Sometimes the weight of civilization can be overwhelming. The fast pace,
the burdens of relationships, the political strife, the technological
complexity — it's enough to make you dream of escaping to a simpler life
more in touch with nature. For most that dream translates into an
occasional weekend camping trip, but there are some people — critics of
civilization, activists, spiritualists or mere free spirits — who have
taken the idea to the extreme. While some call them naive or radical,
others consider them inspirational. Here are 7 individuals who gave up
on civilization to live in the wild.
t's World Child Labour Day. What does this mean to us as people who don't know what it's like to collect rubbish at a young age? What can we do to help? We searched for 10 stories of children in Asia whose lives we could all learn from.
#01. Young Chinese girl who works 12 hours a day in a brick factory
#02. Rustam working in a cotton field
#03. Young children collecting usable waste from one of the biggest landfill sites in the Philippines
#04. 13 year old children working on a construction site
#05. Hands of 8 year old boy working in rickshaw parts making factory
#06. 7 year old child collecting steaming rubbish heap on a cold winter morning
Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC) begins today in San Francisco. From iOS 7 to Apple’s iRadio service, here’s a look at all the newness Apple has for the world. WWDC starts today and goes on till 14 June.
Apple Gives Sneak Peek Into the Future of the Pro Desktop
SAN FRANCISCO—June 10, 2013—Apple® today showed a sneak peek into the future of the pro desktop with a first look at the next generation Mac Pro®. Designed around a revolutionary unified thermal core, the Mac Pro introduces a completely new pro desktop architecture and design that is optimized for performance inside and out. With next generation Xeon processors, dual workstation-class GPUs, Thunderbolt 2, PCIe-based flash storage, and ultra-fast ECC memory, the new 9.9-inch tall Mac Pro packs an amazing amount of power into an incredibly small package.
“With the latest Xeon processors, dual FirePro GPUs, ECC memory, PCIe-based flash and Thunderbolt 2, all built around a revolutionary thermal core, the next generation Mac Pro is the most radical Mac yet,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “All this performance and expandability is packed into a dramatic new design that’s one-eighth the volume, and best of all, it will be assembled here in the USA.”
The next generation Mac Pro is architected around an ingenious unified thermal core that allows the desktop to efficiently share its entire thermal capacity across all the processors. The result is a pro desktop with breakthrough performance packed into a design that is one-eighth the volume of the current Mac Pro. Next generation Intel Xeon E5 processors with up to 12 core configurations deliver double the floating point performance. With two AMD FirePro workstation-class GPUs, the all-new Mac Pro is up to 2.5 times faster than the current Mac Pro and delivers up to an amazing 7 teraflops of compute power. The new Mac Pro also features PCIe-based flash storage that is up to 10 times faster than conventional desktop hard drives and includes the latest four-channel ECC DDR3 memory running at 1866 MHz to deliver up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth.* With all that power, the new Mac Pro lets you seamlessly edit full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background.
The next generation Mac Pro is the most expandable Mac® ever built. With six Thunderbolt 2 ports that can deliver up to 20Gbps of bandwidth to each external device, Mac Pro is perfect for connecting to external storage, multiple PCI expansion chassis, audio and video breakout boxes, and the latest external displays, including 4K desktop displays. Each of the six Thunderbolt 2 ports supports up to six daisy-chained devices, giving you the ability to connect up to 36 high-performance peripherals. Thunderbolt 2 is completely backwards compatible with existing Thunderbolt peripherals, and allows you to transfer data between Macs faster and easier than ever.
The next generation Mac Pro will be available later this year. To learn more, visitwww.apple.com/mac-pro.
*Performance claims are based on technical specifications of preproduction Mac Pro hardware as of June 2013.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Even if they're total strangers who happen to be standing on the same tram platform as you. This video, captured through hidden camera, proves it! :)
Here's an easy way to become a trillionaire- just solve this math question! If you get it right, a banker in Dallas will give you $1 million US dollars! How hard can it be, right? Matt Damon solves a maths problem in Good Will Hunting (Picture: File)
A stumped billionaire banker is offering a princely sum to anyone who can solve his million dollar maths problem.
Dallas financer Andrew Beal will pay $1million (£650,000) to the genius who can find the solution to a numbers question that has been dogging mathematicians since the 80s.
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) said the huge sum would be awarded for the publication of the answer to the Beal Conjecture number theory problem.
Mr Beal first offered the prize in 1997 for $5,000 (£3,200), with the amount growing substantially over the years.
AMS spokesman Michael Breen says a solution is more difficult than the one for a related problem, Fermat’s Last Theorem, which remained unsolved for hundreds of years.
Beal is a self-taught mathematician and says he wants to inspire young people to pursue math and science.
‘I was inspired by the prize offered for proving Fermat,’ he told NDTV.
‘I’d like to inspire young people to pursue math and science. Increasing the prize is a good way to draw attention to mathematics generally and the Beal Conjecture specifically.
‘I hope many more young people will find themselves drawn into the wonderful world of mathematics.’
Imagine stepping into the doctor's office, and having the doctor tell you that you've been living as the wrong gender all your life.
HONG KONG: A 66-year-old who lived his whole life as a man was given a surprising diagnosis after visiting the doctor in Hong Kong with a swollen abdomen -- he was a woman.
Doctors realised the patient was female after they found the swelling came from a large cyst on an ovary, the Hong Kong Medical Journal reported.
The condition was the result of two rare genetic disorders.
The subject had Turner syndrome, which affects girls and women and results from a problem with the chromosomes, with characteristics including infertility and short stature.
But he also had congenital adrenal hyperplasia, increasing male hormones and making the patient, who had a beard and a "micropenis", appear like a man.
"Were it not due to the huge ovarian cyst, his intriguing medical condition might never have been exposed," seven doctors from two of the city's hospitals wrote in the study published Monday.
The 1.37 meters (4.5 feet) tall patient, who grew up as an orphan, was found to have no testes, a history of urinary leakage since childhood, and stopped growing after puberty at the age of 10.
The doctors said there have been only six cases where both genetic disorders have been reported in medical literature. Turner Syndrome on its own affects only one in 2,500 to 3,000 females.
The Vietnam-born Chinese patient decided to continue "perceiving himself as having a male gender with the possible need of testosterone replacement," according to the journal.
Most men have a X and a Y chromosome and most women have a pair of X chromosomes. But people with Turner Syndrome tend to have only one X chromosome or are missing part of their second X chromosome.
