Change Your Mind, Change Your Life — Start Right Now
Archive for the 'Curiosities' Category
Two Men Paddle 2,000 Miles from Australia to New Zealand
January 14th, 2008
Two adventurers arrived at a New Zealand beach on Sunday after paddling more than 2,000 miles from Australia in a kayak — the first such journey by kayak to succeed. Australians James Castrission, 25, and Justin Jones, 24, spent 62 days crossing the Tasman Sea in their own custom built fiberglass vessel.
The fish that can survive for months in a tree
October 19th, 2007
It’s one of the golden rules of the natural world – birds live in trees, fish live in water.
The trouble is, no one bothered to tell the mangrove killifish.
Scientists have discovered that it spends several months of every year out of the water and living inside trees.