10 Daily Things

In this video, a metal plate is placed on top of a loud speaker. The sound causes the metal plate to vibrate and the salt moves into the regions of the plate that are not vibrating. As the pitch of the sound is increased, the pattern of lines changes.
Warning: At some point in the video, [...]

It’s not everyday that you see a wild elephant standing next to you at the reception of a hotel.

But in the Mfuwe Lodge in the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia, the sight of one or even ten elephants strolling around the lobby is a regular occurrence.
Unwittingly built on the elephant’s traditional path in 1998, [...]

These X-ray images show how a 16-year-old boy narrowly escaped death when a 5in knife was plunged into his head during an attempted street robbery.
The teenager and two other young men were injured when they tried to stop a friend being robbed at a bus stop in Walworth, southeast London, in November last year.
The boy, [...]

A Russian woman and a Lebanese man were put on trial in Dubai for … drinking orange juice!
In accordance with the Federal Penal Code of the United Arab Emirates, a public intake of food and beverages during daytime hours of the month of Ramadan is forbidden by Article 313. The article stipulates the punishment in [...]

Whether behind the wheel or just walking down the street, Japan’s growing elderly population now has a cushion in case the road gets rough - airbags.
Japan’s Prop has designed airbags, located behind the head and hips, which inflate in fractions of a second when a fall is detected, providing a real silver lining.