Radio Bejad: July 2013

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Top 10 Bizarre Foods That People Usually Eat

Each country has their own traditional dishes like England’s roast dinner, Spain’s paella and Italy’s lasagne; however there are some countries that have more unusual delicacies. We might not fully understand right now why there are people around the world who would eat just about everything. Here’s a look at this list of 10 bizarre foods from around the world and see if your perspective on trying international cuisine doesn’t change. You had probably never eat any of these top 10 bizarre foods, most of them are popular in their respective regions for pretty good reasons.
See also these articles:
http://afkra.blogspot.com/2012/01/worlds-most-bizarre-food.html
http://afkra.blogspot.com/2011/12/worlds-most-disgusting-food.html

Baojun Yuan, learned Photoshop at 60 years old. He's now 76 and for the past decade or so has repaired over 2000 damaged photos and done it all for free. Yuan bought a computer and scanner himself and doesn't charge people because he jokingly says, "My teacher just taught me how to repair the photos, but he forgot to tell me how to charge". Check out the work Yuan has done for people after the jump.

Turmeric, which comes from the root of the Curcuma longa plant, is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native to tropical South Asia, and has a tough brown skin and a deep orange flesh. Turmeric has long been used as a powerful anti-inflammatory in both the Chinese and Indian systems of medicine. Turmeric was traditionally called “Indian saffron” because of its deep yellow-orange color and has been used throughout history as a condiment, healing remedy and textile dye.

We were asked to do a list on the 10 fastest rappers and soon after starting our research we found that things were in a constant state of change as far as official records are concerned. Then there was the problem of source citing from various competitions, so we decided to compile this list strictly on internet popularity.

10 Benefits of Laughter

Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by brain, helping humans clarify their intentions in social interaction and providing an emotional context to conversations. Laughter is used as a signal for being part of a group - it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others. Laughing is a celebration of the good, and it’s also how we deal with the bad. Laughing, like crying, is a good way of eliminating toxins from the body. Since the mind and body are connected, you use an amazing amount of muscles when you laugh. “Laughter is the best medicine”; we’re always being told that, but there’s actually more to a good giggle than just raising our spirits for a couple of minutes. In fact, laughter is a big deal and has been shown to have many beneficial effects on human body in different ways. Just check out these 10 benefits of chuckling…

10 Foods That Reduce High Blood Pressure

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a condition that causes blood to flow through your arteries at a higher than normal pressure rate. It can damage your arteries and lead to stroke and heart disease. It’s a common health ailment in most adults, the condition can often go undetected for years. It can be improved by maintaining a healthy weight and eating nutrient-rich foods that open the blood vessels and rid the body of excess sodium. If you’re looking for natural ways to fight hypertension, consider some healthy, delicious and heart-friendly foods. We know that blood pressure can be reduced by avoiding foods high in saturated fat and cholesterol, and consuming fresh fruits, vegetables, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products. Here are ten foods to help fight hypertension and keep you eating well every day.

10 Awesome Balconies

The common unique thoughts one would think off is a high rise, a levitated airport, or the pyramids of Giza. No one will ever imagine that there are balconies that would mind boggle one's imagination. Here is a list of the 10 Awesome Balconies.

This is a list of 10 unusual deaths. This list includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.

Below is list of 10 truly unusual deaths.

Unsolved Mysteries Of Our Past

This list comprises the most famous unsolved mysteries known to man that really defy rational explanation or are just outright strange.

10 Most Unique Elevators In The World

By Ahsan Mukhtar

It is hard to describe or to explain the fascination exerted by a fast elevator. I am sure that, for a jungle or countryside-raised child, the elevators are by far the most interesting and fascinating thing in a big city. Many different reasons can make a certain elevator be interesting, amazing or fascinating. The fastest elevators are for sure fascinating; their acceleration is faster than a plane. Outdoor elevators are also amazing through dimensions, but many of them are causing serious environment issues. The elevators linking the parts of the city from different heights are very useful, and became iconic landmarks of that city.

Here are some of the world’s most unique elevators:

Mankind has always been very fascinated with weapons. They always has, and always will, fight wars. Initially, they used weapons to hunt but that soon transformed into killing fellow humans. We evolved and along with us the weapons did as well. Now we have weapons of such destructive power that it is not even easy to imagine. But back when these modern weapons weren’t around, war was very different. The weapons of choice was very different, some being plain unusual. Today when we talk about ancient weapons we immediately think swords, spears, bows and axes. But I find interest in weapons that strike me as out of the norm. Listed below are some of the most unusual weapons from ancient times and believe it or not, they were actually used. If you feel like anything is excluded or missing from the list. do write below in comments section.

