Are Americans really that stupid

Here is a video of a random sampling of Americans with few basic world general knowledge questions, watch out some hilarious or rather really stupid answers. Its hard to believe how people could be so ignorant.



Religion of Israel
Muslim

What religion are Buddhist monks
Islamic

Who is Fidel Castro
Singer

How many sides a triangle has
4, 1, may be no sides

Currency in UK
Queen Elizabeth Money

Kofi Annan
Possibly name of a law firm, a coffee Name, not sure


Link to the Video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/834847/are_americans_really_that_stupid/


Venkat Reddy

Contact Juggling

For the unaware, juggling seems like a silly circus tricks, but in reality there are lot of people out there who take it as a serious hobby. Here is a interesting improvisation of juggling a single sphere in a rather unusual way.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mjNLTZOJOCA

The way he manages to make the body flow fluidly around the sphere is rather amazing.

Venkat Reddy

A life of fascinations

For mere mortals we can hope to excel in one field of our chosen profession be it a doctor, engineer, teacher etc. Unusual exceptions are people like Da Vinci who happen to be a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Here is one unusual modern day multi faceted personality, a founding member in Microsoft, Paleontologist, Inventor, Nuclear Scientist, Nano researcher, world renowned French Chef and award winning Nature photographer to name a few.

Here is a talk by him at TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/271


Venkat Reddy