Here’s how a city becomes company property Some days it feels like Google is taking over the world. For the residents of Mountain View, California, that feeling is personal. Two weeks ago, Google signed a deal for its very own airport just east of the Googleplex, complete with a blimp hangar large enough to house the Hindenburg. But building a better blimp probably isn’t the reason that Google is leasing […]
This image provided by the Saddle Ridge Hoard discoverers via Kagin’s, Inc., shows one of the six decaying metal canisters filled with 1800s-era U.S. gold coins unearthed in California by two people who want to remain anonymous. While walking their dog, a couple from Northern California struck gold — literally. Last spring, the anonymous couple dug up rusty tin cans with 1,427 gold coins, dating from 1847 to 1894. Nearly […]
The Oregon Zoo showed off its latest additions, three tiny Amercian black bear cubs, as they grunt, squeak and try to stand on wobbly legs. The bears were rescued from a hollow log by a logging crew in western Oregon. Fearing that heavy machinery may have scared off the cubs’ mother, loggers contacted the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, who turned the cubs over to the zoo after unsuccessfully […]
Much of the remains of the SV Carl have been hidden since 1917 at Booby’s Bay, near Padstow, in Cornwall Ship was being towed by the Royal Navy to London when it sank and was stripped leaving just its hull and masts Series of Atlantic storms battering Britain has revealed the wreck and also an ancient Welsh forest For almost 100 years the majority of its vast hull and masts […]
Take a look at this stunning photo of Tolbachik, an active volcanic complex on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. Lava fountains and rivers ran through the area for months after the eruption began with the opening of two Tolbachik fissures in November of 2012. In the midst of this activity, photographers Luda and Andrey (lusika33) took a trip down to see that stunning hell valley on earth […]
Much of North Korea’s 24million population forced to endure power cuts and hours of darkness Image was taken from the International Space Station orbiting the Earth on January 30 Only show-piece capital city of Pyongyang is illuminated against the darkness North Korea appears like a black hole in a sea of light in this remarkable NASA satellite image of the isolated communist state. Taken at night on January 30 from […]
Found four days old after his front legs were allegedly amputated by a weed whacker Mercury’s right arm stops just before the elbow and his left arm goes slightly after the elbow and his left rear foot only has one toe. Mercury’s owners say he is not a candidate for a prothestic leg on either front limb, since he would need at least 40% of the limb intact. After he […]
ClamorWorld: Tell us something about yourself. Mauktik: I was Born in the US, raised in Jalgaon and Pune in India. Electronics engineer from PICT, Pune. Two Masters Degrees – One in Biophysics (UIUC) and one in Neuroscience (Johns Hopkins University) ClamorWorld: When did you do your first trip? Mauktik: My first solo trip was an 8000 km motorcycle trip in South America (Peru, Chile and Argentina) in 2008. […]
Video reveals a nightjar hidden on a forest floor Researchers using video to test human perception and vision capabilities Team developing games based on the images It is an incredible example of one of nature’s camoflague experts in action. Hidden in the image is a nightjar – blending in perfectly on a forest floor. Researchers hope that by getting people to spot it and other examples of camouflage, they can […]
Five-month-old Sebastian stopped breathing while in aunt’s car Police officer and fire crew stuck in traffic rushed to help perform CPR Baby Sebastian is now recovering in hospital The aunt of the baby who suddenly stopped breathing as she drove him in her car has told of how she was struck by horror, but taken over by instinct, as she realized her nephew was no longer breathing. Pamela Rauseo, 37, […]
