How do they support themselves and their families, all while having to diligently train, often several hours a day over the course of years? How did I pull it off?
“What’s the best free throw?” Should the shooter aim towards the front of the hoop or the back? Does it depend on whether the shooter is short or tall?
The Indian Railways company has received 28 million applications for its 90 thousands new positions, opened as part of a $130 billion modernization plan.
On April 1 1989, Thomas Muster was struck by a car, forcing him to miss the final of the Lipton Championships. Six years later he becomes N°1 in the world.
Starting from March 1st 2018, the Swiss government banned the common practice of boiling lobsters alive. They “will now have to be stunned before they are put to death” as stated in the government order.
Uwe Huck, the head of Porsche works council and deputy chairman of Porsche supervisory said that evening work-related emails should be returned to sender.
The Museum of Mankind in Paris keeps 37 skulls of Algerian militants who had revolted against the French occupation forces in the year 1849.
PHILIPPINES SUSPENDS DENGUE VACCINE BECAUSE OF HEALTH RISKS The Philippines decided to suspend its dengue immunization program because the used vaccine poses health risks in people who were not previously infected. The decision comes after
In October 2017, Kate McClure was driving to Philadelphia when she suddenly ran out of gas. Johnny, a homeless man living around the road, asked her to get back to her car, lock the doors
Yachya and Maria met in 2010 in China and decided to move to Yachya’s hometown, the Syrian capital Damascus. As they were preparing for their marriage, the civil war broke out, in 2011. So they fled to Maria’s hometown, in eastern Ukraine.
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On April 11th 2017, an Italian court in the northern town of Ivrea has ruled that the brain tumor of Roberto Romeo, diagnosed in 2010, was due to the excessive, work-related cellphone use. The fifty
Dr. Renu S Persaud is an award-winning Canadian professor of social sciences. Her new book The Mastery of You is expected to be released on October 15, 2017.
Ubuntu has a desktop search feature that sends the search terms to Canonical’s servers. “This already is a spyware” says Richard Stallman.
A retiree from Toronto, Canada, has built a staircase in a public park to safeguard residents from a risky slope. The 8-steps structure costed him just $550 and made the popular shortcut much safer than
I just finished rereading A Tale of Two Cities. It was such a burden at the beginning. Then, all of a sudden, I got the author’s point. I started appreciating the delicate structure of his
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The village of Giethoorn, in the Netherlands, has no roads and no cars. The residents either walk or take boats through canals. Situated in the northeastern province of Overijssel, it is famous for its waterways and bicycle trails.
A DESPERATE MAN THREATENS A POLICE OFFICER WITH A KNIFE, AND HE RECEIVES A WARM HUG IN RETURN A 45 year-old man entered a police station in Thailand, threatening the officers with a knife. One
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Alexander is a Russian man who has a very particular talent. He is able to completely turn his head 180°. In this video, French reporters had tried to investigate his case closely. And the result was even more amazing that what they had expected.
Muharrem, a Turkish hearing impaired young man, is surprised that everybody on the road is talking to him in sign language. He bursts into tears when he finally finds out that it was a planned
The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) general assembly has decided to change its name to World Taekwondo. The previous one, in use since the establishment of the federation in 1973, has been abandoned for its negative connotation, as it refers to the acronym WTF.
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In the UK elections of June 8th 2017, a man nicknamed Lord Buckethead ran against the Prime Minister Theresa May in Maindenhead. 249 people voted for him. This is not his first election. In 1987, he ran against Margret Thatcher and won 131 votes.
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On November 24, 2014, Michael Hanline walked out of the Ventura County jail a free man after serving 36 years for a murder he did not commit. The Ventura County District Attorney agreed to reversing Hanline’s conviction. Hanline is the longest wrongful incarceration in California history.
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A report published by Amnesty International and Afrewatch in 2016 states that the cobalt used to power cell phones and other electronic devices is mined by child laborers in Africa. It also suggests that the major electronics brands are failing to ensure the source of the cobalt used in their devices.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr62/3183/2016/en/
a new study states that using paracetamol during pregnancy could restrain masculinity and lead to a flaccid sex drive during adult life.
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The synchronicity of Richard Nixon’s resurgence in the 1980s with Gorbachev’s rise, and his curious 1991 trip to the Soviet Union, show clearly that he had an active role in the intelligence strategy that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.
