Think again before planting that tree!!

It seems whatever we have learned as children is taking a beating today.

This report says that trees can actually contribute to global warming!

Wait! Before you go and chop off that tree in your backyard, let me tell you, this statement is true only for the snow covered northern areas. In the tropics, closer to the equator, trees still are the best air conditioning system outdoors!!

And the myriad advantages of trees surely offsets this one particular small 'disadvantage'.

Wanna gain weight? Start dieting!

Uh Oh! Until now I thought dieting was a good way to lose weight along with exercise. This study here says something else!

Hey guys! Before you hit the pizzeria in bliss on hearing this news, the study also says that eating in moderation and regular exercise does the trick.

'Moderation'?? What is this?

Iris scanning, without your knowledge!

This device scans your eyes without your knowledge or consent and stores your identification!

Iris scanners scan the eyes and create eye-prints (very much like finger prints) which are unique to a person! If you have seen Tom Cruise's Minority Report you can very well get the concept!

Another dig, dig, dig!!

Turkana Boy is the most complete prehistoric human skeleton ever found!

Good for science? You bet.

Good for religion? Sorry there!

The public display of this skeleton has sparked a big fight between scientists and evangelicals.... bringing out the old controversy again - evolution against creation!!

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet lay buried side by side in his famous play. Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet!

Buried between 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric lovers are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact. Double burials from the Neolithic period are unheard of, and these are even hugging!!

The eleven most philosophical quotations!

Wow! Now here is an article for those who like to think... and think... and think...!!!

I will simply enlist the quotations here - you have to go to the page for the explanations!

1. The unexamined life is not worth living.
2. Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
3. The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
4. I think, therefore I am.
5. To be is to be perceived OR If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
6. We live in the best of all possible worlds.
7. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
8. Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this is subjectivity... at its height.
9. God is dead.
10. There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
11. One cannot step twice in the same river.
    

A man loses memory and wanders for 25 days before being found!

Strange are the ways of nature!

This man, and intellectual and highly educated, lost his memory, and with it, his identity, his home, and all of his previous life!! He kept wandering in the streets of Dallas, and after numerous sightings was finally recognized by a contractor know to him.

Thankfully, he regained his memory back and now is in his usual life!!

What is your gender?

A person in Nepal has been granted both male and female citizenship on his request!

Now this opens up some interesting possibilities! Will this man have a husband or a wife? Or can he have both at the same time? Will his children call him Daddy or Mommy?

We see in 3D. What if there were another 6D?

Visualizing and navigating through stuff in 3 dimensions is tough enough! Now scientists have found out 6 more dimensions.

Although we can't visualize our world in six dimensions, scientists have taught computers to produce and show us stuff in six dimensions. The picture here is a computer generated image of a 6D structure!

Clothes that change while you walk!

Transformer Clothing - Science fiction writer J.G. Ballard wrote about clothing that would do this in his story Say Goodbye to the Wind - but it's been implemented using a more mechanistic technology.

The video here is a sure watch! See the clothes morph themselves automatically!

Swallowed the dinner, and the spoon!

How many times do we remind kids not to laugh or talk while eating?

Well, here is the result of not listening to what mama says!

This woman swallowed an entire spoon while eating sphaghetti and laughing at the same time! A tough time the doctors must have had trying to remove it! Read this article to find out how it was removed!

What's up Bill Gates' sleeve now?

Read what Bill Gates has to say about Windows Vista, which he has recently let loose upon the hungry computer world!

The world's richest man also lets us have a peek at what could be his next ventures in this interview!

Get it all from the horse's mouth!!

Dead man sitting on his table for 6 years!

Another one from Russia today!

A man believed to have disappeared 6 years back, was found in his own home, sitting at his table, still retaining some flesh!!

Read on for how he was discovered!

Recommended reading!! - Do you eat with your mouth or your eyes?

I most certaily recommend reading this article!

For those who have been trying hard to keep their urge to fill their tummies from killing their diet control plans, this might bring some revelation! It also makes an interesting read for any body, even those in their prime shapes!

