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Alligators

Alligators cannot move backwards.

Bats left

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Blood presure

The human heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

Cats vs dogs

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Men and women

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Rats and horses

Rats and horses can’t vomit.

 

Speech takes muscle

It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

Mosquito repellents

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

Blue eyed primates

Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.

Body bones

Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

Coconuts vs sharks

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

Giraffe vs horse and camel

A giraffe can run faster then a horse, and can live without water longer than a camel.

Lenin’s brain

The great Russian leader, Lenin died 21 January 1924, suffering from a degenerative brain disorder. At the time of his death his brain was a quarter of its normal size.

Potato chips fraud

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

Raindrop speed

The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

The real Mona Lisa

It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

Vulnerability scanners

A vulnerability scanner is computer program designed to search for and map systems for weaknesses in an application, computer or networking device. Step 1, typically the scanner will first look for active IP addresses, open ports, OSes and any applications running. Step 2, It may at this point create a report or move to the next step. Step 3, try to determine the patch level of the OS or applications. In this process the scanner can cause an exploit of the vulnerability such as crash the OS or application. Step 4, the final phase the scanner may attempt to exploit the vulnerability. Scanners may either be malicious or friendly. Friendly scanners usually stop at step 2 and occasionally step 3 but never go to step 4.

Big boy

A barnacle is a crustaceos that has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

Piracy in China

Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.

Not called a genius for nothing

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other. He also invented scissors.

Shit, my birthday is tomorrow

In Thailand, it is customary to give, not receive, presents on your birthday.

Fast fly

A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.

Giraffe sleeping

A giraffe usually sleeps for only 1 – 12 minutes!

Inventers

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women

Crime does pay

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States’ national income.

 

Brain enhancing

Nootropics, also referred to as smart drugs, memory enhancers, and cognitive enhancers, are drugs, nutraceuticals, brain food and functional foods that are purported to improve human cognitive abilities. The term covers a broad range of substances including drugs, nutrients and herbs with claimed cognitive enhancing effects.

The word nootropic was coined in 1964 by Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea, derived from the Greek words noos, or “mind,” and tropein meaning “to bend/turn”. Typically, nootropics are thought to work by altering the availability of the brain’s supply of neurochemicals (neurotransmitters, enzymes, and hormones), by improving the brain’s oxygen supply, or by stimulating nerve growth. However the efficacy of nootropic substances in most cases has not been conclusively determined. This is complicated by the difficulty of defining and quantifying cognition and intelligence.

Currently there are several drugs on the market that improve memory, concentration, planning, and reduce impulsive behavior. Many more are in different stages of development. The most commonly used class of drug are the stimulants.

These drugs are used primarily to treat people with cognitive difficulties: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ADHD. However, more widespread use is being recommended by some researchers. These drugs have a variety of human enhancement applications as well and are marketed heavily on the internet. Nevertheless, intense marketing may not correlate with efficacy; while scientific studies support some of the claimed benefits, it is worth noting that many of the claims attributed to most nootropics have not been formally tested.

In academia, modafinil has been used to increase productivity, although its long-term effects have not been assessed in healthy individuals. Stimulants such as methylphenidate and atomoxetine are being used on college campuses, and by an increasingly younger group. One survey found that 7% of students had used stimulants for a cognitive edge in the past year, and on some campuses the number is as high as 25%.

 

The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs.

Brain-Enhancing Drugs: Legalize ‘Em, Scientists Say

Scientists Use Brain-Boosting Drugs

 

 

 

Here are some of the drugs and the regimens reported by users

Description: Anonymous, married neuroscience graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania
Regimen: Provigil two to three times a month
Results: We both find that we get not only more work done on our “Provigil days” than any other entire week put together, but that work is actually *better quality* than the non-enhanced work. We generally have to write off the day after Provigil day as a lost cause. It’s very draining.

Description: Anonymous, analyst, former liberal arts college student
Regimen: Various dosages of Ritalin, Concerta or Adderall throughout college (without a formal prescription) to “get the best out of myself” … average of about five pills a week.
Results:”It actually worked … made dean’s list. My GPA went from mid 2s to 3.5 in about a two-to-three-year span. The boost from meds is undeniable. Adderall worked the best but made me the most twitchy. Ritalin was a ‘lil more mellow so was probably my fav. I have not taken any in six to eight months because of the anxiety and other side effects it caused. I think it was a very dangerous path I found myself on, that I do not want others to undertake. Fortunately I had the foresight to get my act together and find another way.”

