Today is 29th of February - This happens approximetely once every 4 years. But have you already wondered why we have leap years?

Read this article to know more.

A highly toxic and deadly substance called Ricin derived from Castor Beans have been found in a Las Vegas hotel. The level of toxicity is enormous: 6000 times more poisonous than Cyanide! (more…)

Jotspot was acquired by Google some times ago. It was a software company that offered enterprise social software - a structured wiki, a way to create site content thanks to collaborative efforts. Wikipedia.org is a good example of a wiki.

Now why did Google acquire them? (more…)

I know many people (me included) always forget 1 or 2 planet names. Now there’s an easy way to engrave them in our memories…Well… at the only condition that you don’t forget the mnemonic!

Source: http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/advances_in_planet_mnemonics/

Encyclopedia of Life or EOL.org is a pharaonic project that has just opened to the public.

The goal is to create an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet.

Since the site was launched with its first 30,000 pages it has been assaulted by a horde of visitors causing their server to crash.

Result: At the time of this writing, the encyclopaedia of life is dead