Because a Monkey Playing With a Pumpkin Is Funny, That's Why

[A northern plains grey langur (or, Semnopithecus entellus) looks for grapes inside a pumpkin at the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary today. Image via AP]
(via Jeff Neumann Gawker)
Because a Monkey Playing With a Pumpkin Is Funny, That's Why

Pocahontas' Wedding Site Found

Photo (via Pocahontas)

A team of archaeologists believe they may have finally discovered Pocahontas' wedding site, a mystery that has long vexed scholars (via Liz Day Discovery News)

Pocahontas' Wedding Site Found : Discovery News

Google says its cars grabbed emails, passwords

(Reuters) - Google Inc admitted for the first time its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed -- including complete emails and passwords -- potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries (via Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO)
 Google says its cars grabbed emails, passwords | Reuters

90-Year-Old Newspaper House Still Standing Strong

The framework to the house is wood-just like any other house-it has a regular wooden floor and wooden roof. The wall material, which was supposed to be insulation really, is pressed paper about an inch thick. It's just layers and layers of newspaper, glue, and varnish on the outside That keeps it pretty water-proof actually. This was done in 1924 and he lived here in the summertime up until 1930. Actually, I guess he was supposed to cover the outside with clapboards, but he just didn't. You know, he was curious. He wanted to see what would happen to the paper..   (via) Stephen Messenger

90-Year-Old Newspaper House Still Standing Strong : TreeHugger

German "heatball" wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban

Heatballs :)

German "heatball" wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban - Yahoo! News

They Got All Those Miners Out!

Unreality - They Got All Those Miners Out! |

 

Whale of a Journey: Whale Travels 6,000 Miles

Photo: Protected Resouces Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. swfsc.nmfs.noaa.gov/PRD/

Whale of a Journey: Whale Travels 6,000 Miles : Discovery News