Khagendra Thapa Magar is the world’s smallest person. You won’t find him in any record books at the moment because officials believe that the 14-year-old isn’t done growing yet. He is currently only 20 inches tall and weighs 10 lbs.

His website, www.khagendratma.org, has stopped working and it seems as if some body forgot to renew it. Khagendra Thapa Magar can be found touring all around Nepal. His parents show him off to the public and collect money from the shows. They claim that all the proceeds go to Khagendra’s education fund, however, he was withdrawn from school because other students teased him.

hmm… I guess the world really does spin on an axis

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http://www.astronomie.be/hambsch/namibia06/startrails1.htm

A flickr photoset called Tiny animals on fingers.

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Here is the link to the source of all these Light Doodling long exposure camera images that can be seen spread around all over the net. They were created by a group called Pikapika.

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Zepplin over Tower of David

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Yikes.

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NASA released this ultraviolet photo of our sun taken by the TRACE project.

Even on a normal day, our Sun is sizzling ball of seething hot gas. Unpredictably, regions of strong and tangled magnetic fields arise, causing sunspots and
bright active regions. The Sun’s surface bubbles as hot hydrogen gas streams along looping magnetic fields. These active regions channel gas along magnetic loops, usually falling back but sometimes escaping into the solar
corona or out into space as the solar wind. Pictured above is our Sun in three colors of ultraviolet light. Since only active regions emit significant amounts of energetic ultraviolet light, most of the Sun appears dark. The colorful portions glow spectacularly, pinpointing the Sun’s hottest and most
violent regions. Although the Sun is constantly changing, the rate of visible light it emits has been relatively stable over the past five billion years, allowing life to emerge on Earth.

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