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10 Most Outstanding Teens

2010-06-03T11:17:00.011+08:00

WOW These teenagers really have something serious to do....

1.Fraser Doherty: the 14-year-old ‘businessteen' who earned a fortune by making jam

While most successful young entrepreneurs make their money building popular Web sites, Fraser Doherty built his empire using a more traditional way. Fraser started making jams at the age of 14 from his grandmother's recipes in his parents' Scotland kitchen, and by 16 left school to work on his jam business SuperJam full-time. SuperJam sells around 500,000 jars a year, which currently has around 10 percent of UK jam market. Doherty's stake is now worth $1 to 2 million.

2. Milan Karki: The 18-year-old who invented a £23 solar panel made from human hair

A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, as its teenage inventor believes. Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a village in rural Nepal, thinks he has found the solution to the developing world's energy needs. The young inventor says hair is easy to use as a conductor in solar panels and could revolutionize renewable energy. The hair replaces silicon, an expensive component typically used in solar panels, meaning the panels can be produced at a low cost for those with no access to power. In Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, many rural areas lack access to electricity, even in areas connected to power lines, where users face shortages of up to 16 hours a day. Milan and four classmates initially made the solar panel as an experiment but the teens are convinced it has wide applicability and commercial viability. The solar panel, which produces 9 V (18 W) of energy, costs around £23 to make from raw materials.

Melanin, a pigment that gives hair its colour, is light sensitive and also acts as a type of conductor. Because hair is far cheaper than silicon the appliance is less costly. The solar panel can charge a mobile phone or a pack of batteries capable of providing light all evening.

3. Jordan Romero: the 13-year-old who became the youngest person to summit the Everest

13-year old Jordan Romero became the youngest person to ever summit Mt. Everest. He completed the climb with his dad, his girlfriend and a trusty team of Sherpas; since they couldn't tackle it from the Nepal side due to age restrictions, the team headed to China and ended up summiting via a much more difficult route. He's one summit away from completing the Seven Summit — the highest peaks on each continent — he climbed Kilamanjaro at age nine, and is planning a trip to the last summit, Vinson Massif in Antarctica, December 2010.

4. Cameron Johnson: the teenager who sold websites for a six-figure amount

At 15 years old, Cameron Johnson was receiving monthly checks of $300,000 to $400,000. At 19, he sold one of his Web sites for an undisclosed "six-figure" amount. It all started at the age of 9 when Johnson began his first business. Using Photoshop in his Virginia home, he began making and selling greeting cards. From there it was one venture after another: Selling Ty Beanie Babies on his Cheers and Tears Web site, My EZ Mail, an e-mail forwarding service, Surfingprizes.com and Certificateswap.com.

5. Deitrich Ludwig: the 13-year-old who became the youngest person to build an electric truck

At the age of 16, when most of us are just learning to drive a car, Deitrich Ludwig from Monclova, Ohio, has become the youngest person on the planet to build a 2000 Chevrolet S-10 pickup electric truck, setting a new world record for the youngest person to have built an electric truck. The truck has been built by replacing the gas-guzzling engine with a 100 percent emission-free electric drive train. The young creator removed the four-cylinder engine, radiator and exhaust system and installed a DC electric motor, control system, battery charger and a bank of batteries. After a successful first ride, the creator now wants to reduce the charging times and improve the vehicle's performance.

6. Mohamed Altoumaimi: the 16-year-old who cracked a 300-year-old math puzzle

A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in central Sweden, Mohamed Altoumaimi, figured out a formula that has challenged great mathematical minds for 300 hundred years, the so called Bernoulli numbers problem. The immigrant who arrived in Sweden in 2003 during the Iraq War, Mohamed Altoumami, is now earning praise from professors at the prestigious Uppsala University when teachers of Mohamed Altoumaimi were at first sceptical. The High School student said his teachers in Falun, Sweden, were not convinced at the whiz kids work at first. Toying over his trusty notebook for four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi had found a formula to explain and simplify a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli. However Mohamed Altourmaimi's teachers were not convinced. But undeterred by the doubts of his teachers, Altoumaimi decided to contact professors at Uppsala University in hopes they would validate his work. After verifying the calculations, Uppsala University senior maths lecturer Lars-Åke Lindahl later contacted Mohamed Altoumaimi's teachers to tell them what a gifted student he was. Now Altoumaimi's high school plans to take advantage of the teenager's skills with numbers next autumn by having him serve as an instructor for several math teachers in Falun and explain his work to them.