Description: MR, cook
Regimen: I preload 2,000 mg of ibuprofen or acetaminophen before work. Super-busy days: 160 mg Adderall; normal days: 80 mg
Results: “When you have to juggle in upwards of 20 or 30 slips of orders at once, you take every bit of help you can get. The Ritalin or Adderall help focus and manage them better without getting too frazzled.”

Description: Anonymous, computer science major, Central Michigan University
Regimen: Two pills Propranolol occasionally
Results: Within 10 minutes of taking two of the tiny pills, I began to feel different.  I can’t say I was calmer per se, but it seemed to reduce the number of concurrent thoughts. It also annihilated any sense of competition. The effects of Propranolol only last about an hour. After it wears off, I am always very tired. I do still maintain a prescription of Propranolol, because it does wonders when public-speaking, writing papers or general musing.

Description: Anonymous, college student in Florida
Regimen: Adderall Extended Release 30 mg, five to six times
Results: I was super focused and driven to do anything constructive for about 10 hours. It definitely improved my SAT score…. It improved my attention to detail.

Description: Anonymous, lawyer
Regimen: Provigil, daily for several months
Results: “The effect at first was stupendous. Most of all, the effect was to help me concentrate. Every single moment of every working hour, I was concentrating on whatever I was doing. Daydreaming, extraneous thoughts and all distractions were banished. Productivity soared. The drug had no effect on my ability to sleep, so long as I took it before 11 a.m. But after a month or two, this effect became attenuated, so I stopped taking it.

Description: JW, journalist
Regimen: Began at 20 mg once a day
Results: I developed a dependence and it got out of hand — sometimes 60 to 80 mg in a day, which would leave me wiped out and agitated.

Description: Capt. Nemo, owner of an ISP and programming shop
Regimen: One-half a Provigil tablet, three gingko capsules and a triple espresso
Results: I used to fall asleep at the service bench around 2 p.m. Now, I pretty much click along all day and still have enough reserve energy to service mama at night.

Description: Anonymous, University of Washington student
Regimen: A battery of nooropics and similar drugs (DMAE, Vinpocetine, Pramiracetam, etc.) since last September or so.
Results: I swear by them. No negative side effects, and my brain functions 150 percent more effectively. More regular use gives improved enhancement.

Description: Anonymous, British entrepreneur
Regimen: Modafinil, two tablets around 9 p.m., around three times a month when I have a large block of work to push through
Results: It’s enabled me to stay awake for 30 hours at a stretch, and improves my concentration and short-term memory significantly. Having taken it I don’t feel tired, and I can think more clearly. Solutions are more obvious and I can concentrate a lot more on specific tasks, more easily ignoring distractions.

Description: Anonymous, postdoc
Regimen: Ritalin, Adderall, less common drugs, such as Piracetam and Selegiline; also Alzheimer’s meds, such as Namenda andAricept.
Results: Wrote my high-intensity Ph.D. while on Adderall, wrote a 600-page monograph while on Namenda. I would recommend cognitive enhancement to everyone; however, meds will need to be prescribed and, more importantly, fine-tuned, and 99.99 percent of medical doctors will have no clue and no intention to help.

Description: Anonymous, liberal arts college student
Regimen: Ritalin and Adderall
Results: In my senior year of college, I wrote a 35-page political science thesis in less than 12 hours. Started at midnight, ended at 10:30 a.m. I received an A on the paper. I have felt more creative, more focused and more energetic as a result of taking these drugs.

Description: Anonymous, project manager at a CAD design firm for military contractors
Regimen: Ritalin, two to four 10-mg pills during the work week.
Results: I strategically take the first dose in the morning when I have the most work to do and projects to get organized. Every dose thereafter has less of an effect. I can only explain the drug as feeling physically much like coffee, however you mentally become entrenched in what you are doing. Mundane tasks and ideas turn into your new favorite subjects. They literally make productivity enjoyable. Even too enjoyable … I can accomplish more in one hour taking 20 mg, then I could normally accomplish in a full workday.

