tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:15:38 +0000spaceInnovationEcologyAliensRobotsTraditionsTechnologymoonMusicChristmasPhilosophyPaleontologyAstronomyScienceufoBusinessMindStrangeKnowledgeMythsAncientNasaEarthEvolutionMedicineAISocietyBiologyPlanetsFoodHistoryMoneySportsReligionHealthFunnyin strange knowledge will be trying to give people information about many aspects of life. Most of the times this knowledge will be strange , out of the ordinary amazing even.http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Antoine)Blogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-1915228339323559682Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:03:00 +00002011-02-21T22:03:51.593ZTechnologyWASHINGTON — A newly created lithium-ion battery that can heal itself may improve the life span and safety of today’s energy-storage technologies, researchers report. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power cell phones, laptops and other portable electronics. But, like any batteries, they tend to break down over time. "There are many different types of degradation that happen, and fixing this http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-batteries-fix-themselves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-3105759797307887364Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:46:00 +00002011-02-08T22:52:04.566ZTechnologyReligionStrange The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession. The Confession program has gone on sale through iTunes for £1.19 ($1.99). Described as "the perfect aid for every penitent", it offers users tips and guidelines to help them with the sacrament. Now senior church officials in both the UK and US have given it their seal of http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/02/need-forgiveness-there-is-app-for-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-2929436196103605235Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 +00002011-02-02T23:00:07.207ZufoA shining ball of light has been filmed hovering above a Jerusalem shrine, in footage which UFO enthusiasts say could finally prove aliens exist. The clips show the pulsating orb descend and hover above the Dome of the Rock, an ancient Islamic shrine, before shooting up into the night sky. It then descends again and disappears. Unusually, the sighting has been filmed from different http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/02/are-aliens-here-shining-white-ufo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-5064875396028091003Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:41:00 +00002011-01-29T22:41:01.654ZTechnologyStrangeRachel Kaufmanfor National Geographic NewsPublished January 28, 2011 Harry Potter and Bilbo Baggins, take note: Scientists are a step closer to conquering the "magic" of invisibility. Many earlier cloaking systems turned objects "invisible" only under wavelengths of light that the human eye can't see. Others could conceal only microscopic objects. (See "Two New Cloaking Devices Close In http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-invisibility-cloak-closer-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7200623307860927596Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:02:00 +00002011-01-19T22:03:25.869ZTechnologySocietyRobots"Good morning, I'd like the 3-KPO-3XC, please!" "Is that the full 144-hour 3CX model sir or just the normal dateline 2-hour plug-in?" This conversation may not belong to the too distant future. Research work by Terrence Aym* "Scientists predict sex robot partners in coming decades" points towards a not-so-distant world in which mankind cohabits with sexbots. The idea is not that recent http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/01/sex-enters-robotics-age.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7752289948801428973Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:58:00 +00002010-11-04T12:58:47.494ZTechnologyInnovationA team led by University of Arizona (UA) optical sciences professor Nasser Peyghambarian has developed a new type of “holographic telepresence” that allows remote projection of a three-dimensional, moving image without the need for special eyewear such as 3D glasses or other auxiliary devices. The technology is likely to take applications ranging from telemedicine, advertising, updatable 3D http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/11/three-dimensional-moving-holograms.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-6695005075247745900Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:08:00 +00002010-11-04T09:13:00.158ZAliensStrange An alien – 'no matter how many tentacles it has' – could have a soul, says pope's astronomer Aliens might have souls and could choose to be baptised if humans ever met them, a Vatican scientist said today. The official also dismissed intelligent design as "bad theology" that had been "hijacked" by American creationist fundamentalists. Guy Consolmagno, who is one of the pope's astronomers, saidhttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/11/popes-astronomer-says-he-would-baptise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-5516803040725191034Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:36:00 +00002010-10-21T11:45:30.178+01:00ReligionStrange The long-running cartoon series explores issues such as family, community, education and religion in a way that few other popular television programmes can match, according to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's daily broadsheet. The newspaper acknowledged that Homer snores through the sermons of the Reverend Lovejoy and inflicts "never-ending humiliation" on his evangelical neighbour, Nedhttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/10/homer-simpson-is-true-catholic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7837206803904691764Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:02:00 +00002010-10-14T22:02:53.519+01:00PaleontologyBiologyHistoryThe oldest known example of a man-made structure was found within a prehistoric cave in central Greece, according to the Greek culture ministry. The structure is a stone wall that blocked two-thirds of the entrance to the Theopetra cave near Kalambaka on the north edge of the Thessalian plain. It was constructed 23,000 years ago, probably as a barrier to cold winds. “An optical dating test, http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/10/oldest-man-made-structure-found-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-3789031439661484813Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:32:00 +00002010-09-28T20:32:52.293+01:00PhilosophyHistoryBy RAPHAEL G. SATTER  LONDON — One of the world's most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years. The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/09/british-library-posts-greek-manuscripts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-8688588320524971416Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:16:00 +00002010-09-23T14:17:25.790+01:00Historyhttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/09/mona-lisas-childhood-home-found.