Word Lens is a real time translating app. Well it doesn’t sound exciting enough does it? Okay now imagine pointing your camera at a Spanish word or sentence and voila with this app you see the English translation right in the context of the original text. I haven’t yet purchased this app, but I hope [...]

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This article blew my mind away. I think the book ‘Gandhi: Naked Ambition’ written by Jad Adams will cause a lot of stir in the public and media. It’s unbelievable to learn that Gandhi slept naked with naked nubile women to test his chastity, the pre-independence prime minister of the Indian state of Travancore called [...]

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Kim Peek, the autistic savant who inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain Man, has died of a major Heart attack, aged 58. He spent most of his life in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kim’s favorite place was the library. When doctors recommended Kim’s parents to have the kid put in a mental hospital, they denied it [...]

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Lyrebird: This beautiful bird does such good mimicry, you will be amazed at its ability. It produces sounds such as the calls of other birds, chainsaws, camera shutters, camera with motor drive, and even car alarms. Seriously!!!!  I have seen nothing like this before. Truly a remarkable bird. Watch it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y Can we [...]

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As a child soldier in Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge army Aki Ra laid many landmines. He now clears these deadly bombs with a stick and a pocketknife, more than 10,000 to date. It is very dangerous. No one pays him to do it. Aki is the real deal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pw-2yMC5BE http://www.talesofasia.com/cambodia-akira.htm Ottawa treaty There is no [...]

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