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When anthropologists first overflew the area, they saw women and children in the open and no one appeared to be painted. It was only when the plane returned a few hours later that they saw these individuals covered head-to-toe in red. Tribes in the Amazon paint themselves for all kinds of different reasons, one of which includes when they feel threatened or are aggressive. Other uncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru and populations are being decimated..
Article Link: www.dailymail.co.uk

This is a time lapse of gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam in the United Sates on 6 May 2007. In the earth’s atmosphere, gravity waves are important for transferring momentum from the troposphere to the mesosphere..
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Wally Wallington is a retired carpenter with 35 years experience in construction which has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity, Wally also believes he has the technique to build pyramids..
Official Website: www.theforgottentechnology.com
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For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup..
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Ok its time for another awesome video from the Common Craft Show. In this video Wikis are explained in how we use them, how they work and why they are useful in todays world, enjoy the video..
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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding, she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another..
Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Brainiac is a British science show, it centralises along the three main cores of science for the British education including chemistry, physics and biology. With this experiment they have used a camera which can take 4000 images a second to show how the human hand reacts in a karate chop..
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Randy Pausch delivered his Last Public Lecture, entitled ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ at CMU on September 18, 2007.
This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical final talk, i.e. what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?..
Official Full Speech: www.video.google.com
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Three major population genetics studies have provided the firmest evidence yet of humanity’s ancestral migration out of Africa. Their findings support the widely accepted hypothesis that humanity’s ancestors traveled from East Africa through Central Asia and then to the rest of the world. More importantly, they point the way towards fine-grained future studies of population variation, allowing people to pinpoint their own ancestral wanderings and scientists to focus on genomic regions that have experienced intensive historical pressure..
Article Link: www.wired.com

As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we’re still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to life; yet we’re still steadily destroying nature. Wilson identifies five grave threats to biodiversity and makes his TED wish: that we will work together on the Encyclopedia of Life, a web-based compendium of data from scientists and amateurs on every aspect of the biosphere. Playtime 22:35min..
Official Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/83

Do you know how many tropical rainforest plants have been identified as having anti-cancer properties? Or how many continents around the world contain rainforests? And just how quickly the world’s rainforests are disappearing?
Find out the answers to these questions and more as you check out these interesting rainforest facts..
Article Link: www.nature.org/rainforests

People living in the lower latitudes, close to the Equator, with intense UV radiation, have developed darker skin to protect them from the damaging effects of UV radiation. In contrast, those living in the higher latitudes, closer to the Poles, have developed fair skin to maximize vitamin D production..
Article Link: www.grida.no

The first group of students using the XO laptops are loving them, and have a larger passion for learning, as now they have the ability to learn more than there teacher knows and can offer, this is a amazing project, great article..
Article Link: www.cnn.com