For the last few months I’ve been thinking of a TED video, where Aubrey de Grey was arguing that aging is just a disease, and like any disease it can be cured. He thinks that people have the potential of living for centuries if they approached aging like an engineering problem. He talks about the [...]

This great looking photo above is of the Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars. It was acquired on October 3, 2007, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
At the time the image was taken, Earth was 142 million kilometers (88 million miles) from Mars, giving the HiRISE image a scale [...]

A cool timeline with the benefits of quitting smoking and how long it takes to get back into shape. 10 years to have the same cancer risk as a non-smoker. Wow!
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"That’s All Folks". I bet you know this line from the Looney Cartoons that we all loved as we grew up. Well, Mel Blanc, the man of 1000 voices got it on his tombstone.
Very funny and cool. More people should get funny stuff on their tombstone, something that represents their life and brings [...]

Yes, that’s how a $6 million home theater looks like. It has 36 amplifiers and 39 speaker units and a huge list of other accessories after the jump:
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