James Clerk Maxwell, a mathematician, was the first person in the world who discovered a way to take a color photo. Using the ingenious method of combining Red, Blue and Green using filters to produce a color picture, he was able to represent color.
He may of been the pioneer, but he wasn’t the photographer, Thomas [...]
Forget about finding me running up that! What you see above is the steepest slope in the world, at a 37% gradient, canton avenue, pittsburgh. It’s not known for being a long road, but just take a look at this guy’s expression on his face!
I found this story at DeputyDog, The Steepest Streets in the [...]
Janus, a double-headed tortoise is busy celebrating his 10th birthday at the Natural History Museum in Geneva.
The popular tortoise who is named after a two-faced Roman god, has a condition known as Polycephaly, which is the term used for an animal having more than one head.
A very cute photo indeed. Happy Birthday!
Found at Neatorama
These is probably one of the most amazing lists I’ve seen in a while. Just take a look at the pictures of some of these animals! I found this great list at Quedat, and I think it’s worth sharing. Here’s a couple pictures of the animals, and their descriptions, almost like a sneak preview:
Komondor Dog
Females [...]
1 out of 4! That means, that if this study / poll proves accurate, that 25% of the USA is struggling to manage a single book per year. It seems that things like magazines seem to be the only thing that people are reading, as well as a couple newspapers, both of which don’t enhance [...]
The map shows the legal drinking age of the countries around the world. Interesting to see that some allow any age to drink alcohol.
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Why do pigeons bob their heads?
The pigeon has side mounted eyes unlike humans and owls which have forward facing eyes. As a pigeons have monocular vision rather than binocular vision they bob their heads for depth of perception. The pigeon’s eyes work much better with stationary images [...]
