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Blaine sets breathtaking record
(Apr 30, 2008)
Magician David Blaine has set a world record by holding his breath
for 17 minutes and four seconds on Oprah Winfrey's US TV show in Chicago.
The star was pulled from a water-filled sphere, and then said he had
begun to doubt if he would achieve his goal as he considered his heart
rate too high. The previous record, which was 32 seconds shorter,
was set in February.
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more. Source: BBC |
Swedes find 'world's oldest tree'
(Apr 18, 2008)
A tree said to be the oldest on the planet – thought to be nearly
10,000 years old – has been found in Sweden. Scientists from
Umeaa University discovered the spruce on Fulu Mountain in Dalarna
province while carrying out a census of tree species there in 2004.
The age of its genetic material was recently calculated using carbon
dating at a laboratory in Miami, Florida.
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more. Source: BBC |
'They're here': The mechanism of poltergeist
activity
(Apr 1, 2008)
The sight of small blonde girls watching television is guaranteed
to strike fear into the heart of anyone who has watched the movie
Poltergeist. We're right to be terrified, say physicists. Children
generate poltergeist activity by channelling energy into the quantum
mechanical vacuum.
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more. Source: New Scientist |
Shroud mystery 'refuses to go away'
(Mar 22, 2008)
There are very few Christian relics as important and as controversial
as the Shroud of Turin. This linen cloth, measuring about 4.4m by
1.1m (14.4 × 3.6 feet) holds the concealed image of a man bearing
all the signs of crucifixion. Scientific tests have proved that there
are blood stains around the marks consistent with a crown of thorns
and a puncture from a lance to the side.
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more. Source: BBC |
NZ dolphin rescues beached whales
(Mar 12, 2008)
A dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had become stranded
on a beach in New Zealand. Conservation officer Malcolm Smith told
the BBC that he and a group of other people had tried in vain for
an hour and a half to get the whales to sea. The pygmy Sperm
whales had repeatedly beached, and both they and the humans were
tired and set to give up, he said.
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more. Source: BBC |
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