Amazing People & Events

It sounds strange and almost unbelievable! If it were not for the news and video coverage, I might not have believed such a story: a 10-year old ethnic Wayuu girl in Columbia delivered a baby by Caesarian section! According to the report, the girl and her family did not know that she was pregnant. ...

Image Courtesy of www.ytn.co.kr/ News broadcasts has confirmed that North Korea has launched its UNHA-3 Rocket, which will purportedly bring its weather satellite into orbit after the postponement yesterday. However, according to reports, the launch has been a failure. It has broken apart shortly...

"Lyuba" courtesy of National Geographic.com One amazing scientific breakthrough in recent years is the discovery in Russia of a baby woolly mammoth frozen in ice for more than 40,000 years! This animal from a long extinct species has been perfectly preserved in ice. This discovery could give concr...

"This Earth Hour 2012: 8.30pm, Saturday 31 March, celebrate your action for the planet with the people of world by switching off your lights for an hour, then go beyond the hour. From its inception as a single-city initiative -- Sydney, Australia - in 2007, Earth Hour has grown into a global symbol...

Google pays tribute to one great artist of all time: Akira Yoshizawa, the Master of Origami or the Japanese art of paper folding with an Origami Doodle. Akira Yoshizawa c/o wikipedia I remember doing Origami in school as a child even up to early high school. I used to do a paper model of a German ...

Last night, I saw on a local news broadcast (GMA Network), a special report about Chinese musicians using vegetables like carrots to make music by drilling and carving holes on them like that of a flute. I know a musician, a National Artist for Music in the Philippines, Levi Celerio who can make b...

As I was browsing You Tube searches about the Russian White Claw Kung Fu Bear, I stumbled upon an item about a Kung Fu Bear in Japan. It seemed that this video came first even before the Russian White Claw Bear got into the news. I observed the video if it is authentic. It seemed unedited and nothi...

I know I am supposed to write about people and events in this blog. However, allow me to deviate from the usual topics to an amazing feat of a white claw bear in a zoo in Russia. I have learned about the white claw bear displaying kung fu like stunts from a local newscast last night. It is quite ...

Jeremy Lin c/o Wikiped A new word has echoed around the world of professional basketball in the US. It’s “Linsanity” referring to the point guard of New York Knicks, Jeremy Lin, a Taiwanese-American who has displayed exceptional basketball skills and has lead the Knicks to a seven game winning str...