5 Real-Life Zombies. While I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the dead to rise from their graves, there are still plenty of zombies roaming the Earth. Some of them are in the waters where we swim (not unlike this guy), and many more of them are right underneath our feet. To get a leg (or six) up in a world that’s red in tooth and claw, some animals have struck upon a peculiar strategy: bending other critters to their will like VooDoo zombie masters and using them as homes, hosts, food or labor. Here are just a few of nature’s zombies and the parasite masters that control them. They’re coming to get you Barbara… 1. Fungus Among Us When a spore of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis meets an ant, things get very weird and very bad for the ant very quickly.
When O. unilateralis reaches the autumn of its short life and is ready to sporulate and make way for a new generation, its long, branching filaments grow into the ant’s brain. 2. Thwack 3. Like H. 4. Last wasp, we promise (there are just so many!). 5. Bug-eating is a great idea and we should all be doing more of it. Never. Gonna. Happen. And it's not that I'm closed-minded to the notion. I have read many articles, considered it for myself... and rejected the idea.
Me and the other more-than-70% of humanity, apparently. I can live with that. Look, I understand, and you're really with the majority of those in first world countries, but it IS that you're close-minded. You already do it unwittingly. Canned juices? You're stupid, sorry to inform you. I know you are but what am I? Childish, I know, but you get what you give. World of difference between those and a bowl of sautéed cockroaches... as I'm sure you're well aware.
Incidentally, the spiders-while-you-sleep thing has been debunked quite a few times. The majority of people are killing this planet with their actions daily; it's not exactly company you should be proud to keep. The planet is fine. Yes, the planet is fine. "The planet is fine. Indeed. It's not really a controversial statement to assert that more than 70% of humanity is stupid.
Incidentally? British soldier allegedly spares the life of an injured Adolf Hitler — History.com This Day in History — 9/28/1918. Sep 28, 1918: On September 28, 1918, in an incident that would go down in the lore of World War I history—although the details of the event are still unclear—Private Henry Tandey, a British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and declines to shoot him, sparing the life of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler.
Tandey, a native of Warwickshire, took part in the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914 and the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where he was wounded in the leg. After being discharged from the hospital, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion in France and was wounded again during the Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele in the summer of 1917. From July to October 1918, Tandey served with the 5th Duke of Wellington Regiment; it was during this time that he took part in the successful British capture of Marcoing, for which he earned a Victoria Cross for "conspicuous bravery.
" 13 Fascinating Facts About Bees. Sure, you know that bees pollinate our crops and give us honey. But there's so much more to these buzzing insects than that. 1. Their sting has some benefits A toxin in bee venom called melittin may prevent HIV. Bee stings may also ease pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis. 2. During chillier seasons, worker bees can live for nine months. 3. Bees are hardwired to do certain jobs. 4. When aging bees do jobs usually reserved for younger members, their brain stops aging. 5.
To reinforce their hives, bees use a resin from poplar and evergreen trees called propolis. 6. Honeybees make out faces the same way we do. 7. Even in beehives, there are workers and shirkers. 8. Nature didn’t intend caffeine to be trapped inside an orange mocha frappucino. While caffeine makes bees work better, cocaine turns them into big fat liars. 9. Bees use the sun as a compass. 10. Pretend it’s the weekend, and it’s time to do errands. 11. 12. Serial killers behave like bees. 13. Hermann Rorschach. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Hermann Rorschach in una foto del 1910 Hermann Rorschach (Zurigo, 8 novembre 1884 – Herisau, 2 aprile 1922) è stato uno psichiatra svizzero. Deve la sua fama soprattutto alla creazione di un originale metodo psicodiagnostico creato indipendentemente dai presupposti freudiani.
Tale metodo, detto Test di Rorschach, si avvale di una serie di dieci tavole coperte di macchie d'inchiostro nere o policrome che il paziente deve interpretare. Biografia[modifica | modifica sorgente] Hermann Rorschach nacque nel 1884 a Zurigo, la "capitale svizzera della psichiatria" dell'epoca (in quei decenni operarono presso l'Ospedale Psichiatrico della città, il celebre Burghölzli, psichiatri del calibro di Eugen Bleuler, Carl Gustav Jung e C.Velvet).
Figlio di un maestro d'arte, ed estremamente dotato di talento artistico lui stesso, al termine delle scuole superiori rimase a lungo in dubbio sulla carriera da perseguire. Voci correlate[modifica | modifica sorgente] Soylent, The Weird Food of The Future. NeuroscienceDC: The best time for your coffee. Ever wonder what the best time is to drink your coffee?
