Apples Future Campuses

Let's take a walk around new Apple campus.

Cupertino city officials recently gave the green light on Apple's wild new headquarters
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Here's one of the first looks we've had inside the building. Note the iPod Nano banners: Apparently, Apple ads are the only art that'll do for Apple Campus 2
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Slated for completion sometime in 2016, the new headquarters will inarguably be a stunning place to work. Here: the cavernous cafeteria
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Office life will spill into a verdant landscape on both the inside and outside of the ring
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The project was helmed by the firm of star architect Norman Foster
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Though by Foster's account, Steve Jobs was hands-on from the start
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An overhead view of the main building: 2.8 million square feet with room for 13,000 employees
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A visitor's entrance
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Employees who arrive by bus will enter at the Corporate Transit Center, with a walkway flanked by two Apple Store-white staircases
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This pristine pavilion is where press will mingle at future events
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The pavilion from above
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From here, visitors will descend into an underground auditorium with seating for 1,000
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The mothership, glimpsed from the auditorium's meeting area
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The Transit Center and main entryway to the spaceship, seen from above
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A view from inside the above-ground parking garage on the southern end of the property
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The parking garage will have solar panels on top and plants drizzled down the sides
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Bill Gates 11 Rules You Never Learn In School

Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it!



Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.



Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.



Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.



Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.



Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.



Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.



Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.



Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.



Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.



Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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INTRESTING MYTHOLOGICAL FACTS

Perhaps as a child you worshiped Indiana Jones, bought yourself a fedora, and hoped to search for supernatural treasures long lost to mankind. Mythology has been rife with mysterious objects of power that imbue the user with unique abilities. So, fedora in hand, lets venture into the world of mysterious and fantastic powers.
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The Cintamani Stone
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Most people are familiar with the concept of the Philosopher's Stone, but few have heard of the Cintamani Stone. Said to be lost somewhere in Southeast Asia, the stone is the Oriental equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone. The stone is thought to be a relic of Buddha, and is able to grant wishes. Supernatural powers aside, the stone represents Buddhist values and teachings. It has never been found (of course), and there has never been any solid evidence of its existence
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The Seven-League Boots
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The Seven-League Boots are a recurring artifact in numerous European fairy tales, and the boots themselves allowed one to travel seven leagues (roughly five kilometers or three miles) per step. The boots arent very well known, and they are featured primarily in the French fairytale Hop-o-My-Thumb. In the story, Hop-o-My-Thumb is a small boy who is extremely intelligent. When his parents abandon him and his brothers, he becomes the (very tiny) man of the house. When an ogre decides to make a meal of the brothers, Hop-o-My-Thumb steals their magical boots to escape and make his fortune for his family.
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The Ring Of Gyges
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Plenty of us have seen the Lord of the Rings movies and are familiar with the One Ring, the cursed ring that grants invisibility but eventually corrupts the souls of those who wear it. Luckily, mythology has a ring that grants invisibility without the nasty side effects. The Ring of Gyges was a ring from a story told by the famous philosopher Plato. In the story, Gyges is a shepherd who finds the ring after an earthquake reveals a cave near where he herds his flock.Upon entering the cave, Gyges finds the ring on the finger of a corpse that doesnt seem human. When he places it upon his finger, he discovers he can become invisible by adjusting it. Gyges then goes to the palace of his local kingdom, woos the wife of the king, then kills him and becomes King of Lydia. So . . . maybe we were wrong about the soul-blackening part.
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The Hand Of Glory
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This is an item you better hope a burglar never gets his hands on. The Hand of Glory was fashioned from a condemned murderer's hands. A wax candle was affixed to one of the fingers, and the dead man's hair was used as a wick. It had the power to unlock doors and freeze people in place. Its flame could only be extinguished by the thief who wielded it, and it would have been a vital tool to the criminal trade if it ever existed. In its day, the Hand of Glory was considered to be the product of extremely black magic.
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Skatert-Samobranka
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Lets say youre out for a picnic, and youve forgotten the food. Thats not an issue, you just need to whip out your Skatert-Samobranka. The Skatert-Samobranka was a magic tablecloth that could produce food when unfurled and cleaned itself up when it was folded again. As with most supernatural items, there were rules. The Skatert-Samobranka was sentient, so it needed to be respected and cared for. If angered, it might have ruined the food, and any rips or holes would cause it to slowly lose its magical properties. That's one temperamental tablecloth.
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The Book Of Thoth
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The Book of Thoth was a book of ancient magic used by the Egyptian god of wisdom and magic, Thoth. The Book of Thoth was said to contain two spells—one to understand animals and one to understand the mind of the gods. In an ancient Egyptian story, a prince of Egypt found the book after avoiding a series of traps. As punishment for finding the book, the prince's family was killed, and the prince committed suicide. Years later, a new prince found the book but was warned by the old prince's ghost not to take it. He didnt listen and was promptly convinced by a beautiful woman to humiliate himself and kill his children. However, he discovered that the whole thing was an illusion created by the old princes ghost as a warning. He placed the book back into the old princes tomb and left.
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Helmet Of Invisibility
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Another Greek legend, the Helmet of Invisibility was a helmet once owned by the hero Perseus that could grant—you guessed it—invisibility. Perseus wore the helmet in his quest to slay Medusa. It prevented her petrifying gaze from affecting him when he went into battle. Perseus returned with Medus's head, so his quest went quite well.
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The Spear Of Destiny
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The Spear of Destiny is a sacred relic in the Christian faith. It is said that the spear that pierced Christ's side was imbued with unique powers. Supposedly, only the owner of the Spear of Destiny could control the world. Many a conspiracy nut will tell you that Hitler, while dabbling in the occult, took the spear for himself and went on to conquer most of Europe. Later, when General Patton arrived in Nuremburg, he took the spear from the city, and Hitler's reign of terror soon ended.
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The Argo
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Anyone familiar with classical mythology is probably familiar with The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, the tale of Jason and his team of heroes (the Argonauts), who quested to gain the Golden Fleece in Colchis—so that Jason could claim his throne. The ship itself was said to be under the protection of the goddess Hera and was made from the timber of the forests of Dodona, which held the power of prophecy. When the quest for the Golden Fleece was done, the Argo was placed into the heavens as a constellation.
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Dragon's Teeth
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Dragons are the quintessential monster of European folklore: giant, fire-breathing lizards that may have been the medieval explanation for dinosaur bones. The Greek legend of Cadmus states that, in the days of yore, Cadmus killed the sacred dragon of the god of war—Ares. Athena, Ares's sister, told Cadmus to plant the teeth, which grew into a fresh crop of soldiers. He then threw a precious gem in amid the soldiers, who fought each other for it until there were five survivors. These five later went on to found the city of Thebes. To this day, to ''sow dragon's teeth'' means to cause something that breeds dispute.

