Rare Retile
A rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found nesting on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in a rare tuatara.
A rare tuatara has been found in New Zealand (Agencies Photo) about 200 years, officials said on Friday.

Boat-loving seagulls will have to poop elsewhere if a team of high school students have anything to say about it. The team, named Vanish Productions, recently won the top regional prize in New Zealand’s Young Enterprise contest for their Ultrasonic Bird Repeller.

Look At All The Seagulls

 
Today I bring to you Halloween business ideas, surprise, surprise.
I have to say, I was disappointed to find that while the holiday itself is weird and wacky, the corporations that surround it are pretty usual. They range from haunted houses, to event planners that will decorate and provide spooky catering for your party, to costume [...]

Scary R2-D2
Capping off our day of Halloween costume roundups is everyone’s favorite droid, R2-D2. Artoo joins the iPhone, the folks at BioWare, and fellow robots on this haunted day at DVICE.

Creepy, Crawly Cochroaches
I wonder what Juliet would have said about cockroaches. Would she say,
“What’s in a name? That which we call a cockroach
By the name ‘cafard,’ is it not still creepy as hell?”

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase  
WHO LEFT THE TOILET SEAT UP? – If you share your bathroom with a woman (or you are a woman), you know the unspeakable horror of what we’re talking about.

This Will Be Lost In Translation…

It took Christian Bok 7 years to write Eunoia – the word is the shortest word in the English language containing all five vowels.
Eunoia means “beautiful thinking” and it’s a very fitting title to Christian’s book, in which each chapter uses only one vowel!
From CHAPTER A – FOR HANS ARP:
Hassan [...]

At Least They Are Golden

South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that only the visually impaired can be licensed masseurs in the country, upholding a law set up a century ago despite arguments it infringed on free employment rights.
The law was established in 1912 when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule to help guarantee the blind [...]

Methane Gas created under this rock in the ocean
The amount of methane in Earth’s atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable, according to a team led by MIT researchers.

                                                                                                                        The Word Adam ^^^^:)
A University of Calgary scientist confirms that it is how our immune system responds, not the rhinovirus itself, that causes cold symptoms. Of more than 100 different viruses that can cause [...]

 Get that extra hour of sleep! But dont have a heart attack!
Adjusting the clocks to summer time on the last Sunday in March increases the risk of myocardial infarction in the following week. In return, putting the clocks back in the autumn reduces the risk, albeit to a lesser extent. This according to a new [...]

And just when steak became your favorite!
Offering another reason why eating red meat could be bad for you, an international research team, including University of California, San Diego School of Medicine professor Ajit Varki, M.D., has uncovered the first example of a bacterium that causes food poisoning in humans when it targets a non-human molecule [...]

The eye balls of space!
 
Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter – matter’s arch nemesis – left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory suggest the search may have just become even more difficult.

Suitable for the biggest bully on the block
This portable toy blaster can pack and launch softball-sized snowballs, making you the new undisputed king of the snowball fight. It will give you “rapid, long-range assaults during neighborhood snowball confrontations.” Just place the snow in the forming chamber, close the lid, and you’ve got three perfectly spherical [...]

Sushi Made Easy
Becoming a sushi chef takes years of training under a sushi master in Japan. You need a delicate touch and you need to know how to handle every type of fish. It’s not like flipping burgers, it’s an art form. Unless you have the Sushezi Sushi Tube, in which case it’s totally a [...]

Anara Tower
In a rush to build the maximum number of gigantic and magnificent skyscrapers before the oil runs out, Dubai is at it again. Just look at this 2150-foot monster, the Anara Tower, scheduled to be built next year. The skyscraper will be about 500 feet shorter than the world’s tallest building – the Burj [...]

Gigantic Bomb Stroller, This Is Just Scary
Nothing assures you of a healthy, well-balanced kid like toting them around in a gigantic bomb stroller when they’re a baby. I mean, just look at this thing. What baby would not get a great outlook on life from rolling around the neighborhood in this shiny monstrosity?

 Non Drip Ice Cream, Called UFO
A Russian dairy company, MyasoMolTorg, has created a new ice cream product called UFO, which is made with the latest in stabilizer technology. Once removed from the freezer, the ice cream does not melt but rather turns into a semi-solid jelly, which makes it far les messy (unless of course [...]

Follow Your Nose !!!
Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now.

Now you see why i hang out in the digital world
What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer’s hard drive?

looks like a tonka truck
In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander’s survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting this week.

An apple made out of everything but thee apples!
Soybeans may drop off the list of musical fruit. Scientists in Singapore are reporting victory over some consumers’ No. 1 complaint about soy products — the “flatulence factor” caused by indigestible sugars found in soy.

 
Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford researchers say, is global warming.

Baby Born After Abdominal Pregnancy
When doctors at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital wheeled in 30-year-old Meena for a caesarean, they thought it would be just another 15-minute procedure. But the team walked out of the operation theatre only three hours later, to announce the birth of a 2.25 kg baby boy.
Though fatigued, they were smiling [...]

Thin Is In
The newspaper business may be going down the tubes but if those ever-emergent thin displays get to market soon enough there might still be hope for those technology-challenged old school publishers. The latest entry in the thin display race comes from Samsung and it’s called the Flapping Display. Revealed at Japan’s recent FPD [...]