A Most Peculiar Sunset

You wouldn't know it, not right away, but there is something strange about this picture. It's a sunset, yes, but notice the blush of color right above the sun. It's blue. And as you look up, the blue fades into a faint rose or pink. Now think about the sunsets you've seen, how often the sky can turn golden, or orange, sometimes pink, red, but when you look up, away from the setting sun, those colors fade back to a pale, twilight blue? It's rare to see a sunset dipped in blue. So this photo is a puzzle: it's blue where the red should be and red where the blue should be. Why? 

What Makes Us Happy?

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned. Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong — a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book.
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Optimistic goose.

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Zagreb Brewery Museum

Zagreb Brewery in the Croatian capital has followed in the footsteps of breweries around the world by opening its own museum, the first of its type in Croatia. Zagreb Brewery Museum will provide visitors with an insight into the history of the brewery which was founded back in 1892. Visitors will also get a look at the beer brewing process of the brewery that produces one of Croatia's most popular beers, Ozujsko. Old labels and decorated beer bottles will also be exhibited at the museum.

Rock stars at school - in pictures

Can you work out who these future megastars are from their high-school yearbook pictures?  

Nine Ways To Make Yourself Smarter

It often seems like everything you do, touch, or eat can make you smarter or dumber. But that's not quite the case. There are, of course, plenty of ways to tweak your life in order to gain yourself a little cognitive advantage over the competition. The problem is that some have very little real effect. Others are more trouble than they're worth.
Here's a guide to some of the most effective ways to boost your brain power.
 

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Czech metal thieves dismantle 10-ton bridge

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 "The gang reportedly arrived at a depot in Slavkov, in the east of the country, with forged paperwork claiming that the footbridge over the disused railway track had to come down. A Railways spokesman, Pavel Halla, said the cost of the theft was worth millions. "The thieves said they had been hired to demolish the bridge, and remove the unwanted railway track to make way for a new cycle route," he said. "It was only after they had gone that checks were made and we realised we'd been had. The cost of replacing the bridge will run into millions."
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Penny the dog with one blue shoe

All about Penny read here.

 

What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news?

"The Hobbit is shot at 48 frames per second – twice as many frames as standard films. The studio claims this gives it an unparalleled fluidity. The viewers complained it was too smooth – like raw video. Some said it looked like daytime TV. What they meant, I guess, is that it seemed too "real", and therefore inherently underwhelming. The traditional cinematic frame rate lends everything a comforting, unreal and faintly velvety feel, whereas the crisper motion of video seems closer to reality, and therefore intrinsically more harsh and pedestrian. Therefore watching The Hobbit at 48 frames per second might feel like watching an edition of Homes Under the Hammer starring Bilbo Baggins (admittedly, every edition of Homes Under the Hammer features someone who looks like Bilbo Baggins, but you get my drift). All of which means we may be nearing a frankly baffling position where TV news reports look more like traditional movies, and movies look more like traditional TV news reports."
 By Charlie Brooker / more
 

A True Friend...

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Fountain

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A Book Before Bed

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'Blowin' In The Wind' Still Asks The Hard Questions

 "Bob Dylan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama on April 26, 2012.
  The honor is due in no small part to songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" still asking the same hard    questions 50 years later."
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Oh can't you see?

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James Cameron is Awesome

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Tough Little Guy

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We used to revere scientists. Now we worship Kim Kardashian. Why?

"How long will it take Jessica Simpson to lose the baby weight? Blah. Blah. Is Brangelina tying the knot just to upstage Jen and Justin? Will Kim drag Kanye down the aisle? Blah. Blah. Blah. Yes, my head is filled with pathetically stupid thoughts about inconsequential people, and so, quite frankly, is yours. We are all in the same boat. And why on earth do we privilege the most superficial idiocies of popular culture over more substantial fare? The answer is simple: We have lost our fascination with accomplishment."
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Cheer up

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Two suited, blue masked Barclays ‘eagles’ on Barclays bikes

Protesters dressed as suited eagles on Barclays cycle hire bikes swoop on the Royal Festival Hall, host to Barclays bank's AGM in London.
Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
 

Meet the man who carries the bird over his head when it rains

When Wayne O'Donnell jets off to Spain's Costa Brava each summer, his feathered friend Boris is the one thing he wouldn't leave home without. Back in Romsey, Hampshire, the pair are inseparable, and Boris, an Aylesbury duck, wanders loyally down the street with his owner, like a dog being taken for a walk. He even enjoys sipping beer in bars, taking a ride in the passenger seat of Mr O'Donnell's car and perching on the top his owner’s head.
 

35 Animals Who Are Kind Of Worried About You

1. This Kitten In A Basket

This kitten in a basket is worried that you're not getting enough sleep lately. more here
 

Cross-Dominant People

Nikola Tesla

 Cross-dominance, also known as mixed-handedness, mixed dominance, or hand-confusion, is a motor skill manifestation where a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others. For example, a cross-dominant person might write with the left hand but throw primarily with the right.
  Notable cross-dominant people : Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin,Ludwig van Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci ...
 and I also ;)

 

Thousands gather in Oslo to sing song Anders Breivik hates

About 40,000 people sing 1970s song Children of the Rainbow, which Breivik described as Marxist propaganda.

 

Do Girls Really Want to Look Like Barbie?

"For decades journalists, feminists and social critics have assumed that young girls idolize Barbie dolls. Time magazine's Amy Dickinson claimed that "Women my age know whom to blame for our own self-loathing, eating disorders and distorted body image: Barbie."

In her feminist best-seller "The Beauty Myth," Naomi Wolf claims Barbie is seen as an "ideal" woman. The claim is widely asserted and repeated.

But is it true? "
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Women drivers

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