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Blind Kid Uses Echo Location
3/28/2008 – 3:03 pm
Blind Kid Uses Echo Location!
this is the most amazing thing i’ve ever seen.
The Vice Guide Travels to North Korea
3/21/2008 – 8:45 pm
Want to go to places no tourist ever dream of visiting? Like Chernobyl, Beirut, and Congo? Well, the VICE Guide to Travel is the the travel guidebook for you!
But even those places don’t compare to where Shane Smith and his team managed to go next: North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom.
The first leg of the trip was a flight into northern China. At
the airport the North Korean consulate took our passports and all of our money, then brought us to a restaurant. We were sitting there with our tour group, and suddenly all the other diners left and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs.We were thinking, “Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. We’re jet-lagged. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa.”
So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn’t get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on…
Link - Episode 1 of their trip (scroll down the right-hand side “related videos” link for the rest of the installments) - Thanks Dave!
straight stolen from Neatorama
Giant Marine Life in Antarctica
3/21/2008 – 8:45 pm
Scientists who just returned from a survey of the Ross Sea near Antarctica have found giant versions of sea creatures, such as jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and a starfish measuring 2 feet wide! Some of the 30,000 specimens collected could be entirely new species.
A 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea that ended Thursday has also potentially turned up several new species, including as many as eight new mollusks.
It’s “exciting when you come across a new species,” said Chris Jones, a fisheries scientist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “All the fish people go nuts about that — but you have to take it with a grain of salt.”
The finds must still be reviewed by experts to determine if they are in fact new, said Stu Hanchet, a fisheries scientist at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.
(image credit: AP/NZ IPY-CAML, John Mitchell)
straight stolen from Neatorama