You probably know it is not a good idea to drink part of your daily dose of caffeine in the afternoon. Especially for those who have problems sleeping. But, do you ever drink your coffee and feel like it just didn’t work? I know I have that feeling sometimes. The explanation for this has to with a concept that I think is extremely interesting but rarely discussed: chronopharmacology. coffeeamp.com Chronopharmacology can be defined as the study of the interaction of biological rhythms and drug action. What does that mean? Most readers here, especially the ones in science enjoy–and desperately need–their morning coffee. Drug tolerance is an important subject, especially in the case of caffeine since most of us overuse this drug. References:Debono M, Ghobadi C, Rostami-Hodjegan A, Huatan H, Campbell MJ, Newell-Price J, Darzy K, Merke DP, Arlt W, & Ross RJ (2009).
Inouye, S.T., and Kawamura, H. (1979). Claimtoken-5268404e1ecbb. Body Armour - Threat Level Information. During the 1970's, the U.S. Justice Department started to research and develop a standard for body armour performance. After many changes and updates, a standard for body armour has emerged that is known as the N.I.J. (National Institute of Justice) standard 0101. The N.I.J. standard 0101.03 was implemented in 1987 and is the main standard used and recognised in Australia today. This standard covers many aspects of the design, manufacture and testing of ballistic body armour. This test standard coupled with our stringent quality controls, allows the wearer to have confidence that their body armour will perform to it's stated rating. Note: N.I.J. 0101.04 was released in September 2000.
There are 6 main threat levels for ballistic body armour. Level I, Level IIA, Level II and Level IIIA are all soft body armour. The inclusion of a + after the threat level (i.e. This has to be taken into consideration when selecting a body armour. Taiwan's New Special Forces Uniforms Are Wearable Nightmare Fuel. Mempo. A Japanese Edo period wood block print of various mengu (facial armour). Mempo (also menpō, mengu[1][2][3] or occasionally men yoroi[4]), is the term for various types of facial armour worn by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. Types of Japanese facial armour include the somen, menpō, hanpo and happuri. Description[edit] Mempo were facial armours which covered all or part of the face and provided a way to secure the top-heavy kabuto (helmet). The Shinobi-no-o (chin cord) of the kabuto would be tied under the chin of the mempo.[5] There were small hooks called ori-kugi or posts called odome located on various places to help secure the kabuto's chin cord.
Mempo are similar to masks worn by armored cavalry and infantry in ancient Chinese armies from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. Types of mempo[edit] Somen[edit] Somen covered the entire face Menpō[edit] Menpō covered the face from the nose down to the chin. Hanbō (hanpō)[edit] Happuri[edit] Parts of the mengu[edit] How Long Can Humans Hold Their Breath?
Did...did I miss something here? Was "go away" supposed to be slotted into the "eat a big, fat [NOUN]"/"no, you stick a [NOUN] in your [NOUN] and kick a [NOUN]" comment thread above? Or maybe Brent's comment interrupted Kyle just as he was in the painful & dangerous process of shifting into his werewolf form, like MJ in the Thriller video? That would make sense, especially if Brent was wearing a poodle skirt. Um...I think. Anyways, great article. One of my wife's boyfriends back in HS died while practicing holding his breath, alone, in his swimming pool. (Brent and I worked together at Gizmodo for years.) Aw, geez...You're the Brent Rose who sacrificed a piece of his tooth in order to rescue a guy on the wrong end of a 3-on-1 beating. (Apologies if it's nothing like that at all; it's just that I suffer from Compulsive Cryptic Comment Pareidolia, or C.C.C.P., and—-OH MY GOD, THE SOVIETS!)
Mammalian diving reflex. Effect[edit] Upon initiation of the reflex, three changes happen to a body, in this order: Bradycardia is the first response to submersion. Immediately upon facial contact with cold water, the human heart rate slows down ten to twenty-five percent.[2] Seals experience changes that are even more dramatic, going from about 125 beats per minute to as low as 10 on an extended dive.[1][3] Slowing the heart rate lessens the need for bloodstream oxygen, leaving more to be used by other organs.Next, peripheral vasoconstriction sets in. When under high pressure induced by deep diving, capillaries in the extremities start closing off, stopping blood circulation to those areas.
Thus, both a conscious and an unconscious person can survive longer without oxygen under cold water than in a comparable situation on dry land. In humans, the mammalian diving reflex is not induced when limbs are introduced to cold water. Examples in fiction[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Why Wake Up 5 Minutes Before Alarm? Because your body’s internal clock is just as good, if not better, than the contraption shrieking atop your nightstand. At the center of your brain, a clump of nerves—called the suprachiasmatic nucleus—oversees your body’s clock: the circadian rhythm. It determines when you feel sleepy and when you feel bright-eyed.
