Charts Bin presents an interactive map showing the distribution of passenger cars throughout the world. Iceland leads the world with 668 per 1,000 people. At the link, you can hover over each country to view more details.

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Samuel Granados created two LEGO maps of the Americas, one one each side of a vertical surface, and used stacks of varying levels to indicate immigration patterns:

His project is very funny: a 3D cartogram about emigration and inmigration between american countries. But in true 3D: made with Lego pieces, as he explains, "to seize the space of the exhibition" and "allow you to watch teh cartogram from different perspectives".
One side of the map show the emigrants of each zone, the opposite shows the inmigrants (both represented by the volume of the pieces).

Link via Geekologie | Artist's Website | Photo by the artist

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Web celebrity cat Maru is considering changing his hairstyle. Not seen: reverse mohawk. Which do you think suits him best?

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Phil Hart captured this amazing long-exposure shot of the movement of stars over and bioluminescent algae in Gippsland Lakes, Australia:

The photography was highly addictive and I spent many late nights waiting for the moon to set, capturing as many images as I could, trying different lenses and exposures. I spent one memorable evening trying to photograph the luminescence in gentle waves lapping at Cooinda’s front beach. I kept bringing the camera closer to the water to get the best result. Eventually I threw caution to the wind and stuck the tripod down where the waves washed over the legs.

Link via Popular Science

Last year, to mark the 50th anniversary of the debut of Barbie, Mattel had a house redecorated to resemble the doll's Malibu Dream House:

The 3,500 square foot house in Malibu was designed by “Happy Chic” interior designer Jonathan Adler and features a chandelier made of Barbie hair, a closet filled with thousands of shoes and a sunburst mirror made from 65 Barbie dolls.

Link via Flavorwire | Photo: Tom Andrews

Lauren Milroy, a mechanical engineer with a background in the aerospace industry, recently completed a master's program in design. She made these shoes out of colored pencils.

Link via Dude Craft | Artist's Website

Depending on who you talk to, this sculpture can or can't be used as a hookah. What is more certain is that it was made by glass artist Kevin Murray of Milwaukie, Oregon.

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Max Eddy of Geekosystem rounded up pictures and information about unusual and macabre chess sets, such as the above set inspired by the Alien movie franchise. Facehuggers make appropriate pawns.

You know what would be good to see? A chess set inspired by the chess episode of Lexx.

Link | Photo: Contaminated

Jen of Epbot attended the Miami Comic-Con and took this picture of a little girl in a Cinderella costume reading to R2D2, who chirped and beeped in response. It was only after she started processing the pictures that Jen noticed that Denise Crosby, the actress who played Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was in the background of the shot.

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Do you come across as insufficiently creepy to your friends and coworkers? Then start transporting your data with this severed finger flash drive by Etsy seller jasonscreations.

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Since it is Dr. Seuss' 107th birthday, there's no better time to dig into the green eggs and ham. These, however, are not edible, as they are a crocheted sculpture. Craftster user The Izz writes:

I will crochet them in a box.
I will crochet them with a fox.
I will crochet them in a house.
I will crochet them with a mouse.
I will crochet them here or there.
I do like them anywhere.
I will crochet green eggs and ham.
For I do love that Seussy man.

Link via Make

Previously: Shakespearean Green Eggs and Ham

Kyle Bean made a sculpture of a chicken out of eggshells. It's called "Which Came First?" Although, at first, I thought that this was a digital image, the last photo in the set at the link shows Bean assembling the sculpture.

Link via Dude Craft

Previously by Kyle Bean: Nesting Cell Phones

I don't know what this is. There are captions written in the Cyrillic alphabet. But it's very clear that this would have been the basis of the greatest Lassie series ever.

via Super Punch | Previously: Cat Lassie is Unconcerned with Your Suffering

A couple of months ago, cartoonist Caldwell Tanner composed a few covers for classic children's picture books as though they were inspired by science fiction. Julia Yu was either inspired by one such cover or arrived at the idea on her own, but has, at any rate, composed a full-length presentation of Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon set in the Dune universe.

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Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands found a positive correlation between the need to pee and impulse control:

Their findings contradict previous research which found people who are forced to “restrain themselves” put more pressure on their brain and found it difficult exerting self-control.

Dr Mirjam Tuk, who led the study, said that the brain’s “control signals” were not task specific but result in an "unintentional increase" in control over other tasks.

"People are more able to control their impulses for short term pleasures and choose more often an option which is more beneficial in the long run,” she said.

"The brain area sending this signal, is activated not only for bladder control, but for all sorts of control.

The psychologists tested their hypothesis by asking two groups of people -- one consisting of people who had just drank a large amount of water and one that hadn't -- to make decisions about the future:

They were asked to make eight choices ranging from small, and immediate, rewards to larger, but delayed, ones including choosing to receive either $16 (£10) tomorrow or $30 (£18) in 35 days.

They concluded that people with full bladders were better at holding out for the larger rewards later.

Link | Photo by Flickr user mauitimeweekly used under Creative Commons license