Richard Pearse: A powered airplane nine months before the Wright brothers

Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 — 29 July 1953), a New Zealand farmer and inventor, performed pioneering experiments in aviation.
Pearse appears to have successfully flown and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, some nine months before the Wright brothers. The documentary evidence to support such a claim remains open to interpretation, [...]

100 Year old Tunnel: Toronto Power Company Hydroelectric Plant, Niagara Falls, Ontario

Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, and completely inaccessible save by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor, and then returning up the same rope you came down.
Now imagine that this tunnel flows into Niagara Falls, [...]

Baby Can Read like a 7 year old At 17 Months

Elizabeth Barrett is now 17 months old. She looks and acts like most babies her age, but Elizabeth can read.
Her mother Katy, a speech pathologist who is married to Michael, another speech pathologist, said that most people don’t believe their infant is a reader.
Aside from reading books every day, play-time means mom writes down a [...]

Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

OPEC set to snub Bush call for extra crude oil

Bush, whose nation is the world’s biggest energy consumer, said it would be a “mistake” by OPEC not to hike production to help bring down record-high oil prices of above 100 dollars when the organisation meets in Vienna on Wednesday. … - rawstory

It is not the lack of oil production at work here. It is [...]

Egypt leaks information about an American military action against Syria

Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab Al-Youm reported today, through sources that an American message leaked by Egypt to Syria shows that the United States is ready to launch a broad military operation against Syria if it insists on its position on the Lebanese crisis and this is the real reason behind the deployment of “USS Cole” in [...]