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Chinese Designer Combines Babies and Pets, Creates Disturbing Baby-Pets 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
What if combining human and animal DNA wasn’t illegal, nor did it violate moral or ethical codes of conduct? What if technology allowed us to create hybrids between babies and pets that were still bio...
The Incredibly Lifelike Charcoal Portraits of Douglas McDougall 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Scottish artist Douglas McDougall uses charcoal, sandpaper and scalpel blades to create his amazingly realistic portraits of friends and people he finds interesting. Douglas McDougall learned how to ...
Bug Fan Keeps Tens of Thousands of Cockroaches as Pets 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Kyle Kandilian, a 20-year-old student from Dearborn, Michigan, has a very unusual hobby – he enjoys raising cockroaches as pets. His bedroom walls are decked with boxes and crates which hold around 20...
Spanish Farmer Has Spent the Last 50 Years Building a Giant Cathedral Out of Junk in the Name of God 26 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
Justo Gallego Martinez, an 86-year-old farmer from Spain, has spent the last 50 years of his life single-handedly building a large cathedral in a suburb of Madrid, without any architectural knowledge ...
Japanese Artist Uses Toothpicks and a Spoon to Create Amazing Banana Sculptures 26 Aug 2013 | 04:11 pm
Keisuke Yamada is a self-taught Japanese artist who takes plain bananas and turns them into edible masterpieces. Using only a spoon and toothpicks the talented food artist works against the clock, try...
The Game of Gostra – Running Up a Greasy Wooden Pole in Malta 26 Aug 2013 | 02:19 pm
Every year, on the afternoon of the last Sunday in August, brave young men from all over Malta compete in the traditional game of “gostra”, trying to run all the way to the top of a long greasy pole a...
Man Builds 12,000 Square-Foot Castle in the Middle of a Florida Swamp 23 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
When he moved from New York to Florida over 40 years ago, Howard Solomon took the saying “A man’s home is his castle” quite literally. The artist once known as “The DaVinci of Debris” spent a total of...
Photo-Realistic Paintings of Landscapes Reflected in Sunglasses 23 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
Many of Simon Hennessey’s paintings look so lifelike that they are often mistaken for photos. To achieve this level of realism, the English artist spends anywhere from two weeks to seven months on a s...
Knight Rider Fan Spends Three Years Building Perfect Replica of KITT 23 Aug 2013 | 02:23 pm
When Knight Rider came out during the 1980s, the nearly indestructible KITT, a heavily modified Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, blew everyone away. Even today, it remains one of the coolest cars ever, and ...
Closer to Heaven – A Temple Built on the Rooftop of a Chinese Skyscraper 22 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
Architectural wonders erected on the rooftops of skyscrapers seems to be the latest constructions trend in China. Just days after the scandal involving a mountain villa built on the roof of a Beijing ...
