Telegraph’s picture of the day shows why you should never teach a lion stuff
Yeah, that’s a lion trying to open a car door with it’s teeth; picture taken in Johannesburg, South Africa via The Telegraph
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The most beautiful types of quartz [w/ pics]
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Despite the fact that it’s the 2nd most common mineral in the Earth’s continental crust, quartz is a true wonder of nature. Composed of the two most common elements in our planet’s crust (oxygen and silicone), quartz fascinated both scientists and common people since ancient times. At a molecular level, it forms extremely complicated (and [...]
The Sky Burial
Monday, November 9, 2009
First of all, it has to be said that this once common burial practice in Tibet is pretty hard to ‘digest’ for our ‘civilized’ world, and there’s a big chance you’ll find the pictures shocking. As adepts of Buddhism, Tibetans believe the single most important part of a person is its spirit, and after death, [...]
Social media require ‘Community Relations 2.0′
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Imagine an average day in your life; the odds are, it’ll include either logging onto facebook, tweeting, browsing some pics on flickr and videos on youtube, or some of these combined. The blazing speed at which social media is developing is catching many off guard and forcing numerous persons and firms (even corporations) to adapt. [...]
A Colourful Cosmic Jewel Box
Friday, October 30, 2009
Star clusters are among the pretties things you can see, when it comes to astrophysical observations. Recently, ESO provided some amazing pictures of one of the most beautiful nestles ever to be seen, located deep in the constellation of Crux. The cluster is named Kappa Crucis Cluster and has been nicknamed ‘the jewel box’ (by Herschel, [...]
Just a single cigarette has very harmful effects
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
It may seem hard to believe, but even smoking a single cigarette has really bad effects on you, especially if you’re a young adult, according to a study conducted by Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou. Her study found that smoking one cigarette increases the stiffness of the arteries by 25 percent in adults of ages from 18 [...]
Titan Arum: the titan penis flower
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Amorphophallus titanum is the full name of this wonder of nature, and a worthy name it is. It’s from Greek and basically comes from amorphos (=without form), phallos (=penis) and titan (=giant), so you could say it’s name loosely translates as shapeless titan penis - gotta love botanists. It’s a giant flower, and much like the [...]
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
Friday, October 9, 2009
We’ve all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive and kind of uninteresting. Our planet deserves so much more! Black holes Well, it seems the more we understand things about black holes, the more we find out things we don’t know, and the more we fear [...]
7 new luminescent mushroom species discovered
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Man I tell you, you can never have enough mushrooms… for some reason they’re really awesome; and glow in the dark mushrooms, that’s even more awesome. Not one, but seven of these new species were discovered, increasing the number of luminescent fungi from 64 to 71 (71 species of mushrooms that glow in the dark… [...]
Immortality - just 20 years away
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Raymond Kurzweil is one of the most prolific inventors and futurists; he’s the one who developed text to speech synthesis and a synthesizer that develops and even creates poetry, among others. He has also predicted new technologies that would appear and some directions that our society would take, and he got it right. Now, the 61 [...]
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