The national parks ’ magnificence protract beyond nature . In jubilation ofNational Park Week , here are a few of the many stories that add to the great mystique of these American institutions . 1. The Yellowstone Campfire The origination narration of the world’sfirst national parkis a legend unto itself . Nathaniel Pitt Langford served as the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park , and inThe Discovery of Yellowstone Park : Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870(a man of brevity he was not ) , Langford detail anaccount of the campfire that started it all ....

It ’s certainly take a honest long while , but bSQAURE ’s BlackBerry - comparable mobile communicator is finally out . The problem is that for mightily now it ’s only available in Britain from Vodafone . The Power Handheld , is it ’s called , ladder on Windows CE .NET , and has a four - inch 65,000 color screen , 400MHz processor , 64 MB of RAM , a swoop out QWERTY mini - keyboard , and built - in GPRS ....

Douglas Adams ’ biographer is bring out a hoarded wealth trove of the Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy author ’s antecedently unseen study — including a rocky order of payment for a 2d season of the TV show , material thin out from the first Hitchhiker ’s novel , and Adams ’ unpublished Hagiographa on exotic sex . Jem Roberts will be release extracts of Adams ’ discarded cloth in his forthcoming biography of Adams , The Frood ....

Good news , morn larks – research show that woman who feel at their most alert in the hours before dejeuner are 40 per centum less potential to produce bosom cancer than late riser . Scientists at Bristol University , UK , have found that something as simple as your interior body clock ( or circadian rhythm ) can play an of import role in how likely ( or not ) you are to be name with cancer ....

Jim Henson ’s 1986 fantasy filmLabyrinthis the poster shaver for what it is to be a cult classic . The movie recouped just about half of its $ 25 million production budget upon its initial exit , but some 35 years by and by , it ’s found a 2d living on domicile video , streaming services , and through countless collectibles . It ’s now glorify for its groundbreaking special effects and imaginative puppetry , and for its memorable performance by a young Jennifer Connelly and rockstarDavid Bowie , who utterly embodied the showy Goblin King ....

This carving — called Geometric Death Frequency-141’—shows a liquid slop in a 20 - by-50 - human foot invisible cube . Made entirely of small black spheres , it ’s so complex that is being entirely manufactured by robots , who paste the nut one by one . The scultpure plans were make in a 3D curriculum by Federico Díaz for MASS MoCA 2010 — the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams ....

Ah , the GIF . If you love the Internet , you ca n’t help but have it off that wonderfully repair , comically compressed range of a function file formatting . Officially called Graphics Interchange Format , the GIF turns 25 today and has come up a foresighted way from its low GeoCities - plaster beginnings . It ’s now catnip for the Internet . It ’s telling how the GIF re - invented itself from spin orb and police siren on terrible 1990 ’s era sites ( heh ) to becoming the only form of on-line communication ( non - video recording ) that can truly interpret emotion over the cyberspace ....

When you purchase through links on our website , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it knead . How do mosquito larvae catch their quarry ? By using their nous . In flak that are too swift to be seen with the nude eye , predatory aquatic larvae , which measure about 0.75 inch ( 2 cm ) long , launch their heads toward their victim like lilliputian harpoon , high - amphetamine film footage reveals ....

In 2013 , a photographic camera gob in Quang Nam responsibility , Vietnam , snapped a photo of a rarefied and problematical animal . Known as the Asiatic unicorn , it populate in forests across Vietnam and Laos . At least , we think it does , but nobody ’s project one since . The Asian unicorn ( Pseudoryx nghetinhensis ) orsaolais up there as one of the rarest and most imperil animals in the creation ....

By manipulating alloy skimming with magnets , even children are able togive a bald guy cable some hair . Now , researchers have chance on that attracter can also be used to keep in line heat and peradventure even level-headed . Using a magnetic field of study roughly the size of a aesculapian MRI , researchers slow up the motion of heat through a tuning fork . Thestudy , published inNature Materialsthis calendar week , is the first to demonstrate that “ acoustical phonons ” have magnetic properties too ....

When you buy through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate committal . Here ’s how it ferment . Feeling depressed may increase the endangerment of stroke , at least among older adults , a new cogitation intimate . The study involved about 1,100 people living in New York City ; the participants had an average age of 70 and had never had a solidus . At the start of the field of study , participants fulfil out a survey designed to measuresymptoms of depression , such as feeling sad or feeling like everything is an effort ....

Faced with a small but maturate number of monkeypox vitrine , the UK is now offering a smallpox vaccine to high - danger health care prole and others who have been potentially exposed to the virus , according toReuters . pharmaceutic party Bavarian Nordic alsoannouncedon Thursday that they ’ve sign a deal with an “ unrevealed European country ” to supply its smallpox vaccinum in response to new cases of monkeypox ....

Birds are weird little tool . They used to bethe most terrific predator the world has ever seen , and now they just spend their timegetting drunk , facetiming their pals , and occasionallykilling one in three humans across the Earth . Oh – and , of course , tweet . And every so often , they go demented and start attack substructure . Whether it ’s your house , your machine , orMcCormick Place Lakeside Center in Chicago , sometimes birds just love to fly at , pick at , and otherwise bring to ruin , completely non-living objects ....