Flying carpet is not only a tale

The welcome news from Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University that flying carpets could one day become a reality is not a wholly unalloyed source of joy.
Delightful though it would be to emulate Sabu in the Thief of Baghdad and take a trip on one's very own rug, life is never that simple.
For, as we report today, plans are afoot to "get tough" with motorists who make mobile telephone calls or programme their satnavs while driving their cars.

Such behaviour is, naturally, to be deplored; evidence is plentiful that such driver distraction is dangerous.
Yet we cannot help fearing that, if carpets are the cars of the future, the thrill of the journey would be diluted by the need for seat-belts, airbags and crash helmets - and how would we find our way without matnav?

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TAIGA : THE WORLD'S LONGEST FOREST

The Siberian taiga is the world's largest forest stretching 5,700 kilometers from west to east and 1,000 kilometers from north to south through northern Russia, Norway, Finland and Sweden, covering some 2.7 billion acres.


The longest forest is the North America taiga at 6,200 kilometers, but it varies in width from 500 - 1,000 kilometers. The North America taiga Stretches from Alaska to Newfoundland. The taiga accounts for over 25% of the world's forested area




Taiga Facts

The world's oldest trees are the bristle cone pines found in California. One of them is 4,600 year old. Now that's OLD!

Coniferous trees grow thick bark to protect them from wildfires.

Needles actually help keep coniferous trees warm during the winter.

The trunks of the conifer trees are used to make paper. Like the stuff you use to write on in school or at home.

The taiga gets about 12-33 inches of rain in one year.

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The Bear Man

IT looks like a circus performance as the man reaches up to cuddle an 8ft-tall grizzly bear.

But amazingly, this is NOT a trained animal but a wild beast that could kill daredevil Charlie Vandergaw with a single swipe of its huge paw.

The retired schoolteacher risks his life every day to befriend grizzly and black bears.

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Body Mortifies

"A sadhu or holy man mortifies his body in a tradition recalling Allahabad's ancient name, Prayaga—'place of sacrifice.' He controls his breathing using techniques of yoga."

Tigers maul tourist to death as he tries to take photo through zoo cage bars

A 50-year-old man has been savagely mauled to death by two tigers through the bars of their zoo cage as he tried to take a picture of them with his mobile phone.

The tourist is said to have clambered over a safety barrier in order to get a really good close-up picture of the Bengal tigers at the zoo in Guwahati in northeast India.

After he put his arm through the bars of the cage the two tigers attacked him and tore off his arm at the shoulder as his horrified wife and two children looked on helplessly

The man, named as Jayaprakash Bezbaruah, a government official from a neighbouring town, was rushed to hospital but he later died from a massive loss of blood.
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International symbol of marriage

in 2005 , After 5 years of heated debate, the Commission of Human Rights approved the new International Symbol of Marriage .

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Rose Or Lover

There is a Rose right ? but if you see the image carefully you will notice that in the central portion there are two lovers kissing each other.
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Giant cat-sized rats discovered in Papuan 'lost world'

When the large furry creature first scuttled into their jungle camp looking for its supper, the scientists assumed it was a cat.

But after several further visits, when it tamely allowed itself to be picked up, they realised they were actually holding a giant rat.

The monster rodent was the most spectacular discovery in a remote area of Indonesia which experts are describing as a "lost world" of hitherto-unknown animals and plants.

At the other end of the size scale was a pygmy possum thought to be one of the world's smallest marsupials - creatures which carry their young in a pouch.

"These are two animals which were totally unknown to science and we're absolutely thrilled to have discovered them," said one of the explorers who ventured into the thick jungles of Indonesia's Papua province.

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UNICEF Photo of the Year

1st Prize for Stephanie Sinclair

Child brides

2nd Prize for G M B Akash

Child Labor in Bangladesh

3rd Prize for Hartmut Schwarzbach

Smokey Mountain – Children of a charcoal burners’ camp in Manila

The Uncommon Toilet Signs Around The World

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Photo of 'giant remains' an innocent hoax

An image supposedly depicting the skeletal remains of gigantic humans online has recently been proved to be an innocent fake.
The picture was created by a Canadian digital artist by the alias of "IronKite" as his entry in an online photo-manipulation contest, which asked contestants to "create a hoax archaeological discovery."
The artist used this mastodon-excavation photo -- taken in 2000 in Hyde Park, New York -- as the basis and digitally superimposed a human skeleton over the mastodon-dig photo. He later added a man holding a shovel.
The artwork subsequently inspired false reports of an ancient-giant discovery in the Arabian or Indian deserts, although IronKite had nothing to do with it.
For five years later, a continuing flow of emails have been sent to National Geographic News to verify if the discovery has been made, and the picture has been featured widely on blogs debating the existence of ancient giants.

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Canadian Man Gets Breast Implants

A Canadian man gets a set of silicone implants for a tattoo of a woman on his leg

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The smallest camera in the world!

Beautiful and amazing planet . Save it

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Wanna go swimming on the edge?

It's the Joule Hotel in Dallas

Giant Kites battle globale warming

A high-tech version of the traditional sailing ship is the latest bid to halt climate change.

Two German companies have teamed up to create a kite system that uses wind power to pull enormous ships.

The 132-metre ship MV Beluga SkySails will make her maiden voyage across the Atlantic next month, pulled by a giant computer-guided kite tethered to a 15-metre high mast.

The kite flies up to 300 metres high to harness powerful prevailing winds and tug the 10,000-tonne ship forward, helping its diesel engine cut fuel consumption by 20 per cent.

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Bathe with rattlesnakes

This photo released by the Guinness World Records shows Jackie Bibby in a see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes, in Dublin, Texas, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Bibby spent about 45 minutes in the tub shattering his own record by 12 snakes(Agencies)

Watch it, Tom! Experts find fearless Jerries

Fear may be linked to the sense of smell, and can be switched off simply by shutting down certain receptors in the brain, Japanese scientists have found.


In an experiment with mice, the researchers identified and removed certain receptors on the olfactory bulb of their brains -- and the result was a batch of fearless rodents.
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The heaviest Apple and Lemon have ever seen!

The heaviest apple weighed 1.849 kg (4 lb 1 oz) and was grown and picked by Chisato Iwasaki at his apple farm in Hirosaki City, Japan October 24, 2005.

The world's heaviest lemon weighed 5.265 kg (11 lb 9.7 oz) on January 8, 2003 and was grown by Aharon Shemoel (Israel) on his farm in Kefar Zeitim, Israel.

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Baby trapped in MacBook

That’s just freaky looking. The baby hand reaching out to touch the keyboard is a vision of a nightmare.Is Apple's went this far?

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Stainless Steel Mouse

Gideontech user Filimon and Russian website modding.ru’s admin spent nearly 8 months to create this awesome stainless steel mouse out of a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical mouse.