Here are Top 10 Unusual Weapons Of Ancient Times:

Pyura Chilensis - The Living Rock

Pyura chilensis, called piure in Spanish, is a tunicate of the family Pyuridae. It was described in 1782 by Juan Ignacio Molina.

Some of the best sites around the globe are the breath-taking fountains made by man. They are instilled with music and lights, coming alive right before our eyes. So while travelling on vacation or business, don’t forget to check out these beautiful masterpieces and their performances. We give you a comprehensive list of the experiences you must not miss when given the chance! Here are some of the world’s biggest, best and amazing fountains:

Detoxing is just another word for cleansing. It is the body’s natural, ongoing process of neutralizing or eliminating toxins from the body. Toxins are anything that can potentially harm body tissue, including waste products that result from normal cell activity, such as ammonia, lactic acid and homo-cysteine, and human-made toxins that we are exposed to in our environment, food, and water.

Detoxing has become bit of a trend with all the different fasting formulas and super foods that are out there. Although detox is primarily thought of as a treatment for alcohol or drug dependence, the term is also used to refer to a program of diet, herbs, and other methods of removing environmental and dietary toxins from the body. Now, there are many different types of detox diets. If you want to detox your body, did you know it can be as simple as eating the right foods? Here are top 10 powerful detox foods that you can start enjoying now to get your liver primed.

Amazing Metal City Landscapes Made Of Computer Parts

Creativity has no limit for this Italian artist, Franco Recchia. He uses computer parts and makes city landscapes and skyscrapers out of them. They are amazingly detailed; you really must have talent to create something like that. It is all sharp lines that is making it so beautiful, and the color green against gray is completing it all. Recchia shows how you can make modern art with simple materials, but only he knows how hard it was to make it.

11 World's Heaviest People

This is a list of the heaviest people recorded and it is limited to those individuals who weighed over 450 kg (990 lb; 71 st).

Animals have to rely on their sense of smell far more often than humans to survive, find food, and mate. Though skunks are among the smelliest animals, many other creatures can easily compete with them. Experts note that animals frequently produce odors to warn other animals that they're entering claimed territory or to protect themselves from attacks. Bombardier Beetle sprays a boiling-hot, noxious fluid when under treat. So, check out the list of the 7th smelliest animals in the world.

Top 10 Laptops of 2012

by Nick

The end of 2012, and maybe the end of life as we know it, is coming up in less than a month; so this is the perfect time to look back at the year and reflect on the best it had to offer. Now, it certainly hasn’t been a huge year for laptops as tablets continue to take market share and become more of the solution for mobile computing for the average user, but there are still those who need laptops for school, work, or personal reasons, and the introduction of Windows 8 is starting to blur the lines between PCs and tablets. So, let’s see what laptops introduced in 2012 have claimed a spot in this top ten list.

It’s a concept that can be difficult to come to terms with, but like it or not our intellect (or our perceived intellect) can often work against us in life. The indications are all there once you have the eyes to see them. Have you fell into the “I think I’m too smart for my own good” trap? Don’t worry the big part of correcting a mistake is realizing it exists! Check out these 5 signs you are not as smart as you think you are and see if any or all apply to you. Coming quickly to terms with them and correcting this kind of self-defeating behavior can make you truly smarter fast! And perhaps more importantly, much happier too.

Hilarious Caricatures Of Our Favorite TV Series Characters

All caricatures were made by Anthony Geoffroy. Enjoy!

We humans love to intoxicate ourselves from time to time, especially over the weekend, and then come out of it with a colossal hangover to nurse all through Monday. However, these few borderline illegal and downright absurd drinks exist only to melt your brain in all the wrong ways.

Top 5 Cute and Cudly Exotic Pets

Are you looking for an exotic pet that will really catch the attention of your friends and family? Do you want a pet that you are certain no one else you know will have? If you are looking for a truly unique pet that is still cute and cuddly, you might want to consider one of these top 5 cute and furry exotic pets.

27 LOL Rules For Entering Texas

by Chris Monty

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Let’s get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop when it’s red. We may even stop when it’s yellow.

3. It’s called a ‘gravel road’. I drive a pickup truck because I need to.

7 Most Unhealthy Processed Foods You Need To Avoid

by Katy Leonard

Processed foods have the advantage of saving time and this makes them tempting to people who have a busy lifestyle and for those who don’t particularly like to cook. Most processed foods also come with a low price tag that is hard for many consumers to resist. However, at some point we really need to look at the hidden costs that processed foods have on our health. It is no secret by now that the vast majority of processed foods are not healthy. In general, they are very low in nutrients, especially micronutrients like antioxidants and vitamins, while simultaneously being high on calories. They also contain industrially engineered ingredients that can be very harmful to the human body. Eliminating all processed foods from your diet may be quite difficult. However, you can significantly improve your healthy by eliminating the worst of the processed foods. Below, you will find a list of the 7 most unhealthy processed foods.