Description: Anonymous, student at a Northeastern IT college
Regimen: 15 mg, Focalin extended release. Break open the pills and inside, there are little beads. You can just chew them up. They taste surprisingly like candy.
Results: There was a clear difference in school. I should have just done this years ago. The pills aren’t as helpful for the daily stuff as they are in doing big projects or meaningful work. The kind of thing where you’d like to sit down and really accomplish something — that’s where it shines. I’ll stay on them for life, but eventually I’ll switch to Adderall.

Description: Anonymous
Regimen: Used Modafinil 200 mg for about a year now. Four days on, two days off.
Results: Its good stuff. There is quite a synergistic effect with caffeine I have found. Caffeine seems to ‘”start it up” again when you think it’s stopped working.

Caesar superstar

Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

Einstein retarded?

Einstein couldn’t speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

Cuttle fish blood

The colour of cuttle fish blood is blue and it has 3 hearts.

Domestication

In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

Libya’s flag

Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag, it’s green.

Hot Lightning

The heat a lightning bolt produces is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

Invention of the microwave owen

The microwave owen was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Pearls vs Vinegar

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Keyloggers

Keystroke logging also called keylogging is basicaly a method of capturing and recording keystrokes. The name and technique came from before the era of the graphical user interface, keyloggers nowadays could capture also mouse operations and take screenshots. Keylogging can be useful to determine sources of errors in computer systems, to study how users interact and access with systems, and is even used to measure employee productivity on certain clerical tasks. Such systems are also highly useful for both law enforcement and law-breaking—for instance, providing a means to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypassing other security measures. Invisible keyloggers are widely available on the Internet and often used to spy on other people.

 

Types of keystroke recorders:

1. Local computer software Keyloggers are programs that are designed to work on the target computer’s operating system. From a technical point of view there are four categories:
- Hypervisor-based: The keylogger resides in a malware hypervisor running underneath the operating system, which remains invisible, except that it effectively becomes a virtual machine.
- Kernel based: difficult both to write and combat. Such keyloggers reside at the kernel level and are thus difficult to detect, especially for user-mode applications. They are frequently implemented as rootkits that subvert the operating system kernel and gain unauthorized access to the hardware which makes them very powerful. A keylogger using this method can act as a keyboard driver for example, and thus gain access to any information typed on the keyboard as it goes to the operating system.
- Hook based: Such keyloggers hook the keyboard with functions provided by the operating system. The operating system warns them any time a key is pressed and it records it.
- Passive Methods: Here the coder uses operating system APIs like GetAsyncKeyState(), GetForegroundWindow(), etc. to poll the state of the keyboard or to subscribe to keyboard events. These are the easiest to write, but where constant polling of each key is required, they can cause a noticeable increase in CPU usage and can miss the occasional key. A more recent example simply polls the BIOS for preboot authentication PINs that have not been cleared from memory.
- Form Grabber based logs web form submissions by recording the web browsing .onsubmit event functions. This records form data before it is passed over the internet and bypasses https encryption.

2. Remote Access software Keyloggers are local software keyloggers programmed with an added feature to transmit recorded data out of the target computer and make the data available to the monitor at a remote location. Remote communication is facilitated by one of four methods:
- Data is uploaded to a website or an ftp account.
- Data is periodically emailed to a pre-defined email address.
- Data is wirelessly transmitted by means of an attached hardware system.
- It allows the monitor to log into the local machine via the internet or ethernet and access the logs stored on the target machine.

3. Hardware Keyloggers are used for keystroke recording by means of a hardware circuit that is attached somewhere in between the computer keyboard and the computer. It logs all keyboard activity to its internal memory, which can subsequently be accessed, for example, by typing in a secret key. A hardware keylogger has an advantage over a software solution; because it is not dependent on the computer’s operating system, it will not interfere with any program running on the target machine and hence cannot be detected by any software, however its physical presence may be detected.

4. Remote Access Hardware Keyloggers, otherwise known as Wireless Hardware Keyloggers, work in much the same way as regular hardware keyloggers, except they have the ability to be controlled and monitored remotely by means of a wireless communication standard.

