Freak of the Week : Study and get an iPad

Though the iPad may seem like a big bust, still having one can make you look badass. Now, have you ever imagined yourself studying for the sake of your future and at the same time being rewarded for it now? This happens to scholars most of the time. But students from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, specifically full-time students, will be rewarded by well, being a student there by receiving an iPad starting this fall.

With iPad's ability to host eBooks, students from the university will be instructed to purchase their lecture books from the iBook Store. Pretty cool. With that, the students won't be obligated to take down notes on bulky notebooks and bring with them books that I assume most of the time, won't be read at all. I wish all schools will be like that. [thenextweb]

Little girl does it all

Can you solve a Rubik's cube? Probably yes. Can you balance a set of books? Maybe yes. Do you know pi up to its nth digit? Well, probably not. Are you girl? Yes, there is a high chance. But can you do this? Of course, NOT. This is just awesome right here. [Guyism]

Nanobots in, Cancer out?

Cancer may become a thing of the past as nanobots have already been proven effective, so far at least. The 70-nanometer attack bots—made with two polymers and a protein that attaches to the cancerous cell's surface—carry a piece of RNA called small-interfering RNA (siRNA), which deactivates the production of a protein, starving the malign cell to death. Once it has delivered its lethal blow, the nanoparticle breaks down into tiny pieces that get eliminated by the body in the urine.

And guess what, nanobots can be used as much as you want to kill those damned cancer cells, and so far, no side effects have been seen or encountered. That is just the Lord's work right there. Here is the original article.

See those black dots? They are the nanobots, and they are

pulverizing the hell out of that cancer cell

LHC at work on March 30

After creating so much buzz way back in the past, but failing to deliver its goods earlier around last November due to some glitches, the Large Hadron Collider, which many have dubbed as the destroyer of the universe, will finally be revealing what it really is made for.

The LHC allegedly is supposed to find some "god-particle" from which everything started. But on the 30th, its mission is to recreate conditions that is fairly close to the Big Bang. Will this cause a huge black hole, and suck the universe, as what the haters say? All we can do is wait. But I hope it won't. [via PhysOrg]

Freak of the Week : LegoLand California

I have featured previously a collection of insane, life-sized figures made completely out of Lego. Now, imagine those life-sized figures in an environment also made completely out of Lego. Well, not all of them, but most of them. Now what do you get? A LegoLand. And this LegoLand is the only one found outside of Europe, the others being in Denmark, Windsor (England), and Germany. [PlanetOddity]

See the photos after the cut.

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Freak of the Week : My Mom's on Facebook

Well, not really. But I'll make sure that what this song portrays won't happen to me.

Freak of the Week : King of Cards

It took this architect 44 days to build and break his own Guiness World Record of the biggest house made of completely nothing but plain playing cards. Bryan Berg, who is just insanely talented, used 218,792 cards to produce a replica of the Venetian Macau. Sweet. [via Daily Mail UK]

Berg poses with his work of art which is displayed right where his model is patterned. Adorable.

The model. I hope he builds one based on our house.

To the Battlefield

I've been struggling with the busy season this past few weeks, disabling me to do some extensive research, thus unable to make consistent blog posts.

I still might be unable to blog regularly in these remaining days of the month, because I have lots of real business to deal with, including battling it out to make it back to my old academic condition.

So, blog posts will be as scarce as diamonds, but Freak of the Week entries won't be missed. See you when I see you.

Freak of the Week : Hussein's Palaces

With Saddam Hussein being dead for a while now, and him being a freak of nature when it comes to accumulating assets, there's no doubt that there will be some of his belongings that will be left behind. And the American soldiers have been very resourceful, using Hussein's palaces as temporary shelters.

 

After Hussein was forced out of his ruling supremacy, the US Army moved their headquarters in Al-Faw Palace in Camp Victory, which is pictured above. Some of the photos after the cut, and the original article at the end of this sentence. [via WebUrbanist]

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Nail of Christ's Crucifixion?

A nail dating back from the time Christ's crucifixion was found in a remote fort that was once believed to be a stronghold of the Knights Templar. A nail was found and was believed to be used by the Roman empire in their thousands of crucifixion, dating back in the days.

the four-inch nail that was found.

photo by Greg Grundy

Archaeologists say that due to the nail's astounding condition of safekeeping, it might be an important relic after all. Now that would be awesome. [via Telegraph]