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CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO Crested Butte, Colorado, has a core bike culture that lures riders from all over the world. Its mountain bike history goes back to the sport’s infancy (the mid-1970s), when intrepid riders tackled Pearl Pass on one-speeds. Crested Butte Bike Weekdates back to 1980, making it the country’s oldest mountain bike festival. With more than 700 miles of singletrack—from buff trails casually winding through wildflowers to rugged backcountry rides climbing to 13,000 feet—Crested Butte boasts a solid week’s worth of quality rides (including classics such as Trail 401 and Reno/Flag/Bear/Deadman Gulch) with perhaps the most spectacular bike-accessed scenery in the country. Several close-to-town cross-country trails have popped up in the last few years like the beginner-friendly Lupine Trail, which follows the bike path from town north to the ski area and back. Evolution Bike Park at Crested Butte Mountain Resortincludes more than 30 mil...

The dolphins are considered as second intelligent animal before human beings. DIFFERENCE IN DOLPHIN BRAIN:-          Dolphin   brain stem  transmission time is faster than that normally found in humans, and is approximately equivalent to the speed found in  rats . As echo-location is the dolphin's primary means of sensing its environment – analogous to eyes in  primates  – and since sound travels four and a half times faster in water than in air ,scientist .   speculate that the faster brain stem transmission time, and perhaps the paralimbic lobe as well, assist quicker processing of sound. The dolphin's greater dependence on sound processing is evident in the structure of its brain: its neural area devoted to visual imaging is only about one-tenth that of the human brain, while the area devoted to acoustical imaging is about 10 times that of the human brain . Sensory experiments suggest a great degree of cross-moda...

Conservation status In China, giant pandas are considered to be national treasures. GIANT PANDA HAS TO BE SAFE  The IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species categorizes giant pandas as endangered. This is an improvement. In the 1980s, giant pandas were listed as rare by the IUCN. As of 2008, when the most recent assessment was made, there was "little doubt" that there were less than 2,500 mature giant pandas in the wild. A survey in 2002 indicated a total population of about 1,600 individuals. National Geographic estimates that 100 giant pandas live in zoos.  Steps are being taken to save them, though. There are 50 panda reserves in China that protect around 45 percent of the giant panda's habitat, according to the World Wildlife Fund.  Giant pandas have been the symbol of the international conservation organization WWF, or the World Wide Fund for Nature, since it was founded in 1961. Some scientists believe that the giant panda is a remnant spec...

Giant pandas are bears that are native to China, where they are considered a national treasure. Even with this exalted status, giant pandas are endangered: only about 1,600 live in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). About 100 live in zoos around the world .                                                                    In the wild, giant pandas are only found in the remote, mountainous regions of central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, according to the National Zoo. In this area, there are cool, wet bamboo forests that are perfect for the giant panda's needs. Giant pandas make their dens from hollowed-out logs or stumps of conifer trees found within the forest.  FACT'S :- The Yin and Yang bring peace and harmony when they are balanced ...

  18-year-old Rifath Sharook of India build smallest satellite :- Although the space shuttle program may have been temporarily halted in the United States,  NASA  is still alive and well — and now, thanks to 18-year-old Rifath Sharook of India, are launching their smallest-ever satellite into space. The satellite is called 'KalamSat,' named after Indian nuclear scientist, pioneer in the aeronautics field, and former president, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, and is the first-ever to be manufactured by 3-D printing, a tech trend we don't see disappearing (or even going away a bit) anytime soon. Rifath's satellite beat out of a slew of other inventions at a competition jointly sponsored by NASA and 'I Doodle Learning' called 'Cubes in Space,' in an effort to bring new technologies and devices to space and solve current quandries as well as new ones. "The main role of the satellite will be to demonstrate the performance of 3-D printed carbon fibre. Desp...