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31 May, 2007

Snake-like Green Pepper

Green Pepper
This green pepper from Shanxi,China does resemble a snake-like creature with its tongue sticking out!

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Source: Mop.com
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How to balance 11 nails on the head of a single nail


How do you balance 11 nails on top of a single nail? You can try it out on your own or hit play to watch the solution.

Video: YouTube via Neatorama
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Microsoft unveils new Surface computer

Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.

Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special bar-code labels on top of it.

Unlike most touchscreens, Surface can respond to more than one touch at a time. During a demonstration with a reporter last week, Mark Bolger, the Surface Computing group's marketing director, "dipped" his finger in an on-screen paint palette, then dragged it across the screen to draw a smiley face. Then he used all 10 fingers at once to give the face a full head of hair.

With a price tag between $5,000 and $10,000 per unit, Microsoft isn't immediately aiming for the finger painting set. (The company said it expects prices to drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in three to five years.)

Watch the video after the jump.

Video: Gizmodo
Image Gallery: Gizmodo
Source: Yahoo News
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Iron Age cauldron discovered in bog

CauldronA routine day cutting turf on the bog ended in a significant discovery for Louisburgh farmer Owen McNally last week, when he unearthed a perfectly intact 2,500-year-old Iron Age cauldron.

Mr McNally was hand cutting turf on his bog at Knockeen, near Cregganbaun on the Killeen to Louisburgh Road on May 21 last, when his traditional sléan struck a solid object at 5.20pm. He decided to peel back some layers of peat to investigate the occurrence further and, to his amazement, found the large bowl-like object two feet under the surface.

It has since been identified by the National Museum of Ireland’s keeper of antiquities, Eamonn Kelly, as an Iron Age cauldron which would have been used for feasting. It was most likely deposited in the bog as an offering to the gods as part of an ancient kinship or sovereignty ritual. The cauldron, which is six inches deep and has a circumference of one foot at the rim, is hand-carved from wood, though the exact type will have to be determined by experts at a later stage.

Link & Image: Mayo News
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Man proposes on a cinema screen

A movie fan got the shock of her life when she found herself watching a giant image of her boyfriend propose to her on a cinema screen.

Heather Hickey, 24, was settling down to enjoy the new Pirates of the Caribbean film when long-term lover Mark Spencer showed up on screen.

"I was completely in shock, just overwhelmed. One minute we were sitting in our seats eating popcorn and then the next Mark appeared on screen," she said.

"He said, 'I hope this is romantic enough. I love you to bits and I want the whole world to know it'.

"I turned round to look at him and he was down on one knee holding a ring. I was too stunned to say anything, we just hugged each other. Then I cried my eyes out.

Source: Ananova
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Golden bathtub worth almost 1 million stolen from hotel

Bathtub made of pure goldA glittering bathtub made of pure gold worth nearly $1 million has been stolen from a resort hotel, an official said yesterday.

The round tub, worth $987,000, is made of 18-karat gold, measures 71 centimeters wide, 121 centimeters long and 65 centimeters high and weighs 176 pounds (80 kg). It has been a main feature of the hotel’s shared bathroom. Visitors can take a dip in the tub, but it is only available a few hours a day “for security reasons,” the hotel’s Web site said.

Someone apparently cut the chain attached to the door of a small section of the bathroom where the bathtub was placed, but not riveted, and made off with it.

“We have no witness information and there are no video cameras,” the official said.

Link & Image: Mainichi
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How to keep cookies fresh

Cookie OsmosisTo make cookies chewable again after becoming stale, just add bread.

Place a slice of fresh bread in with your cookies a day or two after you've baked them, or whenever you find their texture has deteriorated. The moisture from the fresh bread will migrate to your cookies (through cookie osmosis, see diagram above), rendering them soft and chewable again.

Link & Image: Megnut via Lifehacker
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A volcanic eruption and an aurora

Volcano eruption and an AuroraSometimes both heaven and Earth erupt. In Iceland in 1991, the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead. Hekla, one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, has erupted at least 20 times over the past millennium, sometimes causing great destruction. The last eruption occurred only six years ago but caused only minor damage. The green auroral band occurred fortuitously about 100 kilometers above the erupting lava.

