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http://scriptunasimages.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/inside-nasas-rubber-room/ NASA built a shock-proof rubber room underneath each launch platform.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2118455,00.html?hpt=hp_t2 Scientists have found why store-bought tomatoes don't have as much flavor. Here's a bonus article on the tomato industry in Florida.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/robot-hand-beats-you-at-rock-paper-scissors-100-of-the-time#.T-oNnmOGhzI.hackernewsScience has created a robot that always wins at rock paper scissors.

http://hint.fm/wind/ See America's wind currents overlaid over the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash You can see a tiny bit of green light when the sun sets. Wikipedia has some pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caVo6EJFV8s Berkeley researchers have designed robots and software capable of folding laundry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma Teratomas are the creepiest tumors. Warning, creepy images.

http://www.camp-cook.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1720 You can use electrolysis to clean up rusted cast iron. Scroll down for followup pictures.

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/burntimetest/lumpcompare.htm An attempt to measure and compare charcoal brands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETitFcUYHE See a giraffe give birth!

http://gps.alaska.edu/ronni/sendai2011.html Visualizations of the GPS data from the 2011 Japanese earthquakes. Pretty cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus Fungi which live off the radioactivity in Chernobyl's nuclear reactor have been discovered.

http://nuclear.ucdavis.edu/~tgutierr/files/stmL1.html The Standard Model of physics written as a single Lagrangian.

http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/ice/diurnal/extrude/ Forming tiny ribbons of ice by freezing water in pipes with a slit in them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4L4M8m4d0 A parody of Bad Romance by the graduate student staff of a research lab.