Published on 08 Aug 2007 in: General
Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year they have created prints of mount fuji. It will appear until the rice paddy is harvested.
Published on 05 Aug 2007 in: General
Published on 05 Aug 2007 in: General
The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest was recently held during the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. The Leaning Tower Illusion from Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and Elena Gheorghiu won first place. You may think the tower on the right is angled a bit further, but the two photos are identical! See the top ten illusions at the contest site at Link
Published on 28 Jul 2007 in: General
Sachin Tendulkar became only the third batsman in history to score 11,000 Test runs on the second day of the second Test against England at Trent Bridge.
The 34-year-old Tendulkar, playing his 139th Test only needed 25 runs to reach the landmark at the start of his innings.
He got there when, on 23, a cover-drive off left-arm spinner Monty Panesar went for four after a misfield on the boundary by James Anderson.
Teundulkar joins West Indian record-holder Brian Lara (11,953) and former Australian captain Allan Border (11,174) as the only players to have scored 11,000 runs or more in Test cricket.
