Transportation/Travel

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Turtles or Snakes - Which do cars hit more? Roadkill Experiment

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VideoSift shares a four minutes and 22 seconds YouTube video showing a guy experiment/testing a hypothesis to see if people will swerve more to hit turtles over snakes on the roads.

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The Dark Knight Spelunks: A Visual History of the Batcave

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The Atlantic has an article titled "The Dark Knight Spelunks: A Visual History of the Batcave" -- "... But if there's one element of Batman's universe that realizes its potential for Gothic camp more than any other -- one element that crystallizes its weirdly incoherent aesthetics into a distinct reality whose properties you can see in a glance

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Unusual Bridges For Animals - Wildlife Overpasses

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Neatorama shared The World Geography's article showing "Unusual Bridges For Animals - Wildlife Overpasses -- Wildlife overpasses, green bridges, and ecoducts all refer to structures that have been built over roads to allow wildlife to cross safely to the other side of the road. The bridges are for the animals; the animals walk over the road, and the vehicles go through the structure. Most of the structures are between 10 m (30 ft) and 60 m (180 ft) wide. They typically have soil, litter, and vegetation on top to provide suitable habitat for a range of different species and species groups. The larger structures are typically intended for large mammals ranging from ungulates (e.g. deer, elk, moose) to large carnivores (e.g. black bear, grizzly bear, Canada lynx, wolverine, wolf). Here are pictures of some of the most beautiful and interesting wildlife overpasses in the world..."

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Screw the roads!

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NerdApproved shared a funny comic strip related to Back to The Future movies.

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Castle Survive -- An old school Flash shooter game.

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Blue's News shared an addicting old school Flash game titled "Castle Survive" on Games For Work -- "Shoot the monsters as open chests and doors. Find the stairs to reach new floors of the castle."

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Perspective -- A Flash platform puzzle game as a dog.

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Blue's News shared a puzzle platform Flash game titled "Perspective" on Free Web Arcade and its official web site, Newgrounds -- "You play as a dog following his elderly master, solving puzzles along the way using his unique perspective changing ability." and "View the world from a different perspective in this puzzle platformer! Stay away from spikes and enemies, collect coins, and reach the door that is next to your master. You can view each level from two perspectives, which will allow you to turn spikes into coins and enemies into platforms. In later levels, you'll be required to collect a key and control two characters simultaneously."

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Do you like to move/relocate (work, home, etc.)?

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All 135 Space Shuttle Launches Simultaneously.

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VideoSift shares a three minutes and 55 seconds Vimeo video showing "all 135 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s space shuttle launches simultaneously/at once.

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Back to the Future (1985) and today/2012's filming locations.

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VideoSift shares a 15 minutes and 27 seconds YouTube video showing the first Back to the Future (1985) movie scenes and today (2012).

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What happens if you die on a cruise ship?

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Neatorama shared an io9 article on answering "What happens if you die on a cruise ship?" question -- "Cruise ships are floating cities. They carry thousands of people from port to port, while life passes on the shore. And with that many people on board, it's inevitable that sometimes, someone dies.

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The Rise of Asian Americans.

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Owl (remove AQFL to e-mail), The Orange County (OC) Register, and Neatorama shared a long and detailed nine pages Pew Social & Demographic Trends article showing "The Rise of Asian Americans -- Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States (U.S.). They are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success..."

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Twelve/12 of the World’s Strangest & Most Unusual Bodies of Water

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Neatorama shares a three pages WebEcoist article, with photographs/photos., on the "twelve/12 of the world's strangest and most unusual bodies of water

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The Aquatory Flash game -- Launch your underwater arsenal at subs.

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Blue's News shared a Flash ocean/sea ship game titled "The Aquatory" on Games For Work and its official web site, Kongregate -- "Launch your underwater arsenal at subs. Time your launches just right for correct hits." and "Atmospheric underwater shooter. Enemy submarine units are trying to get through the Aquatory! Stop them!"

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POrtal: Terminal Velocity

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VideoSift shares a three minutes and thirty-six seconds Vimeo video showing "POrtal: Terminal Velocity" to show what "a real POrtal gun would be like if one existed. Based on the video game, POrtal. I tried to match the game as close as possible.

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Time Kufc -- A strange/weird, confusing taunting/talking puzzle Flash game.

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Dorkly shares an addicting, strange/weird, confusing puzzle Flash game titled "Time Kufc" on Adult Swim -- "Future you leads present you through a time warp. Panic ensues." It also taunts/talks to the player. ;)

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Psychout -- A crazy Flash game.

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Blue's News share an addicting crazy puzzle game title "Psychout" on Free Web Arcade and its official web site, Kongregate -- "You're a patient of a madhouse who've got a chance to escape. Accept the challenge of the madhouse maze that is full of puzzles. This is the world where reality and madness are harshly intertwined, where nothing is as it seems."

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Fat Cat -- A Flash shooter game with a flying fat cat and owl.

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Blue's News shared a Flash shooter game titled "Fat Cat" on Free Web Arcade and its official web site, Nitrome -- "Play as both the owl and the pussy cat in this frantic puzzle shoot-em-up."

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Sequester -- A narrated creepy Flash game.

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Blue's News share a creepy narrated Flash game titled "Sequester" on Free Web Arcade and its official web site, Armor Games -- "Enter the dark mind of a nameless young boy as he dreams of his sister, who is deceased and stuck between this life and the next. What is holding her to this world, and what could her brother do about it even if he knew?"

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Bomb Runner -- A Flash Game

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Blue's News shared a Flash game titled "Bomb Runner" on Games For Work and its official web site, GameArk.com -- "A maze-riddled mix of minigolf and pinball set in deep space. Guide your bomb through 24 levels, improve your ship with upgrades, battle against epic bosses and save the galaxy!"

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