
If Earth is giant natural art gallery, the United States is among its most impressive geologic installations. Here are 10 of the most awe inspiring, both for their raw beauty and for the forces that went into their creation.

The genuine, feel-good story of Drew Brees, encapsulated in this photo and the video of Brees with his son, helped to make Super Bowl XLIV a memorable one, even for fans with no rooting interest in the game.

Switch celebrities with stormtroopers, though, and then I?m interested. I don?t know what it is, but there?s something about seeing a stormtrooper taking a break from serving the Emperor and going about his day-to-day activities. After the jump, enjoy a gallery of stormtroopers behaving just like us.

It's like rain on your wedding day, or tape on a sign that says don't use tape.

New multimedia tours feature some of the Earth's hottest surf and dive spots, important shipwrecks, large underwater mountains and vast canyon systems running along the seafloor.

The head with the antennae is actually not a head at all -- but a ruse to confuse predators...taking survival adaptation to a fascinating level.

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U.S. Air Force (USAF) Staff Sgt. Erin Taylor Worley snapped this beautiful photograph of three USAF F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jets flying to the Nevada Test and Training Range (in Nevada, U.S. of A.) during the Red Flag exercise on 4 February 2010.

xkcd - Trimester

We were just handed some leaked photos of the upcoming Verizon HTC Incredible. The device is running on Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, and as our tipster confirms, it's running with a Snapdragon CPU (and is described as "fast, really fast") with 256MB of RAM, and has a 3.5-3.7" WVGA screen.

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Winter in the Outer Banks can get lonely. It's freezing. No one is around. But on days like this one, being alone isn't that bad.
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Well, if you're craving action and looking for prop bet ideas to spice up your Super Sunday, how about this: why not devise some exotic bets based on the criminal hijinks of the players?

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Washington DC is forecast to get 20 to 28 inches of snow. Naturally, the capitol is preparing for the impending blizzard by hoarding Lunchables, half & half and Chunky Monkey.

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Abandoned buildings of all descriptions seem haunted by the ghosts of their past ? but when the ghosts are the souls of those declared clinically insane and sectioned, the place is likely to hold more bad memories than most.

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Would you agree with this breakdown ??

PlayStation arrives in small village. Everything is different now.

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... with duct tape

The front page of a Polish newspaper published the official mascots of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics... and Pedobear.

Andrew van der Merwe is a professional calligrapher and letter artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. In last six years of his work he was working on a developing his original technique of the beach calligraphy.

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Awww, That's Cute

Do not fold!!!

Anyone else starting to feel like this again?

This week, the Brazilian government greenlit a plan to build a massive hydroelectric dam to power 23million homes. However, its creation will see 500 sq km of the rainforest flooded - is it worth it?

60 Spectacular examples of Architectural Photography

Posing for their first day at their new nursery, these 16 panda cubs are clearly going to be a handful. In these amazing images, the tiny pandas are shown their new home for the first time after being separated from their mothers.