North Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel: Ugliest Building on Earth?

It’s a rather dubious honor to be considered the ugliest of just about anything at all, but according to many, the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea appears to be the winner of the ugly building contest.


The Ryugyong Hotel with its 3,000 rooms has been described as a hideous and distorted version of a fairy-tale castle that dominates the city’s skyline and is so ugly that it is frequently air-brushed out of publicity shots of the city.

Construction began in 1987 (although no one knows why) but stopped in 1992. It is unlikely that it will ever be finished due to the fact that North Korea ran out of money and there is no tourist industry in the region.

Taiwan University Offers X Rated Courses

Appreciating and analyzing pornographic movies hardly seems like fodder for a university course, and yet Taiwan’s Mass Communication Department of Providence University is the first institute of higher learning to initiate just such a course.


In order to sign up for this course, students sign a paper agreeing that if the scenes are too explicit, they can opt to leave the classroom. The teacher, assistant professor Miss Chen Mingmei, said no students have ever left her class, but some would briefly cover their eyes during the stronger scenes.

A 15-minute presentation in which each student analyzes an audience’s psychological reaction to a porn clip from an academic perspective, is required in order to achieve a passing grade.

“If I get a very good score in this course, I don’t know how I’ll explain it to my parents.” said one worried student who wished to remain anonymous.

The course attracted more than 50 students, and most confessed that they had watched porn videos before. They listed curiosity as the main incentive for wanting to take the course and most admitted that their parents were unaware of their choice of course material.

“I am really worried my parents will see the score report when it is mailed home. I won’t know what to say if I get a high score. However if I fail the course, I can speak to my parents and suggest that maybe I should watch more porn,” said another student

Behind those ivy walls, “x” really does mark the spot!

Orang Utan uses self-made "Spear" to Hunt for Fish

Amazing photo captured by scientist in indonesia. Currently the most suprising and complicated action done by ape species animal.

Traditional Way of Hunting Whale

A group of people are hunting down a whale with their traditional way. Poor whale...

Thousand Bones of Small Humans Discovered in Palau

Thousand ancient bones of small humans has been discovered by scientists in the Pacific island nation of Palau. The site indicated that the bones belonged to numerous individuals.


Some of the bones are ancient and indicate inhabitants of particularly small size, scientists announced today. The remains are between 900 and 2,900 years old and align with Homo sapiens, according to a paper on the discovery. However, the older bones are tiny and exhibit several traits considered primitive, or archaic, for the human lineage. "They weren't very typical, very small in fact," said Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Burmese Python Burst After Eating an Alligator

A 13-foot Burmese python burst after eating an alligator almost equal to it's size. The dead animals was discovered by rangers at the Everglades National Park.


The remains of the two prodigious reptiles were discovered by surprised rangers in the Everglades National Park. The rangers say the find implies that non-native Burmese pythons might even challenge alligators' leading position in the food chain in the swamps. The python's remains were found with the victim's tail sticking out from its burst midsection. The head of the python was missing. The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator.

Barbourula Kalimantanensis, First Lungless Frog Discovered in Indonesia

The Indonesian frog named Barbourula Kalimantanensis is the first lungless frog discovered. It breath entirely through its skin and lacks lungs. This trait may have evolved because of the amphibian's habitat of oxygen-rich, fast-moving water—which might more easily carry away a frog with air-filled lungs.


"Nobody knew about the lunglessness before we accidentally discovered it doing routine dissections," study lead author David Bickford, a biologist at the National University of Singapore, said in an email. His colleague Djoko Iskandar at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia first discovered two specimens of the frog in 1978.

Uncontacted Tribe Found in the Amazon Jungle in Brazil

An uncontacted tribe was recently found in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Tribe members would fire arrows at airplane whenever they see them. They wear black and red dyes, made from crushed seeds, which experts believed to signal aggression.


"We are very confident the photos are genuine," said Miriam Ross, a spokesperson for Survival International, which estimates that half of the hundred or so uncontacted tribes in the world live in the rain forests of Brazil and Peru.

Due to their vulnerable immune systems, these groups are highly susceptible to diseases borne by outsiders such as missionaries, loggers, or oil workers.

Rat Meat Rises in Popularity as Inflation Hits Locals

Rats… I HATE RATS!

However in Cambodia, no rat is left to waste… especially not when inflation has increased the cost of meat almost double in the last year.


Many Cambodians already believed rat meat to be a great source of protein and a tasty little snack when gathered together drinking, but the popularity of the meat really began to increase when beef hit around $10 a pound.

At around $2.50 a pound, rat meat favorites like the garlic-flavored field rat have quickly replaced the standard beef dishes.


“Not only are our poor eating it, but there is also demand from Vietnamese living on the border with us.” said an agricultural official from Koh Thom.

Not only have the locals saved money by eating more rat meat, they have also been able to earn more money by catching rats and making them table-ready.