Posts by: Andrew J. Blanche

Spiderweb Tree

Millions of Spiders Blanket Entire Trees in Webs

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Here’s a delightful morning snack: When Pakistan experienced severe flooding last year, it had the unexpected and rather creepy-crawly side effect of driving millions upon millions of spiders to the trees, where they could escape the floodwater. Since the flooding lasted for such a long time, many trees became blanketed in thick layers...

Laughing While Being Tickled

Why Are We Laughing While Being Tickled

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A team of German researchers has discovered why we laugh uncontrollably when we are tickled – and the answer has nothing to do with entertainment. Laughter in animals is a form of social bonding based on a primordial reflex to tickling, but human laughter has come a long way from...

LifeStraw

LifeStraw – Straw of Life

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call for a reduction of the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by half between 1990 and 2015. Yet, an estimated 884 million people in the world, 37% of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa, still use unimproved sources of drinking water....

Zanjeer

Zanjeer, The Golden Labrador Who Saved Thousands Of Lives In Mumbai

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Zanjeer, The Golden Labrador Who Saved Thousands Of Lives In Mumbai In March 1993, a series of 12 bombs went off across Mumbai. The serial blasts left 257 dead and 713 injured. But in the aftermath, an unlikely hero emerged. According to Reuters, a golden labrador named Zanjeer worked with...

Ocean Cleanup Array

Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic

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19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World’s Oceans The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the...

Maior Cajueiro do Mundo

Thousand Year Old World’s Largest Cashew Tree – Maior Cajueiro do Mundo.

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In 1994, the Guinness Book of Records set aside a separate column for the world’s largest cashew tree called Maior Cajueiro do Mondo located in Natal, Brazil. The gigantic tree has grown from an amalgamation of two genetic tissues. Such tissues allow the branches of the tree to grow outwards...

Buttercup Was Hatched in a High School Biology Lab with a Backward Left Foot

Amputee Duck Gets a High-tech 3D-printed Foot

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Buttercup the duck was born last November in a high school bio lab with his left foot facing backwards. The foot was later amputated, but Buttercup has a new, 3D-printed foot now, and watching him put it to use is making us kind of misty-eyed. The prosthesis was produced by...

Awesome Computer Pranks

Top 5 Most Awesome Computer Pranks

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Hello Everyone, We All Love To Play Computer Pranks With Our Friends And Collegues. We Enjoy it Unless and Untill We are On The Recieving End. Today We Will See 5 Awesome Computer Pranks Which Not only You will Learn To Play Them But Also You Can Avoid Being Pranked...

Translation

Google Has Prototypes For ‘real-time’ Translation Device

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Google has prototypes for ‘real-time’ translation device, ‘near perfect’ in some uses. Language barriers suck. They suck so much that Hollywood has long used them as a foible in romantic movies. Sci-fi, of course, has long had a fix for such problems: the universal translator. Most iconically utilized in Star Trek,...

LonelyGirl15

10 of the Best Internet Hoaxes

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Remember the tourist of death? That guy standing on the World Trade Center with a plane incoming behind him, supposedly this is the moment when 9/11 happened. That photo did a hell lot of rounds on the internet. But well, it turned out to be a hoax but it did...

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Top 10 Richest Countries

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Top ten richest countries list in the world is based on the GDP per capita of each country. GDP or the Gross Domestic Product is the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given year. 10. Netherlands: GDP of $40,973   The Netherlands...

Moon Landing

Top 10 Reasons The Moon Landings Could Be A Hoax

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The results of recent surveys have shown that roughly 20% of Americans still believe, to this day, that the U.S. never really did make it to the moon. Conspiracy theorists even came up with the theory that the first ever moon landing was faked by the U.S. government as a way to...

Live Longer

Top 10 New Medical Technologies That Make You Live Longer

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Many of us would want to be immortals. Although it is possible in sci-fi movies and even comics, modern day scientists are still working on technologies that might one day allow us to live a thousand years. Today in this article, we will explore top 10 such medical technologies that...

Steve Irwin Death Video

Top 10 Videos That You’ll Never Find On Internet

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In the modern era, surveillance cameras have recorded many of the incidents that could never be recorded before. Of course, many of these videos are kept from the general public’s eye due to several reasons. Today’s article is about such videos that not only are real but also very hard...