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-4583788546374660942Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:01:00 +00002010-09-23T13:02:36.188+01:00HealthScienceBiologyInnovationhttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/09/forever-young-secret-of-eternal-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7856175877018667723Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:43:00 +00002010-09-23T12:57:07.836+01:00SciencespaceHistory A celestial event seen by the ancient Greeks may be the earliest sighting of Halley's comet, new evidence suggests. According to ancient writers, a large meteorite smacked into northern Greece between 466BC and 467BC. The writers also described a comet in the sky at the time the meteorite fell to Earth, but this detail has received little attention, say the researchers. Comet Halley would have http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/09/halleys-comet-was-spotted-by-ancient.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-6956532576797185381Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:32:00 +00002010-09-23T12:42:50.375+01:00MoneySports Last fall, Forbes magazine was all atwitter as Tiger Woods closed in on becoming “the first athlete to earn over $1 billion” in the course of his career. Presumably his fortunes will now start to droop, but Forbes missed the mark—taking the long view, Tiger was never all that well paid to begin with when compared with the charioteers of ancient Rome. rivers were drawn from the lower orders of http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/09/highest-paid-athlete-of-all-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-1103885916801411497Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:42:00 +00002010-08-26T18:46:09.151+01:00TechnologyInnovation Diamond sheets filled with holes could be the key to the next generation of supercomputers. Scientists in California have used commercially available technology to pattern large sheets of diamonds with tiny, nitrogen-filled holes. The nitrogen-vacancy diamonds, as the sheets are called by scientists, could store millions of times more information than current silicon-based systems and process http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/diamonds-are-supercomputers-best-friend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7776824444614587711Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:53:00 +00002010-08-25T12:01:29.966+01:00ScienceMyths An 8th BC century palace which Greek archaeologists claim was the home of Odysseus has been discovered in Ithaca, fuelling theories that the hero of Homer's epic poem was real. Odysseus – known to the ancient Romans as Ulysses – famously took 10 years to return home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. On his journey, he was twice shipwrecked and encountered a cyclops, the spirit of his mother http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/greeks-discover-odysseus-palace-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-3969004046678004715Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:44:00 +00002010-08-25T11:52:07.283+01:00ScienceInnovation Canadian researchers have designed a toothbrush that cleans teeth by creating a solar-powered chemical reaction in the mouth, doing away with the need for toothpaste, said physorg.com. Dr Kunio Komiyama, a dentistry professor emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan, designed the first model of the unconventional toothbrush 15 years ago. Today, Komiyama and his colleague Dr Gerry Uswak are http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/solar-toothbrush-doesnt-need-toothpaste.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-4301065140355954944Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:38:00 +00002010-08-25T11:44:42.891+01:00Sciencespace European astronomers on Tuesday said they had found a distant star orbited by at least five planets in the biggest discovery of so-called exoplanets since the first was logged 15 years ago. The star is similar to our sun and its planetary lineup has an intriguing parallel with own solar system, although no clue has so far been found to suggest it could be a home from home, they said. The star http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-solar-system-discovered.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-1075415862285487970Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:32:00 +00002010-08-25T11:38:20.906+01:00ScienceufoWith a civilian population haunted by the Blitz and the Second World War still in the balance, it was one development Winston Churchill could have done without – an incursion into British airspace by an arrow-shaped metallic object feared to contain an invasion force of little green men. Such was the sensitivity of an alleged UFO sighting by an RAF bomber crew returning to England from a missionhttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/did-churchill-and-eisenhower-cover-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7455370188111283558Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:28:00 +00002010-08-23T07:28:49.069+01:00AstronomymoonThe moon has shrunk in the past billion years, and may still be shrinking today, triggering moonquakes and making the moon a more active body than previously thought. The shrinkage has wrinkled parts of the moon's surface like a raisin, creating pinched formations called lobate scarps. Apollo astronauts imaged some of these wrinkles near the moon's equator 40 years ago. Now, new images from http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/shrinking-moon-may-explain-lunar-quakes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Antoine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7648770899367796973Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:35:00 +00002010-08-20T11:41:54.134+01:00ufohttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/recurring-ufo-hides-behind-weather.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-710078417262624681Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:34:00 +00002010-08-20T11:35:00.289+01:00ufohttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/daytime-black-ufo-over-pennsylvania-25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-2292044256760630995Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:31:00 +00002010-08-20T11:32:37.665+01:00ufohttp://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/ufo-spiral-sighting-in-australia-7-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-6653075574144568697Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:33:00 +00002010-08-15T17:41:05.385+01:00TechnologyInnovation Fred Flintstone could only dream of such a car. The HumanCar Imagine PS, a four-seater vehicle that uses hand cranks, can take on hills at 30 miles per hour, exceed 60 mph on flat terrain and is expected to hit the market next year. The vehicle has electric plug-in capabilities, so it can still run if only one person is operating the hand-crank in a rowing-like motion (see the video showing http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/car-for-modern-fred-flintstone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426079402120734782.post-7465954734910464990Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:37:00 +00002010-08-12T18:48:11.084+01:00MedicineInnovation For thousands of years people have worn shimmering silk to stand out in a crowd. Within the next few years people could wear silk to become invisible in a a crowd. For the first time ever, scientists have created an invisibility cloak made from silk, and coated in gold. The new metamaterial, as invisibility cloaks and their kin are technically called, only works on relatively long terahertz http://strange-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/08/invisibility-cloak-made-from-silk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Beena)1