This might be one of the biggest, if not the biggest spiderweb ever found. This huge web was found covering 180 meters of trees and bushes by the employees of park Lake Tawakoni in Texas. It’s not yet clear if this “work of art” has been made by a single or a colony of spiders. Also, nothing was said about the species of spider found at the location. Until further information is provided, here is the huge white web.
The pinnacle of our technology is present in our space exploration activities.
One of the most amazing things that we now easily do is to get into space and that’s why I selected this video of the latest launch of a shuttle.
This one is going to our space station to deliver a Japanese lab.
Just beautiful to see where we can reach when we put our efforts into somethig.
Good luck to the international space station and to all future the space trips.
Enjoy the video
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Though the stones were only erected in 2500 B.C. there are evidences of burials since 3000 B.C.
It seems like the local was used to only bury elements of one family being the first one at 3000 B.C. and then as the family gown up more and more bodies were then buried afterwards.
At the time bodies used to be cremated and methods of rating how old were those cremated bones just came to the access of researchers allowing the recent dating of the remains found at Stonehenge.
British archaeologists say it probably was a cemetery for the ruling dynasty responsible for erecting Stonehenge.
The answer to why researchers found up to 240 people remains is because Stonehenge staged as burial place for several generations of the same single elite family. The clue comes from the small number of burials in the earliest period and the larger numbers in the later centuries, as offspring would have multiplied said Andrew Chamberlain, Sheffield archaeologist.
Can you believe that a couple in Canada has their baby for sale at Craiglist for $10,100.
The police after been alerted by a woman found the 23-year-old mother and the 26-year-old-father using the cell phone number that was listed in the advertisement.
The couple was arrested and the baby taken to social care.
The couple was saying it was a hoax which is hard to believe when they advertised that the baby was very cute, unexpected and that its parents, who could not afford to care for it, wanted to give it a good home.
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Like if we haven’t learned enough with the past from playing God men still wants to do it in the search of high profits.
Seems like we haven’t learned enough from our previous experience from playing God. Now we play with food modifying its genetic structure in order to obtain higher profits. Just now we start detecting problems like unstable proliferation of some crops and destruction of the natural genetic structure of the old ones through cross polinization. Also, GM crops can result in people and animals developing resistance to certain types of antibiotics which are used to treat diseases.
Worlds leaders are starting to take more attention into the matter because of thousands of complains and petitions made by Greenpeace supporters and negative observations from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Institute Pasteur and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Lately the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has had a remarkable action when it retracted the green light for a new type of GM potato and two types of GM maize to be grown. Though it was a good step in denying the previous given green light to the new GM crops of potato and maize how do we know that EFSA didn’t made the same mistake before and we are producing crops that harm the human being and the environment? The European commission has ordered a second investigation on these crops but shouldn’t a second investigation be done to all GM crops since EFSA got it wrong this time?
These crops may deliver health problems that might only be noticeable a few generations after, isn’t this a cause for concern too?
Another fact is that most probably the GM crops that produce their own insecticides and other GM crops may have a negative impact on the environment and because of that the EFSA should have rejected the crops right away since we know so little about the future problems that it may bring us.
That’s right, one of the best writers of our age can be found on one if not the best social site in the web.
If you’re a fan of Paulo Coelho you can find him at www.stumbleupon.com, and from there get to know the blog that he holds online as well as his favorite pages around the web.
The blog is full of actual and interesting information written with the personal touch and knowledge of Paulo Coelho. In there you’ll find unedited material, reviews of books, personal opinions about events and other stuff. In the end all I can say is that Paulo Coelho blog is a fountain of inspiration.
If you aren’t a fan of Paulo Coelho I advise you to go to the nearest book shop and buy one of his books because I can assure you that you’ll be amazed like I’ve been since I read my first Paulo Coelho book. Still, if the library is closed use you time wisely by visiting Paulo Coelho blog at paulocoelhoblog.com and his profile at paulo-coelho.stumbleupon.com.
This amazing photo was taken at Patagonia, Chile.
The volcano seems to be in its critical phase and an abrupt descent of the material he has spewed may cover vast areas with deadly hot gas, ash and molten rock.
