Sisters from a closed order dating back to 6th century win contract for a new album of Gregorian chant
Google signs green Power Purchase Agreement
Image by Conor Dupre-Neary via Flickr Today has some good news for Mother Earth. Google, the search and ads site, has been trying to be carbon neutral since 2007. Today they’ve signed a big deal – a 20-year deal, in fact – on green Power Purchasing. Come July 30th they’ll be buying clean energy from […]
Yoga music can help cats relax
Image by rchughtai — “not very active” via Flickr Sian Barr, a student veterinary nurse, has carried out research on sick cats being treated at a vet’s sugery. Miss Barr, a recent graduate with a first class honours, concluded that yoga medication music can help. Cats become less stressed when they listen to the music. […]
The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded
Everyone agrees it is a masterpiece. But who painted The Virgin of the Rocks – Leonardo or his students? Jonathan Jones joins the National Gallery on an epic quest to find out
I Will Survive – the Holocaust dance
I think this is beautiful. Do you agree? A Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren visit concentration camps around Europe. What do they do? They dance to Gloria Gaynor‘s “I Will Survive“. This video has actually been around for half a year but is quickly going viral now the blogs have caught wind of […]
Spain will win World Cup predicts Peruvian Shaman
A gathering of Peruvian shamans in Lima resulted in self-proclaimed master Juan Osco predicting Spain will win the World Cup. However, not all the shamans who took part in the colourful ceremony agreed and a number of senior shamans came out in favour of the Netherlands. This isn’t the first time Osco, sometimes known as […]
Immortal jellyfish invading the world’s oceans
Scientists have found what may be the only animal in the world capable of immortality. The hydrozoans jellyfish is able to revert back to its polyp state – that’s its first stage of live, the stage it is born into and before it starts to mature into an older jellyfish. The process is called transdiffentiation […]
Destroying 7 million tons of glacier – and bragging about it
The current chairman of Current TV is a cool dude. He also happens to be the former President of the United States of American. Al Glore has blogged about ( Huffington Post resurfaced it ) an old advert that Humble Oil ran in 1962. It says; Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons […]
The Blue Stane of St. Andrews and the Devil’s fingerprint
In the Scottish town of Saint Andrews, by the railings of the Hope Park Church, is a large stone with a strange blue patch. The stone wasn’t always beside Hope Park Church, it once rested at Magnus Muir where Knights of Scotland used to swear their oaths. The legend behind the Blue Stane of St […]
Video and photographs of UFO spirals in Sky over Canada
The International weather and science website The WeatherSpace has some rather remarkable video footage. The site says a number of different photographs had been sent to it showing a most unusual spiral in the sky – and a glowing, moving orb. Rather sensibly The WeatherSpace reminds readers of the spiral seen in the sky of […]
