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Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing!

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Image via Wikipedia Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing! : "During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air." Related articles WWII Airplane factory camouflaged as residential neighborhood (boingboing.net) Hidden WWII Military Base in California (gunnyg.wordpress.com) End of Tour 28 Squadron - Waterkloof, South Africa (travelpod.com) This Video Game Was Made In The 1940′s (gizmodo.com.au) Military Contractors' Secret Sway Over Our Politics -- Does Obama Have the Guts to Make Them Disclose Their Political Spending? (alternet.

How to use an elevator without stopping

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Weierstrass functions

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Image via Wikipedia Weierstrass functions : " Weierstrass functions Weierstrass functions are famous for being continuous everywhere, but differentiable 'nowhere'" Related articles What do elliptic functions look like? (superconductor.voltage.com) The limiting absorption principle (terrytao.wordpress.com) Identifying Vector Fields (unapologetic.wordpress.com) Continuously Differentiable Functions are Locally Lipschitz (unapologetic.wordpress.com) The Existence and Uniqueness Theorem of Ordinary Differential Equations (statement) (unapologetic.wordpress.com) Blog Post: The hidden power within (e2e.ti.com) Smooth Dependence on Initial Conditions (unapologetic.wordpress.com) Sheaves of Functions on Manifolds (unapologetic.wordpress.com) Bihu Function (stuti1.wordpress.com)

CDC EPR | Social Media | Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse - Blog

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Image via Wikipedia CDC EPR | Social Media | Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse - Blog : "Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse The following was originally posted on CDC Public Health Matters Blog on May 16th, 2011 by Ali S. Khan ." Related articles CDC's Zombie Apocalypse Juggernaut: Next Up, a Video Contest (blogs.wsj.com) CDC helps Americans prepare for zombie apocalypse () CDC's 'zombie apocalypse' post a hit (boston.com) Are You Ready: CDC Issues Zombie Apocalypse Plan (healthland.time.com) CDC reveals safety plan for Zombie Apocalypse (go.theregister.com) CDC to America: How to Prepare for a Zombie Apocalypse (healthland.time.com) Zombie apocalypse CDC campaign crashes website (csmonitor.com) Ready for a zombie apocalypse? CDC has advice (cnn.com) imabonehead: CDC's 'zombie apocalypse' advice an Internet hit - Yahoo! News (news.yahoo.com) Could Federal Funding Cuts Leave Us Unprepared for Zombie

The Antikythera Mechanism

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The Antikythera Mechanism Related articles The Antikythera Mechanism in Lego (crenk.com) A Reanimated 2,000 Year Old Greek Lego Computer [Dean's Corner] (scienceblogs.com) Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker (wired.com) Computer Born of Greek Democracy (kenekaplan.wordpress.com) World's 1st Computer More Complex Than Originally Thought (readwriteweb.com) Ancient Astronomical Calculator Reconstructed (slashgear.com)

Daily Show: Well, That Was Fast - Comcast/NBC Merger

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Image via Wikipedia !!!! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Well, That Was Fast - Comcast/NBC Merger www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Daily Show: Well, That Was Fast - Comcast/NBC Merger Daily Show: Well, That Was Fast - Comcast/NBC Merger Disney requests a trademark for the name " SEAL Team 6 ," and the FCC approves the Comcast/NBC merger. Related articles Daily Show mocks FCC's Baker for taking Comcast job (arstechnica.com)

The Voynich Manuscript

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Image via Wikipedia The Voynich Manuscript Related articles Why Is the Voynich Manuscript Named in the Bible Codes? (biblicaltimes.wordpress.com) Voynich Manuscript Carbon Dated to Early 1400s - About a Century Older Than Previously Though (izabael.com) Voynich Manuscript Appears in the Bible Codes (weeklytiger.wordpress.com) Experts determine age of book 'nobody can read' (3quarksdaily.com) You can misjudge this ancient book by its cover (msnbc.msn.com)

The InnerLife of a Cell

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Image by ex_magician via Flickr The Inner Life of a Cell Related articles Why our brains gradually lose memory with age (news.bioscholar.com) What are some of the most important functions of living cells (wiki.answers.com) One cell- f (dimitrisnowden.wordpress.com) What cells in your body do mitosis (wiki.answers.com) Cancer cells' survival mechanism identified (news.bioscholar.com) StemCells Up for All the Right Reasons (fool.com) Cells derived from different stem cells: Same or different? (physorg.com) Epigenetic Changes in Cancer Cells (georgefebish.wordpress.com)