Denny Ingram was a lucky man last week. He caught a yellow lobster - a 1-in-30 million chance. The very rare yellow lobster was caught in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. Lobsterman Denny Ingram found the lobster in one of his pots last week. It is golden on the top and bright yellow on both sides.
Another colored lobster was caught off the coast of New Hampshire last year. It was a blue lobster and the change is 1-in-5 million. The rarest of them all is the white lobster caught off Cape Cod in 2004 and change to caught one is 1-in-100 million.
It's also apparently good luck for this lobster, who will not be heading to anyone's dinner table. Ingram says he plans to keep the yellow lobster on display at the fishermen's co-op at the State Pier in Newport.
The secret romance between a donkey and a zebra has finally resulted to a Zedonk, a Zebra/Donkey hybrid. The unique-looking female zedonk was born at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Georgia, USA. It has stripes in her legs and face, which she inherited from her fathers and a narrow head of a donkey which she got from her mother - a perfect hybrid.
Aside from the stripes, she also inherited the wild instincts her father. Usually, a foal will lay over on its side, sunning itself. But she sits up at all time - like she's on alert looking out for predators.
Officials at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve, where the cute little crossbred was born, are as surprised as anyone by the very rare coupling. It turns out, the zebra/donkey romance has been many years in the making, but somehow the duo managed to keep it a secret. "The animals have been running (in the fields) together for more than 40 years, but this is the first time that this has happened here," says the preserve's founder. "We never suspected that they (had mated), so it was quite a surprise when the zedonk was born."
If you think walking on water is for some specialized insects and amphibians, think again. A group of young man is starting a new sport called Liquid Mountaineering, which is attempting to achieve what man has tried to do for centuries: walk on water. Or to be more precisely: running on water.
This young men discovered, by accident, hat with the right water repellent equipment, one can really run across bodies of water, just like a stone skimming the surface. Check out this cool video.
If you think those plastic keys in hotels all goes to dump sites, think again. In Manhattan in New York, Holiday Inn made a hotel made from plastic key cards. This hotel, named Key Card Hotel, opened for business on September 19th to September 21st and was built by Bryan Berg, the world record-holding 'card-stacker'.
This 400 sq ft, two-ton construction includes a guest bedroom, bathroom and lobby, all fully equipped with life-sized furniture.
Kevin Kowalski, senior vice president of global brand management at Holiday Inn, said: ‘The Key Card Hotel is a fun and interactive way to showcase the changes happening at our hotels and is the only structure of its kind to ever be created by a hotel brand.’
With just two knives - a Swiss army knife and a machete, Xavier Rosset, survived 300 days in the tropical forest of Tonga, in the uninhabited, 64-square-kilometre volcanic Pacific island called Tofua. His companion - a wild pig he captured in the island. But unlike Tom Hanks in the movie Cast Away, he said he didn't talked to the pig.
This young Swiss adventurer and former professional snowboarder, totally isolate himself and survive only on food and shelter got by his own hands. He said he did this to challenge the modern way of life that many of us got used to.
Rosset document his adventure with a video camera and will be aired later this year.
"It was hard, yes, very hard," Mr Rosset said, freshly arrived back in Europe after ending his 10-month stint in Tonga.
His island of choice was Tofua, a 64-square-kilometre volcanic isle home to nothing except "some pigs, lots of coconuts, a lake and tropical forest".
"At the beginning I had to try hard to survive," the former professional snowboarder said.
Who says a pet dog is vulnerable when it's away from it's home. Well, this one not the case. Sophie, a pet dog survived in island eating baby goats for four months. While her owners was, Dave and Jan Griffith, was on a sailing trip off the coast of Australia, Sophie fell into the water and was never found. Four months later, she was discovered in an island four miles from where she fell and was reunited with her owners.
Sophie’s mind-boggling survival story, chronicled on TODAY Tuesday, began as Jan and husband Dave took their pet along for a sailing trip off the coast of Australia last November. When the sea grew rough, Sophie dropped into the water.
“We searched well over an hour,” Jan Griffith told the Brisbane Times. “We thought once she hit the water she would have been gone because the wake from the boat was so big.”
Jessica Cox of Tuscon, Arizona, USA is one extraordinary lady. She been through bad time as a child but manage to be successful as an adult. She suffered a rare birth defect and was born without any arms, but also with a great spirit and character.
She a psychology graduate and can write, type, drive a car, brush her hair and talk on her phone simply using her feet. She is also a former dancer and double black belt in TaeKwonDo. But above all, Jessica Cox is a motivational speaker and a license pilot. Yes, you read it right, this extraordinary no-arm lady is a pilot. Here's a video of her while flying a plane.
