In the 1960′s, parents didn’t suck as much as they do now, so a chemistry book that could potentially blow up your house was given only to children who proved they could be responsible. Either that, or parents had better life-insurance policies on their kids than they do now, I’m not sure.

Anyway, thanks to the internet, any backwoods crotch-fruit can download it and start their own meth lab thanks to the Golden Books manyof us grew up with.

According Wikipedia:

The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments was a children’s chemistry book written in the 1960s by Robert Brent and illustrated by Harry Lazarus and published by Western Publishing in their Golden Books series. Many of the experiments contained in the book are now considered highly dangerous for unsupervised children, and would not appear in a modern children’s chemistry book. OCLC lists only 126 copies of this book in libraries worldwide. It was said that the experiments and information contained herein were too dangerous for the general public[citation needed].

About.Com claims the book was banned – I haven’t been able to find anything that supports that claim, but I do know you’ll have to pony up anywhere from $70-$200 on Amazon to buy it used, depending on the book’s condition. Author of the About.Com article, Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., says “It is sort of funny that a book that is banned from the public library is legal to download and read, but it’s true.”

The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments is an excellent book for science-minded young geeks, preferably one who hasn’t been scribbling a pre-teen version of their manifesto on the inside of their Trapper Keeper. Obviously, you should read this book cover to cover (or page one to page done of the PDF, that is) and determine whether or not your wee nipperkin can handle it. Take the time to do some of the trickier ones with your kids – nothing bonds a parent and child as much as almost blowing up the garage together. Seriously though.

The activities in this book are fantastic, fun, easy and some could easily be solo projects, but it’s up to you to guide tiny hands and developing minds on the tougher ones, the ones containing fire and combustible materials, etc. If you don’t know that already, your kid doesn’t need this book, he’s back behind the outhouse making his first meth lab anyway.

Download your copy now, before the censorship police make that go away too.

Obviously, TehAwesome.Net and the Snipe.Net Evil Empire are completely, 100% and utterly not at fault if you fuck something up and lose your house/limbs/etc. Use this entirely at your own risk, and don’t be a knob.

Via [About.Com]

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The red planet never looked as good as it does in these 21 unreal photos of Mars, supposedly captured by telescopes and space probes.

Posted by Presidia Creative, there are no citations of geography, time or links back to anything official – NASA or otherwise – so for all I know, these could just Utah+Photoshop for some shitty “viral campaign”. Either way, I will suspend my cynicism long enough to enjoy these and believe they’re real because I want them to be real. Like unicorns. These unicorns, not these unicorns.

Check out the full collection at the original link.

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Right out of a Hieronymus Bosch Furry Convention, these monsters were very real, and for the most part, very badass. Okay, the horned gopher, not so much. But he’s cute, so we’ll give him a pass. And secretly believe he spits corrosive acid and can impale grown men like Vlad. That would be pretty badass.

This article from Weburbanist tells the tale of 14 bizarre monsters that would totally kick our asses if they were still around. Except maybe the gopher. Oh, but there is that corrosive spit. (Not really. Sigh.)

Seriously. We’re not making it up. It’s name is Ceratogaulus Rhinoceros, which sounds very science-y, so it must be true.

For more on these freakshows and additional proof that mother nature is kind of a dick, check out the full article on Weburbanist.

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Okay, in my house it was the 5-second rule – but apparently Connecticut College seniors and cell and molecular biology majors Molly Goettsche and Nicole Moin threw some science at that bitch and determined that it should actually be the 30-Second Rule.

Audrey Fukman and Andy Wright took it a step further and created this handy decision tree to help you, because hey – what isn’t made better with charts?

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Okay, I made that last bit up, but this bug is legit. That thing isn’t from a scene in Aliens and it’s name isn’t a spell from Harry Potter – though it totally should be. It’s ferral, and it is yet another reminder that science is freakin’ awesome.

According to Wikipedia, Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, enters through the gills, and then attaches itself at the base of a fish’s tongue. It then proceeds to extract blood through the claws on its front and less blood reaches the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish. Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, some feed on the host’s blood and many others feed on fish mucus.

So, let me get this straight – this little bastard is a vampire that sucks blood and keeps sucking until the organ it’s attached itself to completely atrophies, and sometimes eats boogers. So, it’s like the Twilight franchise, really.

A few more shots:

Photo from FishingFury.Com

Photo from ScienceMadeCool.Com

And just in case that didn’t skeeve you out quite enough, check out this little dude’s bigger cousin, the giant isopod. Apparently, some freaks out there keep these as pets. (For the record, we do NOT endorse or encourage people owning wild animals as pets, even if they’re really fucking cool face-hugger looking bugs like these.)

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