Archive for September 18th, 2009

A Hotel Made From Key Cards

If you’ve somehow amassed 200,000 plastic key cards, what would you do? Well one bright spark had the genius idea of building a hotel with them.

Holiday Inn’s Key Card Hotel, which opened yesterday in New York, includes a guest bedroom, bathroom and lobby, all fully equipped with life-sized furniture all made out of, yes, well, you get the point.

The 400 sq ft, two-ton construction in Manhattan , which will be in business until September 21, was built by world record-holding ‘card-stacker’ Bryan Berg.

He said: ‘This is my largest card-stacking challenge to date and the only card creation I have ever made at full human scale.’

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Extraordinary Tree Growth

Some trees are tall, some a small, and some grow in unbelievable places. Take a look at some extraordinary tree growth. More pictures in the link.

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Your Handwriting Could Show If You’re A Liar

Forget polygraph tests or body language examinations to detect lies, your handwriting could give away if you’re telling fibs.

Psychologists have suggested that handwriting changes when someone is lying because the brain has to work harder to invent facts, which then in turn interfere with the normal writing process.

Researchers at the University of Haifa, Israel, asked 34 volunteers to write two short paragraphs, where in one they recalled a real memory while in the other a fictitious event.

he scientists then found those who wrote lies pressed harder on the paper, had longer pen strokes and produced taller letters than those telling the truth.

“In the false writing condition, the average pressure, stroke length and height were significantly higher than in the true writing condition,” the researchers said.

Scientists believe that handwriting tests to detect liars could be used to help validate loan application or even insurance claims in the future.

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