'museum of laziness' opened

Bogota opens 'museum of laziness'

The event features sofas placed in front of televisions, hammocks and beds - anything associated with the avoidance of work.

The idea is to get people during the holiday season to think about laziness and its opposite, extreme work, and perhaps reach some balanced conclusion.

Visitors will have to shed their laziness long enough to get to the museum soon - it closes in a week.

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Save the Planet!

living in three centuries

Mark Story's portraits of people who have lived in three centuries: The Face of Age.The photographs for this portrait series were taken in various locations around the world between 1987 and 2005.

The Gerontology Research Group estimates there are 250,000 centenarians (people 100 years and older) currently living in the world. In rare instances, people live to 110 years and beyond, inspiring a new demographic label: supercentenarian.

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turning a liquid to a solid with just a touch.. amazing

Crystal Island, the World’s Biggest Building

Foster + Partners currently launches a project of world’s largest building.The Crystal Island has already earned the reputation of the most ambitious building project in the world. The construction is evaluated at four billion dollars.

The city within the building will house 900 luxury apartments, 3,000 hotel rooms, a theater, a fitness complex, a cinema, a museum and an international school for 500 students, not to mention countless stores.

The exterior facade will be solar responsive and will include solar panels which, along with wind turbines, will generate electricity for the huge tower. Natural ventilation will be provided thanks to numerous strategically placed large atriums. The internal environment will also have dynamic enclosure panels slotted into the structural framing that will allow daylight to penetrate deep into the heart of the structure; the panels will also be controlled to modify temperature inside the building – closed in winter for extra warmth and opened in summer to allow natural ventilation.

Most likely, the skyscraper will be built about ten kilometers far from Moscow’s center. The project is set to be completed in 2014.

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The White House, seat and symbol of the US government, is built in a Roman style, which was in turn inspired by Greek architecture. At left, we see it applied in the Villa Rotonda, a building by the renaissance architect Paladdio. Different empires, same building.

Recently the Chinese entrepreneur Huang Qiaoling (34th on Forbes’ list of rich people in China) had a replica of the White House built in his garden so he could meet business associates in the “Oval Office”.

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Top Ten Languages Spoken in the World

1. Mandarin - Number of speakers: 1 billion+
2. English - Number of speakers: 508 million
3. Hindustani - Number of speakers: 497 million
4. Spanish - Number of speakers: 392 million
5. Russian - Number of speakers: 277 million
6. Arabic - Number of speakers: 246 million
7. Bengali - Number of speakers: 211 million
8. Portuguese - Number of speakers: 191 million
9. Malay-Indonesian - Number of speakers: 159 million
10. French - Number of speakers: 129 million

Enjoy salad fruit on tree

A lemon tree that bears 11 different kinds of fruit is earning attention for a Japanese man who has had it growing in his garden for years.

The tree, which is about 30 years old, is growing in the garden of 71-year-old Onga resident Manabu Fukushima. It is loaded with 11 kinds of fruit including dekopon, hassaku orange, iyoyan, amanatsu, and banpeiyu, a variety of pummelo.





Fukushima started receiving citrus tree saplings from neighbours about 15 years ago, and grafted them onto his lemon tree because he wanted to eat the fruit quickly. Since then, the varieties of fruit have gradually increased. Now locals often come too see the unusual tree.

Successful grafting can produce fruit in one to three years. "The harvesting is really fun," Fukushima says. "Next year I want to increase the varieties."

Enjoy walking around the world

Earth is a pretty big planet. How long would it take to walk around the world?

Let's assume the following:

• You can walk on water.
  
• You walk at an average speed of 3 miles per hour (~5 km/hr).
  
• You walk around the world at the equator.
  
• You walk exactly 12 hours per day (the rest of the time is spent sleeping, eating, and resting).

Think about it, and come up with your best guess. Then highlight the sentence below to see the answer.

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It would take 691.7 days to walk around the world.

The half ton mum is the world's heaviest woman

Renee Williams became the largest person ever to have gastric bypass surgery earlier this year after ballooning to nearly seventy stone – but died 12 days later.

The bedridden 29-year-old begged doctors to perform the operation when she became so large that she couldn't hug her two children.

Her astonishing size meant that the operating table had to be specially widened for the procedure.

The operation was successful and Renee lost four stone due to her reduced stomach capacity before dying of a sudden heart attack less than two weeks later.

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Enjoy Driving with " New Speed Limit Device "

Enjoy Hidden Deer Illusion

Figures of animals are conceived in Steven Michael Gardner picture. If you look at it cursorily, you will find 2-3-4 etc. animals, but you study it in detail, you will find 10, 15 and more hidden animals. Count, how many animals are hidden in this picture.
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