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Experiment: Smoking (2)

November 19th, 2007

Here’s another experiment on smoking. A video from Samimy showing you “the process of extracting 7200 mg tars from 400 cigarettes.” This is more sick then the previous one. Hope this will keep you away from smoking. Video after the jump. Read more…

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I believe I can fly

November 1st, 2007

Okay, can someone tell me if this is real or it’s just some trick. This Dutch guy is showing his floating skills in front of the White House. Is there something to do with the stick??? Amazing. Video after the jump. Read more…

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Experiment: Smoking

October 24th, 2007


Here’s an experiment showing you what you are doing with your lungs during smoking. Hope this short video will keep you away from smoking. It can be good motivation to give up smoking cigarettes. Video after the jump. Read more…

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Healthy Chocolate

October 3rd, 2007

Good news for Chocolate lovers, researchers has found out that the dark chocolate may help cut chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms, reducing blood pressure and improve levels of serotonin in the brain. Patients in a pilot study found they had less fatigue when eating dark chocolate with a high cocoa content than with white chocolate dyed brown. So it’s good to eat chocolate, healthy but just not too much.

Full story at BBC

[via Neatorama]

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Tie-Dye Roses

September 24th, 2007


Don’t know what color of rose to get for your girlfriend? Then get this, the “tie-dyed” roses, you got all the 7 colors in a rose. That’s special, isn’t it? The colorful roses are created by a Dutch company Happy Colors. Apart from rose, they also sell other colorful flower. The flowers is colored by injecting pigments into the stem using hypodermic needles.

[via Neatorama]

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The GloFish

September 17th, 2007

Colorful… Nice word when you mute the word from your mouth because it looks as if you are saying I Love You. No, nothing about love here, erm… National University of Singapore has created the transgenic, fluorescent zebra fish by injecting the red, green, and orange fluorescence genes from a jellyfish into the fish eggs. You can actually purchase them, look out for the name: GloFish.

[via Neatorama]

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Salt Water Fuel?

September 12th, 2007

While doing cancer research, John Kanzius discovered that he could actually burn salt water in a test tube just like the candle. The discovery spawned interest from the scientific community, mostly concerned with “whether or not, the water could be used as a fuel. Video after the jump. Read more…

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The Exploding Soap

August 3rd, 2007


Do you like to do science experiment? Here’s one, looks dangerous but check it out this cool chemical reaction. It works by mixing up three ingredients which are the soap, Hydrogen Peroxide, and dissolved Potassium Iodide. Watch it shooting up in the air like the lava. Video after the jump.
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Orangutans Play Games

May 5th, 2007

Orangutans in Atlanta zoo got a chance to play games, scientist are studying the cognitive skills of the orange and brown primates. There are monitors located outside letting zoo visitors to watch how the orangutans are doing, they are playing a specially-designed matching and memory games.
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Quit Smoking Video

January 26th, 2007

Here’s a clip from “atopaktas” about quitting smoke, the clip apparently showing people the effect of smoking. What will happen if you don’t quit smoking? Check out the harm it does to your body…
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