Sexist, racist, funny, or inappropriate advertisements - you decide...

Continuing our ongoing saga of controversial advertisements, this week’s batch is particularly interesting. Some are funny. Some are disturbing. Some are just creepy. And some we’re not sure if the advertisers meant to portray what our eyes are telling us. Your call.

Sexist, racist, funny, or inappropriate advertisements - you decide...

Top 50 by Nirvana - Kurt Cobain lists his all-time favorite albums

Nirvana front man, Kurt Cobain, hand-scrawled a list of his all-time favorite albums. Published in Kurt Cobain’s Journals (a collection of writings and drawings by Cobain), it was titled “Top 50 by Nirvana” and included a few fascinating surprises.

Top 50 by Nirvana - Kurt Cobain lists his all-time favorite albums

Wow! Stunning picture of Milky Way taken from Northern Chile

NASA published this stunning photograph today featuring the road that connects the Northern Cross and Southern Cross – the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Taken from Laguna Cejar in Northern Chile by Nicholas Buer, the photo was shot in October, just after sunset. Included in the photo a...
Wow! Stunning picture of Milky Way taken from Northern Chile

Wave your hands in the air and dance like the Peacock Spider

This festive little critter knows how to party. It’s fancy name is Maratus volans but we prefer the more descriptive term, peacock spider (or “gliding spider”), a species of jumping spider with colorful red, blue, black, and green flap-like extensions on its abdomen that it raises for display du...
Wave your hands in the air and dance like the Peacock Spider

More Snowden leaks - now we find NSA is scraping data from mobile games

The Guardian and New York Times revealed today that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, have been working to take advantage of “leaky” smartphone apps, such as the popular Angry Birds game (which according to the report, was used as a “case study” in smartphone surveil...
More Snowden leaks - now we find NSA is scraping data from mobile games

Reminder - this is war

Below is a purported before-and-after shot of a popular street in Syria both before and after a bomb exploded.

Reminder - this is war

Get ready to waste hours finding hidden Easter-eggs in Microsoft's new mind-blowing Gigapixel interactive Seattle image

Get ready to spend mindless hours exploring Microsoft’s new GIGAPIXEL interactive image of Seattle. Why would a picture of Seattle be so much fun? For one, the interactive hi-def image is a mind-boggling 20,000 megapixel super high-resolution 360-degree panorama of Seattle integrated with h...
Get ready to waste hours finding hidden Easter-eggs in Microsoft's new mind-blowing Gigapixel interactive Seattle image

China's lunar rover may have just experienced a catastrophic failure - world holds breath

China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover is a little over a month into its three-month lunar exploration mission. Today the Chinese State Administration of Space, Technology, and Industry for National Defense has said the rover has experience a “mechanical control abnormality” that was the result of a “co...
China's lunar rover may have just experienced a catastrophic failure - world holds breath

Beautiful animal and nature photographs that'll put a smile on your face - Part 1

Stop and smell the roses? Sometimes is helps to take the time to recognize the beauty of the world that we live in. Here is a collection of nature photographs that will surely put a smile on your face.

Beautiful animal and nature photographs that'll put a smile on your face - Part 1

Nearby record-breaking M82 supernova continues to grow brighter

Three days ago, a white dwarf exploded in the nearby M82 galaxy (aka Messier 82, Starburst Galaxy, or the Cigar Galaxy), the closest galaxy to our own. The explosion created the closest, and brightest, supernova seen by man in over a quarter of a century. In fact, the explosion is so bright,...
Nearby record-breaking M82 supernova continues to grow brighter

Modern day ads can still be racist, sexist, or controversial

Earlier we published an article showing examples of vintage ads that were surprisingly sexiest (by modern-day standards). Still, modern ads continue to push the envelope withs ads that are cunningly sexist, racist, or otherwise controversial. Check out the examples below.

Modern day ads can still be racist, sexist, or controversial

To modern-man, the sexist portrayals in these old ads seem unbelievable

Sex in advertising is nothing new but thirty years ago, advertisers felt women could push a vacuum cleaner but couldn’t drive a car. Check out these vintage sexist ads that’ll remind you that times have indeed changed

To modern-man, the sexist portrayals in these old ads seem unbelievable

Starfire cosplay

Doodle Dot Cosplay (photographed by WeNeals Photography) released this wonderful cosplay featuring Starfire from DC Comics fame. Starfire was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez and was ranked 20th in Comics Buyer’s Guide’s “100 Sexiest Women in Comics” list.