7 Nuclear Weapon Screw-Ups You Won't Believe We Survived

By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon

From the 1950s up through the early 1990s, the specter of nuclear war cast a shadow over the world like a giant, gloomy mushroom tattoo. Hollywood and our own morbid imaginations came up with any number of scenarios that would wipe out humanity in a series of blinding flashes: robots, Russian and American policies of mutually assured destruction. But Kubrick was probably closest when he imagined the nuclear era as a game of poker between cocky, absent-minded lunatics. Only he probably didn't go far enough. After all, he could have never imagined ...

Essentially what we’ll be doing is using the power of evaporative cooling and a fan to bring down the temperature in your room. In this case we’ll be using ice water stored in a cooler that will then cycle through a copper loop in front of a box fan. I’ll leave it to you to head to Wikipedia to read up on how the process works, it’s not unlike you sweating to cool down. As for myself, I’ve done enough sweating so I’ll let the air conditioner do it for me. (Note: this is the perfect project to do some scrounging and modify your design and tailor to whatever you may have on hand that would fulfill the same function).

13 Houses Made From Strange Building Materials

Houses are different. And if some of us are looking for more expensive, others decide to build a house for themselves ... and, out of scrap materials. All these houses are quite unusual, and all without exception are built from unusual materials.

Top-10 Geneva Motor Show Cars You Can Buy

The Geneva Motor Show is a highpoint for the car industry as it signals the start of the new model launch season. The 2013 edition was packed with concept cars and visions for future personal mobility but there were also loads of cars making their production debuts. We therefore present the Top-10 Geneva show stars you can now place an order for.

Should the Feds put cameras in every house to make sure toddlers aren’t going to kill their playmates? Such absurd questions are raised by a study that says toddlers killed more Americans than terrorists in 2013. In the first part of this year, 11 people were killed by children aged three to six years old - more than the four people killed at the Boston Marathon bombing.

12 Largest Stadiums Of The World

A modern stadium is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event. Here is a list of, non-race, notable sports stadiums, ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators they can normally accommodate.

Supersonic Biplane Has All the Speed And None Of The (Sonic) Boom

By Max Eddy

The trouble with supersonic travel is multifaceted: There’s the cost, the sound, the efficiency, and the sound - did we mention the sound? Sonic booms are, not surprisingly, incredibly loud, and what you may not know (I didn’t) is that aircraft traveling at such speeds are making that noise the entire time they’re flying. Perhaps it’s not surprising that supersonic flight has been banned over land, out of concern for people’s well being and worry over the sound damaging local wildlife. However, when it comes to reducing sonic booms, two wings are better than one.

Nearly 100 Workers Almost Drowned

Nearly 100 workers at the site of the Infinity Tower escaped death as excavation work on the 80-floor building was nearing completion. The incident happened as the workers were assisting the project owners and the piling contractor with the foundation works on site 20 meters below ground level.

We’ve all seen our fair share of rocks, and most of them aren’t that pretty. The ones that are though can be totally mind-blowing. Ryoji Tanaka, a Japanese photographer and chemist, likes to capture some of the most striking elements, minerals and compounds in close-up (like the Uranium-containing cuprosklodowskite you see above) and the results are crazy awesome.

When will the law be enforced to all states to provide ample parkings on the streets? When will people finally learn how to park? As we shall see in the pictures below, not only women but men are equally bad drivers. We would wonder when machines will take over to park our cars. Anyhow, the sooner they come up with some ideas for parking we will have less of these images for viewing.

Scream And Shout- 10 Loudest Animals On Earth

10. Alligator

Even if they don't have vocal chords, alligators hiss, grunt, cough, growl and, most famously, bellow, the latter of which is preceded by an infrasonic signal that actually rolls along the water, causing it to vibrate or "dance." While the frequency is too low for humans to hear, it can travel great distances to reach potential mates.

The natives fish with wicker basket instead of with spear or net. I marvel how the fishes can live in such muddy water.

(More pictures below...)

Blood Types

Although all blood is made of the same basic elements, not all blood is alike. In fact, there are eight different common blood types, which are determined by the presence or absence of certain antigens – substances that can trigger an immune response if they are foreign to the body. Since some antigens can trigger a patient's immune system to attack the transfused blood, safe blood transfusions depend on careful blood typing and cross-matching.

