will i lose me?

recently dear reader i have being having trouble with my memory and even sometimes become over vacant .i went to see my local quack who did the standard test but after a chat with my wife has referred me to an memory assessment clinic after blood test .why worry as most of the internet info says some minor memory lose is common after  50  well its due to my dear departed dad who had similar problems and started to get dementia before his death .i dont wish to lose me and i  hope i dont .

the electric ant, also known as the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata,coming soon

experts fear an invasion from this asian ant which may come in from imported plants .these ants can chew through electricity cables,causing blackouts and fires  and their bite is very painful and resistant to poison.

From the archive, 3 December 1986: How Elvis won his anti-drugs badge from Nixon

Elvis Presley bitterly denounced the Beatles for their anti-Americanism during a White House meeting with President Nixon in December, 1970.

The rock and roll star, who died of longterm drug abuse in 1977, also told the President that he could influence the hippie movement against the use of drugs and asked to be made a federal drug enforcement agent. Eventually he was given a specially-made Bureau of Narcotics badge.

A note of the encounter is one of 1.5 million documents from Mr Nixon's Presidential papers, finally made public by the National Archivist in Washington. The former President has fought tenaciously for the past 12 years to prevent their appearance, citing everything from executive privilege to personal privacy. Now he has been overruled by the combined judgments of Congress, the Supreme -read more

Britain's first plastic banknote revealed - What do you think?

Britain's first plastic banknote featuring Sir Winston Churchill will, like the great stateman's reputation, "stand the test of time", the Governor of the Bank of England has said.read more

lead ingot found by novice

a novice treasure hunter found a -2 ft long ..84 lb block -known as a pig on a farm in wells,somerset .it could be worth a lot of money as dated back to about 164 ad and has a stamped on it -emperor marcus aurelius ,romans mined lead then cast in blocks then sent them to rome.

Device used in Nazi coding machine found for sale on eBay

For codebreakers with the allied forces, it was more important a discovery than the Enigma machine, offering encryption for the Nazi command that, when cracked, would hasten the end of the second world war and lead to huge breakthroughs in modern computing.

Less than 80 years later, for a thrifty woman in Essex, the “telegram machine” was little more than a dusty old gadget languishing in the garden shed.

But after an eagle-eyed volunteer with the National Museum of Computing (NMC) spotted an ad on eBay this week, the extremely rare, military-issue Lorenz teleprinter has been saved and provides the latest piece in international efforts to rebuild Hitler’s complete encoding device.

After finding the component on the online auction site, and receiving a long-term loan of the Lorenz SZ42 cipher machine from the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum in Oslo, the NMC is now looking for the final parts to restore the encoder to working order.

Rare Nazi Enigma machine sold at auction for world record $365,000

 

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“To do that we have to replace some missing components, in particular the drive motor – and it’s the drive motor that’s our next quest,” said John Whetter, a volunteer engineer with the NMC.

Whetter and his colleagues are calling for people across the country to search -read more

Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place?

Harambe, a 17-year-old male western lowland gorilla, was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo to save the life of a four-year-old child who fell into his cage. Opinions vary as to whether the boy was really in danger and who was to blame, the zoo (why was the boy able to get into the enclosure and why wasn’t Harambe tranquilized?) his mother, or both? Playing the blame game will not bring Harambe back and for me the real question, while also considering why Harambe was killed, is “Why was Harambe in the zoo in the first place?”

As I watched footage of the event I was reminded of an incident that happened in 1996 at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo in which a female western lowland gorilla named Binta Jua rescued a three-year-old boy who fell into her enclosure. She became a worldwide celebrity. I also thought about the movie King Kong.-read more

People worldwide are outraged by Harambe’s death. This global interest is all part of a heightened awareness about the nature of human-animal relationships, the focus of a rapidly growing field called anthrozoology.