Large Hadron Collider's First Test

On Wednesday the World's Largest Particle Collider successfully completed its first major test, by firing a beam of protons all the way around the 27 kilometer long tunnel at the Swiss-French border. This test will help scientists in understating the origins and evolution of the universe.

The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN1 was successfully steered around the full 27 km of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 of 10th September, 2008. The collider was designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, at a rate of 11,000 times a second around the tunnel. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery.


CERN, French acronym for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.

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The Rickshaw with a Car Body!

Rickshaw is general mode of transport for public in many countries. Take a look at the Rickshaw on the picture above. This is an odd Rickshaw, that was recently seen on the streets of Beijing, China. It is actually a bicycle pulling a two-wheeled car body!

Dubbed as 'The Other Rickshaw', this odd tricycle features the original rear half of a car body and is well-equipped with safety belts. It also have four gold-plated dragons and other Chinese decorations. According to a local news paper, this rickshaw was designed and produced by BMW and it was the only rickshaw in the world of its type.

Well, due to it's design, 'The Other Rickshaw' is quite heavy and the driver Song, requires some extra efforts to run it on the streets of Beijing. And when it has passengers, the vehicle will definitely become more heavier and difficult to pull.

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Proxima : Bike and Car Hybrid Concept

Take a look at the vehicle on the picture above. This is 'Proxima', a concept auto design by Gianpaolo Avino, an Italian designer. Proxima is a merge between a car and a bike. It has two tandem seats and four wheels. The front wheels have been kept apart while the rear wheel are kept together. So, from the front and sides, Proxima looks like a car. But, from the back, it looks more like a bike.


With aerodynamic styling and designer wheels, Proxima could be a perfect solution for urban mobility in future. What you think about it?

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USB Thumb Drive with Real Thumb!

Love thumb drives? What about a USB thumb drive that looks like a real human thumb? Take a look at the picture above. It is an working USB thumb drive and available on USB Geek website. It supports Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS and have a capacity of 2GB. The price is US$ 20.00 per piece. What you think about it? Is it cool?

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World's Largest Marrow that weighs 65kg

Take a look at the picture above. Can you recognize the object that the girl on the picture is holding? This is the World's Largest Marrow. This giant marrow was grown by Ken Dade in Norfolk and it weighs 65kg (113lbs). It has entered the Guinness Book of World Records by beating the previous title holder by 3kg.

What caused this marrow to grow like a monster? Well, there is no exact reason, but experts thinks that this year's weather was preety good and helped in growth of this giant marrow.

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Britney wins Three Moonman!

After one year of her disastrous comeback attempt at the MTV Video Music Awards, singer Britney Spears swept the MTV Video Music Awards, 2008 event on Sunday, winning the first three "Moonman" statuettes of her career. Britney took home the VMA awards for "Video of the Year", "Best Pop Video" and "Best Female Video", all for the song "Piece of Me."

"First I want to thank God, my two beautiful boys for inspiring me every day and my fans, this is for you. Thank you so much.", Britney said as she took the stage to accept the Moonman for Best Female Video.


Over the years, Britney had been nominated for 16 VMAs. But her luck was not by her side untill this year! A successful MTV Video Music Awards, at least for Britney! Pic: AP

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World's Most Expensive Barbie Doll

Recently, the Most Expensive Barbie Doll in the World has been unveiled in Mexico City. The doll includes 318 real diamonds in its design and it is valued at one million Mexican pesos, which comes down to almost $100,000. Take a look at the picture above.

This new Barbie doll was launched on the occasion of the release of the DVD "Barbie and the Diamond Castle" (Universal Pictures). A jewelry firm made for the Barbie doll, a tiara, a pair of slippers, earrings, necklace, bracelet and ring, all out of white gold with diamonds. Together with 44 round-cut stones on her dress, the diamond pieces total about 20.66 carats

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Reunited with Father, 5 years after Cremation

A man in UK has been reunited with his father, five years after the cremation. How it is possible? Actually, due to mistakes in identification process of a dead body, the father was declared dead. Now, five years after the funeral, John Renehan from Didsbury, spotted his father on a television appeal.

John Renehan's father John Delaney went missing in 2000. The family failed in all attempts to uncover information about Delaney's whereabouts. Then, a decomposed body matching his description was found in the grounds of Manchester Royal Infirmary in January 2003. The body was identified as Mr Delaney and a funeral was held.

Then, five years after the cremation, Mr Renehan spotted his father on a television appeal about finding the family of the man in the care home. So, Mr. Delaney was alive and had actually been put in a care home after being found wandering around the town with memory loss.

Mr Renehan then contacted the police, who asked him a series of questions before DNA tests confirmed their relationship. In a statement, Greater Manchester Police said that the identification mix-up was a matter for the coroner, who is no longer in the post. Now, police started an investigation to identify the man cremated in 2003. Link

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Excessive Fat Stopped a Bullet

Sometimes being too fat saves your life! Ask me how? Because your fat can stop a killer bullet. Actually such kind of an incident happened in Germany and saved the life of a 20-stone man.

Rolf Mittelhaus, 49, was shot by a mugger. But, the bullet got trapped in his fat and he didn't even notice that he'd been shot until he was examined after reporting the attack to police two days later.

"A mugger attacked me and I heard a loud bang but I'd been drinking and didn't really know what was going on. I didn't feel any pain," he told police.

Doctors recovered the bullet stuck in rolls of fat when it fell out during a routine examination for injuries. The bullet barely pierced the skin and remained struck inside the fat, without causing any harm to the man. So, sometimes excessive fat saves your life!

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Record by Australian Stiletto Runners

On Tuesday, hundreds of glamorous women broke a World Record in Sydney, Australia. The record was for the maximum number of women running a race while wearing stilettos (at least 3 inches high heels). A total of 265 competitors, including a few men, participated in the annual stiletto race of Sydney. The previous record of 150 which was made in Holland.

Former Australian sprinter Melinda Gainsford-Taylor inspected the athletes and ensured they were wearing the mandatory three-inch heels. The participants ran around the 80m track at Sydney's Circular Quay to win a pair of gold stilettos.


Professional hurdler Brittney McGlone won the race and took home the designer gold sandals and £2,500. On the other hand, many of the competitors suffered scratches and scrapes to knees and hands as stopped in the end point.

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