Sir David Attenborough’s Wonderful World – This amazing two-minute film presents David Attenborough’s unique and beautiful take on natural history highlights on BBC One. Now available to viewers outside the UK in full 1080HD for the first time.
To honor the 85-year-old national treasure who just concluded narrating his final series on the BBC, a UK ad agency mashed up footage from his BBC shows with his spoken-word recording of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”
Myth 1: Left-Brained People Are Organized, Right-Brained People Are Creative
Myth 2: Your Memory Is An Exact Account of What You See and Experience
Myth 3: You Only Use 10% of Your Brain
Myth 4: Alcohol Kills Brain Cells
Myth 5: The Internet Is Making Us Dumber
Myth 6: Listening to Classical Music Turns Babies into Geniuses
Myth 7: Brain Games Make You Smarter
Myth 8: Your IQ Is Fixed and Stays the Same Throughout Your Life
Myth 9: Your Brain Works Better Under Pressure
via Nine Stubborn Brain Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science.
Attention lonely Internet lurkers, there are girls out there who totally “get” our internet humor and still love us! Like Audrey, the lovely girl in this video who was proposed to by her boyfriend Tim with internet memes. Watch the video, it’s so gosh darn cute.
It’s a little Love Actually sprinkled with perfect beats and pauses of classic Internet memes (complete with the requisite cat). Tim got his friends to document the whole proposal as he flipped placards to show Audrey his true intentions. Don’t worry, she said yes but he even came prepared with a “if she says no” poster.
Best wishes to the two of them and we hope they have a long and fulfilling marriage. I hope she reciprocates this stunt with something similar to tell him she’s pregnant.
via This Guy Proposed to His Girlfriend with Internet Memes.
NAGPUR, India (AP) — A high school student in central India was recognized as the world’s shortest woman by Guinness World Records on Friday as she turned 18 and said she hopes to earn a degree and make it in Bollywood.
Jyoti Amge stood just 62.8 centimeters (24.7 inches) tall — shorter than the average 2-year-old — when Guinness representatives visiting from London measured her at a ceremony attended by about 30 relatives and friends in the town of Nagpur, in Maharashtra state.
via World’s shortest woman wants to be Bollywood star – Yahoo! News.
Lumière ‘, the annual Lights Festival Underway Which has got in the French city of Lyon. The high-tech displays at extravanganza has Dozens of sites. Some have little in common with the event’s origins. A desire to pay tribute to the Virgin Mary spawned a tradition in the 19th Century of lighting candles Each year on December 8. Took to the Streets people as the whole city was lit up. In memory of the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is the special guest of honor this year, featuring artistic light displays from the country. The festival is an opportunity for designers to show off Their latest creations. Organisers say the new technology means-four-day event Consumes only 0.1% of the city’s annual lighting energy. For most people, it is a welcome distraction from the winter cold. For the second year running a theater in the city center features an interactive display: this time Inviting Their luck gamblers to try the front of the building as a giant pinball machine Becomes.
In a long-exposure photo, the interior of Salisbury Cathedral is illuminated by trails of candles carried by choristers during the annual “darkness to light” advent procession in Salisbury, England, on November 25, 2011.
The service – which begins with the medieval cathedral in total darkness and silence before the Advent Candle is lit at the West End -is one of the most popular services of the liturgical year. The annual advent service, which takes place over three nights, is a mix of music and readings during which two great candlelit processions move around the different spaces in the 750-year-old building which, by the end, is illuminated by almost 1,300 candles and is a spectacular start to the Christmas season. [Source]
via Picture of the Day: Long Exposure Candle Trails at Salisbury Cathedral.