ART GUYS MAKE HIS OWN IPAD

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What’s the best way to show a girl you love her? Sure, you could always buy her an iPad, but why not build her one?

Chinese art student, Wei Xinlong wanted to show his commitment to his long distance girlfriend by building her a touchscreen tablet PC for their daily video chat dates. This way when he leaves for Shenzhen to work, they’ll be able to keep in touch easier.

As a student in Northeas Normal University in Changchun, Jilin, Wei was familiar with electronics and engineering and found most answers to questions he had online. He bought most of the parts of the device in second-hand market and salvaged them from dismantled laptops. He even built some of the parts himself, such as a heat conductor made from an aluminum soda can and a chopstick. Wei dedicated himself to the device for 10 days before it was completed, and even managed to place an Apple logo with rhinestones on it.

The features on his “iPad” include a touchscreen, built in webcam, a microphone, four USB slots, LAN socket and runs on a lithium battery. It may be a step down from Apple’s top-selling product, but it still can read e-books, watch movies, listen to music and even play video games. And it only cost Wei 800 yuan ($126) to build compared to Apple’s iPad price of around $500.

Wei’s remarkable final product is truly a representation of his hard work and dedication. It will certainly reinforce his long-distance relationship as well as put boyfriends around the world to shame.

Longest Snake Living In Captivity

‎:: longest snakes living in captivity ::

Reticulated pythons are the longest snakes in the world. Native to Southeast Asia, these snakes constrict their prey to kill them This photo shows Fluffy, a reticulated python at the zoo, posing with zoo staff. The 18-year-old snake was 24-feet-long and 300-pounds and held the title of longest snake living in captivity by Guinness World Records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_reticulatus

Girls Plays With 6 King Kobras

India has long been known as the land of the snake charmers. But here’s something very unusual. An 8-year-old Indian girl who plays all day not with other girls, but with her pet King Cobras.

Kajol Khan lives in the village of Ghatampur in Uttar Pradesh, with her parents, six sisters, two brothers and six pet Cobras, her best friends. She comes from a family of snake catchers and hopes to carry on in her father’s footsteps someday. Her father, 55-year-old Taj Mohammad has been working as a snake catcher in Ghatampur for the past 45 years. While he has already passed on his skills to his son, he’s unexpectedly found himself a mentor to his daughter Kajol. The little girl has been used to snakes crawling around her since she was a baby, and hence feels nothing out of the ordinary in their presence. In fact, she prefers hanging out with her slithering buddies rather than go to school. She has been bitten – on her stomach, cheeks and hands – but this is hardly of any concern to her. Kajol has always been able to make a full recovery, thanks to her father’s herbal medicine, which has been a family secret for generations. “I have a lot of fun with the cobras. It hurts when they bite me but sometimes it’s my own fault because I tease them. It’s quite funny.”

Buffalo Body-Painting at Unique Traditional Festival

What started as a means to ward off intruders, is now a full-blown festival. The people of Jiangcheng County, China’s Yunnan Province, have their bulls painted and decorated by artists for a major event every year. The bulls are displayed in a riot of colors, painted with a variety of themes.

Traditionally, the bulls were painted by the Hani people of China in the belief that the practice would protect their village, mainly by preventing tigers from wandering into their homes. Of course, the threat of tigers and other man-eaters has reduced drastically in modern times, but the festival continues to be celebrated with much enthusiasm. The China-Laos-Vietnam Bull Painting Festival, as it is called, had 48 participating teams this year. The paraded bulls were hardly recognizable, covered in colors like bright blue, gold, yellow and red. But the paintings were far from abstract. The bulls served as a canvas for some real artistic talent, landscapes, portraits, and intricate patterns adorned their otherwise brown or white skin. Even the horns were covered with paint.

SAN BOLDO PASS:

The San Boldo Pass is a small mountain pass in the Italian Veneto region between the towns Trichiana (329 m) and Tovena in the Cison di Valmarino region (272 m) over a distance of 17 km (11 mi).

PINK DOLPHINS :-

1. Pink dolphins are not the same dolphins that you would see in the ocean; they have special adaptations to their habitat. In fact, river dolphins are only distantly related to sea dolphins.

2. Among the five species of river dolphins, Amazon pink dolphins are considered the most intelligent of them, with a brain capacity 40% larger than that of humans.

3. The Amazon River pink dolphins conform the largest population of river dolphins in existence as the other four species are functionally extinct or close to extinction.

4. The raise in contaminant levels of mercury have caused and increased number of deaths among pink dolphins, especially near gold mines where mercury is used as part of the gold mining process.

5. Pink dolphins can be found in pink, light gray or brown colors but there is not conclusive evidence of the reason why pink dolphins are pink.

CARNATIONS

1. In Christian lore, the Carnation was first seen to bloom in the exact spot where Mary wept after watching Jesus carrying his cross through the streets of Jerusalem.

2. Carnations include over 300 different species, and the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid and the Imperial College London are studying the flower to determine how it accomplished such wide species diversity in such a short period of time.

