That's why its called a amazing creature!
on Saturday 9 June 2012
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Playing video games sharpens vision, as well as the mind.
Daphne Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester, conducted 20 studies on the effects of video games on young people. She found that gamers fare better than non-gamers on tests of attention, cognition and multitasking.
To make sure this discrepancy doesn’t arise because kids who are already above average in these skills are more drawn to video games, Bavelier ran tests in which she immersed non-gamers in a few weeks of video game training.
Not only did this improve the non-gamers’ test results in the aforementioned categories, but their improved vision took hold up to two years — even if they didn’t continue to play video games after their training.
So take that, books!
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on Monday 21 May 2012
The most painful blow is a kick in the "nuts". It's above 9000 in the scale of pain. Similar to giving birth to 160 kids and breaking 3000 bones at a time. Pl note that by no means we are trying to undermine pain which women bear during pregnancy. This is for informational purposes only !!
on Sunday 13 May 2012
The oldest known living thing is a bristlecone pine called Methuselah it is 4843 years old
The tree is called the Methuselah Tree, and it is the oldest living thing that we know about. It is a type of pine tree that grows in the White Mountains of Inyo County California. The oldest tree dates back to the year 2832 BC, making it 4843 years old, and its location remains undisclosed to protect it from vandalism!
The tree was discovered in 1957 by Edmund Schulman and Tom Harlan, and has since been the marvel of scientists around the world. The ancient tree is named after Methuselah, who’s lifespan of 969 years was the longest in the bible.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
The tree is called the Methuselah Tree, and it is the oldest living thing that we know about. It is a type of pine tree that grows in the White Mountains of Inyo County California. The oldest tree dates back to the year 2832 BC, making it 4843 years old, and its location remains undisclosed to protect it from vandalism!
The tree was discovered in 1957 by Edmund Schulman and Tom Harlan, and has since been the marvel of scientists around the world. The ancient tree is named after Methuselah, who’s lifespan of 969 years was the longest in the bible.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
on Saturday 12 May 2012
There is an anti-rape condom that sticks to the rapist and can only be remove
d surgically!
For more info check here : -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-rape_deviceThis is how it works: -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr9yNiHz9Zc
on Tuesday 8 May 2012
Keith Martin, the fattest man on Earth, has revealed how he has not left his London home since 9/11
Having once eaten up to 20,000 calories a day he has now restricted himself to 1,500 calories.
At the height of his eating Keith would scoff down a packet of bacon, six sausages, six eggs with a mound of toast and beans.
Lunch was more of the same plus sandwiches and dinner could be two large pizzas, three kebabs or a giant Chinese curry.
Snacks included packets of biscuits and sweets, cakes and family-size chocolate bars. Before bed he”d have four sandwiches with ham, Spam or bacon. He drank two litres of cola, plus six pints of coffee with sugar.
Now he has reduced his diet to just four slices of bread, sometimes topped with spam or a can of mini-hotdogs, and one ready meal a day.
Its a deep hole called Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It's the deepest hole ever drilled by man.
It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries. One of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen - so massive that the mud coming from the hole was boiling with it.
Only in Indonesia (especially Toraja), a corpse is usually being carried up to the grave, but in Toraja, the corpse is woken up letting it to walk to its grave (is rarely performed anymore)The corpse is woken up using black magic. This is done because in Toraja the graves/cemetries is placed above limestones mountains.The corpse walks by itself, and its guided by an expert in black magic behind it. But there is one prohibition, the corpse shouldn’t be appointed, once pointed, the corpse falls down and isn’t able to walk again.
Golden Rock – Nature’s Balancing Act
Location: Mount Kyaiktiyo, Burma
The gold-covered granite boulder perched atop a stone pedestal known as Golden Rock, is one of the most breathtaking sights in Burma.
The third most sacred place in Burma, after Schwedagon Pagoda and Mahamuni Pagoda, Golden Rock lies at the top of Mount Kyaiktiyo, in Mon State. It is completely covered with gold leaves layered by Buddhist devotees and is topped by a 5.5 meters-tall pagoda.
Location: Mount Kyaiktiyo, Burma
The gold-covered granite boulder perched atop a stone pedestal known as Golden Rock, is one of the most breathtaking sights in Burma.
The third most sacred place in Burma, after Schwedagon Pagoda and Mahamuni Pagoda, Golden Rock lies at the top of Mount Kyaiktiyo, in Mon State. It is completely covered with gold leaves layered by Buddhist devotees and is topped by a 5.5 meters-tall pagoda.
This Picture was Taken in 1956.Thats a HARD DISK drive with 5 MB of storage. InSeptember 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.
In those days you were working inside the computer and it had to be stored in its own cool room.
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