Link & Image: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Giant pirate ship mast made of Lego blocks breaks record

Giant pirate ship mast made of Lego blocksIn this photo made available by Legoland, a giant pirate ship mast made of Lego blocks stands outside of the theme-park on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 in Carlsbad, Calif. The structure was made over the Memorial Day weekend by park visitors with more than 465,000 bricks that measured 94.3 feet (28.7 meters) in height which broke a previous record set in Denmark in 2006.

Link & Image: Yahoo News
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Bird poo used for beauty face mask

Face MaskWhile millions of women are snapping up age-defying skin creams, the latest miracle cure for a sagging face has just arrived – nightingale poo.

The bird droppings, applied in a 90- minute facial, are packed with an enzyme called guanine – an amino acid which heals the skin, experts claim.

The treatment has already been used by Japanese geishas to remove make-up and leave the skin silky smooth, while monks polish their shaved heads with the droppings.

But, before you squirm at the thought of people scraping up bird excrement from city pavements or car windscreens, the poo is thoroughly purified before being lathered on to your face.

'The droppings, which are applied as a mask with Japanese white clay, are completely safe and treated under UV light to remove bacteria,' said Hari Salem, owner of Hari's in Knightsbridge, West London.

Link & Image: Metro via Arbroath
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Taxi to Greece to avoid airports

Kathleen Searles and Wendy TurnerAn 89-year-old woman took a £2,000 ($3,968) taxi trip to Greece - because she can't stand waiting in airports.

Kathleen Searles is fascinated with history and Alexander the Great. So, to visit Mieza, where he went to school, she ordered a cab to take her on the three-day journey through France, Germany and the Balkans.

She made the 3,000-mile round trip from her home near Sudbury in Suffolk, Britain, after persuading friend Wendy Turner, 73, to join her and share the taxi fare.

The fare was £2,000 ($3,968) but with food and accommodation the cost was £5,000 ($9,920) when a plane trip would have been £130 ($258).

For Mrs Searles it was the trip of a lifetime as she had wanted to see where Alexander had learnt the things that had made him "great" - even though she only spent four hours there.

Video after the jump.

Video: BBC
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The TreeHouse Workshop of Seattle

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If you want to live out your childhood fantasy of living in a treehouse or are just trying to build one for your kid who's been bugging you, but you aren't any good with handicraft or carpentry -- you'll probably want to give the capable carpenters of TreeHouse Workshop a ring.

The Seattle-based company, which employs seven lead builders, crafts 10 to 15 modern and sophisticated tree-top abodes each year, some outfitted with bathrooms, fireplaces, second stories, and suspension bridges.

Using mostly with reclaimed wood and recycled materials, from the flooring and doors to the paneling and windows, the company uses primarily recovered lumber and timber from old homes, as well as salvaged building products from Second Use Building Materials in Seattle.

"Our eco-friendly approach is to work with as many reclaimed materials as possible," said Jake Jacob, TreeHouse Workshop's co-founder. "It's not too difficult to make use of reclaimed or wonderful found materials that others don't want to use."

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Source: Treehugger
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Man lets a 2600 Pound ball land on his head, and a 3000 pound medicine ball ram him in the stomach!


Would you let a 2600 pound ball land on your head and another 3000 pound ball ram you in the stomach? Apparently this guy did - just to prove his strength!

Video: Flick Life
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ABC's virutal site 'griefed'

ABC IslandThe ABC's prized virtual reality island in the online game Second Life has been devastated in an act of digital vandalism.

ABC Island, the third-most-visited commercial site in the online game that has more than six million members globally, was found as a "bombed, cratered mess" yesterday.

Craig Preston, head of technology for ABC innovation, said only the digital transmission tower was left standing on the island, which cost the ABC tens of thousands of dollars to create.

"It looks like we've had some enormous cyber-bomb set off on our site," Mr Preston said.

