Celebrating TopTenz.net’s 1,000th list coming up on August 3, 2012, here is our 2nd list this week about the number 1,000. In 1974, Gene Wilder, playing Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, screamed in an annoyed tone at a young medical student, “Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys!  I’m talking about the central nervous system!”  As long as [...]

Having just published a book called Dissection on Display, I feel compelled to share with you a series of astounding facts I’ve picked up about anatomizing the human body.  You are probably aware that “Gray’s Anatomy” is a textbook that was painstakingly compiled by British anatomist Henry Gray, long before it was a popular television [...]

10. Clearwater Lakes The Clearwater lakes are twin lakes that formed at the same exact time in Northern Canada. The asteroids that made them were huge, at 16 miles and 22 miles respectively. The lakes are named after their clear water; that, and the fact that there are 25 lakes in the area also called [...]

From the weird mix of 60′s mod cons in a prehistoric setting which were a running joke in ‘The Flintstones, to the club-swinging antics of The Slag Brothers in Wacky Races, to the glorious sight of a fur-bikini clad Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. to the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer played by Phil Hartman on [...]

For something that only exists as a theory so complex that no two people can actually agree on how it would work, time travel is immensely popular.  So much so, in fact, that whenever some yahoo comes along claiming to be FROM THE FUUUUUUTURRRRRE…OR THE PAAAAAAAST, WHICHEEEEEEEVERRRRR, people just wet themselves with excitement.  And it [...]

Every year, various human activities and natural phenomena cause environmental disasters and substantial economic losses throughout the world.  Despite this dark side, there’s something fascinating about the power of nature and its impact. Don’t expect to find the very popular Aurora Borealis or red tides listed here.  The goal of this list is to present [...]

Our solar system is made up of the Sun and its nine planets (eight really, since Pluto got the boot).  The planets get so much attention that it’s easy to overlook the fact that there are a lot of other interesting things in our solar system — like moons.  And a lot of them are [...]

Sure, you can start a nonprofit based on giving food to hungry people or clothes for cold people, but why deal with boring real world problems when you can prepare to fight Terminators by making yourself into an immortal cyborg supervillain who also lives in space? 10. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence This [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a large rock (or, for that matter, a fallen meteoroid) for the majority of your life, you’re probably uncomfortably aware that humanity, as a whole, just doesn’t seem to be too confident about its ongoing survival.  Let’s face it: here on Earth we spend a wildly disproportionate amount of time [...]

As go the engraved words upon the gravestone of the (not so) immortal pioneer of flight, Otto Lilienthal: “Sacrifices Have to Be Made”.  In pursuit of scientific knowledge and discovery, there will always be those who step out, over and beyond the call of duty.  This article is NOT for these brave people.  This article [...]