As a keen cyclist and human (yes I'm quite keen on acting like one to) I have decided to take a few more risks, which may result in some pain. However it is not the pain that stops me, it is the fear of falling or more acutely the sharp stop at the bottom accompanied by dentures and metal pins through your arm. This is what fear is, thinking what might happen instead of what will happen - it will probably be alright. One guy who certainly has learnt to control this is Danny Macaskill. Imagine jumping down 2 large sets of stairs on a bike, whilst spinning on a bike.
The adjectives for this video include but are not exclusive to:
Crazy, insane, amazing, scary, stupid, talented and scottish
A few weird and quirky stories now.
Invisibility may be closer than we think, and much better than the invisibility on James Bond's Aston Martin in Die Another Day. Scientists have developed a cloak that is invisible to infra-red light. Now for those who studied science you'll be asking 'why does this make invisibility closer as infra-red light is not part of the visible spectrum?' Well this new technology doesn't absorb any light so there is no shadowing or loss of light creating an imperfect cloak and it can be scaled down to small sizes with the hope that this technology can be transfered to visble light wavelengths so one day we can pretend to be this guy.
Also in this sex obsessed world, where procreation is a by product and sometimes unwelcome one. A spider species aptly named Harpactea sadistica, have been found to inject their sperm through holes they make in the females abdomen. Now I didn't know this but usually males will leave their sperm on the spider web and the female will come along and pick it up using pedipalps where the sperm enters an rests between the ovary and the ovipore in an area called the spermetheca.
The Harpactea sadistica have an advantage over normal spider species as the last spider to inseminate the female will father the offspring. Whereas the Harpactea sadistica injects its sperm directly into the ovary. And we thought Max Mosely was bad?
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