"Somebody has nuked us in some way, shape or form, and they've obliterated almost every object on the site."

The online vandalism, called "griefing", took several hours to repair.

The ABC was the first major Australian brand to embrace Second Life, in which people exist in a virtual world where they can buy cyber-goods, own digital islands and interact with other players around the world.

Mr Preston said the ABC was at a loss to identify who had vandalised the site, but the owners of Second Life, California-based Linden Labs, might have digital recordings of the vandalism taking place.

The vandals left logos for sports brands Nike and Puma on the island, prompting speculation that the attack could be the work of a commercial rival jealous of the ABC's success.

But sources suggested the logos could have been an attempt to throw investigators off the trail.

Second Life was launched in 2003, but did not come to prominence until last year when corporations such as Sony, IBM and Reuters bought islands and began marketing to visitors.

Link & Image: News.com.au
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Scientists want to rewrite DNA from scratch

DNAToday every living organism—every person, plant, animal and microbe—can trace its heritage back to that first cell. Earth's extended family is the only kind of life that we've observed, so far, in the universe.

This pantheon of living organisms is about to get some newcomers—and we're not talking about extraterrestrials. Scientists in the last couple of years have been trying to create novel forms of life from scratch. They've forged chemicals into synthetic DNA, the DNA into genes, genes into genomes, and built the molecular machinery of completely new organisms in the lab—organisms that are nothing like anything nature has produced.

The people who are defying Nature's monopoly on creation are a loose collection of engineers, computer scientists, physicists and chemists who look at life quite differently than traditional biologists do. Harvard professor George Church wants "to do for biology what Intel does for electronics"—namely, making biological parts that can be assembled into organisms, which in turn can perform any imaginable biological activity.

In the past, genetic wizardry has been confined to tinkering and tweaking what nature has already produced—taking a gene from a bacterium, say, and inserting it into the chromosomes of corn or pigs. What we're talking about is producing life that is wholly new—not in any way a genetic descendant of the primordial Mother Cell. The initial members of each newly created breed will have no ancestors at all.

So far, researchers have fabricated individual biological building blocks, but they have yet to create an entirely new synthetic self-replicating organism. "Chemical synthesis of life has been a standing challenge to synthetic organic chemistry," says Venter (with palpable impatience). But SynBio researchers see no reason to wait until whole organisms can be created from scratch. They are happy to stitch together lab-designed biological components, or "biodevices," with parts of natural cells to construct hybrid organisms. The SynBio enterprise is not some ivory-tower exercise but a pragmatic field that could soon produce results. Church, who at 53 is an elder SynBio guru, thinks it could happen as soon as two years from now if funding is ramped up and scientists don't run into major snags.

Read the full article after the jump.

Source: MSNBC
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Melted Keyboard

KeyboardThis keyboard is a victim of suspected arson in a lumber mill a couple years ago. The keyboard itself was not on fire, and the underside of it is still in perfect shape...basically the heat of the fire above it melted all the plastic in interesting ways.

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Anhui girl performs with 100 hula hoops!

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On May 29, a lady from Anhui twirled 100 hula hoops simultaneously in front of amazed audiences during the cultural tourism festival in Shandong. This is definitely taking the hula hoop to extremes!

Source: Xinhua
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30 May, 2007

Light-up pants and Motherboard tie

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Light-up pants
Sick and tired of your normal attire? Why not dress up with a pair of light-up pants that make it look like you’re burning up the dance floor, and a motherboard tie. Just a piece of advice: please try not to wear them to office!

Thanks, Raluca !

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Source: PCNews & 7Gadgets
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Bush interviewed as people crosses the border illegally


During an interview of President Bush on the Early Show, you can actually see people crossing the border illegally. Most probably a spoofed video but hilarious though.

Thanks, Michael !

Video: Metacafe
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Tying the knot after 49 years

MarriageA couple has finally tied the knot - after 49 years, nine children, 22 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

Every time Ted Towle, 83, proposed to Hilda Clark, 73, she turned him down, reports the Daily Mirror.

