15 Interesting Facts About Tornadoes

15 Interesting Facts About Tornadoes

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 / No Comments

#1 Tornadoes Come From Cumulonimbus and Cumulus Clouds

#2 Tornadoes Have Been Witnessed on Every Continent Except Antarctica

#3 Historians Aren’t Sure How The Word Tornado Came from Spanish

#4 A Funnel Cloud Is Only a Tornado When it Touches the Ground

#5 Hurricane Katrina Created Tornadoes All Across the East Coast

#6 When Storms Produce More Than One Tornado It’s Called an ‘Outbreak’

 #7 Supercells Are Storms That Have Cyclones of Air Built-in to Them

#8 Some Tornadoes Can’t Be Seen

#9 There Was a Tornado 2.5 Miles Wide in Nebraska In 2004

#10 Tornadoes Make Infrasound Below the 20Hz Range of Human Hearing

#11 A Tornado in 1925 Traveled Over 200 Miles

#12 Tornadoes Have Some of the Fastest Wind Speeds on Earth

#13 There Are 3 Scales for Rating Tornadoes

#14 The ‘Hook Echo’ Radar Signature of Tornadoes Was Found in 1953

#15 Storm-Chasers Are Thrill-Seeking Scientists That Save Lives

CREATIVE AND CLEVER INVENTIONS

CREATIVE AND CLEVER INVENTIONS

Sunday, February 8, 2015 / No Comments

Do you like creative inventions? Take a look to this list of creative inventions which can be totaly handy for some of you...

#1 The Rolling Bench That You Can Use After Rain

 The Rolling Bench looks like an ordinary bench with the exception of a winding handle. The handle rotates the seat surface to expose the dry/clean one.

#2 Hour Glass LED Traffic Lights

 Sand Glass is a concept traffic-light which gives visual feedback as to just how long you’re going to be stuck at a junction.

#3 Ping Pong built-in Door

This cool door is for all you big kids out there, designed by Tobias Fränzel, the door flips into a ping pong table, all ready for gameplay.

#4 Mirror Wiper

Simply attach it to your mirror with the suction cup. When your mirror is fogged up, rotate it like a windshield wiper to wipe the mirror clean of steam. One quick swipe and you'll see things clearly again.

#5 Rotating 360° Lego Sockets

Rotating 360° is a multi-outlet socket system that allows you to add many sockets to the strip, in a style similar to LEGO.

#6 Pizza Scissors

Cut and serve a full size pizza with ease with the pizza scissors spatula. This brilliant kitchen tool merges scissors and a spatula so you can cut and pick up.

#7 The Dogbrella

The Dogbrella's makers claim the product has a number of benefits for both dogs and their masters.

#8 Baby Shower Cap

This shower cap has a built in band for a secure and comfortable fit around the head.

#9 Lock Cup

Cup which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his shaped key to close the hole, pour the coffee and enjoy the drinking.

#10 Gulping Yolkfish Egg Separator

Helps to separate eggs

#11 Reusable Candle

Designer Benjamin Shine has created a piece that will help you save money (and candles) with the clever ‘Rekindle Candle.’

Share your creative ideas...

SMOKING FACTS - HEALTH EFFECTS

SMOKING FACTS - HEALTH EFFECTS

Monday, January 26, 2015 / No Comments

Do you smoke? Here are some health effects of smoking. Think again!

 #1 Cigarettes can contain more than 4,000 ingredients, which, when burned, can also produce over 200 compound chemicals. Many of these compounds have been linked to lung damage.[image source]

 #2 Cigarettes contain arsenic, formaldehyde, lead, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and 43 known carcinogens.[image source]

 #3 Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after smoke is inhaled. It has been found in every part of the body and in breast milk.[image source]

#4 Sugar approximates to roughly 20% of a cigarette, and many diabetics are unaware of this secret sugar intake. Also, the effect of burning sugar is unknown.[image source]

 #5 The immune systems of smokers has to work harder every day than non-smokers. As a result, a smokers’ blood will contain less antioxidants, although a smokers immune system may be quicker to respond to virus attacks due to its more active nature.[image source]

 #6 Smoking increases your risk of getting lung diseases like pneumonia, emphysema and chronic bronchitis.[image source]

 #7 There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole. Most smokers take in only one or two milligrams of nicotine per cigarette however, with the remainder being burned off.[image source]

 #8 Every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes.[image source]

 #9 Second-hand smoke causes many of the same diseases as direct smoking, including cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases.[image source]

  #10 This is not a smoking ban... This a health advice...

