Coffin technologies that protect you from being buried alive In the eighteenth century, rumors swirled about people accidentally buried alive when they lapsed into a deathlike state from cholera. As a result, the safety coffin was invented. Here’s how it worked. From those eighteen century fears there arose a thriving cottage industry of inventors who promised to protect the seemingly-dead from being prematurely interred. Above you can see one of the more popular kinds of safety coffin, sometimes called an “escape vault,” because each grave door was built as a hatch that could be opened from the inside. You can still … Continue reading Will you be buried alive?

by Jennifer Carpenter Numbers game. In a new study, volunteers learned to ascribe value to strange symbols, such as the ones shown here. Credit: Adapted from Kadosh et al., Current Biology, 20 (23 November 2010) Need to improve your math skills or do your taxes faster? Try zapping your brain with electricity. Researchers have shown that administering a small electrical charge to the brain may enhance a person’s ability to process numbers for up to 6 months. The team says the approach, which it claims is harmless, could one day restore numerical skills in people suffering from degenerative diseases or stroke, … Continue reading Brain Zaps Improve Math

ScienceShot: Destroy Earth From the Comfort of Your Computer by David Grimm Credit: Information Technology at Purdue image/Michele Rund Want to demolish Earth? A new Web site allows you to choose the form of the destructor. Just type in a few variables such as diameter, density, and velocity and Impact: Earth! will send a comet or asteroid hurtling toward our planet. Lest you be unsatisfied with a simulation of a massive rock barreling down on us, the Web site also provides data on the aftermath, including the size of the crater, the extent of the fireball, and even the height of the tsunami … Continue reading For US Tealiban/Baptist Fanatics: Destroy Earth to Bring Rapture!

The £30,000 hole in the wall: Thief spends three hours smashing through brick wall in daring jewellery heist By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A thief spent more than three hours smashing his way through a brick wall before carrying out a £30,000 raid on a jewellers. He chipped away at the wall in Nottingham city centre removing around 40 bricks until he had carved out a hole big enough to crawl through and enter the store. The masked raider was seen on CCTV arriving at JW Rose jewellers at 3am on Tuesday morning before he sat down, pulled out a hammer and … Continue reading Thief spends three hours smashing through brick wall for Gold

New York to Sydney in just 2hrs 30mins: Nasa to develop ‘hypersonic’ passenger jets that travel at five times the speed of sound By DANIEL BATES NASA is planning to build hypersonic jets that will fly through the Earth’s atmosphere and slash flight times around the world to a few hours at most. The US space agency wants to manufacture a craft that would travel at five times the speed of sound and bring in a new age of aircraft akin to a turbo-charged Concorde. Travelling at such speed would reduce the flight time from New York to Sydney to around … Continue reading New York to Sydney in just 2hrs 30mins

Police arrest passenger who boarded plane in Hong Kong as an old man in flat cap and arrived in Canada a young Asian refugee By DAILY MAIL REPORTER It reads like a plotline from the hi-tech Mission: Impossible spy films. Elderly white man in flat cap, brown cardigan and thin-rimmed specs boards plane in Hong Kong and alights in Canada as a young Asian man. However, the suspicions of eagle-eyed staff as he was boarding were aroused by his strangely youthful hands. And when the old man didn’t disembark the flight at Canada’s Vancouver airport, police swooped and discovered an astonishing … Continue reading How TERRORISTS can get in!

The ‘DIY jihadists’ paid for by us… Roshonara Choudhry supporters are living on benefits By SUE REID They refuse to apologise for their vile rant at the Old Bailey that made a mockery of our justice system. Nor are they repentant over supporting the radical Muslim woman on trial there for trying to kill an MP in a knife attack. As 21-year-old London University student Roshonara Choudhry was sentenced to life on Wednesday, they cursed the judge from the public gallery and hurled abuse at a terrified female juror wearing a Muslim headscarf, screaming ‘Shame on you, sister’. Insults: Mohammed Shamsuddin, … Continue reading Roshonara Choudhry supporters are living on Kuffar!

Dragons’ Den star James Caan ‘regrets’ offering to buy baby girl from Pakistan village, claiming: ‘I was being emotional, not rational’ By KATHERINE FAULKNER ‘I clearly have regrets. It wasn’t rational and it wasn’t right.’ Dragons’ Den entrepreneur James Caan has sparked dismay after he was filmed offering to buy a baby from a poverty-stricken family. The Pakistani-born star was in the country filming an ITV report about his charity work when he was handed a newborn baby girl. Moments after taking the baby in his arms in a flood-hit village, he offers to buy the child for 100,000 rupees – … Continue reading James Caan – The Compassionate!:)

Why the Moon really IS silvery: Lunar surface contains traces of precious metal and is 6% water By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Poets who wax lyrical about the silvery Moon may be on to something. Scientists who blasted a spent rocket into a lunar crater last year released an unexpected treasure trove of elements – including traces of silver. But the levels are far too low to make it worth opening a lunar silver mine. Complex: Lunar soil is surprisingly rich – but mining silver would be too expensive More importantly from the point of view of space exploration, large amounts of … Continue reading Moon is 6% water

New species of fish found in one of the deepest places on Earth – almost 4.5 miles beneath the sea By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A new species has been discovered in a part of the ocean previously thought to be entirely free of fish, scientists said today. The new type of snailfish was found living at a depth of 22,966ft in the Peru-Chile trench of the South East Pacific Ocean. Mass groupings of cusk-eels and large crustacean scavengers were also discovered living at these depths for the first time, scientists said. The findings, in one of the deepest places on the … Continue reading 4.5 miles beneath the sea – LIFE!