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New Woolly Mammoth Footage Was A Hoax, Repeat Hoaxer Caught Out Again
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week 2oceansVibe correctly doubted the authenticity of footage that claimed a woolly mammoth had been spotted by a government-employed engineer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia. The video became an internet sensation, making headlines around the world. But now everyone is having a laugh at The Sun, Michael Cohen and Barcroft Media.
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Swiss Guy Installs Wood Stove As Heater In His Volvo, Beats The Cold
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
As the death toll from the bout of extremely cold weather in Europe has surpassed the 500 mark, a Swiss man is doing his best to stay warm. He’s installed a wood-burning stove to heat up his car when he needs to drive.
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Scientists Retrieve Sample From Freshwater Lake Buried Under Ice For 20 Million Years
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Scientists have done something they have been working on for over two decades: successfully drilled more than three kilometres through sheer Antarctic ice into a freshwater lake to take a sample. All they really know now is that Lake Vostok has had no contact with atmospheric pollutants for millions of years.
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Hyper-Competitive Australians Smash Water Skiing Record
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
145 water skiers have just set a new world record for exactly that: the most people to water ski behind one vessel. Nine fell off along the way, and won’t be counted as part of the record.
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Elephant Goes For A Surf
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
This does not happen, but it has: an elephant has decided it would like to go for a few waves and has been spotted surfing the beach breaks in Nuarro bay, just off the coast of northern Mozambique. Elephants don’t go into the sea, period, so this is definitely a rare sighting.
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Rebekah Brooks Is In Cape Town
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief, and News of the World editor, is enjoying a sabbatical in Cape Town. Cutting a notably different appearance from the fiery redhead we’re used to, the media mogul has been escaping the phone hacking and corruption scandal that’s followed her around for months.
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Samoa Cancels Friday
29 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At the moment, Samoa is the last country to see the sun go down every day, but a change in the international dateline will now make it the first to see the sun rise. Samoa is getting ready to skip a day and shift its time zone forward by 24 hours.
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The “Occucopter”: Occupy Wall Street’s 99% Get Their Own Drone
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, you read that correctly, the “occucopter” is a drone that is being used by protestors to monitor the police. As the 99 per cent continue their protests around the world, they’ve acquired their own surveillance drone. Tim Pool, an Occupy Wall Street protester, has acquired a Parrot AR drone he amusingly calls the “occucopter”.
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Earliest Known Human Beds Found Near Durban
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not only are the beds about 77 000 years old, but it appears they were also designed to ward off insects like mosquitoes. The fossilized material has been found at an ancient cliff shelter known as Sibudu, which is near to Durban on our east coast, and continues to fuel the debate that modern man evolved out of Africa.
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Harley Davidson Powered F-15 Mini Speed Boat
08 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
What do you do with R240 000? You order yourself the Harley Davidson powered mini speed boat from St. Martin Mini Speed Boats, of course. As you’d expect, it comes complete with a Harley Davidson V-twin engine, and that authentic Harley sound. And then you hit the water like a boss.
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Scientists Are Going To Clone The Woolly Mammoth
05 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists have thus far cloned sheep, mice, cats, horses and even a water buffalo, but now they want to clone a woolly mammoth. They also think they’ll be able to clone said mammoth within five years, all owing to a recovered thigh bone that has well-preserved bone marrow from permafrost soil in Siberia.
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Live Streaming Contact Lenses: Coming Soon
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More and more of the technology that we see in the movies is becoming an everyday reality. The contact lens embedded with a tiny LED that can light up when a wireless signal is sent to it is one of these realities. Soon you’ll be able to stream your social media feeds and bring up other holographic images cybernetically.
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Science: Neutrinos Probably Didn’t Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In September, the science world was left in shock when workers at the world’s largest physics lab announced they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light. Now, measurements by an opposing team of physicists suggest neutrinos cannot have travelled faster than the speed of light.
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Six Men Emerge After Year-And-A-Half Isolated Mars Mission Simulation
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Commercial space travel is now literally months away, and it appears that a mission to Mars is not too far off either. Six men that have been locked in large steel piped tubes for 520 days emerged from isolation earlier today after a bid to simulate a mission to Mars. This is taking Survivor to the next level.
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Google’s Time-Lapse Halloween Doodle [VIDEO]
31 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lately, Google has been having a great deal of fun with their doodles. They have decided to wish us all a happy Halloween by creating a short time-lapse video of some of their employees carving out six particularly large pumpkins at their headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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Samsung’s Solar-Powered Internet School
28 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Samsung Africa has unveiled a unique initiative they are calling the Samsung Internet Schools Programme. The initial programme will span five African countries: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan. In time it will branch out into other African countries too. The school is a mobile, solar-powered, independent classroom housed in a container.
