A living thing that lives more than 400 years.

ocean quahog(image source: wikimedia commons)

These are called ocean quahog found in North Atlantic Ocean live more than four hundred years. It is also called by the names such as black clam, mahogany quahog etc. The size of these species is around 50mm. The longest reported age is 507 years and is collected in 2006. Previously it was a 374 year old was collected in 1868.

Longest living species. Longest life span

A Railway worker in UK taxed an amount of 14 trillion pounds

Hembrough A railway worker in UK works as signal tester received an income tax bill of £14trillion from the HM Revenue and Customs(HMRC) of UK.

In the letter he received it has written as “We think the amount you owe HMRC is £14,301,369,864,489.03. We will let you know if this amount is right when we look at your tax return for the year.” Amaizingly this amount is a trillion pounds higher than the net worth of the worlds largest economy, United States of America

The shocked Hembrough says that even if he gave away all his salary it would take him 369 million years to pay off the tax.


When he contacted the HMRC and said to a woman, she opened up his file she was too surprised and said that it looks like someone has fallen asleep on the keyboard.

(Source:mirror)

This is where the GPS ended up

A car ended up nearly vertical to the ground while following the GPS instruction to “turn around”

A 30 year old woman in is US driving with the help of GPS and as she passed her actual destination the GPS gave sudden instruction to turn around. The women reacted quickly and swerved the car, landing on a guy wire attached to utility pole.

(Source:-cbs)

A robot will teach coding to kids

 A robot has been developed to teach kids of all ages the coding. 

The robot named Root looks just like a smoke detector but is actually a sophisticated robot. A magnetic surface, wheels, and an impressive arsenal of sensors allow it to navigate a classroom whiteboard. But Root isn't actually programed to do anything. Its tasks and functionality lies on a child's imagination. 

The robot is capable of driving and drawing as well as playing music, but Root needs instructions to operate, a line of code. Zivthan Dubrovsky of Harvard's Wyss Institute recalls testing out Root with kids for the first time.

Using a tablet connected wirelessly to the robot, level one introduces kids to the principles of programing using an interface of simple commands and pictures. As they become more adept, they jump to levels 2 and 3, at which point writing computer code becomes second nature, according to Dubrovsky.

The team hopes to partner up with education companies to develop curriculums based around Root with the hopes of enticing schools to add the robot to classrooms.

"By adding a robot into the classroom you are actually adding a third agent into the classroom and you enable a new interesting way of teaching where the students can become the teachers, teaching the robot to do things," Dubrovsky said. While at the same time learning a new skill, one that is increasingly important in a digital world where knowing how to code could become just as important as knowing to read and write.

(Source: Reuters)

Do know what can happen to Social network accounts after your Death, Have a look at this…

Facebook

• After 10 years, Facebook will have 30 million dead users.
• About 8,000 Facebook account users die daily.
• There are ways to memorialize them on-line through some of the networks after death
• The privacy laws of social network companies as well as email providers mean no one is allowed to log in as you.
• If tried, they may force a shutdown of the account and lose what they were trying to preserve.
• Facebook has arranged users to choose what they want to happen to your account after death.
• Facebook tells users that they can say in advance whether they’d like to have their account memorialized or permanently deleted from Facebook in the event of their death.
• Facebook has also offered a way for surviving family and friends to head off afterlife issues - by adding a 'legacy contact' who will have limited control of the account should you pass on.
• After the legacy contact has posted a final message Facebook makes the profile into a memorial, where friends will not change but messages of sympathy and remembrance can be posted.
• Any which are deemed unsuitable can be moderated by the legacy contact.

Twitter

• Twitter allows people to request a shutdown of dead person's accounts
• In the event of the death of a Twitter user the company says it can work with a person authorized to act on the behalf, or with a verified immediate family member of the deceased, to have an account deactivated.
• There are also choices to request the removal of a deceased user's account, which will require you to provide information about the them, a copy of your ID, and copy of the death certificate.
• They are clear on one thing, though - they are unable to provide account access to anyone regardless of his or her relationship to the deceased.

Instagram

• Instagram also memorializes accounts like Facebook but there are some differences.
• Instagram doesn’t allow anyone to log into a memorialized account, and they cannot be changed, including changes to likes, followers, tags, posts and comments.
• Posts the deceased person shared stay on Instagram and are visible to the audience they were shared with, but memorialized accounts don't appear in public spaces like searches.