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Some Amazing and Unknown Facts

1. Ants never sleep!


2. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.


3 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf.


4 An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.


5. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


6. Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage

and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years.


7.Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.


8. Butterflies taste with their feet.


9.A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.


10. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


11. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


12. Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40° Fahrenheit.


13. No word in the English language, rhymes with month - orange - silver -or- purple.


14. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump"


15. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.


16. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.


17. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.


18.The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”

uses every letter in the English language.



19. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.



20. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.


21. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.



22. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.


23. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.


24. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.



25. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.



26. The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'.




Interesting Facts about Human Body

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1.) Eyes:

You Blink about 20000 times a day.


2.) Hair:

Hair grows about .5 mm (.02 in) a day.


3.) Mouth:

You will produce 37,800 l of saliva in your life.


4.) Cells:

There are 50 trillion cells in your body and 3 billion of them die every minute.


5.) Nerves:

Your body has about 13000000000000 nerve calls, transmitting message at speed of 290 km/h.


6.) Brain power:

You lose 100000 brain cells every day! The main thing is that you have 100 billion altogether.

If surface area of your brain could be ironed out it would measure 2090 sq.cm.


7.) Heartbeats:

Your heart pumps 13640 L of blood around your body in a day.

An average heartbeat rate per minutes of our body is 70 beats and this will adds more than 100000 beats a day.


8.) Urine :

You will pass 400 to 2000 ml of urine every day, depending on your age, your size and outside conditions,

especially temperature.



9.) Chemicals:

There is enough carbon in your body to fill 900 pencils, enough Fat to make 75 candles,

enough phosphorous to make 220 match heads and enough iron to make a 7.5 cm nail.



10.) Can you overdose on vitamins?

Overdosing on some vitamins can have serious side effects.

Vitamin A: Doses of more than 3752 mg can lead to liver damage, hair losses and headaches.

Vitamin B6: Doses of more than 400mg can cause numbness in the mouth.

Vitamin C: Stomach ache can be caused due to high doses of Vitamin C.

Vitamin D: Daily doses of 600 mg can interfere with the functioning of muscles.

Niacin: Doses of upto 2000 mg are prescribe to help lower cholesterol but this could cause jaundice and liver damage.


11.) Tea Or Coffee?

The two main constituents of tea are “caffeine and tannin”. A tea bag contains about 40 mg of caffeine and brewed tea about 30 mg. Tea also contains useful fluorides, volatile oils and Vitamin B.

“Caffeine” is the main constituent of coffee. A cup of brewed coffee contains about 80 mg of caffeine and instant coffee about 60 mg. Medical studies show that heavy caffeine use (more than 500 mg/day) may cause harmful physiological effects.

A cup of tea or coffee (without sugar and milk) contains about 16 KJ of energy.


12.) Fingers:

Our fingers are so sensitive that they can detect a vibration with a movement of 0.02 cm. Our “finger nails”

grow at the rate of about 0.05 mm in a week and hair about 3 mm in a week

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