Warren Buffet makes it to the top of the world's top ten billionaires list who has an estimated $62 billion total assets. While Bill Gates who was previously number one, is now on the third position.
Not only that Gaboon Viper has the largest venom yield per bite of all venomous snakes, it is also the world's heaviest viperid and has the longest fangs that reach to 2.2 inches on average. This snake has pair of horns is present between the raised nostrils
Bitis gabonica is a venomous viper species found in the rainforests and savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa. This is not only the largest member of the genus Bitis, but also the world's heaviest viperid and it has the longest fangs and the highest venom yield of any venomous snake. Adults average 122–152 cm in length with a maximum of 205 cm for a specimen collected in Sierra Leone. The sexes may be distinguished by the length of the tail in relation to the total length of the body: approximately 12% for males and 6% for females. Adults, especially females, are very heavy and stout.
A 13-foot Burmese python burst after eating an alligator almost equal to it's size. The dead animals was discovered by rangers at the Everglades National Park.
The remains of the two prodigious reptiles were discovered by surprised rangers in the Everglades National Park. The rangers say the find implies that non-native Burmese pythons might even challenge alligators' leading position in the food chain in the swamps. The python's remains were found with the victim's tail sticking out from its burst midsection. The head of the python was missing. The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator.
Iranian Mehran Karimi Nasseri, a.k.a the Terminal Man, lived in the Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 Years, from 1988 to 2006. The movie The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks, is said to be inspired by his life story in the airport.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri born 1942 in Masjed Soleiman, Iran), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until August 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment.
Hai Ngoc, a Sixty-four-year-old Vietnamese living in central Quang Nam province, had been sleepless for more than 30 years. He claimed that his inability to sleep at night began after he got a fever in 1973.
“I don’t know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I’m still healthy and can farm normally like others,” Ngoc said.
Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day.
His wife said, “My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down.”
Warren Buffett is currently the world's richest man as of March 2008. This 77-year-old native of Omaha, Nebraska, has an estimated $62 billion worth of assets. His businesses includes insurance, jewelry , utilities, food, among others.
America's most beloved investor is now the world's richest man. Soared past friend and bridge partner Bill Gates as shares of Berkshire Hathaway climbed 25% since the middle of last July. Son of Nebraska politician delivered newspapers as a boy. Filed first tax return at age 13, claiming $35 deduction for bicycle. Studied under value investing guru Benjamin Graham at Columbia. Took over textile firm Berkshire Hathaway 1965.
If you are wondering how much distance man can travel in 24 hours under his own power, Greg Kolodziejzyk can tell you that. He travelled 647 Miles in one day under his own power and sets the Guinness World Record.
Greg Kolodziejzyk is a retired entrepreneur on a mission to break the existing 24 hour human powered distance record of 1021.36 km set in 1995. That's almost the distance from a snow shovel in Calgary to a palm tree in California. He has exactly 24 hours to do it and it will be strictly under his own power. No wind or stored energy of any sort allowed. Greg designed and built a custom carbon fiber bicycle called "Critical Power". More appropriately called a "Human powered vehicle", Critical Power is a two wheeled recumbent bicycle encapsulated by a bullet-like streamlined body called a fairing. The sleek body was computer designed for maximum aerodynamic efficiency by Ben Eadie of Mountain-wave.ca. CP is capable of achieving speeds in excess of 100 km per hour and was built to maintain a cruising speed of 50 kph on a flat road with effort levels that would see a paltry 20 kph on a typical mountain bike.
With about 11,000 meters deep, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest surveyed point in the Ocean. At this depth, the pressure is approximately 1,095 times that at the surface, or over 16,000 pounds per square inch.
The Challenger Deep is the deepest surveyed point in the oceans, with a depth of about 11,000 metres (about 36,000 feet). It lies in the Mariana Islands group at the southern end of the Mariana Trench. The closest land is Fais Island, one of the outer islands of Yap, 289 km southwest and Guam 306 km to the northeast. The point is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, which first discovered the trench in 1872.
Zach Dunlap has been declared dead by his doctors after an all-terrain vehicle accident but came back to life - in time before his organ was to removed by doctor as donations. After four months, he soon recovered fully.
Dunlap was pronounced dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested. As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. It is situated in the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million km², it is the fifth-largest continent in area. Some 98% of it is covered by ice, which averages at least 1.6 kilometers in thickness.
