Category: Our Planet
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Feeling Good beeing Old
The oldest Americans feel the most comfortable with their physical appearance, according to a Gallup poll. Some 66% of those aged at least 65 said they are satisfied with the way they looked, while only 61% of people aged between 18 and 34 said they feel good about their physical appearance. Middle aged people are…
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Tax on Childlessness in Soviet era
It seems the ideological governments no matter left or right have tendency to decide what is best for their people be it with the force. Tax on childlessness in Russia originally passed and enforced from 1941-1990, the tax affected most childless men from 25 to 50 years of age, and most childless married women from…
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A Tokyo Travel Agency Takes Your Stuffed Animals on Vacation
In Tokyo, a travel agency takes stuffed toys on package tours and even provides the holiday photo shot for them too. There are many different tours inside and outside japan including mystery tour that will never know where you’ll be going till the last minute. It will be a day tour. The expense ranging from 35…
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Life of Japan's Modern Sumo Wrestler
Paolo Patrizi’s take on the life of Sumo in Japan http://www.paolopatrizi.com
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The Best World Cup Goals ● 1970-2010
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The Female Writers of Love Stories
I guess we all, at some point in our lives, have come across an erotic fiction. Books with sizzling sex scenes and sexy gorgeous characters, making our blood, run faster through our veins. At times so realistic, we might have felt as if we were the actual characters being obsessed with the sexual acts. We…
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Scenes of World War II, Then and Now
Here are some picture taken 70 years ago on the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe in World War II and photos of the same spot spot after 70 years. Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/scenes-from-d-day-then-and-now/100752 (Galerie Bilderwelt, 1944/Peter Macdiarmid, 2014/Getty Images)
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Restaurant That Booked for the Next 10 Years
It is magnificent to see one’s dreams being realized even by others. All through my adult life, I’ve had the dream of owning a home-based restaurant serving healthy food, made from scratch with all organic, natural and unprocessed ingredients, to those with an appreciation for delicate gourmet taste. So imagine my delight, when I heard…
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Italians Watching Their Team Get Eliminated
Here are some pictures of a neighborhood in Venice watching their national Football team getting eliminated by Uruguay in World Cup 2014: …. …
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Wedding in Venice
I got lucky on my first day of staying in Venice when I witnessed part of an Italian Wedding Ceremony. The groom and the bride suddenly started to run in St Marco’s square and when they got to the middle they stated to dance. dancing. They were accompanied by a handful of wedding guests with…
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A Japanese Soda Company's Ad on the Moon
Well, it’s finally happening. Forty-five years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed at the Sea of Tranquility, the Moon is about to become an ad space. The Japanese drink company Otsuka is planning to send a 2.2-pound titanium can filled with “powdered sports drink and children’s dreams” to the Moon, where it will sit…
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5 Worst Referee Mistakes in History of Football
Football is the most popular sport to play and watch only because it is unpredictable. Every player, coach and fan knows that their team will get a free bees from referee’s mistake sooner or later. Football is round too. Be a good loser… Here are 5 worst referee mistakes in history of football:
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Portrait of My Creature "Theo"
Theo Jansen is part-artist, part-mad scientist. From PVC piping, he builds fantastical creatures that feed only on the wind: propelled by the movement of the air around them, his many-legged Strandbeest are free to roam the countryside and beaches around his house in the Netherlands. From a distance, they look like enormous grazing sheep, but…
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Rich Kids of Instagram
The main drive that got our ancestors got out of the cave and brought us into the instagram era is the drive to excess. United nations claims that the year 2010 had the biggest social mobility that our planet has experienced so far. The middle class of Asia, Africa and Latin American is the biggest…
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Men spend a year staring at women
The average man will spend almost 43 minutes a day staring at 10 different women. That adds up to 259 hours – almost 11 days – each year, making a total 11 months and 11 days between the ages of 18 and 50. But researchers found that the males of the species are not the…
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Riccardo’s latest Book "Reflections of Persia"
