Saturday Drive: 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth

Source: Los Angeles Times

The car: The power: 160 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque from a 1.4-liter, inline, turbocharged four-cylinder engine routing power to the front wheels via a five-speed manual transmission. The photos: The speed: Zero to 60 mph in 6.6 second ...
Full article at: Los Angeles Times  More like this  13 hours ago, 8:35am CDT

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Ben Colclough: Kilimanjaro: 5 Things They Don't Tell You

Source: The Huffington Post

Last year, an estimated 25,000 people set out to climb Mt Kilimanjaro , Africa's highest mountain. In so doing, they ate approximately 110,000 snickers bars, drank 70,000 litres of tea, expelled 75 cubic met ...
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The poop

Source: National Post

More than 7,000 academics are gathered in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., this week for the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, presenting papers on everything from scatological censorship in children's books ...
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Late Starts and the Umfriend

Source: The Hairpin

1. So, I've pretty much known that I've liked chicks from the time I was 13 on. However, because my spirituality conflicted with my sexuality, I never really acted on it. I went on a few dates with chicks in my late teens, got kicked out ...
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Newton (MA) saves money by going green. Sort of. Not really.

Source: American Thinker

A recent press release from Massachusetts Governor Patrick's office joined the unanimous praise for the City of Newton, a suburb of Boston with a population of 84,000: Last week, Mayor [Seti] Warren signed a contract r ...
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Friday Weird Science: Don't you judge me! ...unless I just farted.

Source: Scientopia

...Or unless I did something else you make you disgusted.* We would all like to think that we're very rational. That our judgements, particularly our moral judgements, arise from things that we've carefully considered, whethe ...
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Watch: The Artistic Approach to Boobs and Blood in 'Piranha 3DD'

Source: FirstShowing.net

There's no doubt that there's pretty much only two good reasons you're even remotely interested in Piranha 3DD: an original story and stellar acting. That's why the cast and crew behind the new horror comedy have taken the time ...
Full article at: FirstShowing.net  More like this  2 days ago, 4:39pm CDT

Why Do Beans Make You Fart?

Source: Mental Floss

Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. But don’t blame your flatulence on the poor legumes directly. The blame lies instead with the loads of little critters teeming in your gut. Once you mash a bow ...
Full article at: Mental Floss  More like this  3 days ago, 9:42pm CDT

Arctic releasing ancient methane as ice melts away, study says

Source: Global Post

Researchers from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks used aerial and ground surveys to identify methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland, which are sending the gas into the atmosphere. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks/YouTube) Researchers from the Univ ...
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