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Week Ending 7 June 2013
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Amazing - The Antikythera Mechanism
 | | The Antikythera Mechanism - 2D |
More than 21 centuries ago, a mechanism of fabulous ingenuity was created in Greece, a device capable of indicating exactly how the sky would look for decades to come.
Incredibly it was able to show the position of the moon and sun, lunar phases and even eclipses.
But this invention would be drowned in the sea and its secret forgotten for two thousand years.
The accompanying video is a tribute from Swiss clock-maker Hublot and film-maker Philippe Nicolet to this device, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, or the world's "first computer".
The fragments of the Mechanism were discovered in 1901 by sponge divers near the island of Antikythera. It is kept since then at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.
For more than a century, researchers were trying to understand its functions. Now, with the use of the latest technology, it is possible understand the mechanism and finally create a modern day replica.
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How come we put a man on the moon,
before we put wheels on suitcases?
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The Lesula Monkey Discovery
 | | Human Like Monkey is Discovered in Africa - Lesula |
To suggest that Lesula Monkey is the winner of the Top 10 Newly Discovered Species of 2012 is to suggest that being listed is a competition.
But to ask if Lesula is one of the most interesting is another question, particularly if you are fascinated by the origins of mankind.
Spotted by researchers in the Lomami Basin of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007, the Lesula Monkey is only the second new species of monkey found in Africa in the past 28 years.
Conservationist John Hart and a team of scientists first spotted a juvenile female at the home of a primary school teacher in the town of Opala. The teacher had received the monkey from a family member who had killed the youngster's mother.
What fascinates most about this monkey are how human it looks and how uncannily human-like are its eyes. Sad then that it is already in danger of being hunted for "Bushmeat"
Quentin Wheeler , an Arizona State University researcher, who specializes in discovering new species and figuring out how they fit into the evolutionary history of life on Earth says "There are a lot of scientists now that think we could lose 50 per cent of the species on earth before the end of the 21st century,"
"I find it ironic that we're spending so much money on these telescopes to hunt for Earth-like planets while we're allowing the most Earth-like planet of all to be decimated."
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Kenneth Williams Thought for The Day
 | | Best quote from Kenneth Williams EVER |
In an age when many self-development books advise us to specialise we invite you to hear Kenneth Williams thoughts on the topic.
They're short and sharp and take just 27 seconds.
Kenneth was an English comic actor and comedian; much loved by the British public. His professional career began in 1948 in repertory theatre.
Failure to become a serious dramatic actor disappointed him, but his potential as a comic performer gave him his break when he was spotted playing the Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's St Joan in 1954 by radio producer Dennis Main Wilson.
Main Wilson was casting Hancock's Half Hour, a radio series starring Tony Hancock. Playing mostly funny voice roles, Williams stayed in the series almost to the end, five years later.
Despite the success and recognition the show brought him, Williams thought theatre, film and television were superior forms of entertainment.
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Sherpas Clean The Mountain They Worship
 | | DEATH ZONE: Cleaning Mount Everest (Official Trailer) |
The part of Everest above 8,000 metres (26,000 feet) is known as the Death Zone and has very low temperatures that can result in frostbite of any body part exposed to the air and can often lead to death.
An injured person who cannot walk is in serious trouble since rescue by helicopter is generally impractical and carrying the person off the mountain is very risky.
People who die during the climb are typically left behind. About 150 bodies have never been recovered. It is not uncommon to find corpses near the standard climbing routes.
And not only bodies are left behind.
Generation of climbers have added abandoned equipment and mountains of rubbish making the Death Zone the World's highest garbage dump.
Take a moment to watch this inspiring clip of SHERPAS cleaning the mountain they worship. To view Click Here
Pay no attention to the faults of others
Things done or left undone by others
Consider only what, by oneself,
Is done, or left undone.
BUDDHA
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The Marvels of Modern Science
 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born on 24 May 1686 and died on 16 September 1736.
He was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.
A pretty amazing career and it's also pretty amazing that after all the years that have passed, and the fact that there are no contemporary pictures, we can nevertheless see what he probably looked like.
Because now, scientists in Poland have created a computer portrait of the 18th century physicist using images of his relatives.
Jerzy Proficz from the Gdansk University of Technology said on Tuesday a team of three scientists built a computer application to create the most probable likeness of historical figures.
Using historical data, descriptions of the features and images of relatives, they created the portrait of Fahrenheit, of whom no reliable likenesses exist.
His lasting claim to fame is that the mercury thermometer and a temperature scale now named after him that is still in use in the United States, Britain and Canada.
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It Pays To Plan Ahead
 | | MEGAWOOSH - Bruno Kammerl jumps |
The attached clip shows just how important it is to plan ahead.
And shows how, when you do, you can be spectacularly successful.
Here we see how German engineer Bruno Kammeri came up with a special type of neoprene material dubbed Softslide that his web site describes as "almost frictionless.
Kammerl's goal was to build the longest and most exciting waterslide in the world to demonstrate its effectiveness.
He started off with some tests, published videos about it on YouTube, and publicly searched for investors. Then an "influential sponsor" came along and made it possible to test the slide in the German Alps, which led to the video shown here.
Well that's the story we're told, but now we see why it is so important to plan ahead.
The video was in fact part of a viral marketing campaign by Microsoft Germany and it went on to receive over 6,000,000 hits.
Was it a good promotion for Microsoft Office? Who knows? Was it a successful viral video? You bet.
To see how it was planned ahead Click Here
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