Sunday

Books on YouTube.

I want to present you awesome YouTube channel that I stumbled upon recently.


CCProse offers you pretty nice amount of audiobooks in english together with built-in captions; new YouTube feature allows you to display additional subtitles in your mother language which makes understanding easier. Here are some of the available books:

A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
An Alphabet of Celebrities by Oliver Herford
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Baseball ABC
Candide by Voltaire
Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin by H. L. Stephens
Fun and Nonsense by Willard Bonte
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
The Declaration of Independence
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

I hope you find it as usefull as I did, have fun!


Tuesday

Animal hypnosis.

Watch this amazing video made by BBC Earth which shows animals being hypnotised. When in danger many animals fall into trance-like, catatonic state. The term hypnosis as we know it might be not exactly what these animals experience but I belive it's atleast close.


Sunday

Probably the last registered case of T-34/85 tank used in combat,

Hungary, Budapest, October 2006. Anti-government protests continue for more than a month. Police breaks up existing contracts and try to calm the enraged crowd by force. Demonstrators took the tank from anniversary exhibition of uprising in 1956 year. The tank was used in battles with the police.