Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev - Tajik Music

Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev was a Tajik(Probably Pamiri) Singer.
I came across his songs which are pretty good. Sang in Tajiki- a form of Farsi.
Go to His wiki, for more info.

Muboraksho - Ayy Yorum Biyo



Muboraksho- Ay joni man asirat




Muboraksho-Ajabxo




Muboraksho - Imshab



CHOR JAVON - ORIGINAL SONG

Lion Hugs And Kisses Man

Video of a Lion showing affection to a person.
Very interesting.


Lion Hugs And Kisses Man - Click here for this week’s top video clips

Elephants playing soccer in Thailand

Pretty nice kicks.


Great Elephant Soccer - For more amazing video clips, click here

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Name of the plane that crashed in the World Trade Center

Interesting video on the name of the plane that crashed in the World Trade Center.
Thanks to the person who put the comment.
I did a search and found it that it is an urban legend.
The video below is not true.
For more info. about the this video not being true go to the below link:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/wingdings.asp

What is interesting, is the fact that "NY" in the Microsoft font Wingdings does produce "death to the Jews" in symbolic form. Whether this was done intentionally or not I have no idea. The reason I think it is interesting is because NY has one of the highest population of Jews in the USA and throughout the world.


World Trade Center , The Name Of Plane.. - Click here for another funny movie.

Quit Smoking - Encouraging Video

Nice experiment on what smoking leaves on your lungs after smoking only one cigarette.


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Latest Touch Screen

Interesting Touch Screen video



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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Albanians rescue Jews in WW2 - plus videos

I was playing around with Google, looking for interesting videos.
To my surprise I came across a set of videos dedicated on the courageous Albanians who saved the lives of Jews during WW2 while putting there lives on the line.

The videos are filled with a lot of information about how individual Albanians would risk there own lives to save the life of a Jew or a family of Jews. This act done by Albanian individuals made an impact on the fact that not one Jew in Albania was sent to a concentration camp during the holocaust. It was a 100% rescue of the Jews from the Holocaust. I am not sure if an other country under Axis domination could boast about this.

To read more about this http://www.frosina.org/articles/default.asp?id=167

Albanian Muslims rescue Jews in WW2 #1:


Albanian Muslims rescue Jews in WW2 #2:


Albanian Muslims rescue Jews in WW2 #3:

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Israel and Iran and the whole picture

I came across a video on Google discussing the relationship between Iran and Israel.
It is a very interesting video with great points being made.
Anyone interested in the conflict between Iran and Israel and in the Middle East as a whole should watch this video.

This video is from Google titled "Israel and Iran – Ideological Foes or Strategic Rivals?"
"Trita Parsi at a lecture for Iranian Studies Group (ISG@MIT)talks about the relationship between Iran and Isreal over the last 3 decades." -source Google

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Funny Frog - makes weird noise

I found a few videos on youtube of a frog making a funny noise.
The frog almost sounds like a cat.
It is hilarious. You have got to watch all of them.

part 1



part 2



part 3

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Solar Powered Bike- eco friendly


picture compliments of ecogeek.org.

Before I showed you the solar umbrella.
Now there is a solar powered bike.
The bike automatically charges the batteries on the bike for later use. It can go up to 19 miles an hour.
You really don't need to go more than that do to safety concerns.
The bike sells for $1,295 and there is a conversion kit for your current bike that costs $795.
I like the conversion kit idea. Wouldn't want to fill up those landfills any faster.

Go to there website for more info:
http://www.therapyproducts.com/products_sunnybike.html

It would be nice to get some feed back on anyone who owns this bike.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Solar or wind Energy- which is better for you ?

Ever wanted to create your own energy for your home but didn't know which way to go wind solar?
Or didn't know how much kilowatts you would get?
A website was created that lets you put in your address and it shows you on a google map what would be best for your location.
That is so cool.
It also show you the incentives you would get from the government.
Go to this site
http://www.chooserenewables.com

and type in your info where it says Can "Generate Clean Energy"

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Eating Avocados maybe good for oral health

According to a Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center study, eating avocados may help prevent oral cancer.
It was not an extensive test but it did show some promise.

Avocados are full of beneficial antioxidants and phytonutrients.
To read more go here

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Firstborns are smarter...

