100% handmade and NOT photographs. These artists are so talented, they’ll leave your jaw on the floor. 1.

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