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An upside-down house, complete with furniture (614 diggs) Strike your whimsy with this latest German tourist attraction; a house built and furnished completely upside down!

Your Quarter-Pounder Just Might Have Come From a Cloned Cow (683 diggs) Meat and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may already be part of the U.S. food supply, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week. While the cloning process is too expensive (about $20,000 per animal) to justify creating clones that will be turned into hamburgers, some ranchers have cloned animals with desirable...

Going to the End of the Line: NY Subway Interactive (677 diggs) For those subway riders who get off before the last stop — almost everyone — the end is just a sign on the train. What's there, anyway? It turns out there is often mystery, lonesomeness and beauty. Explore through photographs and video below.

Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On (940 diggs) David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff -- a measure of their arousal -- after hearing the revving exotics, but the amount the women had was off the charts.

Breast Ironing in Cameroon Africa (Warning: Graphic images) (720 diggs) The UN says that 3.8 million West and Central African girls are at risk of a painful form of body mutilation know as 'breast ironing'. In Cameroon where the practice is most widespread, 50% of adolescent girls in cities and a quarter of all girls nationwide have their breasts 'ironed,' often by their mothers. It's painful even to watch.

Is Sushi Safe to Eat? (589 diggs) A Chicago man made the papers last month for suing a restaurant that allegedly served him a parasitic tapeworm along with his undercooked salmon. So what about the sushi or sashimi that hungry buyers pick up to go during the lunch hour rush?

10 Myths About The Common Cold and Flu (555 diggs) Experts examine common misconceptions about colds and flu.

Amazing! Intellectual Work Induces Excessive Calorie Intake (538 diggs) A team of researchers have demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. Caloric overcompensation following intellectual work, combined with the fact that we are less physically active when doing intellectual tasks, could contribute to the obesity epidemic currently observed in industrialized countries.

Blacklight Posters for the Seriously Stoned (620 diggs) September is National Mushroom Month, and while organizers presumably want to honor the shiitakes that jazz up salads, we can't help but think of the kind you eat in your parents' basement that makes your friends' faces melt.

Sept. 4, 1957: The Short, Unhappy Life of the Ford Edsel (396 diggs) In an industry celebrated for its spectacular failures, the Edsel still takes the cake. Although as mechanically sound as other Ford products, the car was criticized from Day One for being too ugly, too expensive and vastly overhyped.

You Can Tell a Woman's Orgasmic Ability By the Way She Walks (1,687 diggs) A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health.

Breathtaking Cloud Formation Over Hawaii (pic) (1,700 diggs)

The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth [PICS] (2,784 diggs) Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it! We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, Bolvian Salt Lake, or The Richat structure), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered "normal" for a landscape on Earth.

Best South Park License Plate Ever (PIC) (5,388 diggs) Our hats are off to you, sir or madam, as you have struck comedic gold with your handicapped vanity plate.

WWII Posters: Free Speech Doesn't Mean Careless Talk (PICS) (1,339 diggs) Careless words can liquidate ships, so better button up those blabber lips.

13 High Speed Photography Images (1,940 diggs) 13 high speed photography images for your viewing pleasure (we ’ve included a few high speed photography books on the topic at the end of this post).

Future Dystopias Where The Liberals Have Won (925 diggs) The Republican Party is gathering in St. Paul, to put forth its vision of the future. And over the next few days, you'll be hearing a lot about the horrendous futures that could take shape if gormless liberals were allowed to run the show. Which makes us wonder: what does science fiction, the literature of the future, have to say about liberal-run

The 11 Kinds of Insomnia (697 diggs) Sleep specialists may also describe a sleep problem based on its underlying cause, such as a medical condition or a psychological issue. To do this they use the 11 classifications of insomnia below, developed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Facebook Ads Target You Where It Hurts (1,203 diggs) Facebook takes advantage of its users' insecurities to sell advertising. With the knowledge that I was engaged to be married, the site splashed an ad across the left side of the screen playing into a presumed vulnerability. "Do you want to be a fat bride?"

The 30ft mechanical spider terrorising Liverpool (591 diggs) A giant spider has been spotted on the skyline of one of Britain's biggest cities - but arachnophobes need not fear. The huge insect spotted in Liverpool is in fact entirely mechanical and part of a new piece of street theatre organised to mark its year as Capital of Culture.

Smoking Riskier To Women's Hearts Than Men's (420 diggs) Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks more than a dozen years earlier than women who don't smoke, Norwegian doctors reported in a study presented to the European Society of Cardiology.For men, the gap is not so dramatic.

Chocolate Lovers Pained by Candy Changes (770 diggs) Changes to the formulations of several candy bars has chocolate lovers buzzing, and not in a good way. Cocoa butter is fat derived from cocoa beans. Like other commodities, cocoa prices have skyrocketed in recent years. In 2006, one metric ton of African cocoa butter cost less than $4,000. Today, it costs more than $8,100.

The 10 Awesomest LEGO Sets (You) Ever Made (1,183 diggs) Scientists say atoms are the building blocks of life. But ask any 8-year-old, and he'll tell you the truth —LEGO blocks are the building blocks of life. Even before LEGO started grabbing the license to kid-friendly properties, kids were happy enough to build cities, medieval kingdoms, pirate coves and more. Here are the 10 greatest LEGO sets ever.

10 Things Your Body Can Do After You Die (1,223 diggs) From getting hitched to saving the environment, here ’s proof you can still be a busybody long after you kick the bucket.

1938 Underwater Photography (2,013 diggs) 1938 underwater photography by Bruce Mozertom.