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How The Internet Is Killing The Planet [Infographic]
The Internet can be a hazardous place to mingle around, and it's apparent people are taking all the precautions they can to protect themselves and their children. However, personal safety isn't the only concern when it comes to the Internet. There are far more areas where the Internet is causing som ...
Waste In Space: It’s Not Just Earth That Needs Cleaning Up
I know there is a lot of garbage on earth, that's no surprise, but I never thought about it being in space before. And yes, most of the trash in space is caused by humans. Space debris is commonly defined as nonfunctional, human-made materials in orbit caused by everything from spent booster stages ...
The Octopus That Lives In A Beer Bottle
We talk a lot about recycling on Bit Rebels. We only have one planet Earth, and once it's ruined, we can't just make another one. We have to each take responsibility and do our individual parts to help the environment thrive. It's really the only way to make a difference. It really takes the par ...
Add Some Happy Sunshine To Your Life Today!
If there is one thing I will always remember about the winter of 2011, it will be the unseasonably cold weather. Here in the south, we aren't used to it being so cold for so long, and I'm very excited for spring to come back! Yesterday, we got a glimpse of it. It was sunny and beautiful outside. ...
National Geographic: The World’s Population & Our Planet
Did you know that in 2011, the world's population will reach 7 billion people? Did you also know that if we all stood shoulder to shoulder, all 7 billion people could fit in Los Angeles? Did you know that in every second five people are born and two people die? This fantastic 3-minute video by Na ...
Zero Footprint Shirts Made From Leaves
We write a lot on this site about ways we can conserve our natural resources and help the environment. Our beautiful earth is such a precious gift to us all, and sometimes I think we take that for granted.
Even though it benefits everyone when we are environmentally conscious, there are times, l ...
14 Spaceship Homes: Get Ready To Ditch Earth By 2012!
If you're one of the millions of people that hauled your butt to the movie theater to watch the epic movie "2012" only to come out of it fully convinced that Earth is going kablam exactly when the Mayan calendar says it will, this might be something for you to consider. There are people out there t ...
How To: Launch Your Face Into Space
I love everything to do with NASA and space exploration. I read about it all the time. The pictures that were released a few weeks ago of Mars were mind blowing to me.
I think my favorite images are still the New York Times gallery entited "A Moment in Time." If you haven't checked this out... ...
Fascinating Doomsday Bunker Design
This article will nicely feed into all the 2012 paranoia. After all the science fiction movies we've seen throughout the years, it's no surprise that many of us are sitting on the edge of our seat waiting for the world to end in 2012 (which is when the Mayan calendar says it's all over).
I'm n ...
A Website For A Greener Earth – Now Recycling Is Fun!
There are so many natural calamities and disasters that we hear on the news and experience ourselves like floods and earthquakes. The cause, many times, is because people have been reckless about taking care of our environment. The good thing is that there are a lot of organizations now that are t ...
Wanna Be Cool? – Drink Your Water Out of a Box
We all know the downfalls of drinking bottled water, right? I'm not going to go into any of those, but if you would like to learn more about that, you can read this article published last month on the Mother Nature Network website: 5 reasons not to drink bottled water
It's been a little over a ye ...
This Link Leads You To The Entire Known Universe
If you love studying space and the universe as much as I do, then you are going to think this is the Holy Grail. The only thing better than this would be to actually take a space flight. The six minute film below, which was made by Hayden Planetarium, shows the entire known universe. Trust me; yo ...
Google Earth’s Secret Places
I have been checking out Google Earth a lot lately. Purely for personal reasons. Even though the major cities don't have much to offer as far as mysterious signs, blocked out zones or otherwise there are still a TON of secret and mysterious places on earth that I am pretty much sure you didn't know ...
Extreme Anti-Smoking Ad
I suppose we don’t have to wait for Terminators to invade the Earth after all, we have our own species of cyber-humans already living here.
I don’t smoke, but I don’t have anything against anyone who does. To me, it’s a personal choice. However, when the guys at College Humor posted this anti-s ...