3. The carnation is the state flower of Ohio, and is the official emblem of Mother's Day in the U.S. and Canada

4. The scientific name for the carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus, means "flower of the gods"

5. The single flowers of the Carnations species have 5 petals and vary from white to pink to purple in color. Border Carnation cultivars may have double flowers with as many as 40 petals.

MAMMATUS CLOUDS - AMAZING CLOUDS

Mammatus clouds, is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. These odd-shaped clouds are often associated with a storm front, especially one involving a thunderstorm. Mammatus clouds may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or translucent.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SHEEP:

1. Female sheep are called ewes, baby sheep are called lambs, and male sheep are called rams (they have prominent horns on their head). A group of sheep is called a flock.

2. Sheep are defenseless against predators like coyotes and wild dogs, as they are timid, nervous, and easily frightened.

3. Though the name sheep can be used for over 200 distinct species, its everyday usage mostly refers to Ovis Aries.

4. Sheep are ruminants, with four chambers in their stomach. The first chamber is used to store quickly digested food. It can be brought back into their mouths for chewing again, before it is fully digested. Nearly one-third of sheep’s life is spent ruminating.

5. Sheep see in color. An average sheep possesses a field vision ranging to 270 degrees. However, the amount of wool on their face can have an impact on their visual field.

BRAIN

Jell-O hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG) can display readings similar to human brain function.

The Jell-O can pick up misleading signals that prevent the acquisition of a proper flatline reading. These signals can be things such as electrical circuits in the room, an IV drip, or a phone ringing! 

HUMAN CHROMOSOMES

About 1 in 180 babies is born with a chromosome abnormality. The most common is Down syndrome, followed by Fragile-X syndrome. Collectively, the next most common are the syndromes of chromosome 18.

HUMAN DNA

Only about 3% of the DNA actually codes for genes; the rest is often called "non-coding DNA" because its function is unknown.

HUMAN DNA

If the total DNA in one person were laid in a straight line, it would stretch to the sun and back over 30 times (it’s 93 million miles from here to the sun).

The Millau Viaduct

Spanning almost 2.5km across the River Tarn in the South of France, the Millau Viaduct is set to become the world’s highest bridge. Designed by the architect Lord Norman Foster, the six-lane cable-stay bridge is 19m taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Supported by two anchorage points at either side and seven piers supporting the carriageway, the bridge will soar across the Tarn valley at a central height of 245m. The project has consumed 19,000 tons of concrete-reinforcing steel, 5,000 tons of reinforcing steel for cables and 85,000 cubic meters of concrete - enough to fill London’s Albert Hall.

HIPPO

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BACTERIA :

1. Typically there are between 10,000 and 10 million bacteria on each hand.

2. Bacteria have flourished on earth for over three billion years. They were here first, long before any of those adorable reptiles. 

3. There are approximately ten times as many bacterial cells on humans as there are human cells in the body, with large numbers of bacteria on the skin and as gut flora.

4. Some types of bacteria can cause diseases and become harmful to the environment whilst other types others offer benefits

5. Bacteria were first observed by ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK in 1676, using a single-lens microscope of his own design.

Euglena

Euglenas (Singular: Euglena) are unicellular organisms that belong to the class Euglenoidea in the phylum Euglenozoa.

Euglena have the characteristics of both a plant and an animal.

The eyespot of a Euglena is a primitive organelle that filters sunlight into the photo-sensitive structures present at the base of the flagellum. It allows only certain wavelengths of light to hit the structures.The photo-sensitive structures then detect the light that is transmitted through the eyespot and enable the Euglena to accordingly adjust its position to enhance photosynthesis.

It forms a protective wall around itself and lies inactive as a spore until environmental conditions improve. Euglena lacks cell walls. Instead it possesses a pellicle made of protein.

DO TWINS HAVE SAME DNA AND FINGERPRINTS ?? :

Identical twins, formed when one fertilized egg splits, are the only people in the world with identical DNA. Fraternal twins, on the other hand, are formed when two different eggs are fertilized. Genetically speaking, fraternal twins are no closer than normal siblings, sharing only about 50% of their genes.
Although identical twins have the same genotype, or DNA, they have different phenotypes, meaning that the same DNA is expressed in different ways.

Traits determined by phenotype, such as fingerprints and physical appearance, are the result of "the interaction of the individuals genes and the developmental environment in the uterus." Thus, a DNA test can't determine the difference between identical twins, while a simple fingerprint can

Why Onion make Us cry?

Inside the onion cells there are some chemical compounds which contain sulfur. When you cut an onion its cells are broken and those chemical compounds then undergo a reaction that transforms them into a more volatile sulfured products, which are released into the air.

These sulfured compounds react with the moisture in your eyes forming sulfuric acid, which produces a burning sensation. The nerve endings in your eyes are very sensitive and so they pick up on this irritation. The brain reacts by telling your tear ducts to produce more water, to dilute the irritating acid. So you cry to keep your eyes protected from the acid.

There are some tricks to make onion-dicing less problematic:

Chop the onion under cold water. The volatile sulfured compounds will be released but then they react with the water, instead of reaching your eyes.

You can freeze the onion for 10 minutes before cutting it. The cold temperature of the onion will slow down the chemical reaction which forms the volatile sulfured compunds.