5. Wireless Keylogger sniffers collect packets of data being transferred from a wireless keyboard and its receiver and then attempts to crack the encryption key being used to secure wireless communications between the two devices.

6. Acoustic Keyloggers work by analyzing a recording of the sound created by someone typing on a computer. Each character on the keyboard makes a subtly different acoustic signature when stroked. Using statistical methods, it is then possible to identify which keystroke signature relates to which keyboard character. This is done by analyzing the repetition frequency of similar acoustic keystroke signatures, the timings between different keyboard strokes and other context information such as the probable language in which the user is writing. A fairly long recording (1000 or more keystrokes) is required so that the statistics are meaningful.

7. Electromagnetic Radiation loggers work by passively capturing electromagnetic emissions of a keyboard, without being physically wired to it. Some researchers demonstrated detecting keys from the ground cable of computers because of radiation leaks of the PS/2 keyboard cables.

You can protect against a software key logger by using antivirus software or special anti-key logging software. And against hardware ones by checking your computer for unknown devices plugged into it or wire extenders on keyboard wires. Extremely paranoid persons should check inside their keyboards and inside their computers also because you never know where the spy could have hidden it

Atomic fart

If a man farted non-stop for six years and nine months and then lit it he would produce an explosion equal to the power of the first atomic bomb.

Muscles

A caterpillar has 2000 muscles, as compared to man who has only 656 muscles.

Cockroach’s vs glue

Cockroaches’ favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps.

Toast and War

French toast was known as German toast until World War One.

Giraffe’s baby

When a giraffe’s baby is born it falls from a height of 2 meters, normally without being hurt.

Earth quakes and lightning

The Earth experiences 150 earthquakes each day and is hit by lightning 100 times a second.

The internet is for porn

60% of all people using the Internet use it for pornography.

 

Blue whale

A blue whale needs 3 ton of food every day.

PageRank

The basis of Google’s search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an “importance” value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that’s not why it’s called PageRank. It’s actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.

What Is Stress?

Stress the body’s way of responding to some kind of demand. Stress can be caused by both good and bad experiences. When you are stressed by something happening around you, the bodie reacts by releasing chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if the stress is caused by physical danger, but this can also be a bad thing, if the stress is in response to something emotional and there is no need for this extra strength and energy.

What Causes Stress?
Many things can cause stress, from physical stress, such as fear of something dangerous to emotional stress, such as worry over your job or family. Identifying what may be causing the stress is the first step in learning how to better deal it. Some of the most common sources of stress are:

Survival Stress – You may have heard the phrase “fight or flight” before. This is a common response to danger in all animals and people . When you are afraid that someone or something may physically hurt you, your body naturally responds with a burst of energy so that you will be better able to survive the dangerous situation (fight) or escape it all together (flight).

Environmental Stress – This is a response to things around you that cause stress, such as noise, crowding, and pressure from work or family. Identifying these environmental stresses and learning to avoid them or deal with them will help lower your stress level.

Internal Stress – Have you ever worry about things you can do nothing about or worrying for no reason at all? This is internal stress and it is one of the most important kinds of stress to manage and understand. Internal stress is when you make yourself stressed. This often happens when we worry about things we can’t control or put ourselves in situations we know will cause us stress. Some people are addicted to the kind of hurried, tense, lifestyle that results from being under stress. They even look for stressful situations and feel stress about things that aren’t stressful.

Fatigue and Overwork – This kind of stress builds up over a long time and can take a toll on your body. It can be caused by working too hard or too much at your job, school, or home. It can also be caused by not knowing how to manage your time well or how to take time out for rest and relaxation. This can be one of the hardest kinds of stress to avoid because many people feel this is out of their control.

Common Facts About Stress
-One fourth of all the drugs prescribed in the United States go to the treatment of stress.
-In fact, 3 out of 4 people say they experience stress at least twice a month.
-Stress can contribute to heart disease, high blood pressure, and strokes, and make you more likely to catch less serious illnesses like colds. It can also contribute to alcoholism, obesity, drug addiction, cigarette use, depression, and other harmful behaviors.
-Over half of those people say they suffer from ‘high’ levels of stress at least twice a month.
-In the last 20 years, the number of people reporting that stress affects their work has gone up more than four times. (Whereas the number of people reporting that other illnesses affect their work have gone down.)
-There are simple steps you can take to help reduce stress

All eyes on you

The butterfly has 1200 eyes. These are compound eyes consisting of thousands of hexagonal shaped omatidea. Each omatidea, or miniscule sensor, is directed at a slightly different angle from the others. Collectively they are directed in every direction — up, down, forwards, backwards, left and right. Because of this, butterflies are able to see in virtually every direction simultaneously.