7. Thiago Olson: the 17-year-old student who built a nuclear device in his basement.

Thiago Olson, a 17 year-old high school student, is called "the mad scientist" by his friends for a good reason: he created a nuclear fusion reactor in his home. In the basement of his parents' Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren't privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build — a large, intricate machine that , on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion. The machine uses a 40,000 volt charge and deuterium gas to create the small reaction, which he says looks like a 'small intense ball of energy.' The teen's fusion device is obviously not a self-sustaining reactor, but it still shows how fusion technology is becoming more accessible.

8. Jonathan James: the 15 year-old cybercriminal who hacked the NASA computer system

James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. According to him, he was just looking around, playing around. James's major intrusions targeted high-profile organizations. He installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency of the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture employee usernames and passwords. James also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to the Department of Justice, "The software supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space." NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems, ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost. James explained that he downloaded the code to supplement his studies on C programming, but contended, "The code itself was crappy . . . certainly not worth $1.7 million like they claimed." Given the extent of his intrusions, if James, also known as "c0mrade," had been an adult he likely would have served at least 10 years. Years later, James killed himself.

9. Evan Graham: the solo pilot who could fly five different aircrafts by the age of 16

Evan Graham celebrated his 16th birthday (on August 6th) by soloing five different aircrafts: a vintage WWII L-4 Piper Cub taildrager, a R-22 Robinson helicopter, a Cessna 150 Aerobat, a Robinson 44 Raven II and a 1965 Cessna 150-150 - setting the world record for the Youngest solo pilot to fly five different aircrafts. On a grass runway, with three flight instructors present and three sign off, Evan logged 2 hours of solo time in 5 different aircrafts, ending the morning before noon with the traditional bucket drench.

10. Alia Sabur: the 18-year-old student who became the world's youngest college professor

Alia Sabur, who was appointed as a full-time faculty Professor at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea, as research liaison with Stony Brook University set the world record for the youngest College professor. The child prodigy from Northport enrolled at Stony Brook University at age 10 and played clarinet with the Rockland Symphony Orchestra at 11.

Sabur was three days shy of her 19th birthday when she became a professor at Konkuk University, in Seoul. The previous record was held by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin, who set the mark in 1717. Despite her numerous accomplishments -- she started reading at age 2 -- Sabur had never earned a world record before.

Source: www.oddee.com

Let's do something to make our lives worth.

Most Abundant Element Found

2010-05-22T19:15:00.009+08:00

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Have a smile~ LOL

Unusual Houses

2010-05-07T13:53:00.000+08:00

Higher level of architecture. Weird~

太迟了 Too Late-例外人The Remnant （Official MV）

2010-05-01T11:34:00.000+08:00

15 Bizarre Foods

2010-04-27T20:16:00.002+08:00

WARNING

WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK

VISITORS WILL ENCOUNTER VIOLATION ON APPETITE

& TEMPORARY VISUAL SHOCKS

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-Tarantulas, eaten in Cambodia

-Stink bugs, eaten in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

-Raw Herring, eaten in Holland.

-Tuna eyeball, eaten in Japan and China.

-Beetles, eaten in China

-Horseshoe Crab Rae and Nast, eaten in China.

-Raw octopus, eaten in China. (China again??!!)

-Cooked Crickets

-Rotten Soybeans, eaten in various places in Asia

-Duck Fetus Egg(Balut), eaten in Southeast Asia

-Codfish Sperm, eaten in various parts of Asia

-Mopane Caterpillars, eaten in Botswana

-Grasshoppers, eaten in Oxsaca, Mexico

-Dried lizards, eaten in Japan

-Bird Nest Soup, eaten by Chinese

(Common for us but very strange for westlanders)

Dinner time. Say grace.

Source: www.oddee.com

Amazing Facts About AE

2010-04-25T14:08:00.000+08:00

This is AE.

Have a smart guess of who he is? XD

Amazing Facts about "Him"

1. HE WAS BORN WITH A LARGE HEAD:

When he was born, he was so fat and his head was so large, that his mother actually thought he was born deformed! Of course, he came back to normal size within a few months.

2. HIS MEMORY WAS NOT REALLY AS GOOD AS IT SEEMED:

Sure, he could memorize books loaded with laws and formulae. But when it came to remembering common things, his memory was really short. He was worst at remembering birthdays and his usual excuse for it was that birthdays are for small kids.