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It seems that peeing in the pool has become commonplace, which makes that clean swimming pool smell actually bad for your health.
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. Life is what happens inside you while you are busy making other interactions. The Mastery of You is an elegant book that takes you
Ponderwall is a new magazine of science and Culture. It promotes a wide spectrum of knowledge without genre limitation. Our articles cover technology, physics, literature, history, politics, philosophy, arts and astronomy. We firmly believe in the universality of
In August 1939, one month before the start of World War II, Einstein sent a letter to the U.S President Roosevelt recommending the utilization of nuclear chain reactions to create an atomic bomb. In his
There are about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. This is the best estimate that can be asserted based on today’s technology. However, scientists expect the numbers to grow bigger as the telescope technology gets
He was born in August 22nd 1904 in the village of Paifang in Sichuan province.
After three years and five seasons, The Americans has finally been nominated for the 2016 Emmy’s Best Drama Series. The show depicts the life and operations of two covert Soviet agents in the U.S in
Antonio Meucci is the true inventor of the telephone, not Alexander Graham Bell. This century-long controversy had finally been settled by the US Congress in 2002. The acknowledgement was the result of the House of Representatives’ vote of the resolution H.RES.269.
Google XPrize contest aimed to encourage startups to develop affordable moon mining technology. Such a technology would have huge economic implications.
On Wednesday July 25th 1990, the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein met with the US ambassador April Glaspie. The meeting’s outcome has had a vital impact on the whole region. Its ramifications are still haunting Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Gulf countries until now.
One in every 200 men alive is a descendant of Genghis Khan, according to a study published in 2003 by researchers from Britain, Italy, Uzbekistan and China.
On July 14th 1789, French revolutionaries stormed into the Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyrannic monarchy. They succeeded to dismantle it and signal the beginning of the French revolution. King Louis 16, his wife
The Defense Department’s Strategic Automated Command and Control System, used to exchange emergency messages with US nuclear forces is still running on an IBM platform from the 1970s. The system uses 8inch floppy disks, the
Press release All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020 Europe makes a definitive choice for open access by 2020 27 May 2016 All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020.
The archerfish can recognize human faces. This conclusion is the result of the work of a team of researchers from Oxford University and from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. It has been published in the
France has launched a meteor-spotting network of 100 cameras all over the country. The project’s official name is Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network (FRIPON). It aims to determine the source of the meteorites and collect
A recent research suggests that a giant unknown planet is orbiting around the sun. This ninth planet could not be observed with telescopes but its existence is deduced from its gravitational impact on the surrounding
One Hundred Years of Solitude is seen by many readers as a fantastic piece of fiction narrating wonderful stories in remote exotic settings. Some others have never seen it in that way. They rather see it
This photo was not taken in the Nazi Germany. It shows the MP Sir. Oswald Mosley, during a parade of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s. Throughout his career, Mosley explored the whole political spectrum, from the extreme left to the extreme right. This photo illustrates his Fascist episode with the Black Shirts. The uniformed and military-style organizations were later banned by the British government. After the war, Mosley formed the Union Movement, calling for the unification of Europe under one super state.
Carbon dioxide has been the epicenter of the pollution and climate change controversy for decades. Several international summits witnessed tough negotiations aiming to reduce its emissions. The latest was the so acclaimed Paris Agreement of December 2015.
The relaxing effect of the forest air is a common experience for humanity all over the world. But in Japan the matter is deeply rooted in the national traditions. It is also taken very seriously by the scientific community.
Under ancient Jewish law, unanimous conviction in a capital crime was considered as too good to be correct. The absence of dissenting opinions among the judges was seen a proof that the suspect is very
In December 2015, President Obama signed a new space bill into law: Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act. It states that “Any asteroid resources obtained in outer space are the property of the entity that obtained them,
“We want to have a car-free center. We want to make it better for pedestrians, cyclists. It will be better for shops and everyone.” Lan Marie Berg, lead negotiator for the Green Party in Oslo told reporters in
The famous case of Reinhart and Rogoff in 2013 marked the start of a wave of replication assessments to research papers in various disciplines. Recently, the Federal Reserve took part of this trend and published a paper called: Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers from Thirteen Journals Say ”Usually Not”.