Ajay - On the Road called Life

The following is an actual question given on a Washington State University Student Chemistry mid-term.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the [...]

How many of us guys can identify with this?
1. If u think a girl is beautiful, she’ll always have a boyfriend to confirm that
2. The nicer she is…the quicker u will be dumped!!!!!
3. The more the makeup, worse the looks…
4. “95% of the girls in this world are beautiful. Remaining 5% would always be in [...]

A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he saw a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away.
But later, the dog is back again. So, he goes over to the dog and notices he has a note in his mouth. He takes the note and it reads “Can I have 12 [...]

A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn’t want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.
So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbour, Mrs. Goodnest, if [...]

And yet another Orkut Hoax has popped up. Boy do people sure have imagination!
The mail reads as:
someone by your name scraps u,delete it immedietly within 10seconds. Its a virus. Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list feads the scrap then his comp will also be affected. It is a hard drive [...]

My dad sent me this via email and found them really cool. Here’s for maths lovers to go all oohh.. aah about…
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + [...]

Yet another Orkut hoax floating around on the internet is this one:
GIRLS BEWARE PLEASE.. IT IS SERIOUS! HELP URSELF
It has recently been found out that there are some spammers present on Orkut who download the Photographs of Girls from their Profile and they get 5 cent per photograph. This photographs are later sent into Image [...]

I simply can’t understand how gullible people can be, and most of them are engineers (some even computer engineers) and MBAs!
I last posted about a similar orkut hoax and now I’ve received over 10 messages in the past 3 days from friends with contents as follows:
Dear user because of sudden rush of people signing upto [...]

I don’t know how far this is true, but why not?
Wipro chairman Mr. Ajim Premji’s comment on reservation:
I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this.
Let’s start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for muslims. [...]

I received this image over email. It is a picture of a coconut tree, not just any coconut tree but a rare one.
Click on the thumbnail to see the full picture.

Can you tell me what is so rare / special about this tree?
Disclaimer: I am not aware of the source or the photographer of this [...]