With a scientific name of Psychotria Elata, this species also goes by the fitting names of the Hot Lips Plant, Flower of Lips or even Hook...
THERE'S A PLACE IN HONDURAS WHERE IT RAINS FISH
Since 1998, and once a year, locals from Yoro, Honduras hold an annual festival called Festival de Lluvia de Peces.
LIFE AFTER DEATH EXPERIENCED BY A NEUROSCIENTIST
A Harvard neurosurgeon describes what he says was a near-death experience in his latest book -- and there are skeptics. Eben Alexander...
Japanese Company Designs Air-Conditioned Clothing
with Japan facing power shortages and energy restrictions in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami the demand for the air-conditioned...
The Quietest Place on Earth Will Drive You Insane Within 45 Minutes
There's a small room in Minnesota that blocks out 99% of all external sound. That's an impressive number! Also impressive: nobody ...
A MAN OUTSOURCED HIS OWN JOB TO CHINA
If you’re a programmer who can work from home all the time, wouldn’t you want to find ways to make your job easier and more efficient?
ROCK BALANCING PHILIPPINES
Rock Balancing Philippines was founded in September 2010 at Tanay, Rizal by Leandro Tamayo Inocencio and Ildefonso Bandoma Vista who were ...
INCREDIBLE ROCK SCULPTURES MADE WITHOUT ANY GLUE
Colorado artist Mike Grab creates astonishing towers of balanced stones using nothing but gravity, and his uncanny ability to find the nat...
King Leonidas of Sparta (reigned c. 490 – 480 B.C.)
Leonidas was a 5th century B.C. Spartan military king who bravely led a small force of Greeks -- mostly Spartan (the famous 300),
SWEDEN RUN OUTS OF GARBAGE, FORCED TO IMPORT FROM NORWAY
Sweden, a recycling-happy land where a quarter of a million homes are powered by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: Th...
THOMAS EDISON'S LAST BREATH IS SAVED IN A TEST TUBE
Here's why... You may have heard of Thomas Edison, or at least a few small things he invented. You know, like the first movie camera, ...
MOURNING DOG BECOME A REGULAR AT MASS AFTER OWNER'S DEATH
When the bells ring for the start of a service, German shepherd Tommy runs to the church his owner Maria Margherita Lochi used to attend b...
Scientists uncover massive river on Mars
In 2012, the European Space Agency discovered a huge 1,500 kilometer river in the upper Reull Vallis region of Mars.
Kim Phuc: ‘The girl in the picture’ forty years later
On the 40th Anniversary of the famous photograph of 9-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Thị, taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut,
Astronomers Find Largest, Oldest Mass of Water in Universe
Astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe — a gigantic, 12-billion-year-old cloud har...
THE 9 MOST DANGEROUS HEALTH FOODS
➨Protein Bars “Protein bars are basically vitamin and protein-infused candy bars,” says Moskovitz. “They seem like a healthy snack replace...
Silent disco craze spreads
A surprising new musical craze is taking the nation's dance floors by storm - the sound of silence.
ONE OF THE DEPRESSION-ERA GANGSTERS IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FIGURES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was a bank robber who peaked during the depression. He initially became famous for his excessively vi...
The Lion Whisperer
Kevin Richardson is sometimes known as the 'lion whisperer'. The South African is a self-taught expert on animal behaviour who ha...
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