Humans may think they run the world, but there is another superpower who is really on top. They outnumber us a million to one. And little can stand in their way. Their engineers breach wide gaps in a single bound. Their workers lift weight twice their size. And the total weight of ants matches that of the entire human race.

Weird!

People who sleep less appear to eat more the next day:

Scientists have known for years that less sleep is associated with weight gain. Now new research, reported in this week's "Really?" column, may help explain why. In one study, men were asked to sleep either four or eight hours. When the men slept less, they ate roughly 22 percent additional calories the next day compared with nights when they got more sleep.

Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes cant Transmit Malaria.

Scientists at the University of California at Irvine and and the Pasteur Institute in Paris
say they've used genetic engineering to create mosquitoes that can't infect people
with malaria.
They used Anopheles stephensi mosquito — a major source of malaria
in India and the Middle East — but say the technique could be used on dozens of
different types of mosquitoes.
Malaria parasites picked up by these mosquitoes are
killed by the the mosquitoes' immune systems.
So the insects can't transmit malaria through their bites. —

Have a better eyesight with better nutrition
To improve your eyesight, you need to make sure that your body receives these nutrients:

Vitamin A: in tomatoes, papaya, carrots and fortified milk.
Vitamin C: in oranges, strawberries, peppers and broccoli.
Vitamin E: in oils, nuts and seeds.
Zeaxanthin and Lutein: in leafy green vegetables, mangoes, kiwi, honeydew, peas, broccoli, yellow squash, corn, red grapes and oranges

~Heaven-LinkingAvenue or the Big Gate Road~

Heaven-Linking Avenue, also known as the Big Gate Road, in Tianmen Mountainin the Hunan province of China as been called the "most dangerous" roads in China. Starting from 200 meters below sea level the serpentine road reaches 1300 meters above sea level making a total of 99 hair-pin turns along the way.In Chinese culture, 9 is considered a lucky number because it is believed that heaven has 9 places. A road with 99 turns symbolizes heaven, and hence the term Heaven-Linking Avenue or Avenue Towards Heaven.

FLOATING BICYCLISTS !!!

Chinese photographer Zhao Huasen photographed hundreds of cyclists going about their way in Shanghai. He then digitally erased the bicycles from the photographs, leaving only their shadows and the mysteriously floating rider calmly pedaling away through thin air.

Honey never goes bad, and archaeologists have tasted 2000 year old jars of honey found in Egyptian tombs.

200,000 Ants Cry Every Time You See This Painting...

For some people painting with regular paints seems not to be enough, like for Chris Trueman from California who has became famous by his unusual painting but the price of his fame was pretty big. He had to kill 200,000 ants to create his weird painting of his younger brother.

THE CHAMELEON BANDAGE

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Only a small village itself (around 1,600 people are said to inhabit Ha Long Bay), it is a particular popular destination with tourists, all of whom are eager to see the many different limestone formations that are so eerily beautiful in the water.

Hazy Ring of Titan
The +Cassini–Huygens spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of +Titan's atmosphere.

A detached, high-altitude global haze layer encircles Titan. See PIA07774 to learn more. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). North on Titan is up and rotated 29 degrees to the left.

The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2012. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 123,000 miles (197,000 kilometers) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 162 degrees. Image scale is 7 miles (12 kilometers) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygensmission is a cooperative project of +NASA , the +European Space Agency, ESA and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygensmission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ or http://www.nasa.gov/cassini . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org/ .
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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Hazy Ring of Titan
The +Cassini–Huygens spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of +Titan's atmosphere.

A detached, high-altitude global haze layer encircles Titan. See PIA07774 to learn more. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). North on Titan is up and rotated 29 degrees to the left.

The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2012. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 123,000 miles (197,000 kilometers) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 162 degrees. Image scale is 7 miles (12 kilometers) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygensmission is a cooperative project of +NASA , the +European Space Agency, ESA and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygensmission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ or http://www.nasa.gov/cassini . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org/ .
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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The first university in the world

"Gurkha" is the name given those Nepalese nationals who serve in the British army. An awesome gurkha's work

"There's nothing wrong with my brain, contrary to the impression of my enemies." – Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago

The impeachment trial is more fun when Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago is around. The prosecution and the defense team scramble to answer her questions and end up looking like law school freshmen who need to review their knowledge of basic jurisprudence. Love her or hate her but she adds spice to an otherwise humdrum turn of events at the trial.

The lines on a solo cup are measurement marks for liquor , wine and beer

It takes the typical person 17 months and 26 days to get over an ex


A new study says it takes the typical person 17 months and 26 days to feel ready to move on after a divorce, which got me thinking: How long does it take to get over a regular ol' breakup (you know, one that doesn't require lawyers)? The answer, of course, is that there isn't one right answer. It took years for me to get over my first love, someone I was with only about ten months. On the other hand, it took about six weeks before I was ready to move on after I ended a four-year, live-in relationship with another boyfriend. Of course, it actually took me the last two years we were together to finally pull the plug, but once I did there was no looking back.I used to think there was a mathematical equation for getting over an ex, dependent on years together, age, and whether he or she was your first love. There's not, of course, but I still say that in general, for relationships that were less than two years, it's reasonable to think you'll be over it in about six months. Relationships that were two to four years? Add another six months. And relationships that last over four could take up to 18 months to get over.

But what does "getting over it" really even mean? Some loves we never truly get over, right? I blame that on the whole idea of "the one." It's easy to romanticize an ex if you think he's the one you were meant to be with, the one who got away. But I'd like to think that "getting over" someone means we arrive at a point where we allow happiness, joy and hope for the future to fill the emptiness our broken relationship created. That and we stop thinking we see him every time we turn around.

Don't Trust Bears on Skates!


The Russian state circus often trains bears to ice-skate.
An ice-skating bear from Russia has attacked and killed a circus director during rehearsals for a show in Kyrgyzstan.

The five-year-old bear, part of a visiting troupe from the prestigious Russian state circus, was wearing ice skates when he lashed out at his handlers and circus staff before a performance of their "Bears on Ice" show in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.

He dragged 25-year-old circus director Dmitry Potapov across the ice rink by his neck and nearly severed his victim's legs.
Mr Potapov died at the scene from his injuries.
Another circus employee who attempted to rescue Mr Potapov while he was being mauled was also severely injured during the attack.
"The victim has sustained serious injuries – deep scalp lacerations, bruising of the brain, lacerations on his body. His condition is considered critical," said Dr Gulnara Tashibekova, who was among the medical team who attended the scene.
The bear was later shot dead by police in the Central Asian republic.

The incident was not the first time a visiting Russian bear was involved in a deadly attack in Kyrgyzstan. In 2002 a bear on loan from Russia to the Bishkek city zoo attacked and killed a small child who had reached out to pet it.
In that incident, local experts blamed the animal's aggressive behaviour on its severe malnourishment.
But deadly attacks are surprisingly rare in the country's popular circuses, which often use trained bears for comedic effect.
Training bears to wear and use ice skates and even play ice hockey is a standard stunt for the Russian circus. -

Video Games Make Kids Smarter:

Oh now really? :

Playing video games sharpens vision, as well as the mind.

Daphne Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester, conducted 20 studies on the effects of video games on young people. She found that gamers fare better than non-gamers on tests of attention, cognition and multitasking.

To make sure this discrepancy doesn't arise because kids who are already above average in these skills are more drawn to video games, Bavelier ran tests in which she immersed non-gamers in a few weeks of video game training.

Not only did this improve the non-gamers' test results in the aforementioned categories, but their improved vision took hold up to two years — even if they didn't continue to play video games after their training