Email

• Gmail lets you elect to shut down your account automatically after a period of inactivity
• Gmail, as owned by Google, will allow you to apply to obtain the contents of a deceased person's email.
• You can also set it to have an " Inactive Account Manager ," which either shares or delete your account after a set period of inactivity.
• Yahoo also lets loved ones apply to close the account provided that they have the necessary documentation.
• Apple's iCloud email and iTunes accounts are of different rules.
• The corporation says: "You agree that your Account is non-transferable and that any rights to your Apple ID or Content within your Account terminate upon your death.
• "Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate your Account may be terminated and all Content within your Account deleted."

(Source: mirror)

ISRO Scientists developed a new silica aerogel to keep Soldiers warm in freezing temperatures of Siachen

          Indian scientists at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, India’s premier rocket lab have created a new way of keeping our soldiers warm in the freezing temperatures of Siachen. They developed silica aerogel or blue air and is the world’s lightest material.  The aerogel can not only useful on earth useful in space too owing to its excellent thermal resistance. This material is also sometimes referred to as frozen smoke and it is so delicate that it can even be placed on flower’s head. This material is very useful for those who work in extremely cold environments.

           Apart from this lightest material have also multiple uses as it can also be used to insulate rocket engines. What remains to be highlighted here is this aerogel could have possibly the life of Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad and his fellow soldiers’ lives from the frozen bite that took their lives. 

sniffer dogs at UK, good at finding sausages rather than drugs

Sniffer dogs team set up at a British airport with a cost of 1.25 million pounds have proved that they are good at discovering small amounts of cheese and sausages but not so good at finding smuggled drugs.

In an inspection of border security at Manchester Airport in northern England, It was found that during a seven-month period, the six dogs had failed to find any illegal and dangerous Class A drugs such as drugs such as heroin or cocaine.

According to a report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, this represented a low return on investment, given 1.25 million spent on new kennels and the costs of operating the unit.

Each dog has its own specialty in detecting goods such as drugs, tobacco, cash and meat being illegally brought into the airport by the 22 million passengers who use it annually.

However the report found that although the sniffers had helped customs seize 46 kg of cigarettes and 181 kg of meat, they had uncovered no class A drugs between November 2014 and June 2015 even though this was a "very high" priority.

It said one dog trained to find smuggled animal products had made "multiple accurate detections, but most were of small amounts of cheese or sausages, wrongly brought back by returning British holidaymakers and posing minimal risk to UK public health".

Managers are now examining how better to deploy the dogs, the report said.

(source: Reuters)

Underdogs become top dogs as they train to fly a plane, revealing their unique qualities

Twelve abandoned dogs from across the UK will attempt to become the first dogs to fly a plane in a new television series. The dozen canines were chosen by experts from the 120,000 in UK rescue shelters each year and were taken to a Sussex mansion for exercises designed to prepare them for their challenge. During a 10-week training period, scientists looked at their communication, empathy, memory and reasoning skills and the six-episode series follows their journey as they blossom under the care of trainers, behaviour specialists and vets. Among those putting the canines through their paces are Mat Ward, a clinical animal behaviourist who acts as an expert witness in dog-related court cases, and Cath Phillips, a police dog trainer. A chosen few will then be sent to flight school to be trained in flying a single-engine aircraft. At the end of the series each dog will be given a loving new home. Presenter Jamie Theakston said the series would show how unique and talented each dog is. "People give up on them too easily and this series will show us why we shouldn’t. They are just as deserving and just as intelligent," he said. Theakston added that he had been surprised by each dog's ability to show empathy, despite the difficult circumstances they had grown up in. "Even if a dog has been deprived of human contact or has been badly treated, it is just as able and motivated to initiate a new relationship with a human very quickly." Stanley Coren, professor of canine psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was not convinced the dogs would be able to manage the challenge. "Given that we would not expect a human three-year-old to be able to fly a plane, I would not expect that a dog could do so either," he told The Independent.

A spanish man skipped six years work and unnoticed.

