Think you can ride a bike? I betcha you can’t ride a bike as well as this woman can (she should join a circus!) …

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Life can be busy and hectic, but please remember to stop and smell the roses, like these cute orangutans are doing – found at Daum.

This year, the crop circle "season" is marked by the world’s first ever 3-D crop circle!

Steve Alexander, a crop circle photographer of more than 15 years, said: "I thought it was a groundbreaking formation. We have not seen anything like it before.

"The floor lay and the way the design appears to weave in and out has never been seen before, certainly not that I am aware.

"It is the first of its kind and is a very, very powerful thing to look at.

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How old would he be in this movie? From the website:

Synopsis: Aging boxer, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is now a widowed restaurant owner in Philly quietly fading into obscurity until a sports trivia show broadcasts a computer mockup of a potential Rocky vs. Mason fight. When Rocky comes out as the winner, the champ is pushed into a real match and the game is on!

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If you think you have a bug problem, be thankful it’s not this:

So what was it last Friday that turned the radar in the La Crosse area into a sea of white? It turns out that it was a gigantic hatch of mayflies.

The bugs were so thick that they showed up as a rainstorm of mayflies on National Weather Service radar.

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Designed by Gen Yanagisawa, this cool one-man helicopter can fly a 155 lb. pilot for one hour, with max speed of 55 mph. At $30,000 it’s a bargain!

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What would happen if Star Trek’s starship Enterprise encountered the Death Star?

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Alan Kinnear took this underwater photo of a piglet squid in Nigeria, as part of BP Kongsberg Underwater Image Competition 2006.

See more cool underwater photos (don’t miss the cirrate octopod pic!): Link – via Nutmeg

Yuri Gorby of the Pacific Northwest National Lab and colleagues succeeded in coaxing bacteria to produce nanowires that can conduct electricity for a biological fuel cell.

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This fantastic ultraviolet photo, taken by the TRACE Project, Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research and NASA, showed our sun as a sizzling ball of seething hot gas:

Unpredictably, regions of strong and tangled magnetic fields arise, causing sunspots and bright active regions. The Sun’s surface bubbles as hot hydrogen gas streams along looping magnetic fields. These active regions channel gas along magnetic loops, usually falling back but sometimes escaping into the solar corona or out into space as the solar wind. Pictured above is our Sun in three colors of ultraviolet light. Since only active regions emit significant amounts of energetic ultraviolet light, most of the Sun appears dark. The colorful portions glow spectacularly, pinpointing the Sun’s hottest and most violent regions. Although the Sun is constantly changing, the rate of visible light it emits has been relatively stable over the past five billion years, allowing life to emerge on Earth.

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Why settle for a boring computer mouse when you can surft in style with Road Mice, a cool wireless computer mouse that looks just like the car of your dreams?

Road Mice is available in various Chevy, Chrysler, Dodge, and Ford models. It's the perfect gift for the auto-enthusiast in your life!

If you think your home renovation project is bad, look at this: the world’s tallest dam in Brazil has developed a giant crack just months after completion.

GIANT cracks have opened in one of the world’s tallest dams, just months after completion. The cracks appeared after a tunnel collapsed on 20 June beneath the 200-metre-high Campos Novos dam in southern Brazil, and the reservoir rapidly emptied. At one point, 4000 cubic metres of water (more than enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool) were rushing downstream every second towards a second dam on the river Canoas.

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Photo: David Cooper/Toronto Star

After working for 30 years to create a flapping-wing aircraft, first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci, Dr. James DeLaurier succeeded:

Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly — a dream first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci.

And with the successful flight DeLaurier has been lucky enough to touch what many describe as the Holy Grail of aeronautical design, achieving a place for himself, his team of volunteers and students in aviation history.

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