Albania maps

Until 1994, world maps and globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.

Busy bees

Bees have to suck about 4 million flowers to produce 1kg of honey.

Bladder size

The bladder of an average person can hold 350 ml to 550 ml of urine. Generally, a person feels like they need to urinate when approximately 200 ml of urine fills up in the bladder.

Donkeys vs planes

Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

Google’s start

Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old).

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

The credit crisis also known as a credit squeeze or a credit crunch is a reduction in the general availability of loans (or credit) or a sudden tightening of the conditions required to obtain a loan from the banks. A credit crunch generally involves a reduction in the availability of credit independent of a rise in official interest rates. In such situations, the relationship between credit availability and interest rates has implicitly changed, such that either credit becomes less available at any given official interest rate, or there ceases to be a clear relationship between interest rates and credit availability (i.e. credit rationing occurs). Many times, a credit crunch is accompanied by a flight to quality by lenders and investors, as they seek less risky investments (often at the expense of small to medium size enterprises)

 

 

Imagination vs.  intelligence

H. L. Mencken
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

Weird Flags

Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland  is the only country with a square flag.

Depression

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects the way you feel about yourself, the way you sleep and eat, and the way you think about things. A depressive disorder is not a passing mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness, and it cannot be willed or wished away.

A depressive disorder involves the body, thoughts and mood. People who are depressed cannot “snap out of it” and get better. Symptoms can last for months or years without treatment. Treatments such as antidepressant medications and psychotherapy can reduce and sometimes eliminate the symptoms of depression.

Types of Depression
Major depression is manifested by a combination of symptoms that interfere with the ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy once pleasurable activities. Some people have a single episode of depression, but many have episodes that recur.

Dysthymia is a less severe type of depression that lasts a long time but involves less severe symptoms. If you suffer from dysthymia you probalby lead a normal life, but you may not be functioning well or feeling good. People with dysthymia may also experience major depressive episodes at some time in their lives.

Bipolar Disorder (also called manic-depression) is another type of depressive disorder. Bipolar disorder is thought to be less common than other depressive disorders. If you have bipolar disorder you are troubled by cycling mood swings – usually severe highs (mania) and lows (depression). The mood swings are sometimes dramatic and rapid, but usually are more gradual. When in the depressed stage, a person can have any or all of the symptoms of a depressive disorder. When in the manic stage, the individual may be overactive, overtalkative, and have a great deal of energy. Mania affects thinking, judgment, and social behavior, sometimes in ways that cause serious problems and embarrassment. A person in a manic phase may feel elated, full of grand schemes that might range from unwise business decisions to romantic sprees. Mania, left untreated, may worsen to a psychotic state, where the person is out of touch with reality.

Symptoms
Persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood
Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
Decreased energy, fatigue, being “slowed down”
Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
Restlessness, irritability
Thoughts of death or suicide; suicide attempts
Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain

Facts
Two-thirds of people suffering from depression do not seek necessary treatment
80% of all people with clinical depression who have received treatment significantly improve their lives
The economic cost of depression is estimated at $30.4 billion a year but the cost in human suffering cannot be estimated
Women experience depression about twice as often as men
By the year 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that depression will be the number two cause of “lost years of healthy life” worldwide
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suicide was the ninth leading cause of death in the United States in 1996
Major Depression is 1.5-3.0 times more common among first-degree biological relatives of those with the disorder than among the general population
 

Playing cards kings

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Cancer free animals

Sharks and sting rays are the only animals known to man that don’t get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don’t have bones, but cartilage.

French kiss

What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.

Google’s name

Google’s name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

Human hair

One human hair can support 3 kgs.

The Guinness Book holds a record of its own

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

 

Human Cloning

After more than a decade since Dolly the sheep was cloned, human cloning remains in its infancy. Although cloning technology has improved, the process still has a slim success rate of 1% to 4%.

