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10 Plants Remember When They Fall A few years ago, evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano set out to prove that plants are more intelligent than we give them credit for. More specifically, she wanted to show that plants can learn and remember even though they have no brains. For her experiment, she chose the species Mimosa pudica, a plant that responds to touch by rapidly closing its leaves. Gagliano created a custom shelf for the plants, one that would suddenly drop a few feet....

Idioterne 1998, Lars von Trier From the director of Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville, we have Idioterne, one of his most unusual dogme films. A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society’s cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of “idiots”. Their main activity becomes going out into the world of “normal” people and pretending to be mentally retarded....

After the formalities of the ceremony, the reception allows couples to share their first dance and celebrate with friends and family before going on a honeymoon. From there, the first day of the rest of their lives is supposed to begin as they start a new life together. However, when the 10 newlyweds on this list began having doubts about their marriages, rather than trying to reconcile their differences, ask for a divorce, or seek an annulment, they chose to end the union themselves, and not by legal means....

10 Human-Dog While modern science has done a lot to dispel myths and superstitions associated with trans-species breeding, major developments in reproduction, such as the ability to clone mammals, have given way to a whole new crop of lab-based breeding hoaxes. Watch this video on YouTube One recent example of this is the story of a human-dog hybrid that was widely circulated across the internet. The article explained that Israeli scientists were studying a cross between a human and a Labrador retriever....

That demarcation hasn’t always been the case, though. In fact, sports stars of the past did actually serve their country in truly heroic fashion. From World War I all the way through Vietnam, and even occasionally in our more recent Middle East invasions, some of America’s pro athletes have stepped up in stunning ways. They fought for their freedoms and put their lives on the line for ours. Today, you’ll learn about ten sports superstars who walked away from the game they loved—and the often-lucrative contracts that came with it—to serve their nation and fight for freedom....

10Anencephaly While we may see a news article about a “Frog Baby” and think it is surely a hoax, the only false part of this rare condition is the misnomer used to describe it. This condition, called anencephaly, is a neural tube disorder. During the third to fourth week of pregnancy, the neural tube closes, and the brain and spinal cord form. For babies with anencephaly, the neural tube does not close completely, leaving the brain exposed to amniotic fluids, which causes degeneration of the nervous tissues....