Then six months ago, he was stunned when she proposed to him. They finally married at the weekend to cheers from their delighted family.

Hilda said: "Ours must be one of the longest courtships ever. But now I'm so happy I wonder why I waited so long to marry. I'm so proud to call Ted my husband after all this time."

Source: Iol
Image: Truebluetitan / Flickr
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The Seven Summits

Vinson Massif MountainPBS has compiled a list of the 7 highest peaks in the world. Here’s one on the Vinson Massif Mountain located in Antarctica:

Vinson dominates a landscape of stark purity, where nothing other than ice, snow, and barren rock stretch as far as the eye can see. Antarctica, with Vinson at its ceiling, is the coldest and driest desert on Earth, receiving less than two inches of precipitation per year. Most of the snow on the mountain arrived there on the wind, blown from other parts of the continent.

Location: Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains
Elevation: 16,067 feet

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Outcry over TV kidney competition

TV kidney competitionA Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.

The 37-year-old donor, identified only as Lisa, will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversation with their family and friends. Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show.

The Dutch donor authority has condemned the show, as have kidney specialists in the UK. Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN says it will highlight the country's shortage of organ donors.

"The scenario portrayed in this programme is ethically totally unacceptable," said Professor John Feehally, who has just ended his term as president of the UK's Renal Association. "The show will not further understanding of transplants," he added. "Instead it will cause confusion and anxiety."

The programme, from Big Brother creators Endemol, is due to be screened on Friday night.

Link & Image: BBC via Boing Boing
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Japanese 71-year-old becomes oldest to climb Everest

Katsusuke YanagisawaA 71-year-old Japanese man has become the world's oldest person to climb Mount Everest, topping a feat set by a compatriot last year.

Former school teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa reached the summit last Tuesday, a mountain tour group who organized his climb said on Tuesday. It said he climbed from the Tibetan side of the Himalayan peak.

"I feel at ease. I was able to break the record thanks to friends who supported me," Yanagisawa was quoted as saying by Kyodo news agency.

His age would make him the oldest person to have climbed the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) peak, an official at the Japan Mountaineering Association said.

The list of climbers who have conquered Everest include a blind person, a man with an artificial leg and the youngest, and a 16-year-old boy.

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Brit burnt German towels

Glyn BowdenGlyn Bowden, a 55-year-old British coach driver got so fed up with German tourists bagging every sunbed that he set fire to their towels.

He was coach driver for a party of 55 British holidaymakers at Viana Marina, near San Remo, on the Italian Riviera.

The first time the group from South Wales complained to him about the German sunbed baggers, he said "Leave it to me" and dumped all of the towels at the end of the pool.

Mr Bowden said: "The following morning the Germans put them down even earlier so I did the same - with them shaking their fists at me from their windows.

"The next morning about 20 towels were there again so I collected them up, put them on a pile on the beach - and lit them.

"All the British tourists were cheering. But just a few minutes afterwards three police officers turned up and arrested me.

"They were going to charge me with criminal damage but the hotel - which owned the towels -intervened on my behalf."

Mr Bowden, from Tonyrefail, near Rhondda, added: "The Germans thought they owned the private beach but I wanted to make sure my tourists got a crack of the whip."

Source: Ananova
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It's a snooker playing dog

Snooker playing dogIt may sound potty but border collie Blue is right on cue when it comes to playing pool.

He rests his front paws on the table and then, standing on his hind legs next to owner Jeff Davies, looks down the cue to see if he has a shot on. When he has, he sinks the ball into the pocket – using his paws.

In scenes reminiscent of those paintings adorning many a pub wall, showing billiard-playing dogs, Blue began to mimic Mr Davies whenever he took to the table, following the balls as they cannoned off cushions.

Now he has become the canine king of the green baize and partners his master in games.

Apart from playing pool, Blue gets to sleep in his own bedroom at home, works on the building site and even accompanies Mr Davies on his duties as a retained firefighter.

