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…
India rupee slips 6 paise to 75.42 against US dollar in early trade: At the interbank foreign exchange, the India rupee opened on a weak note at 75.41, then fell further to 75.42, registering a decline of 6 paise from the last close. The Indian rupee depreciated 6 paise to 75.42 against the US dollar…
To discover this, the scientists out of Germany studied 51 dogs in different conditions to see how they would react when people intentionally or unintentionally refrained from giving them a treat. Also known as unable versus unwilling paradigm. The conditions included dogs and people separated by a clear barrier as the human held a treat….
In September this year, the Chandrayaan-2 mission made for an international spectacle for its technological leap — before losing its Vikram lander. But its success came on the back of India’s first moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, which entered the lunar orbit exactly 11 years ago. For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the Moon’s surface was bone-dry. The…
Next time you’re stuffing fistfuls of delicious bacon into your taste receptors , you might want to consider sticking a piece or two of crispy goodness into your crotch, then up your butt for good measure. No, I’m not suggesting you develop a kinky bacon fetish (although experimenting with bacon condoms is always a good…
