Archive for January, 2011

The lake that glows in the dark

Friday, January 28th, 2011

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These images are particularly stunning because the concentration of the micro-organism ‘Noctiluca Scintillans’ was abnormally high when he took the photos at Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia.
Phil said: ‘To be there watching this bioluminescence is spellbinding and to see it like this is very rare.
‘I am a program director with an organisation that has been [...]

Ambam, the swaggering silverback gorilla…

Friday, January 28th, 2011

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Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Not sure what to make of this story… ?
In the last five years, the geologic transformation of northeastern Africa has “accelerated dramatically,” says Wright. Indeed, the process is going much faster than many had anticipated. In recent years, geologists had measured just a few millimeters of movement each year. “But now the earth is opening [...]

Earth From Mars

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

A view of Earth from Mars.
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These deadly animals will kill you in seconds

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Lions and sharks and bears and rhinos, slithering jungle snakes, chomping alligators and crocodiles, and even jumping fanged spiders are to be avoided at all costs.
Yet thousands of people lose their lives every year to harmless-looking animals that can kill or paralyze a human in a matter of moments. These are the secret killers that [...]

Mysterious Green Goop Falls From Sky in NY

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

The FAA denies it came from a plane (blaming birds),

Huh?
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Nobel Laureate Claims Teleported DNA

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Luc Montagnier, who shared the Nobel prize for medicine in 2008 for his part in establishing that HIV causes AIDS, says he has evidence that DNA can send spooky electromagnetic imprints of itself into distant cells and fluids. If that wasn’t heretical enough, he also suggests that enzymes can mistake the ghostly imprints for real [...]

Mysterious Block of Wood Discovered on Iceberg at Magnetic South Pole

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Not really sure what to make of this?
Begin wildly conspiring: Australian ABC‘s Karen Barlow, who is traveling to Antarctica on the Aurora Australis to study glacial ice, has spotted this rectangular block of wood perched prominently atop an iceberg within the no compass region around the magnetic south pole.
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50 Incredibly Weird Facts About the Human Body

Monday, January 24th, 2011

The brain doesn’t feel pain: Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.
Your brain has huge oxygen needs: Your brain requires 20 percent of the oxygen and calories your body needs — even though your brain only makes up two percent of your total body weight.
80% of the [...]

Marie Antoinette - “Let them eat cake”

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

After reading about the translation error of that infamous statement: ” … Let them eat cake.”, it was Brioche (not cake), curiosity got the better of me and I delved into the subject.  Here’s what I came up with.
An interview which paints a picture of Marie Antoinette as: A devoted wife and loving mother [...]