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Curiosity: not just for cats anymore

rawr.

dreaming

All I can hear is Nancy Sinatra...

Future Darwin Award winner

Reaching

Almost made it

Accurate

For those in the audience who know about Bear Camp

Jungles, swamps, guerillas and corrupt military - all in the most intense 90km on Earth

You might have wondered if it's possible to drive between North and South America - for surely there must be a road between these two continents! Well, as it turns out, there is absolutely NO ROAD connecting them, and all travel advisories clearly say "Don't Go", even if you feel somewhat suicidal. I am talking about the wild and wildly dangerous Darien Gap.




If you ever wondered what's like to be kidnapped in the Darien Gap by Colombian Death Squad, here is an account:

National Geographic Adventure contributing editor Robert Young Pelton and two American backpackers were kidnapped there in 2003 and held for 10 days; here is what he has to say (once they got out of there alive) -

"The Darien Gap is one of the last—not only unexplored—but one of the last places people really hesitate to venture to... It's also one of the most rugged places. The basic problem of the Darien Gap is that it's one of the toughest hikes there is. It's an absolute pristine jungle but it's got some nasty sections with thorns, wasps, snakes, thieves, criminals, you name it. Everything that's bad for you is in there."

From Dark Roasted Blend

Dedication

Otter Pop

Lost Mozart score found in France

A previously unknown piece of music by Mozart has been discovered at a library in western France.

Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Austria, said the single sheet of music was "really important".

"His handwriting is absolutely clearly identifiable," he added. "There's no doubt that this is an original piece handwritten by Mozart."

From BBC News

the kind of pilot i would be

Pilot: I would like to apologize for the long delay and I am happy to announce that we will shortly be making our way over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go in Louisville. Our flux capacitor is up and running and once this baby hits 188 miles per hour you'd better hold on tight.

--LaGuardia Airport

New arrival

Smoke

Oh, as simple as all that then?

Mostly laymans explanation of the Large Hadron Collider

Somewhere in Kenya

rest

doink!

Madrid Metro advertisement

Sufferin' Cephalopods

Sufferin' Cepholopods!

Brilliant!

a good point

Guy #1: The new Harry Potter is coming out this summer; you should read the book with me before the movie is released.
Guy #2: If I wanted to read a book filled with stories of sorcery, I'd read the bible.
Guy #1: (mouth drops open)

--Artapasta, Soho

*blink*

Group of little girls to little boy: Wanna play Mormon family with us?

--Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Overheard by: James

in case anyone was worried

Caught

Naughty little imp.

We don't know where Piglet came from...

En route to a training camp in Quebec during World War I, Canadian army lieutenant Harry Colebourn bought a bear cub for $20 from a hunter in White River, Ontario.

He named her Winnipeg, after his hometown, and smuggled her to England, where "Winnie" became the mascot of his militia regiment.

Eventually he donated her to the London Zoo, where she became a great favorite of Christopher Robin Milne, the son of a local playwright.

You know the rest.

miss you

Adam

RIP Don La Fontaine

750,000 television spots, 5,000 movie trailers, 1 voice.

that's it exactly