The owners of a trout farm were amazed a photographer caught their fish making an extraordinary escape on camera.
He pictured the trout making giant leaps out of their pond into a metal feed pipe three feet above the water level.
They then fought against the current for 30ft to the end of the eight inch wide pipe, which emerges underwater in a tributary of the River Itchen near Alresford, Hants.
Source: ananova.com
Next time you sort through your holiday photos, maybe your dog could lend a hand. It seems dogs can place photographs into categories the same way humans do, an ability previously identified only in birds and primates.
Source: newscientist.com
For years, no military program has sparked more fevered speculation from conspiracy theorists than the mysterious High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP. And for years, the Pentagon has been pooh-poohing speculation that the enormous collection of transmitters, radars, and magnetometers in Alaska was some sort of superweapon.But, it turns out, the conspiracy theorists may not have been entirely off-base, after all.
Source: wired.com
A barber in China has set a world record by cutting a customer’s hair with 10 pairs of scissors simultaneously.
Wang Zedong, 41, of Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, demonstrated his stunt in a television studio with hundreds of people, and Guinness officials, in the audience.
In less than three minutes, Wang cut the model’s hair, reports Zhejiang Online.
Source: ananova.com
A gemstone ‘stained with blood and dishonour’ haunted anyone who owned it. This week it goes on show for the first time.
Some 34 years ago Peter Tandy, a young curator at the Natural History Museum, happened upon a jewel while working among the great lines of mineral cabinets. From a scientific perspective, the stone was nothing special, though its setting was rather bizarre, bound by a silver ring decorated with astrological symbols and mystical words with two scarab-carved gems attached. It was a typewritten note that accompanied the jewel, an amethyst known as the Delhi Purple Sapphire, that caught Tandy’s eye.
Source: timesonline.co.uk