A strange relationship between dogs and bears

Polar bears are the largest living land carnivores and are very aggressive. Nevertheless, they seem to have develop a deep relationship with the dogs in the Arctic.



Taken from the show "Jailed Polar Bear" on http://www.firstscience.com/. Thanks to Rustem for sharing!

The Orangutan and the Hound

When Surya, the orangutan, meets a hound dog by the river, the two carry on like long lost friends...



Thanks to Laurie for sharing!

Source: Natonal Geographic Channel

American History in a Food Fight

Food Fight by Stefan Nadelman is an abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.



See also:

• Food Fights's web site
  
• Cast: who is who in the battle

A BREAKDOWN OF THE BATTLES

1. The World
   
2. WWII - Holocaust / French surrender / London Bombing / Pearl Harbor / Battle of Midway / D-day / fall of Berlin / Hiroshima
   
3. Arab-Israeli War
   
   
   • Brits leave Israel
     
   • Israel expands territory
   
   
4. Korean War
   
   
   • China and Russia back the North
     
   • The US back the South
   
   
5. Cuban Missile Crisis
   
6. Viet Nam
   
   
   • China and Russia back the North
     
   • The US back the South
   
   
7. Cold War
   
   
   • Arms race
   
   
8. Intifada
   
9. Gulf War
   
   
   • Iraq invades Kuwait
     
   • Scuds
     
   • Smart bomb
   
   
10. 9/11
    
11. Afghanistan
    
12. Gulf War II
    
    
    • Shock and awe
      
    • IED
    
    
13. Bug Food
    

Stefan Nadelman FAQs:

• The food in this film was consumed either by Stefan or his dog after shooting. None of the cast went to waste.
  
• The software used was photoshop and after effects.
  
• The film took me 3 months to do.
  
• Although it seems like stop motion, most of it was stop motion created within After effects, using keyframe animation. Stefan is basically moving the food around within the the program, frame by frame, which is the same as traditional stop motion, only it's digital.
  

How secure is your credit card?

Chip and PIN was supposed to help protect us all from card fraud. But Cambridge researchers, Steven Murdoch and Saar Drimer, have found a number of ways that the criminally-minded could crack it - and extract your account number and PIN and all the details needed to create a cloned card.




See also: PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities, Author's technical report
P.S. If you are a victim of a credit card fraud accused by your bank, show them this video!
P.P.S. Check also these articles about ATM skimmers:

• Barclays' new ATM to beat fraud
  
• Внимание! Будьте бдительны..
  
• Мошенники подделывают банкоматы
  

Death of a Nation: Russia

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the West has purposefully ignored the devastation which resulted. The West merely shrugged it's shoulders or pulled faces in 2005 when Putin called it "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century."

A once great country is now nearing terminal collapse. By 2050 Russia may have lost 50% of its population. Male life expectancy has plummeted like no time in recorded human history (now 56).

In this chaos opportunism has reached new depths. Oligarchs stole billions of dollars of assets which under Soviet times had belonged to all people. These are like new tzars, embraced by church and state.

Violence and the rise of the far-right is turning Russian against Russian on the basis of ethnic origin.

Drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide, abject depression flow from a people who once worked together for a better and brighter Communist future. In its place is emptiness.

"The rise in mortality is unprecedented in a developed country. Its as though the country is at war"



P.S. Film consists of six parts. At the end of the part, move mouse cursor over the video window to select other parts.

Do you trust your mechanic?

I bet you are going to sign the parts in your car after watching this. Well, I'm going to sign them with a pen that can only be seen under ultra-violet light!



P.S. Well, here is a sticker to add to your hood in case you don't trust your mechanic anymore ;-)

Tour of Kyiv in 1983

Bird's eye tour of Kyiv, Ukraine in 1983

March of Remembrance

One of the darkest pages in Ukraine’s history is the Genocide of 1932-1933, during which 10 million innocent victims were starved to death through a deliberate Soviet policy to crush the nationally conscious Ukrainian peasantry. The Ukrainian Genocide ranks among the worst cases of man’s inhumanity towards man, and is perhaps the most extreme example of the use of food as a weapon.

"Holodomor" - the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, is recognized by many countries as an act of genocide.



On November 17, there is going to be a "March of remembrance" in New-York City to honor the innocent victims of the Ukrainian genorcide of 1932-1933.

An inspirational speech by Steve Jobs