New pig species

A Dutch scientist thinks he has discovered a new species of wild pig nearly twice the size of other pigs in Brazil’s Amazon region.

At four feet long ad 90 pounds, the pig is the latest in a string of new species that Marc van Roosmalen reported to have found since 1996. His findings were published in the Oct. 29 edition of the Germen scientific journal Bonner Zoologische Beitrage.

Van Roosmalen, said his discovery of the peccary – a kind of wild pig he dubbed Pecari maximus – points out the need to protect the region as a habitat for wild species.

‘Supermouse’ is reality

Scientists have been astounded by the creation of a genetically modified “supermouse” with extraordinary physical abilities – comparable to the performance of the very best athletes – raising the prospect that the discovery may one day be used to transform people’s capacities.
The mouse can run up to six kilometers (3.7 miles) at a speed of 20 meters per minute for five hours or more without stopping. Scientists said that this was equivalent of a man cycling at speed up an Alpine mountain without a break. Although it eats up to 60 percent more food than an ordinary mouse, the modified mouse does not put on weight, It also lives longer and enjoys an active sex life well into old age – being capable of breeding as three times the normal maximum age.
Professor Hanson, who led the 15-strong team of researchers, said that the first supermouse was created about four years ago by injecting a highly active form of a gene for an enzyme called phosphonenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK_C) into a mouse embryo. The results of studies on the mice are published for the first time in the Journal of Biological Chemistry earlier this month.

Would You Prefer Eyes Like This….

Some say scary and some term it out as weird …. Well my mouth was left wide open when I saw this bizarre human being with a gift lend by God. The world calls him as the man with popping eyes. What you think of him.. ???

Well according to me he doesn't need a binoculars... :-)

Speak English or lose pay, Aussie firm tells staff

An Australian company has directed its multicultural work office to speak only English or sacrifice a pay rise.
The Australian company Cochlear, famous for hearing aids, has threatened to deny pay rises to staff who speak foreign languages at the workplace, despite the fact that more than half of its workers hail from non-English speaking countries.
Huy Kha, a worker from Cambodia, alleges in his complaint – to be lodged today with the NSW’s anti-discrimination board that in June his manager ordered him to “speak English at al times”
“The team leader said if we are found speaking a foreign language, we will fail our assessment to get a higher classification,” he wrote.
The Age quoted Cochlear’s Chief executive Chris Roberts as saying he was unaware of Kha’s complaint but that the company had “a policy of mutual respect in the workplace. So, there is a bunch of people in a group, they should not speak a language that cuts others out.”

Boy playing with matches began fire in California

A boy playing with matches has confessed to starting a wildfire that destroyed 63 structures near Los Angeles, officials said. The unidentified youngster, believed to be a pre-teen, was questioned by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators on October 22, a day after the Buckweed fire started rampaging across 38,000 acres (15,000 hectares) in the Santa Clarita area, 50 km north of downtown Los Angeles.

The boy “admitted that he had been playing with matches” said sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore yesterday.

The Buckweed fire was one of about 24 conflagrations that ravaged sothern California last week.