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Lions, Tigers And Bears Follow Up: 50 Wild Animals Killed By Ohio Authorities
20 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Of the 56 wild animals – including six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight lionesses, one baboon, three mountain lions, 18 tigers, and two wolves – that escaped their private wildlife sanctuary in Zanesville, Ohio, only six were rescued; the rest have been shot by local authorities.
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Lions, Tigers, Bears, Cheetahs Escape In Ohio As Owner Is Found Dead
19 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
As many as 48 wild animals, including lions, tigers, bears, wolves and cheetahs could be on the loose in the vicinity of Zanesville, Ohio, after they escaped from a private wildlife sanctuary, police said last night. Officer’s say they have shot 25 of the animals so far, but it’s not clear exactly how many escaped, or where they are now.
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Africa Tamed By A Small Italian Stallion
17 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Two adventurers proved that Africa can be tamed – on the back of a 150cc scooter! A photojournalist and web manager have proven that a trip across Southern Africa can be achieved on a Vespa, with grace and ease. Having already tested the Vespa LX 150 on trips in Europe, including Italy to London and […]
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Welcome To Nuku Hiva, Our Guides Would Love To Have You For Dinner
17 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sailing around the world, stopping off to bask in the sun on white sandy beaches and exploring the hidden treasures of beautiful remote Pacific islands; these were, most likely, on Stefan Ramin’s lists of things to do when he set out on his adventures. Getting eaten by a cannibal tour guide however, was not.
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Subway Surfing: New York Underground Style
14 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It is claimed five million people use the New York subway system on a daily basis. The majority, as you’d imagine, choose to sit or stand inside, not ride on the outside, as this chap did. He has, however, become the subway’s latest celebrity passenger, and authorities are hoping he doesn’t incentivise copycats.
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EU Bans Young Children From Blowing Up Balloons And Blowing Party Whistles
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Union has banned children under eight from blowing up balloons unsupervised. Not only that, but it has chosen to ban traditional toys like party whistles, magnetic fishing games and other harmless toys that children have enjoyed for decades because regulators say they’re an unacceptable safety risk. Cuddly toys like teddie bears have also not escaped regulation.
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Snoop Dogg Gets Cultivation Tips From Welsh Veggie Grower, Share Smoke
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ian Neale holds the world record for growing the heaviest swede, weighing in at 38kg. Last week, the 68-year-old from Newport in South Wales, received a special video message from Snoop Dogg. The rapper wanted specific cultivation advice in return for some VIP passes for one of his gigs. The record-breaking vegetable grower accepted Snoop’s invitation.
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How To Escape The Next Tsunami: The Noah Disaster Shelter
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Japanese have proved that they are some of the most resilient people on earth. With the earthquake and tsunami that struck earlier this year, numerous acts of heroism emerged. Now they’ve invented the Noah Disaster Shelter as a very probable device for protection when particular natural disasters strike.
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Eyewitness News Newsreader Goes Rogue, Drops Multiple F-Bombs During His Bulletin [AUDIO]
27 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 21 Comments
Eyewitness News radio bulletins will never be the same again after one newsreader lost it last night and f-bombed all kinds of philosophies to anyone that was listening to the 01h00 news. Anarchist and environmentalist, Mark Esterhuysen, probably won’t be reading the news anymore. NSFW, obviously.
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Famous Dead Sea Scrolls Now Online
27 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google and Israel’s national museum, the Israel Museum, have come together to place a number of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls online for the first time. The project is the first of many hoping to showcase some of the manuscripts that make up what many consider the most important archaeological find of the 20th century.
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“Forest Boy” Keen To Go Back To The Bush
20 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A teenage boy who has been dubbed “forest boy” by the international media is apparently keen to go back to the bush. The boy, believed to be a 17-year-old English language speaker, handed himself over to German officials in Berlin earlier this month after walking for about two weeks. Officials describe his story as “incredible”.
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Mini Robots Entered Into 225 Kilometre Hawaiian Triathlon
19 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you remember the old adverts that pitted the Duracell bunny against other batteries at massive distances? Well, Panasonic is actually doing this now. They’ve designed robots, and entered them into a rather large triathlon taking place in Hawaii next month, in which homo sapiens will compete.
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Sarah Palin Snorted Coke And Smoked Weed
15 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The former Republican vice-presidential contender, Sarah Palin, is alleged to have taken cocaine and smoked weed in a new controversial and highly anticipated biography written by Joe McGinniss. Oh, it’s also alleged that she cheated on her husband (though she’s vehemently denied this before) and let the kids fend for themselves quite a bit.
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North Korea’s First Cruise Ship Is A Bit Of A Joke
14 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It ‘s going to be creativity and persistence that will get the world through the current financial crises it’s enduring. Our Dear Leader, KimJong-il, has finally come to the party too and ventured into the tourism business: North Korea’s first cruise ship is here. It’s old and a bit of a joke, but a start none-the-less.
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