Guess what I will tell my younger brother?
I found scientific proof that the first born is the smartest of the siblings.
On average of course.
According to a New York Times article, this is the case.
But, the younger siblings have carved out a niche for themselves in the family also.
Younger siblings tend to be more adventurous.
Also, some of the greatest scientists where younger siblings, like Charles Darwin and Nicolaus Copernicus.

Read this article for more info

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

When good people do brave things - Egyptian scientist praises Israel

I was having lunch with a co-worker today talking about politics, Middle Eastern that is. It was my opinion that sooner or later there won't be an Israel if the current political pressures and demographic outlook doesn't change (seems like both are anti-Israel). My co-worker said that it will not be so. (He's a Japanese-American).

After work, I read an article on Mohammed Sayed Saber an Egyptian engineer accused of spying for the Mossad, had praised Israel in court. This is truly inspiring. There was no politics to his courtroom speech. He was saying what he felt, even at the cost of his own freedom. This is truely a brave and self-less act. Unlike the judge, Mohammed Reda Shwakat, who upon hearing the speech called him to the bench, so that the courtroom will become silent of the truth.

The speech, in its core, was a comparison of the society he lives in (Egyptian) and of the society he rather live in (Israeli).

Egyptian Charged As Spy Praises Israel

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Throat Singing

I will start of May with throat singing.
I was playing around on the internet when I found something very interesting.
The sound was so strong and almost cuts through your soul.
It was very vivid for me, and reminded me of a sound a Buddhist would create.
This sound is produced by a technique called "Throat singing".
It is an unusual but pleasant sound.

Here is a link to the first song I heard which might be my favorite one.
It is performed by Amyr Akchin from the Altai region of Siberia : Altai Kai Throat Singing
You have to listen to the whole thing.

This guys is showing off his throat singing ability to some Americans,from what
I can tell from the video. He is pretty good: Mongolian Throat-singing, dissected

Here is a link of a guy who makes wobbly sounds (due to lack of a better term I am using wobbly ). To me it sounds wobbly

Here is a link that has more info. on throat singing: khoomei

Do it yourself

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Solar Powered Beach Umbrella

This is one of the neatest things I found.
A solar powered beach umbrella.
Go to the beach with your umbrella bring a radio, ipod, ebook or whatever else and just plug it in.

Solar Powered Beach Umbrella

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Beer Launcher: Follow-Up

I had a comment for the beer launcher(Cool Gadgets) blog to follow up with other cool beer relate videos. So here are some of my favorite.

Hope you like them.
The Beer-Launching Refrigerator - The guy who created the beer launcher on the David Letterman Show.

HOWTO: Open A Beer Bottle With A Piece Of Paper


Beer Makes Women Beautiful


Beer Pong Masters


Mythbusters Science plus Beer equals good


100 % Beer!! Commercial- I guess sports is sometimes more important


Educational Beer Video

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Memory Can Be Selectively Wiped Out

At least that is what a team of American and French Scientists claim.
The test subjects were rats and the test was simple.

But, it does show a correlation if not a causation between the drug given to the rats and there behavior after hearing a sound which they previously associated with an electric shock.

This is a good start but different types of memories should be tested.
It might be just that this drug can selectively wipe out audial memory. Let's see what happens when trying to selectively wipe out visual or another sensory memory or a combination of other memories.

My feeling is that the more senses you have that contribute to a specific memory the harder it is to selectively wipe out.

Article on the experiment

Monday, March 26, 2007

Semi-Identical Twins

Somewhere, between identical and fraternal twins lies semi-identical twins.
Identical twins share the same egg and sperm cell. Fraternal twins don't share the same egg or sperm cell but rather are born at the same time. Semi-fraternal twins share the same egg cell but a different sperm cell.

Wow, this is so fascinating. I wonder how many people think they are identical or fraternal twins but might be semi-fraternal twins.

Researcher's recently discovered this.

Semi-Fraternal Twins Discovered

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Healthy Teeth and Gums Means a Healthy You

According to certain studies there is a correlation between oral health and overall health.

Oral health effects the cardiovascular system (including the heart), diabetes and maybe the health of unborn babies. The link has not been well established with the health of unborn babies.

It is interesting how cleaning your teeth can reduce inflammation throughout the body. I have read from credible sources that westerners especially Americans mostly suffer from diseases linked with inflammation. So anything that can be done to decrease it seems worth it to me.

So grab that brush and clean those pearly whites.

