http://www.tektuff.com Funny People, Best Places, Fun Stuff Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:04:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Within the event of its World Tour,  the Cows Parade imagined in 1998 by the Swiss artist, Pascal Knapp, to promote the art and the business in the city of  Zurich,  his exhibition of art outdoor contemporary has already invested  more than 40 cities  (New York,  Chicago,  Londres,  Paris, Sao ... http://www.tektuff.com/cows-show/ When was the first automobile race?  Well,  Henry Ford (The founder of the Ford Motor Company) once said that is was when the second automobile was  built.  Before there was Motocross .  What Henry Ford meant was that human nature was sure to take over with vehicles side by side   ... http://www.tektuff.com/motos-fly/ The conference held at the Washington Hilton in October 1972 wasn't meant to jump-start a revolution. Staged for a technological elite, its purpose was to showcase a computer-linking scheme called ARPANET, a new kind of network that had been developed under military auspices to help computer scientists share information and ... http://www.tektuff.com/earth-count-22-billion-internet-users-2013/ The Singular, Raw and Unusual Art, the Outsider, Painters and Sculptors The plastic speech builds itself through mixed techniques (emulsions, coulures, drawings, writings, stickings, objects of rubbish on painting cloth or on paper.. About A.Roger Painting  Style, description made by himself : Fortuitous reversals sometimes reveal us unsuspected perspectives. The repentirs uncountable, occasions, restorations ... http://www.tektuff.com/roger-abate-lives-works-marseille/ 1 -Therapy by the Lobotomy It is to Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, that we owe, in 1935, the idea that the mental illnesses are caused by problems of infections and connections of the present neurones in the frontal lobe. This party of the brain, situated behind the front, is constituted ... http://www.tektuff.com/credible-psychiatric-treatments/ A chronic excess of linoleic acid or omega 6 coupled to a deficit in alpha-linoleic acid or omega 3 in the food support a transgénérationnelle increase in obesity.  With this intention the researchers exposed several generations of male mouses and female and their souriceaux to an “occidentalized” food mode of this type ... http://www.tektuff.com/abuse-omega-6-deficit-omega-3-support-obesity-generation-generation/ To take as a starting point the last agricultural techniques:  example of a “durable” ecosystem in Guyana Guianese coastal savannas which are enamelled small hillocks have just delivered part of their secrecies thanks to work from an interdisciplinary and European collaboration. The scientists discovered that these vestiges of an agricultural system ... http://www.tektuff.com/starting-point-agricultural-techniques-durable-ecosystem-guyana/ How did Leonardo Da Vinci manage to paint such perfect faces? For the first time a quantitative chemical analysis has been done on seven paintings from the Louvre Museum (including the Mona Lisa) without extracting any samples. This shows the composition and thickness of each layer of material laid down by the painter. ... http://www.tektuff.com/light-leonardo-da-vincis-faces/ THE GIST A star more than 300 times more massive than the sun was detected about 22,000 light-years away. That size is twice as big as previously known stars. Previous claims of stars more than 150 times the mass of the sun have turned out to be clusters. Get big, die ... http://www.tektuff.com/massive-star-detected-located-165000-lightyears/ To most of us it is well known that Russia's darkest period was during the rule of communism regime, especially the period of Stalin's rule.Stalin's communist regime had zero tolerance for any other political opinion so everyone who opposed and questioned the ideas of communism was declared ... http://www.tektuff.com/gloomy-abandoned-prison-period-stalins-rule/ Gundam Odaiba Well, not quite. To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the seminal mecha series MS Gundam, an 18-meter/59 feet-tall statue of the iconic RX-78-2 Gundam is being raised at Tokyo’s Odaiba island, specifically in Shiokaze Park. The 35-ton Gundam is fully lit for dramatic effect, as can be seen ... http://www.tektuff.com/amazing-giant-sculptures-world/ Pras was born in 1952 in the south-west of France in a toy shop. After more than 20 years spent as a painter, and also a sculptor of recovered objects, Pras conceived in 1997 an astonishing form of expression, using photography as a basis for the creation of what amounts ... http://www.tektuff.com/amazing-installations-portraits-bernard-pras/