At over 5000 years old, Varanasi is one of the oldest inhabited places on earth: It is also one of India’s holiest cities. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Shiva founded the city 5000 years ago. Varanasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its early history is that of the first Aryan settlement…
Rain is precious at the best of times, but this is something else entirely. Scientists believe that on Jupiter and Saturn, it rains diamonds. New atmospheric data for the gas giants indicates that carbon is abundant in its dazzling crystal form, the BBC reports. Lightning storms turn methane into soot which hardens into chunks of graphite…
Dolphins are thought of as one of the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom – and experts believe they have put their ingenuity to use in the pursuit of getting “high”. In extraordinary scenes filmed for a new documentary, young dolphins were seen carefully manipulating a certain kind of puffer fish which, if…
A pinnacle of wartime technology, the HMS Trident was supposed to patrol the Atlantic, doing submarine things. Maybe sink a ship or two, enforce the blockade, and smuggle a reindeer from Russia to England. If that last part sounds more like the plot of a Nickelodeon cartoon than a World War II mission, then you clearly don’t…
The Psycho movie is regarded as the first American movie to show a toilet flushing. Reportedly, screenwriter Joseph Stefano was adamant in showing this to add realism to the movie but Hitchcock stated it must be needed in the script. Stefano then wrote the scene in which Marion Crane flushes evidence down the toilet. Throughout…
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala gains ₹640 crore from this Tata stock in 9 days: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala portfolio: Tata Motors share price today climbed to its new 52-week high of ₹502.90 apiece on NSE. The Rakesh Jhunjhunwala holding stock opened today with an upside gap of ₹42.05 per share and went on to ascend new 52-week peak in early morning deals….
A Texan man who tried to shoot an Armadillo shells has found himself in hospital after his bullet bounced off the animal and hit him in the face. Police in Cass County said the unnamed man spotted the small animal “on his property” at around 3am local time on Thursday and decided to kill it….
A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth: ‘Alternative facts’ The phrase “alternative facts” has recently made the news in a political context, but psychiatrists like me are already intimately acquainted with the concept – indeed, we hear various forms of alternate reality expressed almost every day. Untruths aren’t always lies: First, we need to…
The Giant Pacific Octopuses for example has 3 hearts, 9 brains, and blue blood. It sounds like something straight out of a fantasy novel, but alas our own world is magical enough to have creatures as big as 600 pounds capable of squeezing through a coin-sized hole. When it comes to reproduction, octopuses once again…
Polar bears are top carnivores that bioaccumulate the vitamin A produced by marine algae lower down the food chain. Because vitamin A isn’t water-soluble, it can’t be easily flushed from the body and is stored in the liver instead. Bears and seals have generally high levels of vitamin A in their livers but polar bears…
