Fishes are bizarre enough as they are, but what about fishes with hands? Totally Weird! The pink handfish, as it is named, is a part of the handfish family, and is last seen in 1999. It is now one of the newly named species of the handfishes, among 9 others. This very strange fish doesn’t swim, and that give explanation why it’s to be found at the bottom of the ocean. It uses its “hands” that are supposed to be fins, to walk around. Tasmania, an Australian island, is the place where the nine fishes have been found, to be entirely precise, around the city of Hobart. It is perhaps the place to be for a handfish, because all the 14 species of this kind are found nearby southeastern Australia. The little pink beautiful creature is only 4 inch large and the scientists don’t know that much about its behavior because it has been poorly studied.
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Glowing Blue Waves Lights on the Sea water in Maldives
Pinpricks of lighting on the coast seem to mirror stars above in a picture taken on Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives. The biological light, or bioluminescence, in the waves is the product of marine microbes called phytoplankton and now scientists considers they know how several of these life-forms generate their brilliant blue glow. A variety of species of phytoplankton are recognized to bioluminesce, and their lights can be seen in oceans all around the world, said by Woodland Hasting a marine biologist and bioluminescence expert.
I have been across the Atlantic and Pacific, and never seen a mark that wasn’t bioluminescent or a night that bioluminescence couldn’t be seen. The most familiar type of marine bioluminescence is created by phytoplankton recognized as dinoflagellates. A new study co-authored by Hastings has for the first time identified a special channel in the dinoflagellate cell membrane that responds to electrical signals offering a potential mechanism for how the algae create their exclusive illumination.
The newly found channel had just the right properties required to trigger the flash. If you replaced the dinoflagellate channel with the corresponding cell channel from humans or mice or snails, so it could not do the right job. The dinoflagellates float, movement in the surrounding water propels electrical impulses around a proton-filled compartment inside the microorganisms. The electrical pulses unlock the voltage-sensitive proton channels, triggering a series of chemical reactions, which eventually activate a protein called luciferase that produces the neon blue light.
Friday, 30 November 2012
The Most Expensive Pen in the World
The
most expensive Pen in the world is produced by a very elitist and highly
regarded pen maker named Aurora. This little and highly specialized Italian
company makes once every year a fountain pen named the Aurora Diamante. The pen
is worth roughly US $1.3 million. There are numerous reasons why this pen is so
precious. The most obvious are the 30 carats of De beers diamonds that cover
most of its visible surface. Approximately two thousand class 4 C diamonds are
used in this process; it is a fragile and meticulous task that requires an inspiring
level of talent. The two hectogram barrel of the most expensive pen in the
world is made out of solid platinum and the nib out of 18 carat gold. The nib
can be customized on request to display the coat of arms of the client, the
signature of the owner or even a portrait. This is comprehensible as the most
expensive pen in the world is a highly delicate item and any owner would desire
to leave his or her mark on it.
Thursday, 29 November 2012
A huge Willow Nest in Melbourne with Tall Ceilings and Celestial Windows
Everyone is well-known
with Patrick Dougherty's enormous nests made of willow saplings; however his
latest "Ballroom" installation at Federation Square in Melbourne
might well be his most determined yet. Willows saplings are considered weeds in
Australia, where their thick canopy, invasive root system and extreme leaf fall
is disparaging to local water systems but the plants offer a great medium for
the American artist's larger-than-life public art installations. For the
Ballroom installation commissioned by the Federation Square Creative Program to
encourage public art at the 3.2 hectare mixed-use space near Melbourne’s
busiest railway station, Dougherty turned to the nearby St. Paul’s Cathedral
for inspiration. Apart from metal scaffolding that keeps the willow structure
erect, the artist uses few tools to prunes and bends the malleable branches to
his visionary will. It took almost three weeks and 10 tons of willows to
realize Ballroom, which features magical arched ceilings and celestial windows
that permit just a smidgen of daylight to penetrate the interior. This distinct
piece on show until early 2013 assists the Australian government manages the
arboreal pest in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and awe-inspiring.
Bulgarian Artist Christo to Build Giant Pyramid of 410,000 Oil Barrels for Abu Dhabi
Bulgarian
environmental artist Christo has draped a mysterious array of landscapes and
objects in a distinguishing orange hue since the 1960s but few of his
installations have been as conceptually perplexing as his latest planned
installation. The Mastaba is to be an enduring flat-topped pyramid of oil
barrels located in the desert about 100 miles from Abu Dhabi. While oil-rich
nations vie for the dubious accolade of having the “world’s tallest building,”
Christo’s carving comprised of 410,000 oil barrels is set to make Abu Dhabi
home to the world’s largest lasting sculpture.
