CNN has produced another of their “top” lists. This time, it’s the 50 top small towns in which to live (in the US). Here’s a sampling: 1. Sharon, MA Top 50 rank: 1 Population: 17,944 This New England town is surrounded by a wealth of good jobs in Boston, Providence, and the Route 128 tech …

Imagine fitting viruses together like Lego pieces and using them as a vehicle to deliver gene therapy. “We’re treating them like Legos,” says Jonathan Silberg, an associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Rice University. “We’re taking distantly related viruses that nature might not recombine very efficiently and looking for self-contained pieces of these …

It’s rare one sees surf photography featuring anything but beautiful blue waves, but the incredible surfing available off the remote Untung Jawa Island, an hour’s ride from Jakarta, was too tempting for photographer Zak Noyle to resist. According to PSFK’s Laura Chase: Tourism is the country’s fifth-largest foreign currency earner and in danger of being ruined …

Though re-usable, we wouldn’t call Thomas Jefferson’s portable notebooks green these days. Renaissance man Thomas Jefferson had a mind that never stopped, so he needed a way of jotting down notes on the go to be recorded in notebooks by night at Monticello. The solution? Pages of ivory that could be erased once his ideas …

Think sharks are terrifying? Just imagine what they think of us. While the shark is the ocean’s apex predator and the most feared animal on the planet, in the time it takes to scroll to the bottom of this graphic 73 more sharks would have been killed. Via Ripetungi. Beastly infographics.

Richard Johnson and Jake Edmiston of the National Post have put together some info about Yemen, a country they call Al-Qaeda’s hotspot. Here’s what they have to say: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is growing and security experts believe it now poses the greatest danger to the West. Based in Yemen, the terrorist group …

Remember the 1970s TV series “The Love Boat”? The ship upon which the series was based was, actually, a cruise ship. It’s been in service until now, but she’s been sold and will be scrapped for metal and parts in Turkey. During the show’s era, the ship was really known as “Pacific Princess”. Some factoids …

The joy that is Shark Week 2013 is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time for one last laugh, or twenty of them, for that matter. Full story at WorldWideInterweb via Neatorama. Humor with bite.  

Carbs may be the new egg when it comes to getting a raw deal but that doesn’t mean you can’t dream, right? Well, you’ll rest easy with this incredible poster of 250 different kinds of pasta compiled by Pop Chart Lab, from the handcrafted to the grocery store favorites. Cover it with veggies and call …

There are days when there’s absolutely no way you’re going to move mountains or set the world on fire, chalking one up in the win column if everyone makes it through alive and in one piece. For those days, skip the mountain-top mantras and take advice from the calmest font of wisdom there is besides …

Anyone in the customer service industry can tell you there are days a dysfunctional relationship on the home front looks like a sunset picnic on the beach compared to a bad day at work. Whether in love or on the job, there are ways to smooth the bumpy road of human interaction. Who knows? A …

In downtown Vancouver’s east side there’s a social housing project that’s gathering acclaim: why? The houses are built from shipping containers. Now, this concept isn’t new, in fact one could argue that it’s all the rage, but here’s an example of social housing and forward thinking at work. In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside , a housing …