Since eight days ago that the volcano has been expelling the material that has accumulated in the atmosphere giving us this amazing photo of how far can the natural forces go.
Pls digg
Photo from REUTERS/Antonio de la Jara
Two of the most powerful companies in the world of the computers will take their competition into space as they develop their new programs that will allow internet users to travel around our known space from their homes thanks to the most advanced telescopes and satellites of the world like the Hubble and the Spitzer Infrared.
Microsoft is expected to launch this semester a new service called WorldWideTelescope which will allow Windows users to se 1,2 million galaxies and in a nearby future more than 2 billion.
In the other end we have Google that has already launched this August the service Sky which is similar to WorldWideTelescope but allows users to access the images directly from the internet without the need for any special program.
Microsoft has stated that the program is dedicated to Jim Gray, Microsoft Research member, who has deceased while sailing near San Francisco. Microsoft also says that the WorldWideTelescope will be free for educational and astronomic communities in the hope of inspiring people to explore and understand The Universe as they never did before.
Google Sky was borne almost like a hobby from the 20 per cent available time that Google give his workers to invest in self ideas like Gmail for example while the WorldWideTelescope has been developed by the leading engineers from Microsoft.
Both Google Sky and WorldWideTelescope will allow comments and say that a future cooperation might be possible.
My opinion is that both services will have a big success and add great value to the internet allowing users to expand their knowledge of space.
It’s amazing how nowadays there’s still stolen art by the Nazis being exposed in some museums. The rightful owners see themselves obliged to head to museums like the one I’m going to write about just to see their own works which they didn’t had intention of getting rid off.
At The Leopold Museum in Vienna there’s currently one exhibition by the Austrian artist Albin Egger-Lienz were you can find between the works 14 Nazi-looted paintings. Also not shown but held in the museum permanent collection there’s the magnificent painting by Egon Schiele, 1914, houses on the lake which was stolen by the Nazis from the Jewish owner Jenny Steiner.
Although the director of the museum refuses to have any knowledge about the provenance of Houses until 1998 there are accusations made by the Austria Green Party and other singulars that say that Leopold is wrongly holding the Nazi-looted paintings.
Leopold Museum isn’t restituting those paintings because it’s a private institution. This museum has been founded by the government and shouldn’t this have some weight into making the museum return the works of art as the government museums have to? If it wasn’t a private institution the law could make the museum give back the paintings due to Austria’s law regarding Nazi-looted art.
It’s a pity to see such actions protected by Austria’s laws but we can only expect that the government will reconsider those laws in order not to allow such situations to happen again.
Human activity since the industrial revolution has disturbed the million years ago sensitive balance that allowed the earth to absorb the carbon dioxide.
This fact was published by the journal Nature Geoscience and is based on bubbles of air found on Antarctic ice that dates back to 610,000 years ago.
This research comes to prove the hypothesis commonly accepted by some scientists for the last 25 years, relating the level of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with our planet’s temperature.
These findings came to solve all the doubts shared by the scientists that were skeptical about the influence of humans towards global warming.
Our planet seems to have very specific mechanisms to reduce the excess of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere that before human activity used to come from active volcanoes but in a much lower level than with humans.
Through the analysis of the air bubbles in the Antarctic ice scientists managed to find the level of carbon dioxide present in our atmosphere at ancient times. Scientists discovered that for about 600,000 years the level of carbon dioxide was low allowing the low temperatures experienced at the time and even the so called interglacial periods.
Over those 600,000 years the average change in the amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere was of 22 parts per million which means a variation of 22 molecules of carbon dioxide for every million molecules of air.
Since 200 years ago, because of the industrial revolution, that the amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere have risen to 100 parts per million. This means that human activities are delivering carbon dioxide into the atmosphere about 14,000 times as fast as natural processes do.
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is still growing and the natural mechanism that will eventually absorb this gas is going to take a huge amount of time. The time that the natural processes will take to reestablish the level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is hard to imagine.
All this damage to the equilibrium of our atmosphere has been made in the short period of the last 200 years but now imagine how much damage we deal to the atmosphere every day. People much realize that taking action into reducing their carbon footprint is extremely necessary! Also governments must take immediate action into reducing their countries greenhouse emissions.
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