If there are really touching videos on the web, this is probably one of them.
A dolphin is swimming very close to a diver group distinctively signalizing
that it has something that hurts and hindering it from proper swimming.
By time one of the divers has recognized the reason… and could help!

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The winter is sort of strange. The temperatures are barely below zero degrees
celsius and thus it is raining black ice. What males it so dangerous, is the fact
that you don’t expect extreme weather conditions. But what looks like rain,
quickly turns into a thick shell of ice. The result: Extremely slippery floors.

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Did the weather in the past weeks not look like wintertime (don’t tell me that
you consider 15 degrees celsius winterlike!) it is finally snowing again down
to 500 metres above sea level (the height level Bern is). But for how long will
the snow last and how long is the timespan until the next thaw time?

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Although the calendar says that we’re midst in Winter, the temperature
doesn’t make one feel like so. While in some places of Germany, Austria
and Switzerland the temperatures hit the 20-degrees-celsius-mark, the
question about the missing winter is just rectified.

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Ever imagined what it’ll be like when you’re atop of the world’s highest
building? Ever wondered how all these shiny windows get cleaned? Well, in
this video from BBC One, you get some insight on how all the work around
the tower is done and why this building still is a masterpiece of architecture!

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Have irisses with pictures long been a dream vision in movies, it now
seems that this is no longer Science-Fiction. The Centre of Microsystems has
developed a contact lens with a flexible LC display that is capable of display-
ing images. However the image is only viewable forothers, not the wearer.

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The winter is finally arriving in Europe, too. While signs two days ago pointed
to a green christmas time, it seems now as if the nature’s white blanket is most
likely to stay. As one of those people who like the four seasons, I am pleased
to see that weather’s like what it should be in December.

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Voyager 1 has been launched On September 5th, 1977 into space with the
mission to discover what’s behind the lines of the solar system as we know it
and as it could have been explored with the telescopes that time. 25 years
later Voyager 1 is now reaching the interstellar space.

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Winter is coming and with it, streets tend to get slippery. Not that autumn
has these side-effects, too, but most accidents happen in intertime when
snow and ice covers the land. The bus driver in this video seems to have
been surprised by one of these ice covers on the road but acted correctly.

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The storm is over but the real disaster is just now visible. The following pics
show what Sandy has left. And if you think, a giant city like New York is safe
against mother nature, well… think again! All pictures are copyright of their
respective owners.

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While in Switzerland snow dominates the current weather situation, the east
coast of the USA is facing a big tropical hurricane. Sandy, as the monster is
called is approaching and the people in New York expect massive damage.
As a result of the storm, most shops and even the Wall Street stay closed.

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Water taps are for humans only? Nah! There’s a little critter that develops
a distinctive taste for water and how to utilize it. Looks kinda funny when
an everyday item is not used from humans but from an animal.
With this, I wish you a nice sunday. Enjoy the weekend.

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Nature always has spectacular moments. But when two phenomenons
meet, then it’s good when you’re equipped with a camera. In this case,
a bushfire has started in Australia and caused the air to twirl up forming
a tornado. The fire itself uses the funnel to climb up into the smoke clouds.

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When discussing about climatic changes caused by man with a co-worker,
she told me that New York has been struck by a tornado. I just thought,
she was shittin’ me but Google taught me better: On September 8th, 2012
a tornado has struck the NY borough Queens leaving some destruction.

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What noone (even Stephen Hawking) believed before, has finally come true
at the LHC in Geneva: During the test collision of 2 Hadrons, a Boson
particle has been spotted wirh the mass of 125-127 GeV/c² and a static
confidence of 4.9 σ. A value of 5 σ is needed to confirm the discovery,

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A natural phenomenon like this is very rare to see. But when it happens, it
is so spectacular that one, who never has seen anything like this, is so
amazed, that interesting pictures are taken. Showing you six pictures may
give you the idea what it is. I’ll explain a little further, when this happens.

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If you ever thought, Tornadoes are only for the American continent then guess
again. Today, Venice has been struck by a tornado which could be of F4 category
if you compare the size of it to common tornadoes. Detailed information is not
available yet. Currently it seems as if there are no killed people, fortunately.

