Chinese Man Fixes Tires With His FeetThis Chinese man, who has no hands, has found a unique way to make a living - by repairing bicycle tires with his feet. He was photographed on the streets of China, where he not only repaired a tire, but also fitted it back on the bike frame, using just his feet!...
اقرأ المقالItalian Painter's Unique ArtItalian artist Mario Mariotti has been dead for over a decade now, but the unusual pieces of art he created still amazes people, both young and old. Unlike other artists, Mario did not use any expensive canvas for his creations - just some paint, a little imagination and some hands or feet...
اقرأ المقالNick Boing - An Unusual Pet With An Unusual NameWhat happens when an animal can't get along with his own kind - Well he moves in with some kind humans and becomes a pet - At least that's what happened to this little lamb - Meet Nick Boing, an unusual pet with an unusual name....
اقرأ المقالTotal Solar Eclipse on August 1st, 2008On August 1st a very narrow corridor of the Earth will be treated to a special treat - a total solar eclipse. The areas that will be touched include parts of Northern Canada, Siberia, Western Mongolia and China....
اقرأ المقالHmm - Which Hand should I Use?Life is simple for us human beings - we either prefer doing all our work with our left or right hand. But what happens if you are an octopus and have eight hands to choose from - do you use all your hands or do you still have one or two that you like more?...
اقرأ المقالNo Garbage Truck Visits This CommunityWhile we all talk about the three R's - Reduce, Reuse & Recycle, very few of us pursue it to the extent that the people of Kamikatsu Town in Japan do. They declared war against waste in 2003 and are fast moving toward becoming a 'Zero Waste Town'....
اقرأ المقالThe Children Of Kroo BayWhat could be worse than living in the World's poorest country? - How about living in the poorest neighborhood in the poorest country. Welcome to Kroo Bay, a small community in Sierra Leone, Africa, that has been built on mounds of trash. This is the story of the children who call it home....
اقرأ المقالEven Wimbledon Champs Have Homework!The last two weeks have been a dream come true for 14-year old tennis player Laura Robson. She only not became the youngest Wimbledon Junior Champion since Martina Hingis in 1994, but also the first Briton to win the title since Annabel Croft, in 1984....
اقرأ المقالThe World's Luckiest Woman?We have all entered competitions and then crossed our fingers for several weeks or even months, just to find out that someone else won. However, this is not the case for 68-year old Betty Robbs - she seems to win whatever competition she enters. While she has been named the luckiest woman in Britain, we believe she is the luckiest woman in the World....
اقرأ المقالThe Nintendo DS Comes To ClassWouldn't it be fun if your school allowed you to do a math or english lesson on a Nintendo DS console instead of a boring workbook? If you go to school in Japan, it may already be a reality - for those of us living elsewhere, we can only hope!...
اقرأ المقالWorld Cup Swamp Soccer ChampionshipsWhile the rules may be similar, the terrain is not - no well-manicured field for these soccer players - they like to get down and dirty as they battle it out for the World Cup Championships. Welcome to Swamp Soccer!...
اقرأ المقالThe Building Of The FutureImagine living in a house that rotates on its own - now imagine the same house with 80 floors, all rotating, moving and changing shape constantly. Welcome to the 'Dynamic Tower', a new luxury condominium complex expected to start construction soon in Dubai....
اقرأ المقالYum - This Nettle Leaf Is So Spiky!On June 21st, the Bottle House Inn in the West Dorset village of Marshwood, England was host to the 12th annual "Stinging Nettle Eating Contest". As you all probably know, a nettle is a flowering plant, whose leaves are covered with tiny stinging hair that produce an intense stinging pain if touched. Now why would anyone eat that?...
اقرأ المقال2008 International Tokyo Toy FairThis weekend, the island of Odaiba, off the coast of Tokyo, Japan was home to the annual 2008 International Toy Fair, one of the most important toy exhibitions in the world. The event was attended by thousand of people, both young and old, all drooling over the latest toy innovations....
اقرأ المقالThis Dog's a Klutz!If there were a competition for the clumsiest dog in the world, 12-year old Chester would be a strong contender and most possibly the winner. For this British Lurcher is such a klutz, that he is always falling over things or getting stuck in weird places. It started the day his owner, Jim rescued him from an animal shelter about four years ago....
اقرأ المقالThis Robot Keeps Going And Going And Going. . . .Watch out Energizer bunny, here comes Evolta, a feisty little robot. Powered by two AA batteries made by the Japanese Company, Panasonic, Evolta climbed and climbed for almost seven hours up a rope hung from a steep Grand Canyon cliff....
اقرأ المقالMove Over 'Ripsticks' - Here Comes the 'Magic Wheel'What do you get when you cross a scooter, unicycle and skateboard - A Magic Wheel of course. The new gizmo is described as a new kind of foot scooter and consists of one big wheel and one small wheel with a platform on one side....
اقرأ المقالCinders - A Pig That Fears Mud!They call her Cinders, short for Cinderella. But unlike her namesake, this five-week old piglet will not leave home or the ball without her shoes. For Cinder suffers from a syndrome called mysophobia - or a fear of dirt!...
اقرأ المقالThe Komodo DragonThe Komodo dragon's encounter with the scuba divers has made them quite famous. With only 4,000 left in the wild, the chance that we will ever encounter one outside of a Zoo, is very slim. However, these pre-historic looking creatures are fascinating and we thought it would be fun to explore them further....
اقرأ المقالThe 2008 Red Bull Flugtag in LondonHyde Park in London, was home to the hilarious Red Bull Flugtag competition yesterday. Over 80,000 people gathered to watch homemade, human powered flying machines in all shapes and forms trying to 'fly' off the 30-ft deck but mostly crashing into the freezing waters of the Serpentine River....
اقرأ المقالScuba Divers Survive Shark-Infested Waters and Komodo DragonFive scuba divers were grateful to be on familiar land on Saturday, after surviving a 2-day ordeal that included swimming in shark-infested waters and a close encounter with a Komodo dragon. The divers saga began on Thursday, in the Komoda National Park off Bali, Indonesia....
اقرأ المقالThe Adventures Of Orange TedThis touching tale of Orange Ted, a one-eyed 50-year old teddy bear and seven-year old Jaimee Armstrong may sound like fiction, but the entire story is true. It all began in Girona, Spain on April 23rd, when Jamie, returning from a family vacation, forgot her bag of toys at the airport....
اقرأ المقالIs She The Next J.K. Rowling?Catherine Banner started writing the outline of her book when she was just 14-years old. Five years later, this 19-year old has not one but a trilogy (series of three books) in the works and there is already talk of a film version. Her first book, 'The Eyes of a King', hit bookstores earlier this week....
اقرأ المقالThe School Of The Future - Dowload Lessons Straight To The BrainIf Chris Parry, head of Britain's top private schools is to be believed, schools, as we know them today, will not exist in about 30 years. No longer will students have to toil day after day after day trying to learn math, science, history etc. etc....
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