Monday, 26 November 2012
Daring Stunt
A skydiver pulled off an amazing stunt when he climbed out from the cockpit of a glider and crawled along the wing - then somersaulted under the fuselage of the second glider while the first rider turned upside down and flew overhead so that the sky diver could reach up and form a human link between the two planes. The spectacular stunt was carried out by Salzburg skydiver Paul Steiner 2,100 metres in the air with both gliders travelling at 100 miles an hour above the mountains in Styria, Austria.
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Saturday, 24 November 2012
Chinese Couple Married for 88 Years
Every body wish to live long life with best of health and happiness, there are minor percentage of couples who find such kind of life. Amazing China: Wu Conghan, 101, and wife Wu Sognshi, 103, married for 88 years, jumped at the chance to have new wedding photos. This is called eternal love and very hard to find in these days, so may they complete 100 years of matrimonial alliance together. Because love is all matters faithful and forever. We wish them very happy married life, true loves never end, because age doesn’t matter in true.
Friday, 23 November 2012
The World's First Commercial Vertical Farm Grow Food in their Own Back Yard
The world’s
first commercial vertical farm! Built by Sky Greens Farms, the rising steel
structure will help the city grow more food locally, plummeting dependence on
imported produce. The vertical farm is able to produce one ton of fresh
vegetables every other day, which are sold in local supermarkets and will
provide a fresh new source of sustainable produce for local residents.
Singapore presently only 7 percent of its vegetables locally, driving a need to
buy from other countries. But highly thanks to the new vertical farm, now local
citizens can eat locally produced vegetables available exclusively at the
FairPrice Finest supermarket.
The world’s
first vertical farm itself is made up of 120 aluminum towers that stretch
thirty feet tall. It’s a stunning and giant greenhouses, the rows of plants produce
about a half ton of vegetables per day. Only three kinds of veggies are grown
there, but locals expect to get bigger the farm to include other varieties. The
vertical farm is at present seeking investors to help build 300 additional
towers, which would generate two tons of vegetables per day. Even though the
$21 million dollar price tag is heavy, it could mean agricultural independence
for the area.
The vertical
farm vegetables have become a big hit with the locals too. However the produce
costs 10 to 20% more than other vegetables at the supermarket, consumers seemed
keen to buy the freshest food possible often buying out the market’s stock of
vertical farm foods. This pioneering vertical farm could help change the way
the world eats, giving dense cities an opportunity to grow food in their own
back yard.
Most Amazing Facts of Human Body
- · Women loose 70hairs in a day whereas men lose about 40 hairs in a day.
- · Your blood has identical amount of salts in it as an ocean has.
- · You are taller in the morning than you are at night.
- · We are born with 300 bones but end up with 206 bones when we are adult.
- · It is not possible to sneeze with open eyes.
- · Largest muscle in your body is one on which you are sitting on.
- · Typical person goes to bathroom six times a day.
- · Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.
- · Children grow faster in springtime
- · Tongue is the strongest muscle in human body.
- · Hair is made of same substance as fingernails.
- · Human skull is made up of 26 different bones.
- · The average human body contains about 100 billion nerve cells.
- · You are born without knee caps and they don’t appear until age of 2 to 6 years.
- · Our entire body functions stop when we sneeze, even your heart beat.
- · Heart circulates blood in your body about 1000 times each day.
- · Eyelashes last about 150 days.
- · There are 500 hairs in an eyebrow.
- · Average life span of a taste bud is only 10 days.
- · Eyes stay the same size throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing.
- · Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth.
- · Children have more taste buds than adults.
- · Sneeze blows air out of nose at the speed of 100 miles per hour.
- · Smallest bone of body is in ears.
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The Finger Monkey
This is one of the smallest primates, and the smallest true monkey you will ever see, with its body length ranging from only 14 to 16 centimetres (Just 5.5 to 6.3 inch). The pygmy marmoset, also called as “dwarf monkey” (Cebuella pygmaea) is native to South America. Nicknames for this monkey often refer to its size, for example: mono de bolsillo (“pocket monkey”), leoncito (“little lion”), or “Finger Monkey” in the US. Are you thinking is it amazing monkey and haven’t seen yet?
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