A Spanish man was fined after his employer discovered that he had been absent from work for six years without notifying anyone. Joaquin Garcia, a 69-year-old is an engineer at a municipal water company in Cadiz. He was fined more than $30,300 after his employer discovered that he hadn't reported for work for six years while attempting to present him an award for 20 years of service. The maximum fine represents only sightly less than one year of his annual salary of almost $41,600. His employers at the water company believed he was being supervised by local authorities while deputy mayor Jorge Blas Fernandez thought the opposite to be true. "We thought he had been supervised by the water company but that was not the case," he told Spanish news outlet El Mundo. According to the BBClocal newspapers have given Garcia the nickname "el funcionario fantasma" or "the phantom official." Garcia said a combination of office bullying related to his family's politics and a lack of work for him to do at the water company ultimately caused his extended absence. He did not report these condition for fear of losing his job. He did occasionally report to work for brief periods of time but spent his days at the office studying philosophy. Garcia wrote to the mayor and requested to not pay the fine and is seeking a review of the court's ruling.

Amazing and Interesting Facts about Televisions

1.      Baird the inventor of television, before using a real person he experimented with a ventriloquist’s dummy called Stooky Bill.

2.      Most people dream in color, but some people those grew up watching black and white television often dream in black and white.

3.      British Top Gear is the most watched TV show which is seen over 170 countries with an estimated weekly viewer ship of about 350 million.

4.      The inventor of the television would not let his own children watching the television. He also once said to his son that here is nothing on it worthwhile and we’re not going to watch it in his house hold.

5.      An average person in UK watches just over four hours television a day.

6.      After President kennedy’s death in 1963, the television networks aired four days of commercial free coverage of his funeral, burial and other proceedings, costing them around $100 million in lost advertising revenue.

7.      The children’s television show Arthur is the second longest running animated series in US just behind the Simpsons.

8.      It has been calculated that an average American child sees about 13,000 deaths on television during the age of 5 and 14 years.

9.      In 1997 a monkey was also arrested for stealing a television aerial in the African state of Benin.

Interesting facts about Valentine’s day

1. Based on retail statistics, about 3 percent of pet owners will give Valentine’s Day gifts to their own pets. 2. About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged each year making them the second largest seasonal card sending time of the year. 3. During the Medieval Times girls would eat unusual foods on Valentine’s Day. It was believed that it made them have dreams about their future husband. 4.The oldest known Valentine’s Day card is being displayed at the British Museum in London. It’s dates back to the 1400’s. 5. In Finland Valentine’s Day is called Ystävänpäivä, which in english means “Friend’s day”. It's more about remembering your buddies than your loved ones. 6. In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who would be their Valentine. They would wear this name pinned onto their sleeves for one week to let everyone to see. This was the origin of the expression "to wear your heart on your sleeve." 7. More than 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold for the Valentine's Day. 8. 73 percent of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are only men, while only 27 percent are women. 9. Women purchase the most valentines day gifts approximately 85 percent of the gifts are bought by women

Amazing and Weird jobs in The World

These are some of the world’s most weird jobs in the world that you will be surprised to know.

1.    Professional line-standers: You don’t have enough patience to stand in queue? These professionals are there to stand in a line for you. These are busy especially during big sales and product launches. Rates may vary from one to other.

2.    Oshiya: These people work in japan railway stations. As the Trains in Japan are fully crowded the japan railways came with solution called oshiya (People onto train pushers) , these people push the people into the trains to get the doors closed in time.

3.    Professional mourners: The professional mourners are there to attend funerals and grieve for the deceased. This is an ancient practice and is found in China, Africa and the Middle East. There is also a company called Rent A Mourner in England which offers mourners.  The cost is around $70 for two hours.

4.    Car Plate Blockers: In Iran some local authorities place restrictions on number of cars allowed on road by allowing the cars whose numbers ends with even or odd on a given day. So drivers hire some people to walk or stand behind their cars to cover the number plate.

5.    Dog surfing instructors: There are people who teach your dog how to surf. They can be found at some ocean resorts. Some even offer classes strictly for dogs.

6.    Professional Ear Cleaners: There are a few professional ear cleaners found in streets of India. They clean the wax and dust in the ears of the people.

7.    Cuidacarros: This is a profession in Brazil, these people watch your car while you left. Some of them accept whatever given on your return, while others have a strict prices ranging from 1 to 10 dollars.

8.    Face feelers: These are trained to use their hands and judge the effectiveness of products like lotions, facial cleansers, and razors. Face feelers work part-time, but they can earn up to $25 per hour. They are also called as 'sensory scientists,'

9.    Ash portrait artists: They get creative with the remains of once loved ones. Following cremation, some people hire these artists to create a token of remembrance, like a necklace or glass sculpture.

