Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Cow-Fart Storing Tank To Stop Greenhouse Gases
Thursday, July 10, 2008 14:41 No Comments
The fart mostly consists of a gas called Methane, which happens to be 23 times easier to trap heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. One of the most fart producing living beings on this planet is the cow, which produces 800-1,000 litres of gas every day! Considering that Argentina alone has 55 million [...]
Japanese Man Works Him Self To Death
Thursday, July 10, 2008 14:16 No CommentsKaroshi in Japanese is the death from overworking. That’s right people over there actually work, unlike most westerners that do their 8 hours per day and complain. This time the Karoshi hit one of the lead car engineer in Toyota. The 45 year old died from working too many hours (80 hours over time each [...]
Noah: The Futuristic Unicycle
Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:30 No CommentsThe future of motorcycles seem to balance on one wheel as this is the second concept of a “unicycle” motorcycle that hits the news; the first one was the UNO. The Noah was also designed by a youngster, Andrei Franca from Belo Horizonte, Brazil and it came as runner up in the Plascar Automotive Design [...]
Beggar Deposits 91kg Of Coins In Indian Bank
Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:01 No CommentsLaxmi Das from Calcutta is one wise lady. She has been begging in the streets for 44 years and managed to save her self a nice retirement fund. And what a fund, 4 buckets of coins to be precise. The 60 year old beggar decided, after been advised by police, to deposit the money in [...]
The Stradivarius Violin Secreats Finally Decoded Via CT Scan
Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:31 No CommentsFor three centuries people have been trying to reproduce the violins that Antonio Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu crafted. None knew how these violins were able to produce their characteristic sweet sound. Now scientists used CT scans (technique for scanning lung tissue) and found that the wood density is probably the key to the Stradivarius [...]
Sex On The Beach Lands Woman In Jail
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 19:21 No Comments[photo via]
Michelle Palmer, a British expatriate working in Dubai was caught having sex on a beach with her partner and now faces up to 6 years in jail. The woman who worked in the area for three years committed not just one but three offenses (according to the local laws). She was also charged with [...]