At the 3-kilometer (2 mi)-high Vostok Station in Antarctica, scientists recorded the world's lowest temperature: −89 °C (−129 °F). For comparison, this is 11 degrees colder than sublimating dry ice. Antarctica is a frozen desert with little precipitation; the South Pole itself receives less than 10 centimeters (4 in) per year, on average. Temperatures reach a minimum of between −80 °C and −90 °C (−112 °F and −130 °F) in the interior in winter and reach a maximum of between 5 °C and 15 °C (41 °F and 59 °F) near the coast in summer.
Thousand ancient bones of small humans has been discovered by scientists in the Pacific island nation of Palau. The site indicated that the bones belonged to numerous individuals.
Some of the bones are ancient and indicate inhabitants of particularly small size, scientists announced today. The remains are between 900 and 2,900 years old and align with Homo sapiens, according to a paper on the discovery. However, the older bones are tiny and exhibit several traits considered primitive, or archaic, for the human lineage. "They weren't very typical, very small in fact," said Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Scientists discovered the biggest black hole in the entire universe. It has the size of 18 billion suns.
The biggest black hole in the universe weighs in with a respectable mass of 18 billion Suns, and is about the size of an entire galaxy. Just like in the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito flick “Twins”, the massive black hole has a puny twin hovering nearby. By observing the orbit of the smaller black hole, astronomers are able to test Einstein's theory of general relativity with stronger gravitational fields than ever before. The biggest black hole beats out its nearest competitor by six times. Fortunately, it’s 3.5 billion light years away, forming the heart of a quasar called OJ287. Quasars are extremely bright objects in which matter spiraling into a giant black hole emits large amounts of radiation.
Matthew McGrory was the tallest American actor and was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the actor with largest feet and toe in the world.
McGrory was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and trained in engineering at Widener University, and resided on campus, on the first floor of Howell Hall. He grew to the height of 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) and had a size 19 1/2 foot shoe. He lived with his girlfriend Melissa Morphet in Sherman Oaks, California. Matthew McGrory died of natural causes on August 9, 2005. He was 32.
A picture of man walking on Planet Mars has been captured by the Mars Explorer Spirit. This picture of "Green Man" created excitements and questions in the scientific community.
Bizarre images taken by Nasa's Mars Explorer Spirit have emerged showing a very strange human shape walking down a hill. At first experts missed this clear evidence of ET living on the Red Planet. It wasn't until space and science fiction enthusiasts became involved that the images were taken more seriously. The pictures, found on a Chinese website, are now creating a stir of excitement.
Going on a fish diet? Why not include in your menu the world's biggest fish finger.
It was served up by an MP outside the Houses of Parliament. Fish fingers have been popular in Britain for the past 80 years - even Posh Spice has confessed to eating them. The only question we have is how much tomato sauce would you need for the king of all sandwiches?!
An Illinois-Look-A-Like corn flake on has been offered more than $1,000 in Ebay. According to it's sellers, the breakfast cereal looks like the state of Illinois and has not gone any alterations.
Two sisters listed 'The Great Illinois Corn Flake' on the auction site, promising that it had undergone no cosmetic alterations to make it look more Illinoisy.
Emily McIntire, a 15-year-old sophomore in high school from Chesapeake, Virginia, said she was grabbing fistfuls of cereal on her way to class when she found the flake.
A new portrait (right) of famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was found. The oil painting measures 19 inches by 14 inches. It was bought by an American collector in 2005 from a descendent of Johann Lorenz Hagenauer who is said to be a close friend of Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang's father.
The picture has been authenticated by Professor Cliff Eisen, a music scholar at King's College London. He described it as "arguably the most important Mozart portrait to be discovered" since the composer's death in 1791. Prof Eisen, who is to present his findings to academics at the Royal Musical Association on Saturday, said: "It is only the fourth known authentic portrait of him from the Vienna years, the period of his greatest professional successes and greatest compositional achievements."
Born in Northern India, this baby girl with two faces is being worshiped by villagers. They think that the baby is a reincarnated god.
The girl was born on Monday at a hospital in the suburbs of Delhi, according IBNLive.com. Since then, people in her rural village have been singing and dancing — offering money and asking for her blessings, IBNLive.com reported.
Smart Goggle is the glasses of the future. It acts like video memory by flashing back when and where you last seen a thing.
Japanese academics unveiled the invention, codenamed Smart Goggle, which not only records what the wearer is seeing, but recognises it.
So, rather than searching for those elusive keys, you can tell the glasses what you are looking for and the technology will show you when, and where, you last saw it.
In the future, claims inventor Yasuo Kuniyoshi, the glasses will actually be more intelligent than the wearer, able to identify objects that their owner does not recognise.
In theory, the only question that the glasses will not be able to answer is "Where have I put my glasses?".