The gist of the matter is - feeling full after a meal has a lot of other factors responsible than just the amount of food taken in! And some of the factors can be the type of food, the quantity served initially, the way food is presented before you.....

I said read this article... will learn a lot about a full meal!

A new way to quieten babies! Gag them!

This Russian hospital has nurses who gag new born orphan babies by sticking a tape over their mouths to keep them from crying out loud - which, they say, distracts them from their work!

Can these ladies become mothers?

Robots to become softer and more flexible!

Break dancers mimicking robotoid movements might have a tougher time to come!

Robots are set to be softer in touch and more flexible in movements to allow them to perform more complex tasks! But unlike in Terminator movies, there will be no human tissue on them, they will inherently be made from softer material!

Drug user to memorise Koran or face sentence!

Great punishment!

A drug user has been ordered by the court to memorise the holy Koran and recite it by six months. If he fails, he faces one year in jail!

A 65 year old woman fought a mountain lion to save her husband!

Now this is true love!

Undeterred by the ferocity of the mountain lion, and prodded on by her love for her husband, this 65 year old woman fought the lion which had pinned down her husband. Her weapons were a log and a pen!

Find out more about this dare devil act!

Kill 99% bacteria in 2 minutes!

The humble microwave present in most kitchens now can almost sterilise everything you heat in it for two minutes!

Can go a long way in preventing food borne diseases!

Read on for more information!

A gun which doesn't kill you!

This is probably the best one I have heard about warfare!

Here is a gun that sends heat rays that make you feel as if you are catching fire, but causes no real damage! Criminals and enemies will apparently feel the intense heat and drop their weapons!

Great to use in civilian dense areas, and security zone areas..... no collateral damage!!

Sky diver tampers with fellow skydiver's parachute to kill her!

The depths that crimes of passion can take you to!

A married lady skydiver fell to the ground when her parachutes, both the main and the back up, failed to open! Both the parachutes failing together is unheard of! And the investigation shows that the parachute had been tampered with!

The main suspicion points towards her best friend and love rival, a fellow lady skydiver!

Want a new house in 24 hours? 'Print' it!

Imagine this - you design your house with many of the house construction software available. After you are satisfied with your design, you simply click 'print' and your house is put in place on the plot of land that you want it to be!

Only, this time the 'printer' is a large machine, which takes about 24 hours to 'print' your house into existence!

Find out how it works!

After tutors, it's coffee that needs sex to sell!

We've already read the news where tutors wear skimpy clothes to sell their services to students. (Those who haven't can refer to the Jan 21, 2007 page in this blog)

No it is coffee shop girls who are vying to out'strip' the competition from other coffee houses in the neighborhood by wearing skimpy clothes and dropping flirtations on their customers!

Rarely seen alive, but videotaped now - frilled shark!

Normally found 2000 feet deep in the sea, this shark is very rarely seen. And when they are seen at all, they are usually dead and caught in fishermen's nets!

This is probably the first time one of this species has been videotaped alive! It died soon thereafter.

Find out more about this strange looking creature!

Bearing babies without mating?

A Komodo dragon had never seen a male in her life! Still she laid five eggs, which hatched into five live and healthy babies!

Find out more about getting pregnant and bearing children without any male contribution!

Two headed monster?

A fossil remnant of a reptile of the dinosaur age was found with two heads and two necks!

While such a birth defect is rare, it is no unknown! Read this article to find out more on such two headed animals!

Drving myths shattered!

Think a 16 year old risk-taking boy driving on the highway is more likely to die than an 80 year old safe-driving woman? Think again!

Think men are safer drivers than women? Think again!

Find out more about driving and deaths.

Slimming down business affecting MS Office too!

After several years of sticking to the principle of enriching newer versions of MS Office with newer, better, useless features, Microsoft is now bent upon changing the entire look of MS Office with Office 2007!

Every coin has two faces - go to this article to find out the good and bad of MS Office 2007!

The worst day of the year, today?

According to a study, it is!

Find out for yourself why!

