January 2008
Ugly Fish, top ten →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: www.wauifekt.com photo → Top 10 Ugly Fishes 10. “Teeth” fish 9. Mola-Mola 8. Grenadiers or rattails 7. GULPER EEL 6. Anglerfish 5. Stonefish 4. Wolf Eel, Anarrhichthys ocellatus 3. Longnose Chimaera 2. Lumpfish 1. Blobfish
Jan 4th
Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: www.sciam.com Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. In fact, fly ash—a by-product from burning coal for power—contains up to 100...
Jan 3rd
Mother's extra-large pants prevent house fire →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Mother’s extra-large pants prevent house fire A family home has been saved from fire by a mother’s extra-large Marks & Spencer pants. Jenny Marsey’s nephew used her size 18-20 cotton knickers to extinguish a frying pan blaze that threatened to burn down the house. Darren Lines, 23, grabbed the blue pants...
Jan 2nd
Spitfire restoration →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk A businessman has spent almost seven years restoring a Spitfire from thousands of parts. Martin Phillips admits that he is still some way away from realising his dream of seeing the vintage fighter, which he is restoring in a shed, take to the skies again The project, which has cost nearly £1 million so far, began in earnest when Mr...
Jan 2nd
14.6 years - natures ideal age gap ? →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: truemors.com What’s the Ideal Age Difference for Husband and Wife? It turns out that men have the most children when their partners are around fifteen years their junior. At least for the Sami people of preindustrial Finland, this is true. Would you agree with the figure fifteen? Apparently there is evidence to show that the reason why men prefer young...
Jan 1st
Cheaper than Coal →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: www.solveclimate.com At $1 per Watt, the iTunes of Solar Energy Has Arrived A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels — priced at $1 a watt. That’s the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. Curious that this story is not on every front page. Nanosolar has developed proprietary process...
Jan 1st
Love never dies a natural death →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: www.writersmugs.com Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. - Anais Nin [ 1903 - 1977 ]
Jan 1st
people are happier with decisions they can not... →
clipped by: countryboylife Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk Science has second thoughts about life Even the world’s best brains have to admit to being wrong sometimes: here, leading scientists respond to a new year challenge the Edge Foundation asked a number of leading scientists and thinkers why they had changed their minds on some of the pivotal issues in their fields. Daniel Gilbert...
Jan 1st