The Brazilian Wandering Spider is considered the world's deadliest spider. This spider kills around five people a year. Symptoms include immediate pain, heavy perspiration and drooling. They often hides in bunches of bananas.
The Brazilian wandering spiders (Phoneutria spp.), Armed spiders ("aranhas armadeiras", as they are known in Portuguese) or banana spiders (not to be confused with the relatively harmless species of the genus Nephila) are a genus of aggressive and highly venomous spiders found in tropical South and Central America. These spiders are members of the Ctenidae family of wandering spiders. The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 for the most venomous animal.
Two-year-old Oliver Sherwood is kept alive by daily doses of viagra. He has a rare condition known as pulmonary hypertension that causes chronic high blood pressure and can be controlled with four doses of Viagra a day.
The drug improves blood flow, which in adults can boost erectile function but in rare cases such as Oliver's can open the veins and capillaries to aid circulation. His mother Sarah, a part-time nurse, said: "We joke when we pick up his drugs that it would be Christmas come early for most people. Obviously the dose isn't high enough to have the effect it would on adults. "Viagra is an expensive drug but it's actually one of the cheapest to treat pulmonary hypertension.
Vatican released a list of seven new sins. It listed drugs, pollution and genetic manipulations as well as social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behavior.
In an effort to appeal to the modern Catholic, the Vatican has announced a list of seven new mortal sins. Some of the new don'ts: thou shalt not pollute and thou shalt not have too much money.
The New Mortal Sins 1.) Genetic modification 2.) Carrying out experiments on humans 3.) Polluting the environment 4.) Causing social injustice 5.) Causing poverty 6.) Becoming obscenely wealthy 7.) Taking drugs
Citarum River located in West Java, Indonesia is maybe the world's most polluted river. The river is heavily polluted by human activity. The picture below show the river like a sea of garbage.
On what was United Nations World Environment Day, the Citarum, near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, displayed the shocking abuse that mankind has subjected it to. More than 500 factories, many of them producing textiles which require chemical treatment, line the banks of the 200-mile river, the largest waterway in West Java, spewing waste into the water.
Nothing can stop Pauly Unstoppable of Canada from being the recipient of the world's first eyeball tattoo. His blue colored eyeball tattoo took forty needle insertions.
Volunteer Pauly Unstoppable, from Canada, has perfect vision but jumped at the chance to be the first punter.
See the toe-curling shots in the gallery below. But be warned - the pictures are very graphic.
Brave Pauly said he had full confidence in the team working on him - but urged people not to try it at home.
He added: "The procedure was extensively researched and done by people who were aware of the risks and possible complications and that it should not be casually attempted.
Catch Malaria and Get $4,000 - Catch malaria and get paid $4,000. Don't worry, scientists from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute say you're safe in their hands.
12-year-old Joe Falciatano calls himself "Magneto Man". Every computer he touches goes haywire.
Joe, 12, began calling himself "Magneto Man" last year, after his teachers concluded that his presence could crash the school computers. "Another student could use a computer, and it would be fine. But if Joe was on it, weird things started to happen," said Marie Yerdon, computer lab teacher at Lura Sharp Elementary School in Pulaski, NY. "I think there's something in his body chemistry, something in his makeup, that causes the computers to go haywire."
The Octagonal Castle, known as Castel del Monte in Puglia, Italy is famous because of it's shape.
It was built in 1240 on the orders of emperor frederick II who used the castle as a hunting lodge. the emperor was fascinated by mathematics and astronomy, a result of which can be seen in the design.
Key additions by Professor Darren Crowdy to the Schwarz-Christoffel Formula helped solved the 140-year-old Math problem.
A formula, now known as the Schwarz-Christoffel formula, was developed by two mathematicians in the mid-19th century to enable them to carry out this kind of mapping. However, for 140 years there has been a deficiency in this formula: it only worked for shapes that did not contain any holes or irregularities.
Now Professor Crowdy has made additions to the famous Schwarz-Christoffel formula which mean it can be used for these more complicated shapes. He explains the significance of his work, saying:
"This formula is an essential piece of mathematical kit which is used the world over. Now, with my additions to it, it can be used in far more complex scenarios than before. In industry, for example, this mapping tool was previously inadequate if a piece of metal or other material was not uniform all over - for instance, if it contained parts of a different material, or had holes.
Model Serena Kozakura was cleared by Japanese court of charges of breaking into a man’s apartment based on her breast size.
Serena, 38 years old, was charged and found guilty of breaking into a man’s apartment by kicking in a hole in his door and crawling through because he was with another woman.