Update: Michael Phelps won his 8th Olympic gold medal, breaking the record of Mark Spitz's who won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. He now have a total of thirteen Olympic gold medals from three Olympics Games.
Michael Phelps is now the winningest Olympian ever with eleven Olympic gold medal. He has gone were all Olympians has never been before by capturing his 10th and 11th gold medal after winning the 200-meter butterfly and the 4x200 freestyle relay which both broke the previous records. He has now a total of five gold medal in this Summer Olympics in China. At 23 years old, you bet he is far from retiring from the Olympics.
“I’m almost kind of at a loss for words,” Phelps said. “Growing up, I always wanted to be an Olympian. Now to be the most decorated Olympian of all time, it just sounds weird saying it. I just have absolutely nothing to say. I’m speechless.
“It’s a pretty cool title, I guess you could say.”
Where is Matt Video - a traveling man's dancing video. Matt Harding, travels around the world just to dance. He has been to 84 countries (and more to come) just to dance - some with local people and some on his own. Matt is now an internet celebrity because of his dancing videos. His YouTube videos is watched by millions of viewers worldwide. The video below is has been watched eight million times and counting.
According to recent report, there are already 10 million millionaires in the world. I'm sure you wanna be one of them. But to be included in the list, you should have at least $1 million in assets.
"The growth of their wealth is outpacing the growth of their population, and that's a trend that's going to continue in coming years," said Ileana Van Der Linde, a principal with Capgemini.
The ranks of the wealthy are growing fastest in the developing economies of India, China and Brazil. The number of millionaires in India grew by about 23 percent.
The United States still reigns supreme when it comes to fat wallets, though: One in every three millionaires in the world lives in America. Combined, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America account for just one in 10.
Swiss Yves Rossy lived his dream of becoming a "rocket man" when he flies with an 8ft jet-fuel powered wings strapped on his back. He flew at 8,200ft for more than five minutes above the mountainous town of Bex in western Switzerland.
Stepping out of an aircraft at 7,500ft, Rossy unfolded the 10ft rigid wings strapped to his back as he plummeted earthwards. Passing from freefall into a gentle glide, he triggered the four jet turbines and accelerated to 190mph above the mountaintops. Steering with his body, Rossy dived, turned and soared again, flying what appeared to be effortless loops from one side of the Rhone valley to the other.
A 50-kilogram sandbar shark which became celebrity at a Spanish beach was nabbed by biologists with bare hands and dragging it ashore. This shark became a tourist attraction by making daily trips into the knee-high water in the beach - which beach official fear might bite beach goers.
The fish turned into a novelty by swimming regularly into plain view in very shallow water. Bathers gathered daily to snap photos. Police fined several people who ventured into the water to splash around with it. A team of three biologists from the Barcelona Aquarium waded in yesterday and, after two failed attempts before a crowd of hundreds, finally managed to capture the flailing shark with their hands. They quickly stuck its snout into a net to keep it from biting.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar is expecting their 18th child on New Year's Day who will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. And they said their expecting more.
The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old. The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled. Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.
Sam Cunningham suffered 25,000-volt of electric shock but very lucky to be alive. He thrown 25 feet off a railway bridge on to the tracks below by the electric shock.
The 16-year-old is now being treated for severe burns in hospital, where experts say he is "lucky to be alive".
Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots.
He was knocked unconscious by the fall and all his clothes were burned off.
After paramedics arrived Sam regained consciousness and managed to phone his mother Ann.
Shoichi Yokoi spent 28 year in hiding in the jungle of Talofofo, Guam after American forces conquered the island in World War II. He went into hiding in 1944 and was discovered by two local men in 1972.
Born in Saori, Aichi Prefecture, he was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to Guam shortly thereafter. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi went into hiding. Yokoi hunted primarily at night and used much of the native plants to form clothes, bedding, and storage implements, which he carefully hid in his cave. Many of his items are on display at the public library in Hagåtña, Guam. Yokoi feared harsh reprisals if he fell into the hands of the residents of Guam, due to the cruel treatment that the occupational Japanese Army had meted out during the occupation of Guam. For twenty-eight years, he hid in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This amazing invisible photograph is just one of many works of Desiree Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, who is able to make her subjects blend perfectly with its background - creating an illusion of invisibility.
"People always react strongly when they see my work," she said. "They have mixed reactions: confusion, surprise and interest." She added: "Mostly people like the idea of wearing garments that make them invisible.
It takes hours for her to paint the suits. First she takes photographs of the scene then, back in the studio, she meticulously transfers the detail on to the cotton suit with acrylic paints."
It's also apparently good luck for this lobster, who will not be heading to anyone's dinner table. Ingram says he plans to keep the yellow lobster on display at the fishermen's co-op at the State Pier in Newport.
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