Makes the World Go ‘Round

Not sure if we’ve featured origami here yet, in particular using banknotes. Either way, here’s a cool collection via UNIQUE DAILY.

“If you’ve got a dollar in your pocket, you can stop boredom in its tracks. No, we’re not talking about penny slots. We’re talking about Money Origami! With this instructional gift set, you’ll learn to create 21 fun and interesting folded designs using only dollar bills. The 64-page book features easy-to-follow color illustrations. It is accompanied by a two-hour instructional DVD hosted by the authors of the book as they demonstrate their designs step-by-step. So, whether you prefer learning from a book or from a video, the Money Origami Set has you covered. To help you learn how to fold airplanes, butterflies, stars, cubes, boxes, serpents, napkin rings, and more, a set of 60 practice dollars is included. Note: ‘Practice dollars’ means fake dollars.”

Prehistoric Phallus World’s Oldest Sex Toy

The 30,000-year-old siltstone phallus doubled as a tool to ignite fires as well as a sex toy.

Particles Destroy Each other on Contact

The seemingly inescapable fact that matter and antimatter particles destroy each other on contact has long puzzled physicists wondering how life, the universe or anything else can exist at all. But new results from a particle accelerator experiment suggest that matter does seem to win in the end.

The experiment has shown a small — but significant — 1 percent difference between the amount of matter and antimatter produced, which could hint at how our matter-dominated existence came about.

The current theory, known as the Standard Model of particle physics, has predicted some violation of matter-antimatter symmetry, but not enough to explain how our universe arose consisting mostly of matter with barely a trace of antimatter.