Oral Health

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

From Radioacitve Waste to Energy

An Israeli company is using plasma gasification melting technology (PGM) (note: like I know what that means) to turn low-level radioactive waste, garbage into clean-energy and a lava-like glass looking thing (that can be used in construction and roads).

This sounds very nice. The system was created by a joint effort between Russian and Israeli universities. Now think about the potential that exists if people work together not against each other.

Oh yeah, the system is currently working in Israel and it had the first reactor built as a proof of concept. Now they are having one built in Ukraine and are partnering up with an American company.

Garbage-Energy 1

Garbage-Energy 2

Fly instead of Drive?

NASA’s PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) competition is funded with $2,000,000 in cash prizes.

Its goal, simple, to stimulate innovation and progress in PAV's.
Reason, NASA believes that in the not to distant future close to half of all miles traveled in the USA will be in PAV's. How exciting!!!

Imagine that, it sounds great and all. I am all for it. But this will just magnify the statistics in motor vehicle accidents and now no one will be safe from a drunk pilot, not even in the comfort of your own home.

But I think we are some time away from stepping in the family plane parked in the backyard.

PAV

Speed Reading, Yeah Right

Several studies were published at the "Journal of Vision" this month that claim speed reading is impossible.

There is a biological limit on the speed of your reading. This limit is largely impacted on your visual span.

The article in Livescience.com brings up the fact that people with eye conditions that restrict the visual span also decreases the reading speed.

It seems like one's visual span and speed of reading is positively correlated. Maybe, if someone had mutation that allowed him or her an increased visual span they would be able to speed read. Just a thought.

Speed Reading

Monday, March 19, 2007

Listen to Mozart, Become a Genius

Not quite, but a scientific experiment showed that musicians brainstem is altered.

It was thought that the brainstem was unchangeable and not involved in complex processes. But, that all changed after an experiment that proved the brain stem actually can become altered and rewired.

These experiment leads to a whole class of questions related to how and why the brainstem is able to change.

I wonder if listening to music with high degree of complexity can improve intelligence by rewiring the cerebral cortex?

I will put on some Mozart now and lets see how long it will take me to become a genius. :)

Musical Brainstem

Friday, March 9, 2007

Contour Crafting

A professor in California has created automated home building.
It works like your regular computer printer but in 3-D and instead of ink is uses cement.
Wow what a great idea!!


The website claims a 2,000 sq ft home can be built in a 24 hr period.
This has many application some of which include building homes for emergency, low-income, commercial housing and building habitats on other planets.

To read more about this go to Contour Crafting

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Cool Gadgets

Ever wanted a cold beer, but didn't want to get out of your couch to get it?
Well here is the fridge that launches you a beer, remote controlled of course.
A recent graduate from duke missed his college days and told his friends he was going to build a fridge that would launch him a beer.

If you like that idea go to this site.
It has nice pics of it:
beer launcher

his video

Biology

For those of you interested in wildlife.
There is an eagle cam capturing images of a female eagle in its nest.
The eagle is in Maine, USA, battling cold weather and has laid eggs.

eagle cam

Society

I just read an interesting article on time travel.
It seems that most scientists think it is impossible to travel back in time. A minority believe it is theoretically possible but impractical.
But, traveling to the future is theoretically possible but you probably won't be able to come back.
Interesting.

But, this brings me to a point not about physics but about people.
When looking at my life there are many things that I would like to change.
If it was possible to go back in time and tell myself in the past what not to do and do, I would.
But that is not at all possible.
I have for the past few months tried to make everything count in my life. So that I won't look back and wish to go back in time.

Time machines are a part of our fantasy. Some dream about it and would use it to fix something in the past. So, my philosophy is living life to the fullest so that there won't be a need to fantasize about a time machine.

Many people would also fantasize about using a time machine to change the course of history. Like killing Hitler or stopping him from achieving power.
That is a noble cause, so my answer would be instead of wishing to change the past, lets change the present for the good. So that your children wouldn't want a time machine to fix something that happened in our time. :)

Article mentioned :
time travel

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Just started...... :)

Hi everyone,

This is my blog. I am a New Yorker,who resides in Brooklyn.
My friends tell me I know so much useless info. So, I have decided to create a blog with interesting useless and sometimes not so useless information.

The reason I named it EurekaZone was because Eureka was taken. :)
I always have ideas about stuff from A..Z and this blog will be a collection of my personal discoveries that are less than Eureka, to the rest of the world.

Wish me luck :)