10. Dog food tasters: They test the quality of the pet foods and are hired by pet food companies to test the quality of their products. They also evaluate the nutritional value.

11.Snake milkers: They extract venom from most dangerous snakes in the world like rattlesnakes and cobras. The venom which is extracted is often used to create anti venom and it can costs up to $1,000 per gram.

Amazing Facts about Mobile Phones

• Nokia 1100 which was launched in 2003 was the bestselling phone handset in history with more than 250 million pieces sold. Once again Nokia is trying to come back into the market with the same model name but with a smartphone.

• The first commercially available mobile phone, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was sold at $4000 in United States in March 1984.

• In 2012 apple sold more than 340,000 iPhones per day than means it sold around 4 iPhones per second.

• Do you know how much bacteria contained on your mobile phone? It carries 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles. Because you will wash your toilet but you can’t wash your phone.

• In Japan 90% of mobile phones used are waterproof because they use the phones even in shower.

• Do you wonder who made the first phone call? The first mobile call was made by Martin Cooper in 1973. He was a former Motorola inventor

• In Britain around 855,000 mobile phones are dropped and flushed in toilet every year. This is about 1.5% of the UK’s population.

• About 70% of world’s mobile phones are manufactured in china.

• Around 80% of the world’s population of the world has mobile phone. That is around 6 billion people own mobile phones out of 7 billion world population. But only 3.5 billion use a tooth brush. Also this number is lower than who use toilets, only 4.5 billion have a toilet.

Want to Rob Internet cafe first Logout out of Facebook or you will be caught

Yes its true, two thieves in Cambodia caught by Police by not logging out of Facebook. These funny Thieves in Colombian tried Rob Internet Cafe But have Forget to Logout of Facebook. Two beginner burglars in Calima, Colombia, are learning the hard way the effect of Facebook on crime.

It seems the two unidentified criminals came to the internet café and one of them checked his Facebook account and left his account logged in before attempting robbery. Then the two robbed the cafe at gunpoint and proceeded to make a clean getaway on a motorcycle. It has appeared to be the perfect crime at that time.

Later it made work easier for police, the police got his address from his Facebook account, drove to the criminal's home and took the suspect to jail, Gizmodo reported.

The rise of Facebook seems to have coincided with an increased number of reports of dumb thieves.

Soon your clothes have touch screen control capabilities

Google declared that it's working on creating attire from specially woven material with touch-screen management capabilities. Google disclosed this at the internet titan’s annual developers’ conference, by Project Jacquard, and named levi Strauss as its 1st partner.

It is named after a Frenchman, who invented a type of loom, The smart material was disclosed in an area set up to resemble cloth popping out of a loom. it is done by weaving conductive threads into fabric. The special threads can be woven into a wide array of fabrics and be created to visually stand out or go unnoticed, depending on the design. conductivity can be restricted to desired components of the fabric or spread across the whole cloth.

Just like a normal fabric, this cloth also can be stretchy and washable . conductive yarn was connected to tiny circuits, no larger than jacket buttons, with miniaturized physics that would use algorithms to acknowledge touches or swipes. data can be sent wirelessly to smartphones or other devices, enabling  actions like making phone calls or sending messages with brushes of cloth

Project Jacquard is within the hands of a small Google team referred to as advanced technology and projects (ATAP), Project Jacquard makes it possible to weave touch and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms, according to Google. anything involving fabric — from suits or dresses to piece of furniture or carpet — may potentially have computer touch-pad style control capabilities woven into it.

A man pronounced dead, then moves and breathes

A Man in Milwaukee, Largest city of Wisconsin pronounced death and first responders preparing to take the body of the man to the morgue got a jolt when the man suddenly began moving and noticeably breathing.

After his worried girlfriend called for assistance, saying she had not heard from him for two days The authorities gone to the 46-year-old man high-rise building on Tuesday. When they arrived at his apartment, they found him cold, pale and rigid at the foot of his bed, the report said.

They did not try to resuscitate him.

About 50 minutes later, the medical examiner arrived and notified the man's family of his death. As the examiner readied the body to be taken to the morgue, the man began to move his left arm and right leg, the report said.

Paramedics took the man, who has not been identified, to a nearby hospital, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit.

