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In 2006, this and other genes were given more professional sounding names because they were considered insensitive to those who suffer from mutations of these genes. I mean, how would you like to be told you have a genetic mutation in your ‘faint sausage’? Or that you are particularly sensitive to alcohol because you have a mutated ‘cheap date’ gene? Exactly!

Many people are aware of S.E.T.I. : the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence but did you know that in 1977 a radio observatory in Ohio actually found something?

That’s an astonishing 198,500,0000 degrees hotter than the temperature of the Sun’s core! Read on to find out more…

Okay,..that doesn’t seem like much of a fact right? Well, this isn’t one of my regular posts.
For those who don’t know @OMGFacts, you’d probably be interested to know that they are the most retweeted user on Twitter. In their own words..
“Apparently people like to know pointless things.”
Well it turns out not everything is [...]

You’ve got to be a pretty big nerd to shell out 10G for a computer that, honestly,..didn’t do that much.  $10,000 in 1982 would have gotten you a night with Leslie Easterbrook from Police Academy,..maybe even a full weekend!  It’s for that reason, it was mainly used by NASA and the military special forces; who [...]

Peter Merholz is a founding partner, board member, and president of Adaptive Path; a user experience consultancy company.
The original term was of course ‘weblog’, which was coined by the famous anti-semite, Jon Barger, in 1997.  The term weblog was lightheartedly split in two on Peter’s own blog PeterMe.com, into the two words ‘We Blog’ in April/May 1999. [...]

Yup, scientists at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, managed to use a magnet to levitate a frog!
We all know that magnets pushed together at opposite poles will repel each other but how does something that isn’t magnetic repel enough to levitate? Well the reason takes a little explaining but it’s based on something called [...]