Top 10 Worlds Strangest Showers

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Posted by natasa on February 15, 2011, filed in:

There is nothing like a long, hot shower to clear the mind and clean the body or a brisk, cold shower to cool one’s ardor or wash away the lazy, sweaty sheen of a summer’s day. Showers conjure all sorts of images from towel swatting in sports change rooms, to prison jokes, to sexy naked bodies to the famous Psycho scene.

Diva Models Calendar 2011

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ARTS | 14. FEB, 2011 BY CAFETERRA

Diva Models Calendar 2011 photographed by Tina Petni. Models are Dima, Yana, Arleta, Julie, Jana, Viara, Olga, Petra, and Louis, make up stylist Stuart Robertson.

World's Biggest Machines

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Published on 10/1/2010 under Fun Tech - by Gracie Murano

Strata 950 – The drilling machine being used to save the 33 Chilean miners

Chile is using a 40-ton drilling machine called Strata 950 to bore through 700 meters (2,300 feet) of rock and free the 33 trapped miners workers trapped in a collapsed copper mine.

30 Greatest Albert Einstein Quotes

Published on 1/16/2008

1. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."


2. "I, at any rate, am convinced that He (God) does not throw dice."


3. "The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing."


4. "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."


5. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."


6. "Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."


7. "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."


8. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."


9. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value"


10. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."


11. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."


12. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."


13. "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."


14. "Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."


15. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."


16. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."


17. "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."


18. "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."


19. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."


20. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."


21. "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater"


22. "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."


23. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."


24. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."


25. "Truth is what stands the test of experience."


26. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"


27. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."


28. "Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth."


29. "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."


30. "Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

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14 of the Worlds Most Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

14 JULY 2010

A selection of some of the more bizarre unsolved mysteries

Even with modern advancement of scientific techniques for solving crimes and the professional nouse of detectives and investigators, there are still a multitude of high profile cases where crimes have gone unsolved to this very day. From man made to natural phenomenon, we have trawled through hundreds of bizarre unsolved mysteries to cherry pick the best examples!

1. The Voynich Manuscript

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