Nov 6, 2009
Iran’s opposition movement hijack Students’ Day, an officially endorsed celebration of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran with anti-US protests.

Iran’s opposition movement hijack Students’ Day, an officially endorsed celebration of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran with anti-US protests.

Oct 13, 2009
Gordon Banks catches a puppy

Gordon Banks catches a puppy

Oct 2, 2009
Remarkably, a staggering 88% of the Allied military deaths in World War II were from China and the Soviet Union — comparatively, just 2% of Allied deaths were from the United States

Remarkably, a staggering 88% of the Allied military deaths in World War II were from China and the Soviet Union — comparatively, just 2% of Allied deaths were from the United States

Sep 25, 2009
Farah Ahmed Omar, the chief of Somalia’s overworked navy, has not been in sea for 23 years

Farah Ahmed Omar, the chief of Somalia’s overworked navy, has not been in sea for 23 years

Sep 20, 2009
Raptorex kriegsteini, a 3m-long ancestor of the late, great Tyrannosaurus rex

Raptorex kriegsteini, a 3m-long ancestor of the late, great Tyrannosaurus rex

Sep 15, 2009
This is what happens when you apply the current from a van de Graaff generator directly onto film

This is what happens when you apply the current from a van de Graaff generator directly onto film

Sep 9, 2009
Heights of some world leaders

Heights of some world leaders

Aug 28, 2009
Scientists have imaged a molecule and its chemical bonds (in this case, pentacene) for the first time

Scientists have imaged a molecule and its chemical bonds (in this case, pentacene) for the first time

Aug 3, 2009
Senior Iran political figures appear to have snubbed the formal endorsement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 elections

Senior Iran political figures appear to have snubbed the formal endorsement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 elections

Aug 2, 2009
Steve Jobs is the anti-Internet. The Internet is utilitarian, it works, but it’s ugly. Jobs’s stuff is so beautiful that when taken to its logical conclusion, and he’s almost there now, it’s so dazzling, so beautiful that you fail to see that it is also useless.
Dave Winer on the terribly flawed Apple iPhone platform.
Jul 31, 2009
Krakatoa is spewing lava again — 126 years ago, it produced the greatest volcanic eruption known to man.

Krakatoa is spewing lava again — 126 years ago, it produced the greatest volcanic eruption known to man.

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