Starfire cosplay

Unusually high sulfur content causes Kawah Ijen volcano to spew beautiful, brilliant, spectral blue lava

Kawah Ijen, part of the Ijen volcano complex, is a group of stratovolcanoes in East Java, Indonesia. With an active crater that’s over 200 meters deep, the volcano complex is also home to the world’s largest turquoise-colored acidic lake, full of sulfuric acid, that produces a highly-unusual eff...
Unusually high sulfur content causes Kawah Ijen volcano to spew beautiful, brilliant, spectral blue lava

Oldest human footprints in North America identified -10,500-year-old footprints smash record

In 1961, during a highway construction project in northeastern Mexico, less than 200 miles from the Texas border, a pair of tracks, one left and one right, were uncovered in the Chihuahuan Desert. The tracks were excavated and taken to a local museum (Saltillo’s Museo del Desierto) for study. N...
Oldest human footprints in North America identified -10,500-year-old footprints smash record

Amazing Life Hacks: Simple tricks designed to make your life easier - Part 3

Life hacks are low-budget tips, tricks and shortcuts, typically using an everyday household product, that are designed to make your life easier and more productive. Check out our third collection of novel life hacks below.

Amazing Life Hacks: Simple tricks designed to make your life easier - Part 3

Cigar box juggling

Although it looks like a video trick, watch carefully. It’s called cigar box juggling and began as a vaudeville act in the U.S. between the 1880’s and 1920’s. Popularized by W.C. Fields, cigar box juggling performers would take actual boxes that cigars were stored in and nail them shut to creat...
Cigar box juggling

Astronomers may have found the impossible - a star within a star

Seemingly impossible, the idea of a nested star has been proposed before – it’s just nobody has ever found an example of the cosmic oddity. That may be about to change though. Scientists are keeping the name of the star a secret right now – at least until their peers can validate their findings –...
Astronomers may have found the impossible - a star within a star

For first time in history, dinosaur fossils found in Saudi Arabia

For the first time in history, confirmed dinosaur fossils have been found in Saudi Arabia. Rare in the Arabian Peninsula, the finding of the 72-million-year-old tail-bones of the plant-eating titanosaur and a fossilized teeth of a sharp-toothed theropod were discovered in the Adaffa formation,...
For first time in history, dinosaur fossils found in Saudi Arabia

Could reincarnation be memories passed through generations in our DNA?

New research has shown that it may be possible for information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in our DNA, possibly explaining “past memories” or reincarnation claims reported by some people. During the tests, researchers demonstrated that mice can pass on lea...
Could reincarnation be memories passed through generations in our DNA?

Amazing Life Hacks: Simple tricks designed to make your life easier-Part 2

Life hacks are low-budget tips, tricks and shortcuts, typically using an everyday household product, that are designed to make your life easier and more productive. Check out our second collection of novel life hacks below.

Amazing Life Hacks: Simple tricks designed to make your life easier-Part 2

Powerful new road safety video from New Zealand will leave you speechless and in awe

NZTA has created a powerful road safety commercial entitled ‘Mistakes’ that aims to encourage careful consideration before speeding off in your car. In the video, time slows down allowing two drivers on a collision course get out of their car and reason with each other before the accident rea...
Powerful new road safety video from New Zealand will leave you speechless and in awe

The Big Bang Theory intro - a close look at all 109 photos used to create the TV show's opening sequence

The Big Bang Theory television show is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California and includes roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon’s equally geeky and socially awkward...
The Big Bang Theory intro - a close look at all 109 photos used to create the TV show's opening sequence

Mind-blowing list of the many famous celebrities who died untimely deaths from drug or alcohol abuse

The following is a partial list of notable celebrities, along with their profession and cause of death, who have died from drug-related causes. Each of these persons met their untimely end from either drug overdose, death from organ-failure due to or exacerbated by drug use, or death from...
Mind-blowing list of the many famous celebrities who died untimely deaths from drug or alcohol abuse

Seven historical, thought-provoking "never-seen-before" photos that defined the times

The following are seven rare, thought-provoking, historical photographs you’ve probably never seen before. Enjoy.

Seven historical, thought-provoking "never-seen-before" photos that defined the times

Amazing Life Hacks: Simple tricks designed to make your life easier - Part 1

Life hacks are low-budget tips, tricks and shortcuts, typically using an everyday household product, that are designed to make your life easier and more productive. Check out the collection of novel life hacks below.

Amazing Life Hacks: Simple tricks designed to make your life easier - Part 1