Tech Today w/ Ken May

Sure, it looks like a wayward ball of fluff. Maybe a even baby tribble. But that little guy in the pic above is the White Flannel Moth caterpillar, and the photographer who picked it up? Not happy. Those tiny little hairs are urticating setae, poisoned barbs that breaks off in the skin, causing pain and itchiness and general freaked-outness.

The Ark In Space has a whole collection of crazy-looking caterpillars (including one that looks like a toupee for Chewbacca, should he ever need one). Click through for the gallery!

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Seriously Freaky Caterpillars

Prepared to be awestruck as you watch a huge bolt of lightning hit the ground about 650-feet away. William Phuoc and a few of his storm chaser friends took this amazing footage while shooting a thunderstorm in Darwin, Australia.

Source: My Modern Met on Twitter

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One Of The Most Insane Lightning Strikes Ever Captured On Video

Nicky Soto, 27, gave birth to a son on Monday after carrying the baby outside her uterus for 32 weeks.

Cornell is the place to go if you like looking at small things with expensive machinery. The University recently made its $500,000 micro-CT scanner available for public as well as academic usage. More

Years before Lucasfilm created the AT-AT and Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog terrified the world, the US Army was working with General Electric on the “Walking Truck” project, basically a large walker which was controlled by a lever-pushing operator.

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Kurt Gödel was best known as a mathematician and secondarily known as an extreme eccentric. After his death, he became known for something else: creating an ontological proof of the existence of God. More

Sports cable networks are the last thing keeping many people from divorcing from their television service entirely. The slow spread of the WatchESPN app, which is now available on the iPad, brings us one step closer to cutting the cord. [iTunes via Business Insider] More

Android phones are spectacular little devices because they’re able to so much that others simply can’t, but one big snag in that greatness is that many of those best features require that the phones be rooted. Whether you plan on installing custom ROMs or not, you may want to root your phone just to use the great apps that require root access. Here are the ten most essential apps available for Android that require root. More

According to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard’s lastest big report on Microsoft, the Redmond company makes five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone. You may pick up your jaws now. More

San Francisco is once again proving they take environmental responsibility more seriously than most other cities after last week’s vote when the S.F. Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 to pass legislation banning unwanted delivery of the Yellow Pages.