If you're not overweight, eat pretty well and exercise now and then, you might think you're in good heart health.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Cool shipping container homes
These industrial steel boxes can actually become stylish, beautiful houses.
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Fishy Store Labels on 'Sustainable Fish'
It may read " sustainable," but Chilean sea bass is not always what it appears to be on store shelves. Read more
Risk of Civil War Increased Dramatically By El Nino
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Scientists are suggesting that the warmer weather that occurs every four years through El Nino has a domino effect on poorer tropical societies, which can cause civil war. It's no secret that unfortunate weather conditions such as drought can lead to unrest, but the link to El Nino adds another dimension to the argument. Scientists are suggesting that 1 out of every five civil wars has in fact been caused by El Nino, according to Reuters.Article continues: Risk of Civil War Increased Dramatically By El Nino
The Oak Island Money Pit
The most common theory, however, is that pirates buried their treasure there and set up a series of traps to protect it. Captain Kidd and Blackbeard are both believed to be owners of the alleged booty. Other wild ideas range from Marie Antoinettes jewels to the Ark of the Covenant.
Belgium's Abandoned Crypts
“The air was very cold and wet, and you could see your every breath – also an experience I will never forget. It was as if death was close beside you somehow. The crypt was full of those strange plastic flowers – still with their bright colors – but it was also full of spiders’ webs and other kinds of decay.”
The 10 Oldest Buildings In The World
There's something round under the ground at King's Knot
The Telegraph:
Though the Knot as it appears today dates from the 1620s, its flat-topped central mound is thought to be much older. Writers going back more than six centuries have linked the landmark to the legend of King Arthur.Archaeologists from Glasgow University, working with the Stirling Local History Society and Stirling Field and Archaeological Society, conducted the first ever non-invasive survey of the site in May and June in a bid to uncover some of its secrets. Their findings were show there was indeed a round feature on the site that pre-dates the visible earthworks...
Around 1375 the Scots poet John Barbour said that "the round table" was south of Stirling Castle, and in 1478 William of Worcester told how "King Arthur kept the Round Table at Stirling Castle". Sir David Lindsay, the 16th century Scottish writer, added to the legend in 1529 when he said that Stirling Castle was home of the "Chapell-royall, park, and Tabyll Round".
Mysterious bubble cloud sighting in China
Scientists in China are baffled after a huge bubble cloud appeared above Beijing. Concerned people uploaded photographs of the phenomenon looming over the Chinese capital
One observer at the Beijing Planetarium described what he saw: "At first, it's relatively small and bright, the upper part is something like a semi-circle, a spherical ring of light, it's obviously becoming bigger and bigger then."
The object, which appeared in the sky for fifteen minutes, gradually became bigger and thinner. Similar reports came in from Shenyang, Shanxi, and Zhejiang provinces, although experts say it was probably the same phenomenon.
Zhu Jin, the curator of the Beijing Planetarium said: "It must have been caused by human beings, not nature or things like that."
One observer at the Beijing Planetarium described what he saw: "At first, it's relatively small and bright, the upper part is something like a semi-circle, a spherical ring of light, it's obviously becoming bigger and bigger then."
The object, which appeared in the sky for fifteen minutes, gradually became bigger and thinner. Similar reports came in from Shenyang, Shanxi, and Zhejiang provinces, although experts say it was probably the same phenomenon.
Zhu Jin, the curator of the Beijing Planetarium said: "It must have been caused by human beings, not nature or things like that."
The Rio Hamza
The Underground River Beneath The Amazon River
Add this to the long list of amazing things that is the Amazon River: Brazilian scientists have found a new river that runs underneath it! The Rio Hamza, named after the head of the team of researchers who found the groundwater flow, appears to be as long as the Amazon river but up to hundreds of times wider.
Both the Amazon and Hamza flow from west to east and are around the same length, at 6,000km. But whereas the Amazon ranges from 1km to 100km in width, the Hamza ranges from 200km to 400km.
Dino Hunters Bask at Plush Dig Site
Flora and Fauna
- Staff at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh have been left red faced after the world's stinkiest flower failed to bloom.
- There are many tiny frogs in the world, some no bigger than the size of a pea, but Hu Gansheng, a Chinese computer science professor from the Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, claims to have developed, through artificial breeding, the world's smallest specimens.
Dolphin Conch Fishing
Researchers from Murdoch University have been watching bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia develop an ingenious way to fish. First witnessed by researchers in 2007, a dolphin will use a conch shell to trap and scoop up fish. The dolphin will then proceed to pour the fishies into its mouth as if they were the bottoms of a chip bag. The remarkable part is that this behavior seems to be becoming more widespread, marking it as a trend learned.“Conching” is a method by which Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins are trapping small fish in conch shells, bringing the shells to the surface, and then shaking them with their rostrums to clear out the water and dump the fish into their mouths. More remarkably, the trend appears to be spreading throughout an entire population of dolphins, and fast.
The first isolated instances of conching were recorded in 2007 and 2009 among a small group of Shark Bay’s dolphins. But other dolphins seem to be observing that behavior and learning the method for themselves–in the last four months alone, researchers have documented the behavior six or seven times–marking a very rapid horizontal spread of behavior.
New Monkey and American Bird Species Found
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