The amazing Baobab, or monkey bread tree can grow up to nearly 100 feet tall and 35 feet wide. Their defining characteristic is the swollen trunk that is actually used for water storage. A single tree can store as much as 31,700 gallon of water to endure harsh drought conditions. Baobab trees are native to [...]
Children love theme parks. The excitement generated by a young one upon realising that they will be going to a theme park for the day is right up there with waking up on a Christmas morning and knowing they are allowed to finally open their presents. For adults, queuing up for hours in the on/off [...]
This subterranean complex is a relic of the Sino-Soviet conflict in 1969 over the Zhenbao Island in the Amur River (Heilongjiang), a time when Mao Zedong ordered the construction of the underground bomb shelters complex in the event of a Soviet attack. The designers apparently installed special ventilation systems with hatches against chemical attack and [...]
People visiting London’s Trafalgar Square in the first week of August were being urged to get lost in a temporary maze. Parts of the maze were named after areas of the West End and as the visitors try to find their way around they can learn about those places. In the centre of the maze [...]
What are clouds? Many millions of little drops of water or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body, and held in place around it by gravity, like interstellar clouds and nebulae in space. On Earth they are normally made up of water vapour. Dense clouds reflect 70% to 95% [...]
Darth Vader, the Empire’s evil enforcer, the dark lord of the Sith, and Luke Skywalker’s father, made many a viewer shudder. His eerie appearance produced goose bumps and made the hair stand on end. Without any doubt, Darth Vader is the greatest screen villain to have ever been created. The iconic movie villain inspired Dov [...]
Everyone holds some sort of curiosity over an animal hybrid born to different species. Whether it’s morally correct or not is another debate but many of us have a fascination with animal hybrids. Cult hero Napoleon Dynamite’s favourite animal was a Liger – a Lion and Tiger cross. Just recently in the news there was [...]
In 2000, the brothers Frederick and Gerrit Browns undertook a major project – the construction of the world’s largest toy railroad. Nine years later Miniature Wonderland is not just a railway, and the whole world in miniature, covering an area of 1150 square meters. and includes more than 10 thousand locomotives and wagons, 700 trains, [...]
Red-eyed tree frogs, as their name states, have bold red eyes with vertically narrowed noses, a vibrant green body with yellow and blue striped sides, and orange toes. There is a great deal of regional variation in flank and thigh coloration Although it has been suggested that bright colors function as sexual signals, this has [...]
Body piercing is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewellery may be worn. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice. While the history of body [...]
Photo: livingspree Thailand is a beautiful place to visit, full of wonderful old temples and rich in history. Thai people though are very poor, and money gleaned from tourism makes up a big part of their income. Sometimes the wildlife also attracts tourists, and in one particular place, the locals like to demonstrate how much [...]
La Tomatina tomato fight in Buñol near Valencia happens every year on the last Wednesday in August though the partying starts earlier in the week. The highlight of the festival is the tomato fight which takes place between 11am and 1pm on that day. The event has become one of the highlights on Spain’s summer [...]
Carl Warner is an amazingly talented artist who takes common food items and transforms them into stunning works of art known as ‘Foodscapes’. Pasta hills, thyme trees, mozzarella clouds, salami rivers and red onion balloons. These are just a few of the intricate details found in the mouth-watering food worlds created for European advertising and [...]
Google Earth, it’s fair to say, has revolutionised our generation. Anyone with an internet connection is now able to easily scour the globe from the comfort of their own home. Entire online communities have been formed online that have devoted their time and energies into discovering some of the most bizarre, most unique, and of [...]
The Eagle has eyes quite different from humans, the backs of the eyes being larger and flatter, and thus providing an excellent vision. In the center of the Eagle fovea – focusing point on the retina – there are approximately 1,000,000 cones per mm, compared to the measly 200,000 that humans have, so that objects or [...]
