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October 15, 2007 at 8:22 pm · Filed under Cellar Image, Pictures, Sports, Car & Vehicle
Today’s collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this photo of the strangest row boat ever: a single bamboo cane!
Villagers from Chishui, near Zuiyi city, came up with the idea, reports News Express. They make the boats out of locally grown bamboo and hold races on the Pinzhou River.
"Participants can sit or stand on the piece of bamboo, and with a thin bamboo oar, they race and compete at other tasks," explained one villager.
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October 8, 2007 at 9:58 am · Filed under Cellar Image, Computer & Technology
You can decline to state your age but you can’t hide from this new facial recognition software from Omron Corp: it can tell the sex and age of people!
A computer screen displays the sex and age of people as determined by face-recognition software developed by Omron Corp. at the CEATEC technology trade show in Chiba, Japan October 2, 2007. The Japanese text reads: (L to R) "Woman 20-39 years, Man 20-39 years, Man 20-39 years".
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October 1, 2007 at 11:22 pm · Filed under Cellar Image, Pictures, Baby & Kid
Our weekly collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this amazing image (and story) of Kimberley Mueller, who was just over 10 ounces when she was born, making her the world’s smallest surviving baby.
When she was born, 15 weeks premature and weighing ten and a half ounces, her father’s confidence was about the only thing on Kimberly Mueller’s side.
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September 24, 2007 at 9:49 pm · Filed under Travel & Places, Cellar Image, Pictures, Medicine, Paranormal
For our weekly collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day, here is The Andromeda Strain come to life: Peruvian citizens are blaming a mysterious crater, supposedly formed by a meteorite impact, for a host of illnesses:
It has all the hallmarks of a 1950s B-movie - a remote location, mysterious lights in the sky, a crater that appeared from nowhere, and a disease that spread like the plague through locals.
But this is no science fiction film. Officials in Peru yesterday revealed that 200 people had fallen sick after an object from space crashed into the south of the country over the weekend.
But scientists, those party poopers, are unconvinced:
However, other meteor experts are unconvinced. Dr Caroline Smith of the Natural History Museum in London, said: "It’s the third incident like this in Peru in the last few years - and none have turned out to be meteorites.
"It’s far more likely to […]
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September 10, 2007 at 10:50 pm · Filed under Cellar Image, Pictures
Here’s our weekly collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day: an entry from English Russia where leaking water created a strange undulation in the ceiling of an apartment downstairs!
Link | Be sure to check out more fun and strange images at Cellar IotD!
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August 27, 2007 at 8:24 pm · Filed under Cellar Image, Pictures, Animal
Photo: Kevork Djansezian /AP
For today’s collaboration with the always fantastic Cellar Image of the Day, feast your eyes on this: a 4½-foot-long (that’s 1.2 m for you metric-lovers!) fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus!
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August 20, 2007 at 10:25 pm · Filed under Cellar Image, Pictures, Archaeology
For today’s collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day, here is (presumably) the world’s oldest gum:
A 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum - one of the oldest ever to be discovered - has been found by a British archaeology student.
The discovery of the Neolithic gum, made from birch bark tar, was made by Sarah Pickin, 23, during a dig in Finland. The gum had tooth prints in it.
Trevor Brown, her tutor at the University of Derby, said: "Birch bark tar contains phenols, which are antiseptic compounds. It is generally believed that Neolithic people found that by chewing this stuff if they had gum infections it helped to treat the condition."
He said it was particularly significant because of the well defined tooth prints.
No word whether it was found underneath some neolithic table: Link - via Spluch. Be sure to check out Cellar IotD for more amazing pics!
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