Interesting science facts that you wonder

These are the most interesting fact of science that blow off your mind

1.      Light would take 13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

2.      If you drill a tunnel straight through the earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.

3.      A single bolt of lightning contains energy enough to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.

4.      An average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in his lifetime.

5.      More germs are transferred while shaking hands than kissing.

6.      The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.

7.      An average person accidentally eats about 430 bugs each year of their life.

8.      There are more living organisms on the skin of a human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

9.      Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.

10.  Girls have more taste buds than boys.

11.  Koalas sleep an average of 22hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

12.  A dog’s sense of smell is 1000 times more sensitive than a human.

13.  There is a waterfall in Minnesota called Devil’s Kettle where the water flows into a large hole made of rock. Several studies have been done and scientists still don’t know where the water ends up.

14.  In 1952, a European scientist released a bacterium into the wild which almost eradicated the continent’s rabbit population. There was a 90% reduction in france and 95% in the united kingdom.

15.  In 2009, scientists used cloning to bring back an extinct species. It lived for about 7 minutes before dying due to a lung defect.

16.  There is a cave of natural gas in Turkmenistan known as the “Door to Hell”. In 1971, Scientists lit the cave on fire on expecting it to burn for a few days. It’s still burning.

Now, a perfume that smells even better when you sweat

Trying to cover up your sweat odour with perfume? Worry not as scientists have now, for the first time, developed a perfume that smells even better if you swear more. Created by researchers in the Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL) Research Center, this unique new perfume has a delivery system which releases more of its aroma when it comes into contact with moisture, meaning a person smells nicer when their sweat levels increase. This innovative perfume system has been created by tagging a raw fragrance onto an ionic liquid (salt in the form of liquid) which has no smell.  The “perfume ionic liquid” releases its aroma when it comes into contact with water, allowing more of the perfume’s scent to be released onto a person’s skin. In addition, the perfume system also has the ability to remove the bad odours that come from sweat. The “thiol” compounds that are responsible for the malodour of sweat are attracted to the ionic liquid, attaching themselves to it and losing their potency. Project leader, Dr Nimal Gunaratne, said that the exciting not has great commercial potential, and could be used in perfumes and cosmetic creams, but it could also be used in others area of science, such as the slow release of certain substances of interest

Long Lasting Bulbs

Long lasting bulbs will soon available which can reduce energy usage by ten percent

These light bulbs are made with super-strong carbon or grapheme and will be available in the market later in 2015. These light bulbs will cut energy use by 10 percent and last longer owing to its conductivity. This dimmable bulb contains a filament-shaped LED coated in grapheme.

The bulb was designed at Manchester University, where the material was discovered. Light bulb was developed by a Canadian-financed company called Graphene Lighting-one of whose directors is Prof Colin Bailey; deputy vice-chancellor at the university of Manchester. Based on traditional light bulb design, the use of graphene allows it to conduct electricity and heat more effectively. It has been expected to be price lower than some of the LED bulbs, which can cost 15 pounds each.

Google top searches in 2014

Google trends 2014

Most across the world use Google as primary search engine and also many uses as the home page too. Have you get a question that what most of the people search for? Take a look at the Google’s top searches in the past year 2014.

Top trending search of the year 2014

1.      “Robin Williams” is the most searched in Google this year, 2014.

2.      “World Cup” is the second most searched in the world.

3.      The deadly virus Ebola which is the cause of many deaths is the third most searched and top most in global news.

4.      Malaysia Airlines is the fourth most searched in Google and its stands third in the Global news.

5.      ALS Ice Bucket Challenge stands fifth most searched.

6.      Flappy Bird

7.      Conchita Wurst is at seventh position of Google search rankings in 2014.

8.      ISIS is eight most searched.

9.      The Hollywood movie ‘Frozen’ is the ninth most searched.

10.  Sochi Olympic stands as the 10^th most searched in the Google.

11.  iPhone 6 is the top most searched in the consumer electronics and iPhone 6 Plus Bend Test is fifth most searched in YouTube.

12.  James Rodriguez is the top most searched athlete in the Google.

13.  World Cup 2014 is the most watched Google Doodle in 2014

14.  Mutant Giant Spider Dog (SA Wardega) is most watched in YouTube in 2014.

15.  Brazil vs. Germany is trending at the top in the World Cup Matches.