Clean Your House in Less Than an Hour

I found this article on Yahoo!. This is primarily for those mothers out there, or for those who are living by themselves (xD).
I think this is quite useful and effective.
Here's the article:


Clean Your House in Less Than an Hour


source: Yahoo!

Check these Informative Blogs from Discover Magazine

1) Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait
2) The Loom by Carl Zimmer
3) Better Planet by Benjamin Nugent
4) Reality Base by Melissa Lafsky
5) Science Not Fiction by Kyle Munkittrick

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Glass Music)

How to Find Your Way When Lost in the Woods

You're hiking alone through the woods when you suddenly realize that you've lost your compass. You know that you need to travel south. But which way is south? What should you do?


Stick and Shadow Method
What you need.
You can create a makeshift compass with two common items: an analog watch and a 6-in. stick.
In the Northern Hemisphere
Push the stick into the ground, so that it casts a shadow.
Place your watch on the ground so the hour hand is parallel to the shadow. Then, find the point on the watch midway between the hour hand and 12 o'clock.
If the watch is set to daylight saving time - which is all during the summer - use the midway point between the hour hand and 1 o'clock.
In the Southern Hemisphere
Place your watch so that 12 o'clock is parallel to the shadow.


Cloud Method
Look at the clouds to determine in which direction they are moving.
Generally, weather moves west to east. While this may not always be true in mountainous regions, it is a good rule of thumb and may help to orient you.


Moss Method
Locate moss.
Moss grows in places with lots of shade and water - areas that are cool and moist. On tree trunks, the north side tends to be more shaded and moist than the south side and, therefore, moss usually grows on this side. However, this method is not infallible - in forests, both sides of a tree can be shady and moist. So, moss may grow around the entire trunk.



Source: Popular Mechanics Magazine
Adapted from the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, ©2001 by Book Soup Publishing. Used with permission of Chronicle Books, LLC.

Google Applied It

Try searching "askew" on Google search engine, and you will see that the page will tilt slightly clockwise. :)

Water Out of Thin Air

Inspired by Australia’s worst drought in a century, Mr Linacre - a former student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne - turned to nature to find ways of capturing moisture from air.

He studied the Namib beetle, an ingenious species that lives in one of the driest places on earth.

With half an inch of rain per year, the beetle can only survive by consuming the dew it collects on the hydrophilic skin of its back in the early mornings.

Airdrop uses the same concept, working on the principle that even the driest air contains water molecules that can be extracted by lowering the air’s temperature to the point of condensation.

Source

credits: did-you-kno

Invisibility and Teleportation - Could These Be Possible?

These two seem to be kinda impossible. But, scientists are looking for ways to make these come true. Science and technology is increasing and developing everyday, and scientists believe that these may come true.

So, I'll just direct you to the sites where these articles can be found. :)

1) The Power of Invisibility

2) Teleportation is Real

With the research going on among the scientists, and the other people responsible for these, we have no other choice but to wait for their conclusion.

Deadly Coincidence

I got this from tumblr:
my blog
where i read this
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In 1975, while riding a moped on the island of Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi.

Exactly one year later, this man’s brother was killed in the very same way.

It was found that he was, in fact, riding the very same moped. To make this coincidence even more difficult to believe, he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver who, wait for it, was even carrying the very same passenger.

An Asteroid Missed the Earth

I just read yesterday in Popular Science magazine that in the year 1989, a mile-wide asteroid (or was that more than 1 mile wide? :D) swept across the Earth's orbit 6 hours after the Earth had passed. That's more frightening than you think.
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On November 9, 2011 (Wednesday), an asteroid (2005 YU55) passed by Earth within the moon's orbit. Here are some of the links that I found about this topic:


1) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
2) CBC News (Canada)


visit NASA's website: www.nasa.gov

11-11-11 Why is it so Rare and Unusual?

Source: hotword.dictionary.com

11/11/11 is a much-anticipated day. Obviously, it contains all of the same digits (like 1/1/1, 2/2/2 and so on…), and it is a palindromic date. (That means the numbers are the same backwards and forwards). 11 is a very odd number and has been subject to much interpretation over the ages. According to Yahoo! News, medieval scholars believed that while most numbers had positive and negative qualities, the number 11represented pure evil. Find out what eleven literally means here.

Numerologists also think there is something special about the number 11. In numerology, 11 is a master number. Most numbers reduce; for example, 11 would reduce to two by adding the digits, but 11 is considered to be “higher” version of two. 11 is “highly charged” and “difficult to handle” according to numerologists who believe integrating your internal number is important to self-revelation. To them, 11 represents illumination and sensitivity.

Eleven is a unique number in other ways, too. Many people profess to see the time 11:11 on clocks more than other specific minutes, and certain outlying groups have suggested that this represents the 1,111 spirits that are protecting us. Prominent psychic Uri Geller has connected the number 11 to tragic world events, including when JFK’s assassination, the attacks on the World Trade Center, and many others. Other people have asked whether it is just a coincidence that bankruptcy is called “Chapter 11.” Psychologists call this a post-hoc analysis, which is when people assign significance to something that is just a random occurrence after the fact. Read about other odd 11/11 coincidences here.

Last year an uncanny number of birds seemed to be falling out of the sky simultaneously. This confluence of events sparked the public imagination and prompted us to introduce a wonderfully useful word for trying to grapple with coincidences: “pareidolia.” Find out what it means exactly and what it says about the anxiety that seemingly synchronistic experiences can create here.

On this century’s 11/11/11, the public is responding in all sorts of contradictory ways. Many betrothed couples are picking 11/11/11 as their wedding day, swamping churches and wedding venues with festivities. A director of the horror film series Saw is producing a film aptly titled 11/11/11. And in a more amusing direction, the Couduroy Appreciation Club has dubbed 11/11/11 the “day that most resembles couduroy.”

Computer programmers would also like to remind you that today is the last binary day of the century. What does that mean? It is the last day that can be expressed in the binary code of zeros and ones. The next binary day will be January 1, 2100.

Are you doing anything special for 11/11/11? What do you think of these theories?

Lost Generation

A depressing/pessimistic poem which if read backwards becomes optimistic.

I’m a part of Lost Generation

and I refuse to believe that

I can change the world

I realize this may be a shock but

“Happiness comes from within”

is a lie, and

“Money will make me happy”

So in thirty years I’ll tell my children

They are not the most important thing in my life

My employer will know that

I have my priority straight because

Work

Is more important than

Family

I tell you this

Once upon a time

Families stay together

But this will not be true in my era

This is a quick fix society

Experts tell me

Thirty years from now I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my divorce

I do not concede that

I will live in a country of my own making

In the future

Environmental destruction will be the norm

No longer can it be said that

My peers and I care about this earth

It will be evident that

My generation is apathetic and lethargic

It is foolish to presume that

There is hope

And all of this will come true unless we reverse it.


- Jonathan Reed