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What thrilled the whole world last year seems to have been finally put back to
normal again. Have measurements shown that neutrinos seemed to have been
a tad faster than light, more recent measurements at CERN have shown that also
neutrinos stick to Einstein’s Relativity theory (E=mc²). So light is still the fastest!

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Tokio now has the second biggest tower in the world! The Sky Tree which
opened its Gates to the public has a total height of 634 metres. However the
observation decks aren’t the highest yet. At 300 and 400m the Sky Tree has
its observation decks. The Toronto CN Tower has them at 357 and 447m!

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Well, so there we are. Holidays, and no sun in sight. Typically for when you’re
off work. It cooled down 12 degrees in Bern within the last 12 hours. And
when I woke up I had to notice that snow was falling. At first I thought
“There must be something wrong” – But when I went outside, I felt the cold air.

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I really like nature videos. One fact is that it’s amazing how nature itself is
dealing with unexprected changes and the other is how tiny little critters
are fightimg a bigh behemoth. In this video you’ll see how japanese bees
are finishing off a big hornet. 30 Hornets can kill 30’000 bees in 3 hours!

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The sun for most of us is nothing more than a big glaring ball in the sky that
spends light, warmth and sunburns. However with the right equipment, you
will see things on the surface of the un that simply is stunning. The satellite
“SDO” has spotted and filmed a firestorm on September 25th, 2011.

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Ever wanted to see how a tornado is devastating a complete building? You
probably cannot imagine how aggressive a tornado can be. Surveillance
cameras at Henryville High School in Indiana have caught spectacular images
when a big tornado has hit the building. First, a blackout, then Devastation!

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Seems as if Bhut Jolokia isn’t the spiciest Chili anymore. A new sort of chili
pepper has entered the platform and raising the average Scovile hotness
from 1 million Scoville (Bhut Jolokia) to a whopping and burning 1.2 million
Scoville. That new competitor even gets hotter!

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Ever thought, that McDonalds is unhealthy? It sure can be. If you continue
consuming fast food for a prolonged time your health might severly suffer from
this and result in fat liver and other unhealthy conditions such as tension to
heart attacks, obesity, high cholesterol in blood and other diseases.

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…a phrase, this little critter could have helped avoiding a quite uncomfortable
wakeup situation. The dog seemingly forgot that it was standing in a water
bassin and soon began to fall asleep after being a bit drowsy. What follows, is
the inevitable result of the phrase above. Have a nice weekend!

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Ever wondered what a sunrise and sunset on the Jungfraujoch, the highest
mountain in the Bernese upper lands looks like? Seems as if Switch fulfills
your dream of your imagination and installed a high-resoluting camera at
the Sphinx laboratory on the Top of Europe.

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The sky is gray, the temperature far below “cozy” outside, not much snow and the obligate
lateness of some public transportation vehicles due to some technical glitches such as
blocked doors, non-working panels, and outside, the track switches. Seems, that’s most
common for wintertime. Anyways it’s about to get warmer in the upcoming week.

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So the weekend is almost gone again! Really sad to see three days to pass by so quickly.
It makes me feel kinda sad to leave my friends in Munich again and go back to the usual
workload week in Bern. But hey, no work, no effort, no money, honey! So best to put all
my energy into the next work week and do the best to visit my friends in Munich again.

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This weekend I am going to Munich again and also see a good friend of mine who celebrates
his 30th birthday. Odd to see some frosting in a train car that is heated up to felt 25°C. Due
to the lack of a stable cell network and the repeated non-working status of the local cell
networks I’ll upload the pictures later on. Funny to see the snow blowing into the coach.

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Well, I must say, i love winter! As most as the other seasons! But what I really hate is
coldness below the magical -10 °C spot. The sibiric air stream that transports cold air to
most parts of Europe has made the thermometer to freeze in and and many facilities to
fail working properly. Amongst these are public transportation and other public services.

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It seems that the winter finally wants to show teeth to us. Has the January been too warm
(approx. 4 degrees over the average meridian), so are temperatures rarely breaking the
-10 degrees barrier in the upcoming days. Metereologists say it isn’t too uncommon for
February to be that cold, however it is uncommon after such a warm January.

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