The bikini model was cleared of all charges after the defense council help up a plate showing the size of the hole that Serena was accused of kicking in. It was clear that the hole in the door was not large enough for the 44-inch bust model to squeeze through.
Judge Kunio Harad of the Tokyo High Court threw out the guilty verdict, saying there was reasonable doubt over the man’s story.
The AA-12 is considered the world's deadliest shotgun. This full-automatic, gas-operated and low-recoil shotgun of the 21-century is designed specifically for the military. It can shot nearly 300 bullet per minute and has a range of 200 yards. Link
Avalanches on the North Polar Scarps in the Planet Mars was caught by the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - the first ever image of active avalanches near it's north pole.
Ingrid Daubar Spitale of the University of Arizona, Tucson, who works on targeting the camera and has studied hundreds of HiRISE images, was the first person to notice the avalanches. "It really surprised me," she said. "It's great to see something so dynamic on Mars. A lot of what we see there hasn't changed for millions of years."
"We don't know what set off these landslides," said Patrick Russell of the University of Berne, Switzerland, a HiRISE team collaborator. "We plan to take more images of the site through the changing Martian seasons to see if this kind of avalanche happens all year or is restricted to early spring."
Scientist from University of Sydney discovered that the Milky Way is twice bigger than we thought it was.
Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought.
Proving not all science requires big, expensive apparatus, Professor Gaensler and colleagues, Dr Greg Madsen, Dr Shami Chatterjee and PhD student Ann Mao, downloaded data from the internet and analysed it in a spreadsheet.
"We were tossing around ideas about the size of the Galaxy, and thought we had better check the standard numbers that everyone uses. It took us just a few hours to calculate this for ourselves. We thought we had to be wrong, so we checked and rechecked and couldn't find any mistakes."
Finnish teenagers are the world's smartest according to international test conducted in 57 countries. Finnish teenagers excel in math, science and reading.
The Finns won attention with their performances in triennial tests sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group funded by 30 countries that monitors social and economic trends. In the most recent test, which focused on science, Finland's students placed first in science and near the top in math and reading, according to results released late last year.
Seems like there are real X-men in this world. This website collects stories from so called electric people, and even offers a cure.
The following stories seem to describe two kinds of "electric human" phenomena. One involves conventional static electricity, and the other is something more mysterious. If you *DON'T* get constant shocks when touching either people or metal objects, yet electronic devices often fail in your presence, then your problem is not strictly electrical. Instead it seems to involve something which resembles 'hands-on healing' or 'psychic powers.'
Here's one story of an electric person from the website.
I was so glad to see a website on electrified people because I have recently become one, unfortunately. I was on a business trip in D.C. Something told me not to bring my teddy bear (yes, in my mid 30's, I still sleep with a teddy bear) but my girlfriend said to bring it. The second night there I got up in the middle of the night to turn down the heater and upon getting back into bed, my bear and the bedding started to become electrified, like veins of lightning. The bear looked like a skeleton and the bed just crackled with long static pops of light. The more I touched things the worse they got. This literally lasted for around 3 minutes. I sat frozen, waiting to spontaneously combust. Finally I took the bear and put him in the bathtub. The bed was still sparking, especially when I moved. This has happened on three or four other occasions in the last month. A fire even started in a tree next to me. This is eerie.
While kayaking in the calm Pacific waters of Hawaii waiting for passing sea turtles, this couple got what they ask for when a humpback whale appear in front of them instead.
These extraordinary images show one couple calmly watching one of these giants of the sea as it raises its fin. But when it suddenly slaps it down - sending a wall of spray towards them - they realise how vulnerable they are and think better of their proximity. Digging in their paddles, they turn away. But the whale becomes increasingly boisterous, this time "breaching" the surface. Clearly alarmed, the holidaymakers paddle desperately towards the shore.
13-year-old Laura Weaver has a rare skin condition which makes her allergic to almost everything. Doctors believe that her hyper-sensitivity is due to a breakdown of her immune system.
Laura's skin flares up after being triggered by any one of a dozen allergies. A whiff of perfume, the smell of an air freshener or just brushing past someone's clothes can leave her doubled over in pain. She is allergic to all dairy products, some fruit and wheat, all soaps, sprays and perfumes and even reacts to non-cotton clothing and some plastic furniture. A peanut would send her into lethal anaphylactic shock, and even central heating gives her a high temperature, breathing problems and causes her skin to come up in vivid red rashes.
This Giant King Cobra is the by far the largest documented King Cobra in the wild. It is more than 14-foot long and can lift it's head 4 feet off the ground. Link
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