Reflections of Persia celebrates the journey of a scholar, photographer, literary translator, and above all, an Iranologist, who has gone above and beyond the political borders of Iran. Riccardo began his academic career in 1978, and at present, chairs the Department of Eurasian Studies at the University of Venice, where he teaches Persian literature…
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FUTEBOL FUTEBOL FUTEBOL
Dualtagh Herr: ” FUTEBOL FUTEBOL FUTEBOL is a series of photographs of football pitches in Brazil located from Google satellite view. The images were made by scanning the terrain of the towns and cities of Brazil using Google’s vast collection of satellite imagery in search of the football pitches that are a prominent feature in…
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Amsterdam Pays with Beer to Clean Streets
Amsterdam’s head of the Rainbow Foundation project Gerrie Holterman said: “This group of chronic alcoholics was causing a nuisance in Amsterdam’s Oosterpark: fights, noise, disagreeable comments to women,”. Therefore they came up with the idea of paying those people with beer and warm meal to help keep the streets tidy. Apparently the success story might…
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Iran Among World’s 20 Drunkest Countries
In one account, Belarus, Moldova and Russia are the biggest drinkers in the world but those figures only tell part of the story. Not everyone drinks and if you exclude non drinkers, the ranking will change. By this measure, France drinks a lot, but because it has one of the lowest rate of abstainers at…
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Live Video Stream of Earth From Sky
One of the latest missions from the ISS is kind of amazing. The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment consists of four cameras that have been attached outside of the ISS. Though temperature is controlled, the cameras are exposed to the radiation from the sun, which will allow astronauts to understand how radiation affects the…
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More Obese in the World Than Suffering From Hunger
The new book published by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations explained the fact that there are more obese in the world than suffering from hunger. based on the research presented in the book, Barbara Burlingame one of the agency’s principle officer said that for 925 million critically hungry people, there are…
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Bizzare Vintage Advertisment
Nowadays we can’t even pace the changes that happen in the values and manners on daily bases therefore these ads are defiantly bizarre. Ad that shows newborn drinking 7up or ad that tries to sell cigaret by making fun of women.
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Mysterious Auction
Medical student under the pseudonym Elizabeth Raine who put her virginity on auction since spring of the last year closed her Bidding auction on May 7. Highest Bid for Elizabeth Raine’s Virginity Is $801,000. Instead of all the hype she decided not to have sex for now and instead focus on her medical studies.…
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Is Capitalism Failed the World
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century is a balanced approach to the major theme of the global economical inequality. He believes that not only does capitalist growth not reduce inequality; it increases it. Here are some of the outline summery of Jeff Faux’s critical review in The Nation magazine: Thomas Piketty just tossed an…
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History of Drinking Wine in Iran
From archaeological excavations that suggest northwest Iran was one of the earliest places where wine was produced — more than 6,000 years ago — to the tale of medieval French knights bringing grapes from the city of Shiraz, where the great Persian poet Hafez lived and wrote about his love of drink, there are…
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Why We Find Some Languages More Beautiful Than Others.
Don’t judgments about a language’s beauty or ugliness generally depend on our personal experiences with people who speak it, and the associations it evokes? Brazilian Portuguese is considered especially soft and melodic – and it inspires thoughts of the bossa nova and Copacabana. Spanish calls up visions of flamenco, bullfights, and – maybe – especially…
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The love of stuff
We’ve got used to the transitory nature of our possessions, the way things are routinely swept aside and replaced – whether it’s last season’s cut of jeans or computers that mysteriously slow down as if clogged by quick-drying cement. It’s one of the challenges facing the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, whose chief…
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Endless fun
In the late 1700s, machinists started making music boxes: intricate little mechanisms that could play harmonies and melodies by themselves. Some incorporated bells, drums, organs, even violins, all coordinated by a rotating cylinder. The more ambitious examples were Lilliputian orchestras, such as the Panharmonicon, invented in Vienna in 1805, or the mass-produced Orchestrion that came…
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A Day in the Life of the Ku Klux Klan
“Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America! A Message of Love NOT Hate!” These words are the first, one sees after going on the Ku Klux Klan’s, website. But the Klan’s name has always been synonymous with hatred and white supremacy sentiments, antisemitism, racism and hatred against blacks. Anthony Karene, a…