Stealing GPS? Couldn't be dumber!

Ha! Ha! Ha!

These theives stole GPS (Global Positioning Systems)!! GPS are used to pin-point their own location - useful in locating devices which have them installed. Primarily used for navigation, or locating a lost soul!

The thieves were caught by activating the very devices they stole - pin-pointing their location!!

A car buried 50 years back to be dug up now, to fulfill a 50 year old contest!

This is weird! Some people had buried a car 50 years ago, in 1957. The instructions were to award the car and $100 to the winner of a contest held in 1957.

The results were to be announced in 2007 and the prize given in the same year!

And what was the contest? A simple question - what would be the population of Tulsa county in 2007! The replies were sealed and buried in 1957 along with the car, to be opened in 2007, compared with the census and the person with the answer closest to the actual population was to be awarded the prize this year!!!

Aeroplane design copy of Flying Dinosaurs.

Nothing new? Well, you can't be sure until you read the article!

It says, flying dinosaurs, which were probably the earliest ancestors of birds, had the same aviation design as the earliest airplanes designed by man (the Wright Brothers)! And then as evolution continued with the flying creatures, they evolved into the present day bird designs, which, coincidentally, is the story of airplanes too, although much faster.

The newer planes are designed like the modern birds, while the earlier planes were designed like the earlier birds!

Find out more!

Half swallowed up by a shark - comes ot alive!

I would never envy such a man... he was swallowed half in two large gulps by a shark! The first gulp taking in his head and the second bite piercing his torso!

Then the man fights back and get out of the powerful jaws, and goes on to live!

Do you Pillow-Fight? May be you could take it up as a career!

Wow! This is one of the wonderful sports that can be!

I used to find pillow-fighting really cute and a friendly fight. Very much like two young puppies playfully pushing and biting each other in the morning sun!

Pillow fights can be a pleasant way to express mock displeasure... kids, sppuses, siblings... all use the down-filled cloth bag for a bit of fun filled contest!

But here is a real contest - The Pillow Fighting League!

Deliberately crippling babies, even before they are born!

Now this is outright scary... a perfect example of an experiment gone completely awry. Like what we used to see in science fiction movies!

The idea of genetic intervention to screen out defectvie embryos which might simply get aborted or be born with severe birth defects is one thing!
But the very thought of changing the genetic structure of unborn normal babies to induce defects in them sounds horrible to me!

Read on for the horrifying revelation!

Fall from 17th floor, and just a broken leg!

Do you believe in sheer luck?

I am unable to find any other explanation for how this person could survive such a fall! A fall from 17th floor, um, i used to think, would be invariably fatal!

Perhaps the God of Death was taking a nap at the time! Whatever, this chap has loads and loads of luck, and a brand new life - cheers!

Not allowed to fly over a T-shirt!

Have you ever wondered that the slogan that you wear on your T-shirt could be the cause of a ban on you for air travel?

Well, that is what happened with a man who didn't change his T-shirt after being disallowed by an airlines from boarding their plane! He stood up for the principle of free speech!

Find out what was on the T-shirt he wore!

Big Brother row reveals India's coming of age!

This is the view exhibited in this news article!

So for more views and reviews about the Big Brother row which shot up Jade and Shilpa to international fame (or infame), read this article!

What do you look for in a tutor?

People in Hong Kong ask for more than just good teaching capabilities from their children's tutors. They look for higher sex-appeal!

Good looks, mini-skirts, high heels and beautiful long legs are as essential as the ability to impart education in Hong Kong!

Perhaps creating a flutter in the brain is as important as creating a flutter in the heart! After all the brain and the heart are the two most important organs that we have!

Got a 5 year old in house? Then get a pet!

That sounds like a plus for the animal lovers! And three cheers for kids having pets in their family - they are less likely to fall ill!

Caring for pets boosts children's immune systems and makes them less likely to fall sick. The type of pet doesn't matter - it can be a cat, a dog, or anything.
This is most significant among the four to five year olds.

Pets seem to improve immunity only marginally for kids aged seven to eleven years. In either case, you have nothing to lose keeping pets!