Link & Image: Metro
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29 May, 2007

Karate kid gets green belt despite having no legs

Gregg WarburtonMiracle boy Gregg Warburton can deliver a killer karate kick and cutting blow on his opponents - despite having two artificial legs and a small, deformed hand.
The determined youngster has been amazing his parents and friends since he was baby and had both his lower limbs amputated at the shin.

The ten-year-old wears custom-made false limbs over his stumps so that he can run about - but has to use a wheelchair when he gets tired.

Gregg passed his yellow, orange and green belts at the same time as his mates and even takes part in competitions.

Gregg WarburtonThe rules are bent slightly to allow Gregg to wear his trainers - because it is difficult for him to balance and grip the floor properly on artificial legs.

Gregg, of Leigh, Lancashire, took up karate at the age of six after an instructor came to his school for a special one-off session - and he begged his parents to let him go to the classes.

"Gregg just took everything in his stride and started adapting moves and concentrating on ones he can do well.

"He can do the kicks, the balances and the punches with his right hand, although he can't make a fist with his left.

Link & Image: DailyMail
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Day turns into night in Shandong city

Day turns into nightA band of light was clearly marked between the ground and the sky at 5:38pm on Monday, May 28, 2007, in Ri Zhao City, China. The bright day suddenly turned into a dark night on Monday afternoon in downtown Ri Zhao. People were amazed by the spectacle which lasted for several minutes.

Link & Image: China Economic Net
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Speed climbing a cliff


This video shows Dan Osman climbing a cliff at an incredible speed.

Video: YouTube via Haha
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New European cigarettes will put themselves out

AshtrayCigarettes that stop burning within two minutes of being put down are to replace conventional brands in an attempt to reduce the number of casualties from fires started by smouldering butts.

The European Commission is to ban traditional cigarettes by 2009-10, forcing smokers to buy "fire-safe" cigarettes that need constant drags to keep them alight.

Arlene McCarthy, a British Labour member of the European Parliament and chair of its consumer protection committee, said: "It's very good news. It will save lives. At the moment some people come home, have had a few drinks, fall asleep on the sofa with a cigarette in their hand, it falls on to flammable material and the next thing you know you've got a fire.

"Fire-safe cigarettes greatly reduce the risk of that happening."

Link & Image: The New Zealand Herald
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World's oldest bowling alley found in Egypt

SiteItalian archeologists have found in Egypt what may be the world's oldest indoor bowling alley, Egyptian media said Monday.

A spacious room, with a shallow lane running through into a pit and two heavy stone balls lying nearby, was found at an ancient site in the province of Al-Fayyum, 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Cairo, and appears to be man's first attempt to create an area for a game that was to become the prototype for modern-day bowling, archeologists taking part in the excavations were reported as saying.

The site dates back to the Ptolemaic era, which began in 332 B.C with Ptolemy I Soter declaring himself Pharaoh of Egypt following Alexander the Great's conquest, and ended with the Roman conquest in 30 B.C.

The period bowling room was apparently part of a residential building, with papyruses, pottery and copper utensils found at the site in abundance.

Link & Image: Novosti
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New limbless lizard species discovered

LizardAn Indian zoologist said Monday he has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.

"Preliminary scientific study reveals that the lizard belongs to the genus Sepsophis," said Sushil Kumar Dutta, who led a team of researchers from "Vasundhra," a non-governmental organization, and the North Orissa University.

The newly found 7-inch long lizard looks like a scaly, small snake, Dutta said. "It prefers to live in a cool retreat, soft soil and below stones."

"The lizard is new to science and is an important discovery. It is not found anywhere else in the world," Dutta told The Associated Press.

Link & Image: Msnbc
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Brit to swim at North Pole

DivingA British explorer and endurance swimmer is to attempt to swim in the freezing waters of the North Pole.

Lewis Gordon Pugh, 37, will be the first person to swim at the geographic North Pole. Water temperatures will be around minus 1.8 degrees Celsius - the coldest waters a human has ever swum in, a spokesperson said.

