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Amazing Story of a Man Who Survived Being Buried 40 Days
It’s often the case that when someone professes to be able do something remarkable, that great gift of human nature kicks in – skepticism. So when Maharajah Ranjeet Sing heard from an Indian fakir who claimed he could come back to life after being buried for several months in an apparent state of death, the Maharajah could only reply with one statement – proof or it didn’t happen.
Continue reading...18. November 2008
10 Most Alien-like Insects on Earth
A common mistake when searching for alien life forms is to look up into the sky for something big. But alien life is right here, at our feet, in our backyards. Millions of tiny but frightening aliens, many just a few millimetres long. We’ve convinced the most cheerful of the lot to give us a tour…
Continue reading...17. November 2008
Could Global Warming Cause a Mini Ice Age?
In the early 1900s, near the Berezovka river in Ukraine, frozen Woolly Mammoths were found with half chewed food still in their mouths, and more food undigested in their stomachs. Since then, scientists have been debating and speculating about what terrible environmental scenario could have flash frozen Woolly Mammoths so quickly.
Continue reading...13. November 2008
8 Incredible Martian Landscapes
As 40,000 fans say goodbye to the now-retired Mars Phoenix Lander on Twitter and Facebook, its discovery of water on the Red Planet may strengthen scientists' position that Mars is the ideal location for future human colonization. But with the first manned space mission nearly 20 years away, even a visit seems like a pipe dream. So in lieu of the real deal, we found these eight Blue Planet locales that can give you an idea of what a view from your Martian home might look like.
Continue reading...13. November 2008
10 Amazing Buildings Made of Dirt and Straw
The Three Little Pigs have nothing on these digs. Ancient technique and modern groove set these structures apart from the little hillside boxes filling our neighborhoods. There are no cookie-cutter house plans here. Just clean, green, natural buildings smoothed from dirt, straw, clay, and loads of ingenuity. No Big Bad Wolf will blow these down.
Continue reading...12. November 2008
Europe’s Strangest Theme Park
When confronted with the issue of what to do with an ex-Soviet bunker in the countryside, an enterprising Lithuanian decided that some things should be left the way they are... Welcome to 1984: Išgyvenimo Drama, otherwise known as Survival Drama in a Soviet Bunker. Built near Vilnius in 1980, when Lithuania was still a part of the USSR, the bunker's past life includes protecting a television transmitter and acting as a secure outpost for Soviet troops.
Continue reading...12. November 2008
Incredible Sculptures Made of Raw Meat
“Meat After Meat Joy” brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work. That’s right, meat - raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera. In their work the artists are seeking to show the paradoxical nature and symbolism of meat, seeking to show the viewer of their pieces how meat is the essence of our bodies but outside of that context holds no identity and how it also symbolic of the death that follows life, following on from what the exhibition’s curator Heide Harty calls one of the ‘seminal seminal works of sixties happening and performance art,’ Carolee Schneeman's Meat Joy performance.
Continue reading...10. November 2008
Ouch! Extreme Body Piercing
The Thaipusam is an old Hindu festival that has gained popularity in the western world because of the lengths its followers go through to prove their religious devotion. It is celebrated annually on the full moon of the month of Thai according to the Hindu calendar. The festival is observed mostly by the Tamils in South India, but there are big celebrations among the Tamil communities worldwide.
Continue reading...10. November 2008
The Mysterious Coral Castle
Armed with only a fourth grade education, Edward Leedskalnin possessed a unique understanding of the laws of weight and leverage, and with that built a castle of immense proportions, singlehandedly. For twenty-eight years he quarried, cut, shaped, transported, and constructed the entire structure, with only primitive tools he fashioned from junk yard auto parts and cast away lumber.
Continue reading...7. November 2008
Underwear Made From Soda Cans
There’s recycling and then there’s recycling madness. Designer Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch has a penchant for using almost anything she can get her hands on. From a young age she would visit hardware shops with her dad and since has always found some way of combing unlikely materials into usable pieces.
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18. November 2008
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