Snow Tree

Italy based photographer Niccolo Bonfadini captures a stunning photos of wintery seasons when trees are entirely overwhelmed by snow and ice in Subzero temperatures. Off course snow is nothing new to wintry weather but the cloud-like shells in every image mask the trees in a frosty armor with nothing but snowy grounds surrounding them as far as the eye can see. The setting alone is remarkable, but the photographer's acute eye and patience deals a naturally surreal view of a frozen landscape.

With temperatures ranging from -40°C to -15°C Niccolo Bonfadini has managed to snap stunning shorts of frozen trees as though they are alien creatures emerging from the ground, when he traveled to the Finnish Lapland in the cold of winter. He insists that the bitter cold was truly bearable, given the lovely view. The professional photographer patiently camped out on the scene and awoke early enough to set up his camera for some truly remarkable shots of the landscape just before sunrise. One of his images, titled Sentinels of the Arctic, even wound up catching the eye of NASA as the Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Chrysopelea, A Flying Snake

We’ve always believe nature is so amazing and its creations sometimes baffle the humans minds. Who is the creature of these bewilder species. Have you ever heard a snake can fly? Yes; Chrysopelea, is famous for flying, actually belongs to the family Colubridae. Flying snakes are not too much venomous and considered harmless. Its toxicity is not dangerous to peoples. Normally flying snake can be found in South Asian countries such as Philippines, China, India and Sri Lanka. Chrysopelea is notorious for “flying Snake” glides by using its ridge scales along its belly, pushing against rough bark surface of tree trunks, letting it to move vertically up a tree. Chrysopelea hunts for foods during the day, and they like lizards, frogs, birds and bats.

When he reaches the end of a tree’s branch the snake continues moving until its tail dangles from the branch end, and then it makes a J-Shape bend leans forward to select the level of inclination it wishes to travel to control its flight paths, as well as selecting a desired landing area.  Once it decides on a endpoint, it pushes itself by thrusting its body up and away from the tree, sucking in its stomach, flaring out its ribs to turn its body in a "pseudo concave wing” all the while making a repeated serpentine motion of lateral undulation parallel to the ground to stabilize its direction in midair in order to land safe and sound.

The mixture of sucking in its stomach and making a motion of lateral undulation in the air makes it viable for the snake to glide in the air, where it also copes to keep energy compared to travel on the ground and dodge terrestrial bounded predators. The concave wing that a snake generates in sucking its stomach flattens its body to up to double its width from back of the head to the anal vent, which is adjacent to the end of the snake's tail, causes the cross section of the snake's body to look like the cross section of a Frisbee or flying disc. When a flying disc spins in the air, the designed cross sectional concavity causes intensified air pressure under the center of the disc, causing lift for the disc to fly. A snake incessantly moves in lateral undulation to generate the identical effect of increased air pressure underneath its arched body to glide.

It’d be interesting to know that flying snakes are capable to glide better than flying squirrels and other gliding animals, notwithstanding the lack of limbs, wings, or any other wing-like projections, gliding through the forest and jungle it inhabits with the distance being as great as 100 m. In the recent research conducted by the University of Chicago, the snake ability to glide has been an object of interest for physicists, and they found a correlation between size and gliding ability, in which smaller flying snakes were able to glide longer distance horizontally.

So far there’re five recognized species of flying snake, found them India to Indonesian archipelago. Some of them are Golden Tree Snake (Ornate Flying Snake), the largest flying snake having 4ft in length, with different color variations. Due to its smaller size it’s gliding ability is weak. The other is Paradise tree snake, is a flying snake reaches up to 3ft  in length and is famous in the European pet trade. The most famous coloration bodies are black, covered in rich green scales, clusters of red, orange and yellow-colored scales in the shape of flower petals line the dorsal area from the base of the neck to the tail. It’s gliding ability is considered one of the best among the flying snakes. Twin-barred tree snake also called banded flying snake, is the smallest flying snake reaching up to 2ft in length, with the base color is black or dark grey, and the entire body is covered with thick red and thin yellow with black bands. it does not glide.

What a Man, hasn’t bathed in 60 Years

An 80 year old Iranian has broken the world record for the number of years he has let elapse since he last bathed himself. Iranian media reported, Amou Haji has not bathed for 60 years. The man believes cleanliness brings him to illness; so he won’t interested in showers at all.