Pugh's ability to raise his body temperature in anticipation of a swim has intrigued sports scientists and earned him the nickname The Polar Bear.

He is making the 1km swim, in an area that should be frozen over, to demonstrate the devastating impacts of climate change.

Pugh will swim in just a swimming costume, cap and goggles for the Investec North Pole Challenge on July 15.

Link & Image: Ananova
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Man invents machine to turn water into fire


Kanzius, 63, invented a machine that emits radio waves in an attempt to kill cancerous cells while leaving normal cells intact. While testing his machine, he noticed that his invention had other unexpected abilities.

Filling a test tube with salt water from a canal in his back yard, Kanzius placed the tube and a paper towel in the machine and turned it on. Suddenly, the paper towel ignited, lighting up the tube like it was a wax candle. Kanzius performed the experiment without the paper towel and got the same result -- the saltwater was actually burning.

Kanzius said the flame created from his machine reaches a temperature of around 3,000 degrees Farenheit. He said a chemist told him that the immense heat created from the machine breaks down the hydrogen-oxygen bond in the water, igniting the hydrogen.

"You could take plain salt water out of the sea, put it in containers and produce a violent flame that could heat generators that make electricity, or provide other forms of energy," Kanzius said.

He said engineers are currently experimenting with him in Erie, Pa. in an attempt to harness the energy. They've built an engine that, when placed on top of the flame, chugged along for two minutes, Kanzius told WPBF.

Source: Wpbf & YouTube
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28 May, 2007

'Living plugs' smooth ant journey

AntsA scientific study of the teamwork of army ants has discovered how they are prepared to let their fellow ants walk all over them to get the job done. The technique provided the rest of the group, which can number 200,000, with a faster route between prey and nest.

"The ants have a very large size range within their colony, measuring from 2mm up to 1cm (0.08-0.4in)," explained Dr Scott Powell, a biologist at the University of Bristol. "When the ants bump into a hole they cannot cross, they edge their way around it and then spread their legs and wobble back and forth to check their fit. "If they are too big, then they carry on and another ant will come along and measure itself in the same way. This carries on until an appropriately sized ant plugs the hole."

At this point, Dr Powell told the BBC News website, the ant becomes a "living surface" remaining in place for hours at a time while thousands of foragers walk back and forth across the trail.

"At the end of the day, when the traffic eventually diminishes, the ant that forms this motionless plug will detect that and pop out of the hole and run home," Dr Powell said.

The scientists found ant-plugged smoother surfaces speeded up the route from prey to nest and also increased the daily prey intake, which for army ants consists of other species of ants and other bugs.

Source: BBC
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Man in underwear pins leopard for 20 min

Arthur Du MoschArthur Du Mosch has averted a cat-astrophe. The 49-year-old nature guide was fast asleep Monday, his family and pet cat dozing beside him, when a larger feline hopped in his bed for a latenight visit — a wild leopard, to be exact.

Du Mosch, 49, a nature guide, didn't flinch. Clad only in underwear and a T-shirt, he lunged at the leopard, grabbed it around the neck, then pinned it down for 20 minutes — until park rangers arrived on the scene.

"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," he said, plainly. "I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted."

Leopards in Israel pose no threat to people and, in fact, this leopard was chasing Du Mosch's cat and not the humans sleeping in the bed, Shapira said. He said the leopard was very weak when captured.

Link & Image: Yahoo News
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A bicycle made for three

TrioBikeBaby transport has undergone something of a revolution in recent years with designers capitalising on the “yummy mummy” market to offer sportier versions of the pushchair. Now one company has taken the idea one step further with the trioBike, a carrierbike, pushchair and bicycle all in one.

The aluminium-frame seven-speed trioBike can attach a carrier to seat two children under nine-years-old. There are seatbelts, and the company, having developed their design with the Danish National Consumer Agency, say it is the “safest carrierbike children can ride in”.

A spokesman for the company said it was the perfect flexible solution for parents on the move.

He said: “A carrierbike is a fantastic invention for transporting the kids in. “But once the kids have been delivered in day