Category: Interesting&Notable
Hairiest Man in China Decides to Remove Hair
China’s hairiest man Yu Zhenhuan undertakes laser hair removal treatment Hair covers 96 percent of Yu’s body. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Fat Donald
Fat Donald – Illustration Art Fat Donald by ~DonMak is dark, repulsive and intentionally so. It may not be a most balanced portrayal of good ol’ Ronnie but it runs with the current zeitgeist and expresses it very well. So it marks a point in time where there is a global phenomenon in which we [...]
Heat Up Your Room with Just a Candle
Doyle Doss, a Northern California Inventor, has created a candle powered space heater. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Blue M&M food dye turns you blue – but reduces paralysis from spinal injuries
One of the experimental rats, before and after injection with the blue food dye Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
KGB Museum in Russia
(“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. It was the descendant of earlier agencies. The Cheka was established in 1917 to investigate counterrevolution and sabotage. Its successor, the GPU (later OGPU), was the new Soviet Union’s first secret-police agency (1923); it also administered corrective labor camps and oversaw the [...]
Best Way to Plant Veggies
The following list shows when to plant vegetables in southern California. The most common vegetable crops are listed. This is specificly a southern California vegetable planting guide, and the two sets of planting dates are for coastal regions (Camarillo, Oxnard) and the interior (Thousand Oaks, Ojai). Where there are two possible crops per year, planting [...]
Miracle cat Survives Shot in Head with Arrow
Brownie lies on the exam table at an Indiana veterinarian’s office after being shot through the head with an arrow. Below, after the arrow is removed. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Mona Lisa comes to life
This Mona Lisa chats with you in Beijing. A visitor looks at a three-dimensional, holographic version of the 16th century portrait “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci as it indicates not to move any closer in Beijing’s Alive Gallery August 21, 2009. This Mona Lisa is a digital re-creation courtesy of the Alive Gallery in [...]
Meet the black Brazilian mother who has three white children
A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children. Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Real Life Pong Game
Sportpong is an innovative physical computer game that allows two or more people to play the classic game of pong with their feet. The field is projected on the floor and the players control the game using reflectors attached to their feet. This control system is intuitive, naturalistic and very direct. Did you like this? [...]
Japanese Sewer System
The first sewerage system “in Japan can be seen in the large communities in the Yayoi Period (approximately 2,200 years ago). In the Nara Period (about 1,300 years ago), a drainage system network ran throughout the city in the Heijo-kyo capital area. In the Azuchi-momoyama Period (approximately 430 years ago), a stone culvert called the [...]
Bear climbs ladder to escape skating park
A bear that wandered into an inground skateboard park and got stuck was rescued when officials lowered a ladder so it could climb out. The bear was discovered Tuesday morning in the Colorado resort town of Snowmass, according to KUSA-TV. Officials say it apparently was in the park all night, and couldn’t get out because [...]
Dutch Ad Campaign Targets Discrimination
Hide No More : Dutch Ad Campaign Targets Discrimination Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Pilot lands aeroplane in a tree
A man has survived crash landing his plane into a tree on a Dundee golf course. Vince Hagedorn chose to steer into the high branches of a small wood near the 15th hole of Caird Park Golf Course when he realised his two-seat microlight was running low on fuel. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
The smallest horse in Australia
Koda, the smallest horse in Australia, is smaller than most dogs and not much bigger than a cat. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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