A post-apocalypse trip to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to retrieve the seeds that will save humanity may seem like good fodder for a movie. But seed banks have important work to do right now. In spite of being nicknamed the Doomsday Vault, the Svalbard vault’s real goal is to protect crop diversity by safeguarding …

Hayes Johnson took the Stormtrooper head he received in a McDonald’s Happy Meal and installed it onto his Buick Park Avenue as a hood ornament. Nothing says badass like mounting the head of a clone on your ride. Full story at LikeCool. Get your Star Wars fix.

Sharks can have up to 15 rows of teeth growing behind their front row of chompers, so it’s no surprise how many shark teeth litter beaches. But why do people collect them? Something that many people may not realize is that sharks have no bones. Once the cartilage of a dead shark is gone, the …

Looking to make your peepers stand out, but that old tube of Maybelline just doesn’t cut it? Skip the mascara and go gory glam with Flylashes, fake eyelashes made from the legs of flies. British artist Jessica Harrison created the insect-chic look and posted a video of her creepy creation on Vimeo. Expect to see …

Many of history’s most harmful inventions weren’t originally created to do damage, they were designed to help people. However, somewhere along the road, they fell into the wrong hands and were greatly misused. See three of ten big inventions that went bad for mankind below: Ecstacy—Developed by Anton Kollich, the drug was intended to be …

Elmo is the world’s favorite furry red monster. In fact, Elmo is the most recognizable children’s character in the United States, according to research from Marketing Evaluations, Inc. For those behind in their Elmo trivia, Elmo is a never-aging three-and-a-half-year-old monster. Elmo lives on the third floor of the 123 Sesame Street apartment building with …

Meet Stephen Wiltshire, a London-born artist who shocks viewers with his ability to draw entire cityscapes in precise detail after seeing the area just one time. Wiltshire, aka the human camera, is best known for drawing seven square miles of London (filled with hundreds of buildings in exact scale) from memory after just a twenty-minute …

Grab a bottle of Merlot, flip on some Marvin Gaye, and set the stage for ideas to get it on. Yes, ideas have sex. British author Matt Ridley shares his insights about how the meeting and mating of ideas has propelled our society’s progress forward. Via TED. All the top TED news.

With the help of Yann Voituron from Claude Bernard Lyon University, Discovery News recently compiled an insanely interesting list of the top ten longest living animals. See a few of them below: Galapagos tortoise (177 years) Red sea urchin (200 years) Bowhead whale (211 years) See who else made the cut at Discovery News. Love …

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What would the internet universe look like if re-imagined in the spirit of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy? Behold, Dante’s Internet. Full story at GearFuse. (H/T Neatorama) All about books.

You can miss a lot in the blink of an eye. But sometimes, the click of a camera shutter can capture the moment you missed. Case in point: these perfectly times action photos. See all thirty at Web Designer. More on photography.