Young inventors, great inventions

Invention 1: Ocean Cleanup Array by (Boyan Slat, 19 years old) from Holland.
-device to clean up plastic trash from the ocean.
-an estimated 7,250,000 tonnes of plastic could potentially be removed in 4-5 years.
-concept presented at TedXDelft 2012 and currently looking for financial backing.

Invention 2: Catalyst Which Turns Plastic into Biofuel by (Azza Faiad, 16 years old) from Egypt.
-cheap catalyst to create biofuel worth millions each year.
-the process remains a secret :)
-currently getting her findings patented through the Egyptian Patent Office.

Invention 3: Supercapacitor, charges mobile phone in 20 seconds by (Eesha Khare, 18 years old) from US.
-invented a storage device that holds a large amount of energy in a small amount of space.
-can last for 100,000 charges cycles as compared to current conventional batteries of 1,000 charges.

Invention 4: Heat Generated Flashlight by (Ann Makosinski, 16 years old) from Canda.
-flashlight does not require batteries, toxic chemicals, or kinetic energy to run.
-simply runs off the warmth of your hands.
-awarded $25,000 at the 2013 Google Science Fair.

I'm sure there are many more...

The End...See You in Russia 2018

How I Fared Predicting the World Cup

Not too shabby considering I equaled The Economist and beating Yahoo via Tumblr's Users and Goldman Sachs' acclaimed prediction. Like Dadi says, any average dude can beat even the so called experts: http://malaysiafinance.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-experts-are-way-off.html

This is the fourth time Germany lift their World Cup, but their first as a united country (previously it was West Germany).Behind every successful man, there must be a 'chun' (great) women!

And not forgetting some of the memorable moments from the tournament.

Ceaser Milan's next big project

Tim Howard -> Secretary of Defense of the Unites States of America

Need I say more..

Ole Ole Ole...

My Predictions for the World Cup 2014

"So can meteorologists perhaps offer a clue, or two, as to who will triumph in Brazil?

To date, there have been 19 World Cup tournaments. The home side has triumphed on six occasions; playing on home soil obviously brings big advantages to the home team.

Familiarity with the surroundings, experience of playing in the stadia, and national fervor and support are obvious factors, but what about the climate?

At a time when much fuss is being made of the summertime temperatures players would face in the 2022 tournament in Qatar, we would do well to remember that Brazil has a vast range of climates and that some of the games are being played in the heart of the Amazon rainforest where the weather is likely to be oppressively steamy.

It is to be expected that players who are best acclimatized to these conditions will do well and this is another factor in favour of the home team, or those teams in neighbouring countries who experience similar climates.

But let us accept that climate is not the main reason why the home team has won almost one third of the tournaments.

Instead, if we consider the remaining 13 tournaments, we see that on 10 occasions the tournament has been won by a team playing in a climate zone they are used to.  

Those winners were:
1938 Italy in France; 1950 Uruguay in Brazil; 1954 W. Germany in Switzerland; 1962 Brazil in Chile; 1970 Brazil in Mexico;1982 Italy in Spain; 1986 Argentina in Mexico; 1990 W. Germany in Italy; 2006 Italy in Germany; 2010 Spain in South Africa.

(In the case of Spain’s victory, although the tournament was on a different continent, the southern African winter is similar to that of a European summer.)

That leaves 3 victories for a team playing away from their familiar climate zone:  1958 in Sweden; 1994 in the US; 2002 in Japan and S. Korea. Who won those tournaments? Brazil, Brazil and Brazil.

So what conclusions can we draw from all this. Firstly, a European side has never won outside its familiar climate zone. England, France, Italy, The Netherlands and even Germany would all have to make World Cup history to overcome the climate and triumph in Rio.

Secondly, South American sides are likely to do very well.  Argentina may have had an indifferent run-up to the World Cup, as have Uruguay, but they could do very well in 2014.

Thirdly, inevitably, Brazil are just too good. They can win anywhere.  It may be because of the racial ‘melting pot’ which perhaps produces athletes best able to cope with a variety of weather types. Or it may be because the country’s footballers have played their club football abroad for many decades and they have the experience.

The most likely reason though, is that they are usually the best team in the world. In the coming weeks we shall see if that remains the case."
Source - Al Jazeera