Future Lifeguards: This Iranian Drone Someday May Save Your Life

by Kelsey D. Atherton

RTS Labs, an Iranian research firm, has started work on a drone lifeguard. Tired of hearing stories about people drowning in the Caspian Sea, the researchers sought out a way to improve water rescue. Drones can help in several ways humans can't - they can move faster over choppy seas, they always remain calm, and a drone will never fall asleep on the job. Iran has an unusually high rate of unintentional drownings compared with European countries. A robot that helps lifeguards save lives faster could presumably lower that rate.

When I was a kid I always used to make paper toys with my brothers and sisters. We had all this other fancy toys, but with paper you could make your own, and that made it so much fun. Here is something that reminds me of my childhood, only that these are not toys, they are kinda pro mini “sculptures” of paper literally showing an office.

8 Very Effective But Bizarre Beauty Treatments

All of the 8 beauty treatments named below are very effective and have very variable purposes but can be described in a sentences which will say that a people would do anything to stay young and beautiful.

01. Snake Massages

If you are not scared of snakes, a spa in Israel will put three different kinds of non-venomous snakes on your face and back.

Slithering, muscular movements of the snakes are said to smooth out cramped muscles and stiff joints.

10 Actors That Are Too Unbelievably Good To Play In Just One Genre

Check out these amazing genre-crossing artists who have unbelievable amounts of talent. And because one unbelievable thing deserves another.

Rhys Ifans

Born Rhys Owain Evans, 22 July 1967 is a Welsh actor and musician. He is known for his portrayal of characters such as Spike in Notting Hill and Jed Parry in Enduring Love and as a member of the Welsh rock groups Super Furry Animals and The Peth. Ifans also appeared as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and as Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man. He played Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, in Anonymous. Ifans gained fame in the United States as the gambling footballer turned American football player Nigel Gruff in the 2000 film The Replacements.

Gruesome Live Food (Eating Animals Alive!)

Gruesome Live Food (Eating Animals Alive!) and plates With Animals Alive. Would You Eat A Live Animal?

Let’s have a look at some really shocking and gruesome live food, as in animals which are served alive on your plate! Humans can be cruel, there’s no question about that! Out of amusement or curiosity, some people are willing to try live dishes, on which the cooks bring them moving animals before they take their final breath. Would you be willing to order and eat such a dish? Let’s have a look at how these animals are prepared so that they can be served as food while they’re still alive.

The Worlds Most Famous Unsolved Mysteries

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy was shot once in the back and once in head while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested 45 minutes after the shots were fired. After hours of interrogation, in which none of the proper procedures were followed, he was accused of murder. He was killed by Jack Ruby in the garage of the police building on November 24 in front of hundreds of journalists. On November 29, President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. It was headed by Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the United States, and found that Oswald was the lone shooter and that he did it from the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository Building with an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.

Earlier in the year, the winners of the DAFTAS awards were announced. The DAFTAS give recognition to some of the strangest, stupidest, and most bizarre stories of 2010. But the DAFTAS aren’t the only authority on the weird. Here are the top 10 strangest stories from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.

Interior Designers Nightmare: Magnetic Curtains

Florian Krautli's magnetic curtains design is something that makes interior designers queasy. The idea behind these curtains is to allow the owner to shape the curtains however desired, thus providing the perfect amount of light, separation and such. Then again, the magnetic curtains would eliminate any kind of smooth, swooping lines that curtains are accustomed to and interior designers thrive off of.

10 Rarest Birthmarks

By Grace Murano

At first glance, this man looks like he is part-man, part-wolf, but look closely and you will see that it is actually a giant birthmark and body hair. Zhang Hongming from Chongqing, south-eastern China, is nicknamed "Chimpanzee." He appealed to doctors for help in getting rid of the thick black hair that covers part of his body. The man has a rare birthmark that also covers a large part of his body. Such birthmarks are seen on no more than 3 percent of the world's population.

F-22 Raptor - Everything Can Happen

According to an Air Force power point briefing provided to POGO, earlier this month at 0815 on April 10th, the controls on an F-22A at Langley Air Force Base showed that the aircraft’s canopy wasn’t locking. After several attempts at opening and closing the canopy, on the final try it locked and jammed – trapping the pilot inside. According to the briefing, the 27th Aircraft Maintenance Unit then “consulted Lockheed Martin and the F-22A System Program Office to determine alternative methods to open the canopy and extract the pilot.”

Top 10 Bizarre Festivals

By JFrater

Every year thousands of people gather to take part in, or witness bizarre festivals. Many of these festivals are ancient but some are much more modern. While they are all extremely different, they have one thing in common: they are totally weird. If you wish to mention other festivals that you know of, be sure to do so in the comments. NOTE: Some images may be Not Safe For Work.

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