His life style is amazing, includes eating rotten meat, exclusively porcupine meat, and drinking dirty water. More interesting, his smoking pipe is filled with animals’ feces instead of tobacco. He normally wears war helmet not to fight off the enemy in the battle field but to keep away from the bitterly cold winters. He lives in a hole in the ground just like a grave keep him grounded and other is an open brick shack built by those who felt sorry for him.

Amou roof is the starred sky, without worry about monthly mortgages, his pillow and quilt is the soft cushion of the earth embracing him every time. He has no fear of getting rubbed at nights, and feels happy despite of having no belongings which makes him joyful. Last year, Kailash Singh 66, who had not showered for 38 years old spending years without cleaning himself however Guinness reportedly won’t offer an award in that category.

 

Ford Hybrid Semi-Solar Vehicle Could Usher In A New Era Of Green Rides

The theme of a green vehicle has absolutely gained traction. Over all, fossil fuels are finite in terms of its obtainability, and it is sagacious to start paying consideration to renewable fuel and energy sources to have the constantly growing automotive industry moving along in the accurate direction. Ford has taken the idea of hybrid cars, and they plan to work on a hybrid Sei-Solar automobile that will be capable to run partly on sunlight, which is extremely a good thing. You know very well; the sun rises in the east and sets in the west every single day. And for most of us live in some faraway place that provides you half a year of sunlight and another half a year of darkness. What you understand above is not what Ford has in mind on our roads, but it is just there for instructive resolutions. Ford’s has focused on the idea would be based on the C-Max platform well-known as the Solar Energi. C-Max happens to be a compact which has already been constructed with distinct regard to gas mileage, where the photovoltaic panels that line the car’s roof are adept of giving up to 34 KM of range on pure electric power alone, and it can hit a whopping 1000 KM based on electric-assisted gas power. Indeed, we have no awareness on how long the charge time is at the moment, so positively details will be ironed out in due time.

Frozen Views of Niagara Falls Unusual?

These days stunning frozen photos of Niagara Falls are widely spreading across on the social media. New York and Ontario are marveling at the site of the frozen falls. The ice laden waterfall is not all that surprising at least according to one meteorologist. A Meteorologist John Rozbicki, actually waterfall is not frozen over, but the water is going to continue to flow underneath. The falls has too much water to completely freeze over, but on several occasions formed an ice bridge over the lake, and winter phenomena is surprisingly common. The history shows, visitors were permitted to walk across on the ice bridges till 1912, when accidentally three people killed. Ice bridges are uncommon, and even with the polar vortex, it was not cold enough to create a bridge. The recent wave of cold weather has produced a gorgeous array of winter for photographers. Here are some of best ones from social media users.

British Artist Created Incredible Life-Size Horses Out of Salvaged Driftwood

British artist James Doran Webb created unbelievable life-size horses out of salvaged driftwood as a part of an ongoing series of animal’s sculptures. It is well noteworthy of fascinating the representation of motion in sculpture, by go all out to produce vibrant sense of energy in every animal.  Doran Webb lived several years in Philippines and gets extensive experience of driftwood, and then composed the art with the help of salvage driftwood. Doran Webb works on large stockpile of wood and collects the pieces that present finest natural form of the animal and its muscle structure. He spent his childhood in the workshop of antiques Restoration Company, runs by his parent’s, by the time passed he developed himself in an accomplished antique dealer, and also convert himself in competent cabinet maker, with extensive experience of whittling, carving and refinishing. In 2005, he decided to started work with driftwood by getting the idea of his furniture design and that was the point he started to different experiment with animal sculptures.

American Artist has selected an abandoned Cabin in the deserts of California

American artist Phillip K Smith has selected an abandoned desert shack in Joshua Tree National Forest, in the deserts of California, and transformed it into a fabulous optical illusion art called "Lucid Stead." The Phillip Smith took the cabin that has been gradually rotting in the harsh desert environments for seventy years, inserted mirrors between aged wood slats and created an illusion that you can see right through the building. Smith is excited and said; "Lucid Stead” is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project starts to unfold before you. It discloses that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change." The windows & door of the building are also fitted with color changing LEDs which after dark, change into brightly colored rectangles illuminating the desert landscape. In the day light the desert scenery is reflected upon the mirrors making the cabin barely visible. "The color of the door and window openings are set at a pace of variation where one might question whether they are really varying colors. One might see blue, red, and yellow and continue to see those colors. But looking down and walking 10 feet to a fresh location reveals that the windows are now orange, purple and green.