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Picture of the day for December 9, 2016

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Scene of a car accident by the road near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The wreck of the car has been left there and a memorial has been built right next to it..

Picture of the day for December 9, 2016

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Picture of the day on December 9, 2016: Scene of a car accident by the road near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The wreck of the car has been left there and a memorial has been built right next to it.

What ever happened to the blackest black?

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What ever happened to the blackest black? The strange squabble over Vantablack, a coating that absorbs 99.965 percent of light.

Shigeru Miyamoto Performs The 'Super Mario Bros' Theme With The Roots

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Shigeru Miyamoto Performs The 'Super Mario Bros' Theme With The Roots

Article of the day for December 9, 2016

The Article of the day for December 9, 2016 is Exsudoporus frostii . Exsudoporus frostii, Frost's bolete, is a fungus first described in 1874. The mushrooms it produces have tubes and pores instead of gills on the underside of their caps. E. frostii is distributed in the eastern United States from Maine to Georgia and Arizona, and south to Mexico and Costa Rica. It is typically found associating with hardwood trees, especially oak. Its mushrooms can be recognized by their dark red sticky caps, the red pores, the network-like pattern of the stem, and a variable blue-staining reaction after tissue injury. Another characteristic of young, moist fruit bodies is the amber-colored drops exuded on the pore surface. Although the mushrooms are considered edible, they are generally not recommended for consumption because of the risk of confusion with other poisonous red-pored, blue-bruising boletes. E. frostii may be distinguished from other superficially similar red-capped boletes by diffe

Shigeru Miyamoto Performs The 'Super Mario Bros' Theme With The Roots

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Shigeru Miyamoto Performs The 'Super Mario Bros' Theme With The Roots The "Super Mario" creator/legend has still got it, playing one of the most recognizable gaming songs in the world. December 8, 2016 at 02:36PM

hit point: Word of the day for December 9, 2016

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Word of the day is hit point : (chiefly role-playing games) A unit of damage, used to specify the amount of damage a character can withstand before it is defeated. (computer graphics) In ray tracing, the point in a scene at which a ray strikes an object.