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Butterfly: the World?s Smallest Indoor Radio-Controlled Airplane

Mom always said don
?t play ball in the house, but no one ever seems to say much about a good paper airplane. In fact, our story on how to to build the best paper airplane in the world, was one of the most popular items on RealTechNews.

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Gorgeous Pics of Schools of Fish. Barracudas, Eel, Butterfly

[Nat Geo] Some of pics, when enlarged, produce beautiful, near kaleidoscopic art-like images. Nice stuff. Pics shot all over world.

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Green and VERY mean: 30 new pics of the 2008 Dodge Viper

Not green in the tree-hugging, blue skies and butterflies sense. Green as in the new Snakeskin Green finish. We want.

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Absolutely Amazing Photos Of Nature Under A Microscope

I especially like the butterfly wings where you can see each individual “feather” – even something as ugly as a silverfish can be viewed as beautiful with close-ups under the microscope. Definitely worth viewing.

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Scambaiting. How a ‘Nun’ scammed a Nigerian email scammer – with photo

Ever been offered larges amounts of money from Nigeria? Well this group of ’scambaiters’ are taking their revenge on those elaborate hoax emails. Check out the photo of the Butterfly scammer. Apparently they have developed ’scambaiting’ software.

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Greatest Olympian of All Time: Phelps Wins 10th Career Gold

Michael Phelps has become the winningest Olympic athlete ever, earning his fourth gold medal of the Beijing Games with a world record in the 200-meter butterfly. The American touched in 1 minute, 52.03 seconds, breaking his old mark of 1:52.09 set at last year’s world championships in Australia. It was Phelps’ 10th career gold medal, breaking a…

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The World?s Weirdest Moths

Moths are usually glossed over for butterflies, their “prettier, more attractive” cousins. But no more! Neatorama is setting the record straight: moths are truly awesome bugs! Here are some of the strangest and most beautiful moths of the world:

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U.S. Butterflies on the Decline

In this country, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has designated 23 species as endangered or threatened.

Butterflies play a key role in plant reproduction, transporting pollen from flower to flower. They provide food for birds and other insects.

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The Butterfly Effect: How Tiny Actions Can Save the World

The corollary of the Butterfly Effect is that tiny changes you make do in fact make a difference. And when those tiny changes are aggregated among millions of people, we can truly make a real difference in how much nature we save for our children, grandchildren, and beyond. We might even be saving them.

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How Do Biological Patterns Emerge?

A zebra
?s stripes, a seashell?s spirals, a butterfly?s wings: these are all examples of patterns in nature. The formation of patterns is a puzzle for mathematicians and biologists alike. How does the delicate design of a butterfly?s wings come from a single fertilized egg? How does pattern emerge out of no pattern?

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