Do not smoke!!!

WALKING FACTS AND BENEFITS

WALKING FACTS AND BENEFITS

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 / No Comments

More than 60 percent of all adults in the United States do not engage in the recommended amount of physical activity. This lack of regular physical exercise can lead to illness and chronic diseases down the road. Regular, brisk walking is one of the simplest and safest forms of physical exercise. Here are same facts and benefits about walking.image source

#1 Decreasing the risk of a heart attack

 Walking helps lower lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol) and raise high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ("good" cholesterol). Regular exercise can also help keep your blood pressure in check, and reduces your risk of blood clots and irregular heartbeats.image source

#2 Reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes

For individuals with type 2 diabetes, regular exercise may help decrease the amount of insulin or other medications needed to control their condition.image source

#3 Helping to control weight

Taking a brisk, one-hour walk burns approximately 400 calories for the average person.image source

#4 Improving muscle tone

 Walking leads to lean, toned muscles, and keeps bones and joints in shape, minimizing the effects of osteoporosis and arthritis.image source

#5 It helps you cope at work

Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) showed the benefits of the great outdoors by measuring responses to stress during and after viewing nature in both simulated and real environments.image source

#6 It might be better for you than running

According to one study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, a brisk walk can reduce the risk of heart disease more effectively than running.image source

#7 It helps you concentrate

Lightweight brain-scanning devices were strapped to the heads of 12 people who were then sent on a walk through Edinburgh. The results showed that while busy, built-up areas induced frustration and irritation in the participants, green and parkland sections led to the brain becoming calmer and more meditative.image source

#8 It ‘heals’ your brain

It lets your mind off the hook for a while; going for a walk allows your brain to roam along with your body.image source

#9 It makes you more creative

Dr Sowden of the School of Psychology at the University of Surrey writes: “Walking has been shown to improve our ability to shift between modes of thought, and to improve our attention, memory and recovery from mental fatigue, all of which are important for thinking creatively”.image source

#10 It can treat depression

 A study by the University of Stirling on a sample of 341 patients showed a brisk walk was “an effective intervention for depression" and had a similar effect to other, more vigorous forms of exercise.image source

Compiled from;

county.allegheny.pa.us

thebmc.co.uk

Keep walking and be healthy...

ASTRONOMY FACTS

ASTRONOMY FACTS

Saturday, January 10, 2015 / No Comments

Thousands years... And we still know very little about the Universe we live in. Here is a collection of amazing, interesting, and strange astronomy facts.

#1 Scientists believe that we can only see about 5% of the matter in the Universe. The rest is made up of invisible matter and a mysterious form of energy known as Dark Energy.

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#2 Neutron stars are the densest and smallest stars known to exist in the universe. This density is approximately equivalent to the mass of a Boeing 747 compressed to the size of a small grain of sand.

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#3 Black Holes are so dense, and produce such intense gravity, that even light can not escape.

Black hole with corona, X-ray source (artist's concept). image source

 #4 Light from distant stars and galaxies takes so long to reach us, that we are actually seeing objects as they appeared hundreds, thousands or even millions of years ago. So, as we look up at the sky, we are really looking back in time.

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#5 The Crab Nebula was produced by a supernova explosion in 1054 A.D. The Chinese and Arab astronomers at the time noted that the explosion was so bright, that it was visible during the day, and lit up the night sky for months.

A mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula

#6 Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, temperatures can reach -280 degrees F. This is due to the planet having no atmosphere to help regulate the temperature. So, the dark side of Mercury is very cold.

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#7 Saturn's moon Titan has plenty of evidence of organic (life) chemicals in its atmosphere.

#8 Saturn's rings are arguably the flattest structure known to man, being some 300,000 km end-to-end but with a vertical thickness of about 10 meters.

Saturn's Rings in Ultraviolet Light. image source

#9 The Sun burns 600 million tons of Hydrogen every second.

#10 The Sun is just one of over 100 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is just one of over 100 billion galaxies in the universe.

#11 Some pulsars rotate several hundred times per second.

The Vela Pulsar and its surrounding pulsar wind nebula. image source

#12 Space is not a complete vacuum, there are about 3 atoms per cubic meter of space.

A star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, perhaps the closest Galaxy to Earth's Milky Way

Compiled from;
space.about.com
astro.cornell.edu

and Of cource the unidentified fact.

What is yours?