The United States Navy Marine Mammal System currently employs bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions in three basic roles: guarding ships and ports against enemy divers, recovering lost hardware, and locating underwater mines. Throughout the program’s history, marine mammals have deployed in 25 countries. Other mammals have been employed in the past, including pilot whales and belugas.
Though playing video games is often called a child’s activity, a new study from the Entertainment Software Association has found that that perception couldn’t be further from the truth.
According to the organization, which represents the game industry, the average gamer today is 37 years old. Moreover, the average game buyer is 41 years old. Because of that, a greater number of parents are playing games with their children. The ESA said that 45 percent of parents play games with their kids “at least weekly.”
All across the poorer areas of Russia, hundreds of thousands of people are using the drug “Krokodil,” or crocodile (named for the green-scaly appearance of the user’s skin at the injection site).
It consists of codeine mixed with gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous. Users typically die within 3 years, but not before their flesh rots off. WARNING: The video below is VERY graphic.
There’s nothing more demeaning than reading a celebrity rich list. A horrible reminder that there are people out there worth more than you and your Facebook friends combined (times 20), it’s often littered with celebs who really, genuinely don’t deserve the cash they take for granted.
But it’s nothing compared to this. Animals, who clearly don’t need any more attention than they already have (thanks internet), have been slowly racking up the pennies behind our naïve backs all this time.
1. Gunther – Dog (£90 million or $145 million)
Now Gunther isn’t just a bit rich, he’s absurdly, offensively loaded. The German Shepherd inherited his fortune from his father, who in turn had received the money from his completely not crazy owner Karlotta Liebenstein when she died. Aside from spending his money on the obvious (chewy bones, bitches), Gunther also purchased Madonna’s old Miami home and a rare white truffle worth £1,000, a favourite delicacy of pavement-sniffing, bin-foraging dogs.
During long days of rigorous work, we’re often overcome with the urge to stop and let our minds take a break. But how necessary are these breaks actually? They are only as necessary as you believe them to be according to a new study conducted by Stanford University.
After running several experiments, researchers have concluded that people who consider their willpower to be unlimited are better at completing multiple tasks than people who feel their brains deserve periodic breaks.
