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While most of us will ring in the new year with family and friends, science doesn’t take a holiday. And neither do the scientists responsible for big ongoing experiments. One of the more famous historical examples of this is the case of physicist Chien-Shiung Wu—often referred to as “Madame Wu”—who gave up vacationing with her…

This was an adorable year for the bearcam in Katmai National Park. Here’s our ten favorite moments of coastal brown bears catching salmon, playing with their cubs, sleepily lazing the day away, and frolicking through the Alaskan wilderness in 2015. Katmai National Park, Alaska is home to approximately 2,200 bears. Many of these coastal brown…

Nailed it: Pagani-replica based on Ford Scorpio! Posted on 03-02-2015 at 22:02 by MauritsH – 27 Comments” Well, the appearance of this piece of homework will not win prizes, but yet we have respect for this man. The reason for this? That is located under the hood. The Brit Nick Truman looked at the collection…

Sick: man throws stone to moving ambulance in Rotterdam Posted on 03-02-2015 at 22:36 by MauritsH – 48 Comments” What possesses some people? The ambulance in question was on the way to an emergency. In a corridor of 80 km/h threw a complete idiot an object (probably a stone) in the direction of the discotaxi,…

Video: dashcam films spectacular plane crash over Taiwan Posted on 04-02-2015 at 7:13 by sir_smokalot – 34 Comments” Ho-ly sh**… Thanks to dashcams, we see more and more weird things in the traffic, as also from Taiwan, but this time it came to the danger from above. According to initial reports, the aircraft of TransAsia…

Opel Corsa OPC – the German bijtertje is officially Posted on 04-02-2015 at 8:37 by sir_smokalot – 36 Comments” The new generation Corsa OPC loses unfortunately its distinctive triangular exhaust pipe, but is stronger than ever. Yesterday came the first images to the outside, now we have all the information. Opel now has a Corsa…

Leaked: this is the Opel Corsa OPC [updated] Posted on 03-02-2015 at 11:58 pm by sir_smokalot – 38 Comments” Tuesday hot hatch-day! Here is the Opel Corsa OPC, Vauxhall-jacket. Drip, drip, drip. We must say that Evo Magazine pretty busy today. The British embargoboys piling failure on failure. First, the Focus RS too early shot,…

Totally official: 2016 Ford Focus RS Posted on 03-02-2015 at 14:41 by sir_smokalot – 77 Comments” This morning it leaked, but now all Ford-approved: this is the third generation Ford Focus RS, with manual zesbak! Previous posts talked about 350 hp were perhaps a trifle too positive, Ford keeps the number at ‘more than 320‘.…

Lexus LF-LC Vision Gran Turismo, hints to a GT3 racer? Posted on 30-01-2015 at 17:56 by MauritsH – 9 Comments” Banzai! Also Lexus dares to a digital conceptracer that we never on the road. Maarre, we can things distract from the design of this piece of pixels? The Japanese brand continues to stress its sporty…

For sale: ‘pink cookies’ BMW 850i from LL Cool J Posted on 04-02-2015 at 11:30 by sir_smokalot – 38 Comments” Obscure car-ads bring to the attention; are we *wink*, *wink* doin’ it right? Many a car enthusiast has a soft spot for BMW’s delicious E31 8 Series, especially for the 850i – all the twaalfcilinder…