Peanut turtle was trapped in a plastic ring.

This is Peanut the turtle, shortly after being found in Missouri in 1993. She was taken to to a zoo in St. Louis where the six-pack ring was removed. It seems that she was trapped in the plastic ring as a young turtle and was unable to free herself. Subsequently her shell molded itself to the plastic ring and she grew in the strange shape you see here. Unfortunately the damage is permanent, but peanut is expected to live a long life and today she serves as a mascot for the fight against beach littering.
Please, always remember to clean up after yourself at the beach.

Derinkuyu Ancient Underground City, Nevşehir - Turkey

In 1963, during a simple renovation in the town of Derinkuyu, a cave wall was opened, revealing a passage way to an underground city, thousands of years old, extending more than 280 feet deep.
Derinkuyu is 13 stories, with 15,000 little ventilation shafts that bring air to even the deepest of levels. The number of rock rooms that were found could hold over 20,000 Men Women and Children. There is evidence of Religious centers, store rooms, wine presses and stables for livestock.
Derinkuyu is the largest excavated underground city in Turkey and is part of a network of several underground complexes found across Cappadocia.

Make your own hanging garden using tyres .

That’s beautiful and creative. Why burn or through tires when you can turn it into awesome beauty. It’s easy to make. You just need the following items-

1. Soil
2. vine like plants, cause vine plants will hang itself making it look beautiful.
3. Car Tires.

1st, make small hole in the tire. You may need experts to do it. Then hang the tires on your chosen wall. Cover the cavity inside the tire with soil and plant your vines. Your own hanging garden is ready to amaze your neighbors.

Algae lamps may soon light up streets!

Left photos:
“In 2010, scientists from Yansei and Stanford University” inserted electrodes “into the photosynthesising organs – chloroplasts – of algal cells, thus managing to draw a small electrical current from algae during photosynthesis. As advances in nanotechnology lead to increasingly
energy efficient products, plant life such as algae will become attractive sources for tapping energy.”

Right photos:
A most recent project by Thomson takes another step toward practical applications of light. The Trap Light uses “photoluminescent pigments to capture escaping light and convert waste energy
back into visible light.” In collaboration with Gionata Gatto, Mike worked with a special glass blowing technique to “embed [these] pigments into the body of the lamp.”

Strawberry Snake Cake

What you'll need to do is ...

SHORTCAKE BISCUITS:

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup margarine (1 stick)
1 cup milk
STRAWBERRY FILLING:
1 quart strawberries
4 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING:
1 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
GARNISHES:
4 whole strawberries
Green fruit leather
Mini chocolate chips or M&M's

HOW TO MAKE IT .

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Cut in the margarine with a pastry cutter. Or use a vegetable grater to grate the stick into the mixing bowl and let your kids take turns blending the margarine into the dry ingredients with their fingertips. Once the dough is crumbly, slowly stir in the milk.

2. Turn out the dough onto a floured working surface and gently roll or pat the dough into a 1-inch-thick rectangle (it should measure about 6 x 8 inches). For the best results, handle the dough
as little as possible.

3. Slice the rectangle into four 1-1/2- x 8-inch strips. Place the strips on an un greased baking sheet, then let your child mold and curve them into S shapes that resemble snakes. Bake for 10 to 12
minutes until the bottoms are golden brown. Transfer the baked shortcakes to a wire rack (a parent's job) and let cool. Carefully slice the cooled shortcakes in half lengthwise or split them with a fork
and then set aside.

4. Wash the strawberries and let your kids select four to use for the snakes' heads. Slice the rest of the berries lengthwise into a mixing bowl. Toss with the confectioners' sugar and let stand while you prepare the whipped cream.

5. Combine the whipping cream and confectioners' sugar in a chilled bowl and beat with an electric or hand mixer until stiff peaks form.

6. Just before serving, arrange berries on the bottom half of each shortcake, then cover with the shortcake top. Spread on whipped cream and add a layer of sliced strawberry "scales."

7. For the snakes' heads, cut mouth openings in the tips of the whole berries and place one at the end of each shortcake. Press a pair of mini chocolate chip or M&M's eyes into the sides of each head and add a forked tongue cut from green fruit leather.

Weird & Creepy

World's First Laptop and its still Running :)

World's First Laptop and its still Running:

Having 256KB (Kilo-bytes) of RAM and a 4.77 MHz Intel Processor made your computing dreams come to life and just like the Macbook Air of today it didn’t have a regular Hard Drive . Instead it supported floppy disks and weighed in at a whopping 4.1 Kilograms. Pricing was set at $1899.

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