World’s Smallest Fish
Written by TheNark admin on January 31st, 2009 | 0 Comments“This is one of the strangest fish that I’ve seen in my whole career”, said Ralf Britz, zoologist at the Natural History Museum. No wonder—it’s the smallest fish ever discovered. Measuring 7.9mm long and a member of the Carp family, Paedocypris progenetica is the world’s tiniest vertebrate.
Found living in a forest swamp on the Indonesian [...]
The Strongest Bite Ever
Written by TheNark admin on January 31st, 2009 | 1 CommentPlacoderm fishes were the first group of jawed vertebrates, and dominated aquatic ecosystems between 430 and 360 million years ago.
These early fishes were covered in a bonny armor that protected them (placoderm = “armored skin”). The biggest placoderm ever found is Dunkleosteus terrelli, which, with its 33 feet (10 m) length and 4 tons must [...]
Tasmanian Devil – snap eight times stronger than dobermans
Written by TheNark admin on January 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsThe Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial now found in the wild only in the Australian island state of Tasmania. The Tasmanian Devil is the only extant member of the genus Sarcophilus. The size of a small dog, but stocky and muscular, the Tasmanian Devil is now the largest carnivorous marsupial in the [...]
Bicycle of future
Written by TheNark admin on January 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsRealized by the Industrial Design Department of Alberto Del Biondi Industria Del Design in Italy, this avant-garde concept plays on the latest bicycle materials and technology. The new design is a minimalistic play on the typical city bike, using the concept of less is more to an extreme degree. Lines are simple yet dynamic while [...]
Humans microchips
Written by TheNark admin on January 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsAll Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says.
Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong’s School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term “uberveillance” to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance.
“Uberveillance is not on the outside looking down, [...]
The Difference Between Women and Men
Written by TheNark admin on January 29th, 2009 | 0 CommentsWe like to think that men and women are fundamentally the same, excepting their reproductive organs. We all want the same rights and opportunities, and for some things, such as women’s suffrage, it was a long, hard fight to achieve equal footing. As a result, we’re often appalled at stereotypical suggestions that the sexes might [...]
Be Yourself, it is only you can do!
Written by TheNark admin on January 28th, 2009 | 0 CommentsDo you know that out of 6.6 billion people in this world, nobody looks alike? Even an identical twins have different thumbprints. Not only humans, but also plants and animals differ from each other. Isn’t this amazing? Do you think this is merely a coincidence? Absolutely not… Existence has purposefully made us different from each [...]
Make it in sky
Written by TheNark admin on January 27th, 2009 | 0 CommentsMarriage in the Sky
# is a marriage celebrated in heaven for couples who want to bring their chapel a little closer to angels on their wedding day by raising it 50 metres up in the air.
# is a unique event meant for couples who wish to transform an ordinary marriage into a magical moment [...]
Duck race
Written by TheNark admin on January 27th, 2009 | 0 CommentsThe origin of the rubber duck is not known, but its history is inevitably linked to the emergence of rubber manufacturing in the late 1800s. The earliest rubber ducks were made from harder rubber and lacked squeakers. The yellow rubber duck has achieved an iconic status in American pop culture and is often symbolically linked [...]
Zombie walk
Written by TheNark admin on January 27th, 2009 | 0 CommentsA zombie walk (also known as a zombie mob, zombie march, zombie horde, zombie lurch, zombie shuffle or zombie pub crawl) is an organized public gathering of people who wears zombie costumes. Usually taking place in an urban centre, the participants make their way around the city streets and through shopping malls in a somewhat [...]
Drive your bike safetly at the night
Written by TheNark admin on January 26th, 2009 | 0 CommentsA close brush with a distracted driver is enought to intimidate the most avid bikers from riding at night. The problem is not just about visibility, as safety lights are effective at capturing the attention of a driver. However, these lights are typically constrained to the bike frame, which highlights only a fraction of the [...]
Hologram or reality?
Written by TheNark admin on January 25th, 2009 | 0 CommentsYou might think that your modern PC screen has a pretty high resolution, but reality is a quadrillion times better – a hundred trillion dots per inch, can you imagine? A collaboration between Fermilab scientists and a hundreds of meters of laser may have found the very pixels of reality, grains of spacetime one tenth [...]
Tiny doll made of living cells
Written by TheNark admin on January 24th, 2009 | 0 CommentsTo demonstrate a new method for fabricating three-dimensional living biological structures, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) have created a 5-millimeter tall doll composed of living cells.
According to an announcement made on January 22, the researchers created the tiny figurine by cultivating 100,000 cell capsules — 0.1-millimeter balls of collagen, [...]
Don’t forget your pet
Written by TheNark admin on January 23rd, 2009 | 0 CommentsHow will you remember your pet? As we all know, we are all short-lived and nobody of us doesn’t want to be forgotten, even pets. The solution of this problem is given by Kim Graham Studios. They provide beautiful and elegant one-of-a-kind memorials. Each piece is individually sculpted by hand to achieve a genuine likeness.
They [...]
Tetris art
Written by TheNark admin on January 22nd, 2009 | 0 CommentsWith work by artists from the City of Sydney’s artist run initiatives By Georgel explores the potential of the City’s laneways, bringing them back to life with creativity, innovation and new energy.
This work references the much loved, mesmerising, enduringly compelling classic single-player video game Tetris, developed by Alexey Pajitnov of the USSR’s Academy of Science [...]
The sun is the only food we need
Written by TheNark admin on January 21st, 2009 | 2 CommentsHira Ratan Manek was born in 1937 in Bodhavad, India, was raised in Calicut, Kerala, India, where he had his Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Kerala. After graduation, he joined the family shipping and spice trading business and continued working there until he retired in 1992.
He had been interested in sun since his [...]
The display of future
Written by TheNark admin on January 20th, 2009 | 0 CommentsThin paper-like displays came one step closer to reality today, with HP Labs and the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University unveiling the first working prototype of a supposedly affordable flexible display. The display is made almost entirely out of plastic which enables it to be easily portable and consume less power than typical [...]
A man fascinated by size – Anish Kapoor
Written by TheNark admin on January 18th, 2009 | 0 CommentsAnish Kapoor is very interested in female genitalias. In his new exhibition, they’re everywhere. He is surely a man that had read Freud. But female genitalia is not the only source of his art. He is also fascinated whit big objects, and because of that his installations are really huge. Taratantara project [...]

