To Be Average [infographic]

ZenPencils.com posted this excellent infographic about how being average is a bad thing.

Supersize it HERE

original at ZenPencils.com

Space Food Hall of Fame

Yes, NASA has a Space Food Hall of Fame. It’s actually a webpage with a little trivia about astronauts’ meals and a few videos about early space foods that got marketed to the general public (Tang and Space Food Sticks). Another page from BuzzFeed has a few pics of the latest in orbital dining.

visit The Space Food Hall of Fame HERE

pics of the latest in space food HERE

Feeling brave? Order Space Food Sticks HERE

This is Shanghai [video]

Guppies – Zombie Studs Of Nature

According to Science Daily -

June 12, 2013 — Performing experiments in a river in Trinidad, a team of evolutionary biologists has found that male guppies continue to reproduce for at least ten months after they die, living on as stored sperm in females, who have much longer lifespans (two years) than males (three-four months). Reznick explained that male guppies are brightly colored and very variable in coloration. Females prefer males with rare color patterns. A dead male with a long-lost color pattern can later give birth to a son who can now be preferred by females because he is different from all other males in the population. Because some females live so long, those sons can appear more than two generations after the father’s death.

Read more HERE

 

Apple’s New Big Mac [video]

India’s Poorest Attend School Under Bridge

According to The Sacramento Bee -

Underprivileged children attend a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India. The students, ages 4 to 14, study everything from basic reading and writing to the Pythagorean Theorem.

See more photos and continue reading HERE

One Man’s Blood Has Saved 2 Million People

According to Wikipedia -

James Harrison was born in 1936. At the age of 13, he underwent major chest surgery, requiring 12 litres of blood. After surgery, he was in the hospital for three months. Realising the blood had saved his life, he made a pledge to start donating blood as soon as he turned eighteen, the then required age.

 

Mr. Harrison started donating in 1954 and after the first few donations it was discovered that his blood contained an unusually strong and persistent antibody called Rh_o(D) Immune Globulin. Rh_o(D) IG is given to Rh(D) negative mothers of unknown or Rh(D) positive babies during and after pregnancy to prevent the creation of antibodies to the blood of a Rh(D) positive child. This antigen sensitization and subsequent incompatibility phenomenon causes Rhesus disease, the commonest form of hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN).

Through the donations of his plasma, Mr. Harrison helped prevent thousands of born and unborn children from dying of HDN. This uniqueness was considered so important, that his life was insured for one million dollars after this discovery and the following research based on his donations created the commercial Anti-D immune globulin commonly known as RhoGAM. His blood plasma derivatives have since been given as treatment to one in ten pregnant women whose blood could potentially become incompatible with that of their children.

James Harrison’s wikipedia page HERE

 

Obama Is Checking Your Email – A New Photo Blog

If you’re following the shady things that the US government has been caught doing in regards to your privacy, you may get a kick out of this photo blog of President Obama doing a little spying of his own.

Check out Obama Is Checking Your Email HERE

Cool Site – FlightRadar24.com

With FlightRadar24.com, you can follow almost any plane that is in the air worldwide on a Google-type map. The plane locations are updated on the map in real time (or with a 5 minute delay). Zoom in and the aircraft’s progress can be easily followed. Click on the plane’s icon and vital information about it (plane type, airline, destination, origination, altitude, speed, etc.) is displayed in the sidebar. Very cool!

Check out FlightRadar24.com

 

No-Touch Zone – US & Canada’s Bizarre Border [video]

102 Year Old Woman Base Jumps From Bridge [video]

People As They Are [pics]

TheFabWeb again gathered a fine collection of photos featuring people’s faces.

View the pics HERE