3. HE DETESTED SCIENCE FICTION:

He totally loathed science fiction because he felt that it changed the public’s understanding of science, and instead gave them false illusions of things that could not really happen. In his own words, “I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.” That is why, he felt that those who saw stuff like flying saucers should keep their experience to themselves.

4. HE FAILED HIS UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM:

In 1895, at the age of 17, this guy, one of the greatest minds ever born actually failed his university entrance exam into the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School. Actually he passed the Science and the Math sections, but failed in the rest of it like History and Geography. When asked later about this, he said that they were too boring and he didn’t feel like answering them correctly!

5. HE DIDN’T LIKE WEARING SOCKS:

He “discovered” at a young age that the big toe always ends up making a hole in the sock, so he decided to stop wearing socks. This particular habit continued till his death. Moreover, he never dressed according to anybody’s like or dislike. He felt that either people knew him or they didn’t, so it didn’t matter anyway, he reasoned.

6. HE WAS A CHAUFFEUR FOR A DAY:

Once He was on his way to deliver a speech to university students. His faithful chauffeur not only drove his car, but was always present amongst the audience during all his speeches. He had delivered this particular speech so many times that his chauffeur had actually memorized it. On that day , while on his way to the university, he said aloud in his car that he felt tired. So his chauffeur suggested that they change places and that while he delivers the speech, he could drive them back home. Their identities wouldn’t be a problem because he wasn’t more than a university professor then and so no one in that university would recognize him. So he agreed but was a little thoughtful about what his chauffeur would do if he was asked any difficult questions by the students, after the speech. However, the speech went well but he’s thought came true. A student came up with a question. Here’s what the chauffeur said “Why, that question’s so simple, that even my chauffeur can answer it.” And so he stood up from the audience and easily answered the question, much to the amazement of the audience.

7. HE WAS INSPIRED BY A COMPASS:

At a very young age, he was presented with a compass by his father for a birthday gift. After seeing the compass at work he tried a lot to find out its working. He was really amazed after doing so and thus decided to find out all about the various forces existent in nature.

8. THE SECRET BEHIND HIS GENIUS:

At his death in 1955, his brain was removed from his head by Thomas Stoltz Harvey for research purposes. But this was done illegally. Later his son gave him permission to research on the genius brain. Harvey sent slices of His brain to various scientists throughout the world.

From these studies it was discovered that His brain had much more glial cells, the cells responsible for synthesizing information, in his brain than an average human being. Also, His brain lacked a certain wrinkle in it, called Sylvian fissure. This allowed easier communication of nerve cells with each other. Furthermore, His brain was denser and the inferior parietal lobe associated with mathematical ability was much larger.

LAME.. facts about someone unknown...

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"Ahhh, my personal secrets revealed!!"

-Albert Einstein, In Blogspot Daily

Dash of Laughter

2010-03-17T15:03:00.000+08:00

Watch out for interesting pics! haha~

Greed overtakes kindness...

Dad: Let me settle u now

"I wonder where's the supermarket..."

ahh that's common for them... same plot for every movie

I was digging for gold among my 9229 messages and I found this mail which was really interesting haha...
Well, have a smile to brighten up your day! ^^

My first blog! XD

2010-03-12T15:50:00.000+08:00

Feeling great writing my first blog!
Seeing most of my friends have had their own blogs, I suddenly feel ticklish in my heart and crave for an attempt to write my first own blog.
Today is great, although everything goes on as usual but at least I got my liberty from all my boring books which have bonded me for a whole week! Yea exam!
My last exam(PMR) was about 6 months ago.. Quite a long gap, wasn't it?
Later when THIS exam came on my way, I found that my laziness has leveled up rapidly between the resting period, that I couldn't really concentrate on studying!
Well I still managed to finish my revision at the last second and tried my best in my exam... Well I think I did quite well in some subjects as I always did (Well this is not confidence but a fact that has been confirmed true for years hehe =)) Although i play much (support Mafia Wars!!), but my instinct of studying never rots, it stays fresh as always...
I also thank God for blessing me so much that I can really enjoy my life...

Today I have made an enormous step in my life for writing my first own blog!! It was really like flipping a new page of a book, into an unknown world where joy and excitement await...

Remarks: If this doesn't look like a blog, just keep it in ur heart and say it's good when i ask u about it.. It makes me feel better than when u say it's not like one at all, although u MAY be right about it.. (may=0.01%)
Haha yea that's all for my first blog. Have a great day y'all~
-Joseph