It controls your blood pressure, your body temperature, and your sense of time. It turns your body into a finely tuned machine. That machine happens to love predictability. Your body is most efficient when there’s a routine to follow. Beat the clock! Your sleep-wake cycle is regulated by a protein called PER. If you follow a diligent sleep routine—waking up the same time every day—your body learns to increase your PER levels in time for your alarm. And that’s why you wake up before your alarm. You snooze, you lose There’s evidence you can will yourself to wake on time, too.
But the researchers lied—they woke the volunteers at 6 a.m anyway. Enter the snooze button. The 13 Biggest Assholes in Greek Mythology. One of the reasons why I like the book of Job is because it takes on the question of why bad things happen to good people and it frames it in an allegorical tale of the devil making bets with God about how Job will react to catastrophe and God gives him the thumb's up. The rest of the book is all about the titular character and his friends giving their opinions on the question of why he is suffering, with his friends taking the rather dickish position that it's his own fault.
The beauty of the book, I think is that it never answers the question. The author struggles with it for a while, and ultimately he comes up with God is sovereign and incomprehensible so we just have to deal with the seemingly chaotic nature of life. Sorry for being nitpicky, but it's not so much the devil making bets with God. It's more like the devil doing the job God ordered him to do. Not to be confused with pissing God off, because that's just asking for some kind of Death Angel to kill you and everyone you love. 8 Things Marvel Got Wrong About Thor and Norse Mythology. Why People Live in Hiroshima But Not Chernobyl? Olivia asks: Why is it that Chernobyl is still toxic, but there are millions of people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki without dying?
On August 6 and 9, 1945, U.S. airmen dropped the nuclear bombs Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On April 26, 1986, the number four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine exploded. Today, over 1.6 million people live and seem to be thriving in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a 30 square kilometer area surrounding the plant, remains relatively uninhabited. Here’s why. Fat Man and Little Boy Dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, Little Boy was a uranium- fueled bomb about 10 feet long and just over two feet across, that held 140 pounds of uranium and weighed nearly 10,000 pounds.
When he exploded as planned nearly 2000 feet above Hiroshima, about two pounds of uranium underwent nuclear fission as it released nearly 16 kilotons of explosive force. Chernobyl. Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Tsutomu Yamaguchi died from stomach cancer. The cancer part perhaps isn’t surprising given that Yamaguchi is currently the only person officially recognized by the Japanese government as having lived through the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Note: There were actually well over a 100 or so others as well, perhaps as many as 165; they just have never been officially recognized by the Japanese government to date.)
What is surprising, given that history, is that Yamaguchi avoided the disease for so long, not dying until January 4, 2010, at the age of 93. At the age of 29, Yamaguchi was on his way back home from a three month long business trip to Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He picked up his pass and was on his way back to the station when, at 8:15 a.m., he saw a bomber flying over the city and “two small parachutes”, then a rush of blinding light, sound, wind, and heat knocked him to the ground. Of course, Yamaguchi had to explain his burns to his coworkers. Bonus Fact: Why Nuclear Bombs Create Mushroom Clouds. Why Sleep Deprivation Can Destroy You. An early part of the U.S. Navy SEAL training pipeline is the BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL) school. One well known part of that school is "Hell Week" where trainees only get about four hours of sleep from Monday morning until late Friday.
I have talked with several people who completed that training and they had interesting stories. One guy was in a rubber raft with his boat crew rowing in a bay in the middle of the night. This was near the end of the week. He was having vivid hallucinations, yelling at his crew to dodge the telephone poles that were shooting out of the water in front of them.
Another story: All these guys are cold and wet 24/7. SExpand. Shrinking Brains. Tetanus. Make Everyone Root Amoral Protagonist. 11 Bloody Facts About Vampire Bats. 5 Creepy, Scary, Awesome Things You Never Knew About Blood. The Shelf Life of Donor Blood-42 days. Haemolacria: People Cry Blood. Why Trick-or-Treating on Halloween? The IG Nobel Prizes. 15 Odd Historical Fads. Utopian Worlds -Oneida Colony. Il Movimento Raeliano. Six-day bike races. “Gay” Bomb. Do microwave ovens kill nutrients. Electromagnetic fields & public health. Radiation, microwaves and cancer. Amnistia e indulto -differenza. Blimp vs. Zeppelin: What's the Difference? How Blimps Work" How is helium made. Zeppelin. The Hindenburg Disaster. LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. Graf Zeppelin’s Round-the-World flight: August, 1929. Vista "two-kitten experiment"
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