Brown and grizzly bears hunting salmon photographed by Paul Souders in Alaska

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One-year-old Dutch boy signs football contract

"Baerke van der Meij scored almost a million hits on YouTube after his father Jorg posted a film of the toddler shooting three balls into his toy box last week.
The boy and his family are supporters of the Venlose Voetbal Vereniging, or VVV, football team in the city of Venlo where Baerke's grandfather once played as a professional.
The toddler joined VVV's star midfielder Ken Leemans during a training session in De Koel Stadium on Tuesday before being offered the “symbolic” contract.
”The toddler's favourite position has not yet been determined. However, we can speak of a right-footed player with a very good kicking technique, perseverance and, importantly: football genes via his grandfather,” said a VVV Venlo press release."
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The orphaned elephants play in a muddy pool at David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya

Royal wedding art

 "An artist has created a royal wedding portrait of Prince William and Kate Middleton using 11,000 jelly beans. Malcolm West from Hersham, Surrey, spent up to ten hours a day over a period of more than five weeks painstakingly sticking each sweet on to his creation."
Royal wedding: quirky portraits and sculptures of Prince William and Kate Middleton

The newborn bird who refused to face the camera for a family photo

Just as the photo was about to be taken, the very individual duck turned his back on the camera.

We Are All Celebrities Now

"Celebrities and politicians make their livelihoods by eschewing privacy and seeking full-frontal public attention. They are public figures by choice.

But what about the rest of us? In today's Facebooking Twitterverse — with the proliferation of cellphone cameras, community-building websites, photo-sharing apps and ever-expanding companies dedicated to exposing as much of our lives and predilections as possible — we are all becoming public figures whether we want to be or not. And it's changing the rules we live by."
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Sad and alone at night

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The Dogs of Central Park

 "Central Park attracts all varieties of lively New Yorkers: joggers circling the Reservoir, cyclists zooming between tourists, sunbathers catching rays on the Great Lawn, kids frolicking at Heckscher Playground. But it wasn't the people who most fascinated photographer Fran Reisner when she visited the park on a spring day in 2008. 'What I saw as I crested the first hill on my path was unforgettable: dogs everywhere!' Reisner writes in her new book The Dogs of Central Park (out in May from publisher Rizzoli). The playful pets 'romped gleefully like children,' she writes, 'and I sensed that if you listened hard enough you could almost hear them laughing.' Here, an excerpt of portraits from Reisner's book, starring pets in the park."
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Chernobyl's 25th Anniversary

A man grieves at the monument to Chernobyl victims in Slavutich in the the Ukraine during a memorial ceremony early on April 26, 2011, marking a quarter century since the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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The unlikely charm of cockroaches

The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), pictured here by a scanning electron microscope, is one of the fastest-moving insects on Earth. Their scuttling movements are so distinctive that they have inspired modern six-legged robotic systems.

(Image: Last Refuge/Robert Harding/Getty)
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Cyanide & Happiness

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Supercomputers Help Scientists Dig Deeper, See Farther, Share More

 "Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen.
The hovering sensation gives way to vertigo as the camera dives deeper into the forest, approaches a branch of a giant redwood tree, and then plunges first into a single leaf and then into an individual cell. Inside the cell the scene is evocative of the 1966 science fiction movie “Fantastic Voyage,” in which Lilliputian humans in a minuscule capsule take a medical journey through a human body.

There is an important difference — “Life: A Cosmic Journey,” a multimedia presentation now showing at the new Morrison Planetarium here at the California Academy of Sciences, relies not just on computer animation techniques, but on a wealth of digitized scientific data as well.

The planetarium show is a visually spectacular demonstration of the way computer power is transforming the sciences, giving scientists tools as important to current research as the microscope and telescope were to earlier scientists. Their use accompanies a fundamental change in the material that scientists study. Individual specimens, whether fossils, living organisms or cells, were once the substrate of discovery. Now, to an ever greater extent, researchers work with immense collections of digital data, and the mastery of such mountains of information depends on computing power."
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US photographer seeks British girl he captured on film in 1960

Part of Bruce Davidson's photo Girl Holding Kitten. Photograph: Bruce Davidson/Magnum

"The great American documentary photographer Bruce Davidson is in the UK this week to receive a major award, and has spoken of his hopes of trying to find out what happened to the subject of one of his favourite photographs."
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Top 10 Donald Trump Jokes

 'Donald Trump insists that he is going to run for president. I guess he figures if he can pull off that hairstyle, he can do anything.' –Jimmy Kimmel
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Grand Ma & Grand Pa's Answering Machine

 "Hello. You have reached Grandma and Grandpa. We're not able to come to the phone right now.
If you are one of our five children, dial 1 and then select from 1 to 5 in order of 'arrival' so we know who it is.

If you need us to watch your children, press 2.

If you want to borrow our car, press 3.

If you want us to do your laundry, press 4.

If you want the grandchildren to sleep here tonight, press 5.

If you want us to pick up the kids at school, press 6.

If you want us to have you to dinner on Sunday or to bring it to your house, press 7.

If you need money, press 8.

If you are calling to invite us to dinner or ask how we are doing, start talking; we are listening.'"

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South Park Unveils Apple’s Latest Abomination: The HumancentiPad

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Steve Jobs reveals a horrifying new gadget called the HumancentiPad in the season premiere of South Park.

Kyle Broflovski is “intimately involved in the development” of the revolutionary new product, according to a Comedy Central press release that merely hints at the disgusting nature of the iPad’s successor.

But if you’re familiar with gross-out Dutch horror movie The Human Centipede, you probably have an inkling about what kind of nightmare awaits early adopters.

If not, watch the clip  and brace yourself. Looks like it might give new meaning to the term human interface device.
 Wired.com

Wael Ghonim Leaving Google to Launch Tech NGO in Egypt

"Days after being named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Wael Ghonim, the young Google executive who became a symbol for the Egyptian revolution, announced he is leaving the search giant to a start a non-governmental organization in Egypt.

“Decided to take a long term sabbatical from @Google & start a technology focused NGO to help fight poverty & foster education in #Egypt,” Ghonim, 30, wrote in a Twitter message over the weekend."
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Far Better Than 3-D: Animated GIFs That Savor A Passing Moment

 "You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art form? Animated GIFs are like the jazz of the internet: they could only exist, and be created and appreciated, online. That said, PopTart Cat is not exactly on par with Thelonious Monk. But photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg may have finally found a way to elevate the animated GIF to a level approaching fine art, with their 'cinemagraphs' -- elegant, subtly animated creations that are 'something more than a photo but less than a video."
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True sea snakes stick to one male only

"As a general rule, female reptiles mate with multiple males to produce a single brood. But when Vimoksalehi Lukoschek of James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, decided to verify this in elapid snakes, a family that includes cobras and sea snakes, she found something new.

Lukoschek looked at 12 pregnant female sea snakes, from six species, that had been killed by fishing trawlers. She took DNA samples from both the females and their unborn offspring, and used 10 chunks of the genome that vary widely to work out how many males contributed to each brood. To her surprise, each brood had only one father .

'The contrast with what we've seen in other groups is striking,' says Richard King of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. The pros and cons of single and multiple matings are poorly understood, he adds.

The sample size is small, warns Tobias Uller of the University of Oxford. 'Three out of six of the species were represented by a single clutch,' he says.

Lukoschek says she has no idea why the females are so selective."
New Scientist