Shot at, refrigerated for two days, still lives!

This duck can put even real tough guys to shame!

After being wounded badly by a gun shot and then put in the fridge for two days, it survived! Show me a man who can do that!

Just goes to say how tough wildlife can be and how soft we have become!

The future in cine!

Hmm... this is not news exactly! But I thought it was interesting enough to include in my posts.

This picutre gallery has screenshots of a few well know sci-fi movies which show us the face of future!

"I am so f***ing scared"

You have heard what everyone has said about Jade. You have heard about the reactions to her 'racist remarks' against Shilpa Shetty in Big Brother.

Now find out her side of the story. Listen to what Jade has to say.

Divorced couple build wall through home!

What a way to settle a post-divorce ownership of a house!

Even when this couple has two houses close by, they seemed so attached to this particular house that they decided to live under the same roof, although separated from each other by a new wall!

Love for the house seems to be greater than love for each other!

Science versus religion - USA is almost least scientific!

Religion says, the world and humans were created by God.
Science says, all life evolved.

What do you believe?
What does USA believe?

How would you like fighting a drunk bull?

It is problem enough facing a guy who is drunk and knocked out of his senses. I wouldn't like facing a bull knocked out of his senses either!

The authorities of Tamil Nadu, in South India seem to agree with my view point. Find out what they did!

Who likes running around naked?

I guess a lot many of us would do so given the chance! And there would be a lot of others who would be shocked at such an idea!

Well, here is Drew Barrymore, who does it! Now all of you guys, don't drive off to Ireland to find your next chance! Let the lady have some private moments of her own!

What do you steal? Hair?

Hey! This sure is bizarre!

I have heard of people stealing money, goodies, food, jewellery, and even people stealing hearts away!

But here is the story of someone who had her hair stolen away!
Read on!

115 years old! Now that is some age to reach!

A woman died at the age of 115 years!

That is more than a century old! And she has a nephew 73 years old!

I wonder whether one is happy to be able to live so long or whether one is sad to see all his or her loved ones die one by one before he or she does!

Check out her little story!

This can make you laugh and cry!!

Everyone that I know is talking about the "Big Brother" show and Jade Goody's racial remarks on Shilpa Shetty!

Well, the news tells us that Shilpa Shetty is a big cine star in India. But who is Jade Goody? You can click here to find out more about this person who created ripples that were seen going till India!

Sex and the Sea Horse!

Well, well!

This news article says that the sea horse belongs to a select few species in the world in which the male of the species which baby sits! The male seahorse has a special sac in its tummy which acts like a mother's womb! And it incubates the fertilised eggs in this 'womb' and takes care of it, while the female goes around frolicking!!

Some other interesting facts about sea horses -

These are actually fish. They have no teeth. But they are voracious predators! How do they eat? Well, they simply suck their prey in!

They can roll their eyes independently of one another to search for prey! Wow! two radars instead of one!

'Tarzan-Girl' in Cambodia

A girl, who had disappeared close to two decades back in a jungle in Cambodia, was recalled from the wild after so many years!!

She was found picking food, naked, and moving around in a stooped monkey like stance!

Check this news out for the surprising details!

Also, check this other link! Click here!

The 6 most annoying things kids say -- and the best ways to respond

Here are the six most annoying things that kids may say to you!

1. "Mine!"
2. "It's not fair."
3. "You're not the boss of me."
4. "I want it now!"
5. "You never let me do anything."
6. "I don't like you."

I am sure you must have heard one or the other of these sentences sometime! Well, this link tells you how to deal with each of these quesitons as well! Check it out!

A helicopter helps a deer out of an icy lake!

Wow! This sure sounds fun!

A deer seems to have strayed on to an icy lake and lost its footing on the slippery surface! Poor creature couldn't even get up! And guess who comes to the rescue? A TV news helicopter!

And guess how the chopper guy does the rescuing trick? By blowing the deer off the lake with the wind from the blades of the chopper!

Wow! Lucky deer!