GRUMPECHT'S GREEN PIT VIPER: What a Beauty!

I don't know about you but this has got to be the most beautiful snake in the world! *appeals won't be entertained, thank you*

This beauty is one of the 1,068 NEW species discovered in the Greater Mekong River region (Laos, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia & Vietnam) in the past 10 years!

National Geographic has a featured article here -- read all about it. Quite interesting, really. We'll feature some of 'em on our "Our Flora & Fauna" Series.

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*Photo by the Greater Mekong Programme/WWF International

The LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: What in the World!!!

The Large Hadron Collider has been activated an hour ago.

Uhm... what for?

Some kinda sumthin'??

WHAT IS IT???!

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. (source)

Uhm... COOL! Whatever...

I want one too.

*Photo from Getty Images