July 28, 2010
Kids love to imitate adults in everything especially in driving. It’s every kid dream to have a car like the father. To satisfy such big wish the best thing is power wheels, I would love to have had ones when young.
Each generation of kids is even luckier than the one before, fortunately things have been [...]
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September 7, 2008
According to investigator sea levels will raise much faster by the end of the year than officially projected. The rising temperatures caused by global warming will cause the oceans to swell with melted ice which will cause flooding of Florida and Bangladesh together with many other low-lying, densely populated areas of the world.
The warming glaciers [...]
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September 5, 2008
Have you noticed that our need for food has been contributing for the degradation of the environment and that we need new solutions if our population continues to grow. This degradation comes from pesticides, fertilizers or from overfishing.
Against this backdrop there are a growing amount of people working to refine and popularize a technique that [...]
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September 4, 2008
The first solar submarine in the world, the Goldfish, was presented a few days ago at the international exposition of Zaragoça. This project only works from sunlight energy.
This submarine gets his energy from five lateral satellites equipped with a total of 300 square meters of solar panels. The energy generated is stored in batteries which [...]
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September 2, 2008
Through satellite images of the Amazon region scientists have discovered a settlement made of a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived in.
The findings were published on Thursday in the journal science and described clusters of towns and smaller villages connected by complex road networks and housing society doomed by the arrival [...]
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July 30, 2008
That’s right, scientists just found an animal that spends his whole life consuming alcohol. That animal is a pen-tailed tree shrew (Ptilocercus lowii) which is a small ratlike animal that inhabits the jungles of Southeast Asia.
The pen-tailed tree shrew feeds on nectar of an ever flowering plant, the bertam palm, which is also the [...]
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July 3, 2008
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. [...]
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June 4, 2008
This amazing picture was taken on June 3, 1964 which is before I was born. The development of human society has been extraordinary these last few hundred years and to prove it where is one of many amazing pictures of great deeds.
Just before the time we were getting color TV we also had men’s walking [...]
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May 30, 2008
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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 [...]
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May 29, 2008
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When tissues are damaged in plants they emit green-leaf volatiles which are attractive to social wasps. This happens because normally plants are damaged by parasites like caterpillars and wasps are their predator, so when a plant is damaged and emits those green leaf volatiles the parasitic wasps come to check it out to [...]
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