Trick or Truth – Thai Monk Meditates in Pot of Boiling Oil over an Open Flame
A YouTube video of a monk praying calmly in a vat of boiling oil has recently has been doing the rounds online, leaving viewers wondering how the monk can keep from screaming in agony. Social media users were enthralled by the possibility of this Thai monk’s ability to defy physics with his ‘magic’. Unfortunately, skeptical […]
Russian Teen Builds Realistic Life-Size Tanks Out of Snow
Alexander Zhuikov, a student from Novosibirsk, Russia, was recently in the news for his highly realistic snow sculpture of a life-size tank. It took him a month to create the frozen masterpiece, which he later entered into a contest held by the makers of popular online game World of Tanks. Alexander, 20, began his project by […]
Pseudis Paradoxa – The Paradoxical Frog That Shrinks as It Grows
The Pseudis Paradoxa is the Benjamin Button equivalent of the amphibian world. The paradoxical creature starts off as a 25-cm-long tadpole and shrinks as it grows. ending up as a small tropical frog, about a quarter of its original size. When biologists discovered the paradoxical frog in the South American wild,they were understandably confused. At first, […]