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The fallout after the explosion on Hiroshima came in the form of thick high radioactive rain. The victims who swallowed it died an instant death. This is even nastier then the blast itself, just imagine yourself in this kind of situation, theres nothing to eat, nothing to drink would you swallow it? or wait until its poison everything around you picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
An oak barrel, full of butter, estimated to be roughly 3,000 years old has been found in Gilltown bog, between Timahoe and Staplestown. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 9 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Chinese man was arrested for stealing a motorcycle - part by part over five years from the factory where he worked. 4 comments edit related share plime.comZhang, an assembly line worker in a motorcycle factory in Chongqing, had always wanted his own motorbike but could never afford one. He started stealing parts from the factory warehouse and assembling them at home in 2003, reports the Chongqing Times. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago |
Small, sudden bursts of heat and energy, called nanoflares, are responsible for the million-degree temperature of the sun's tenuous atmosphere, a new study reveals. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 4 comments edit related share science |
Candlelight may be key to creating the perfect atmosphere for a romantic dinner or a relaxing bath - but it could also be a dangerous one, claim American scientists. 4 comments edit related share scienceResearchers have found that the fumes from paraffin wax – the most common and cheapest form of candle wax – can be poisonous and even cause cancer. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago |
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Reaching out to make contact: The humpback whale and Marco Queral look like they're about take part in an underwater dance picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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A new rice plant has been developed which grows "snorkels" when exposed to floods. 0 comments edit related share scienceA paper in the journal Nature, describes how the plant elongates rapidly in response to being submerged. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago |
A 63-year-old woman missing for nearly a week after going fishing in Iowa has been found alive on a raft hidden in the brush of a riverbank. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose - putpockets. 9 comments edit related share plime.comAware that people are suffering in the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets have turned over a new leaf and are now trawling London's tourist sites slipping money back into unsuspecting pockets. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago |
Popcorn could help prevent cancer, research suggests. 1 comments edit related share plime.comScientists discovered the snack food contains 'surprisingly large' levels of health-boosting antioxidants called polyphenols. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago |
From tiny snowflakes to a giant wave-looking glacier, meet some of the most beautiful ice formations sculpted by nature. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The Basketball Car picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Insight in to the theory that silver iodide can weaken the eye of a hurricane and lessen its force when dropped by a plane over the storm, a technique known as seeding picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The deep seductive voice of Barry White has been called on at Sea Life London Aquarium to try and encourage Zorro, a six-year-old zebra shark, to mate. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 10 comments edit related share plime.com |
The question is, just how fast can he go? We asked this back in August last year when he smashed his own 100metres world record at the Beijing Olympics. Then, he did it in 9.69 seconds, but his insouciant, hands-aloft stroll over the finishing line made many suspect that there was more to go. And on Sunday, a year to the day after setting that extraordinary record in China, Usain Bolt showed tha... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
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The iridescent beauty of pearl and nacre, the material found inside the shells of clams, oysters and other mollusks, would likely be impossible without two new proteins recently discovered by Japanese scientists. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
A team of astronomers have found the 'missing link' of stellar death, revealing what our Sun might look like at the end of its life. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 2 comments edit related share science |
Fashion is a progressive industry that changes with the wind and the tolerance of the people. Though women continually stretch the boundaries in the name of style, men’s fashion trends commonly remain in the safe zone – most of the time. Occasionally, however, men become courageous en masse, and the end results were typically disastrous. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 10 comments edit related share plime.com |
Helen Butterwick, a 70-year-old from Coventry, has become the first to have her throat repaired using Teflon, the material used to give frying pans their non-stick coating. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |