I wanted to be Indiana Jones as a kid. The problem is, archaeology is a lot harder of a degree to obtain than one in English. It’s also way more boring. Admittedly, the life of an archaeologist probably isn’t as exciting as the Nazi-punching adventures of Dr. Jones. Yet every once in a while, a discovery is made in the field of archaeology that is crazy interesting. The following […]
We know the company nanoFlowcell AG has been working on whacky concepts but all of them are to serve one purpose – working towards the betterment of the environment. The company had revealed their first concept car at the Geneva Motorshow last year called the e-Sportlimousine and this year there’s another one and it gets its energy from saltwater! It’s called the Quantino and is smaller than the e-Sportslimousine […]
London: The BBC said on Thursday it had learned that the “Jihadi John” suspect who has featured in several Islamic State beheading videos is Mohammed Emwazi from London. Earlier, the Washington Post newspaper had also identified Emwazi and said he was a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. Police declined to comment on the reports. […]
The huge animals are being taught how to use their trunks’ super-strength sense of smell to detect explosives You’ve heard of a military task force, now army chiefs have sniffed out a potentially huge innovation – a military tusk force. Elephants are being trained to use their trunks’ super-strength sense of smell to detect explosives and minefields. The animals are proving to be brilliant at identifying which of the buckets […]
The head of the British Army is considering plans to put together a Sikh regiment, The Telegraph quoted a British minister as saying. British Minister Mark Francois told Commons that the Chief of the General Staff (CGS) Sir Nick Carter is reviewing the likelihood of forming a new unit that would inherit many of the “proud traditions of Sikh regiments” from the British Army’s past. Thousands of Sikh soldiers […]
For the second consecutive winter, bitter weather threatens to turn the surface of the Great Lakes into a vast, frozen plain. Nearly 81 per cent of the lakes’ surface area was covered with ice, the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory reported Friday. That was down slightly from more than 85 per cent the previous day — a glitch that probably happened because strong winds broke apart some ice […]
When Kris Sanchez joined Twitter in 2009, he didn’t expect much to come of it. “I really started my Twitter account because I wanted to follow Britney Spears,” Sanchez told Business Insider. “I’m a huge fan.” He found he didn’t have much to tweet about in his daily life, so he started sharing random facts he found while procrastinating on the Internet. He obviously had a knack for it. “By […]
ISIS’ plans to conquer Europe via Libya have been revealed in letters seen by an anti-terrorism group. Owing to its perfect location on the continental doorstep, the terrorists plan to ferry fighters from North Africa across the Mediterranean. The plans, analyzed by anti-terrorism British think tank Quilliam, outline a strategy to illegally ferry fighters across the sea from Libya into southern Europe, into ports such as Italy’s southernmost island of […]
The first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ has been unveiled. The Tom Hiddleston horror film, which also stars Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam, follows the story of a young author called Edith Cushing (Wasikowska), reported Variety. Set in Victorian England, Edith moves in with her new husband (Hiddleston) and his mysterious sister (Jessica Chastain), before discovering that both her husband and new home are hiding secrets. Burn Gorman, […]
WASHINGTON: A deadly winter storm paralyzed much of the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling transit and shutting down federal offices in Washington, and forecasters warned of the worst cold in two decades from another arctic front this week. The storm dumped snow and spread ice from New England into the Carolinas after battering the Midwest and Ohio Valley. Temperatures plunged to -34 Celsius in Saranac Lake, New York, according […]