If human reproductive cloning proceeds, the primary method scientists will likely use is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which is the same procedure that was used to create Dolly the sheep. Somatic cell nuclear transfer begins when doctors take the egg from a female donor and remove its nucleus, creating an enucleated egg.

A cell, which contains DNA, is taken from the person who is being cloned. Then the enucleated egg is fused together with the cloning subject’s cell using electricity. This creates an embryo, which is implanted into a surrogate mother through in vitro fertilization.

If the procedure is successful, then the surrogate mother will give birth to a baby that’s a clone of the cloning subject at the end of a normal gestation period. As mentioned before, the success rate for this type of procedure is small, working in only one or two out of every 100 embryos. After all, Dolly was the result of 277 previously failed attempts.

Re-engineering the human reproductive process has made many people nervous that cloning crosses the ethical boundaries of science. But we can’t fully evaluate the moral dilemma without first addressing the potential benefits of human cloning.

Spider blood

A spider has transparent blood.

Experts and mistakes

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” Niels Bohr

Gorilla contraception

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Insects vs humans

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.

Life span

Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.

 

Using only 10% of your brain?

It is a myth that humans only use a fraction of their brains. Even though scientists are still trying to unravel the mysteries of the human mind, every part of the brain is known to have a function. From an evolutionary point of view, larger brains would not have developed if there had not been an advantage to do so.

The origins of this myth are unknown, but it might have originated from a researcher named Karl Spencer Lashley who lived about a hundred years ago. He removed parts of the brains of rats and showed that they could still perform certain tests. The problem with these results are that the rats were only tested on tasks that required the parts of the brain that had not been removed. If the rats had been given other tests, they would have certainly failed.

 

Peanuts and dynamite

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Sleepless world record

The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965.

Spy gadgets

Spy gadgets have always seem to feed into our desire to know what’s going on behind the scenes, and for many years they weren’t much more than props in the movies.

Now, however, technology has improved and the curiosity for these gadgets continues to grow, spy gear meant for surveillance and home security has become a reality. Some companies are taking spy gear once associated with top secret government projects and law enforcement and adapting it for the public. People concerned about suspicious activities, break-ins or other citizens spying on them can search online for any number of tracking devices, security cameras, listening devices and countersurveillance equipment.

Listening Devices
In espionage, covert listening is one of a spy’s most important skills. Using the right kind of listening device, you can gather sensitive information. The longer you stay undetected, the more information you’ll be able to collect.
As far as commercially available audio surveillance gadgets go, parabolic microphones are some of the most popular listening devices available to the public. Shaped like satellite dish antennas, these special microphones amplify sound coming from too far away to hear clearly without the aid of a listening device. By pointing the device at a desired location, sounds from as far as 300 meters away can seem like they’re right next to the listener. Simple headphones are typically plugged in, and recorders can be hooked up to the device for documentation. Because of their long range, listeners can remain undetected at a safe distance.

Tracking Devices
GPS units and other common tracking technologies have made it easier to perform surveillance on others.
But the nature of sophisticated tracking technologies, like GPS devices, has also made it easier to use them as surveillance devices to track people’s location — for better or for worse. Law enforcement officials have used GPS and other tracking technologies, including radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and radio frequency (RF) technology to track criminals for several years. By placing a tracking device onto vehicles, police have been able to track and catch suspects after strings of theft, assault or other criminal acts.

Capitalism vs Socialism

“Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth.  Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.”    –  Winston Churchill

Electric chair

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Confident fools

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell

Exploding grapes

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. (I have to try this )

 

Michael Jordan and Nike

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.

Fastest grandpa

At 101, Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.8 seconds setting a new world record for runners 100 years old or older.

 

Rat vs Camel

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Bamboo growth

Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.

Camel eyelids

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

China family names

Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

Coffee takes time

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it’s first consumable fruit.

Da Vinci talents

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Gene editing for curing HIV

Some people have a mutation that makes them highly resistant to HIV, and scientists think that they can give that immunity to anyone with a new type of gene therapy. Researchers will draw blood from people with drug-resistant HIV, clip the CCR5 gene out of their T-cells with a nuclease enzyme, grow the modified cells in a dish, and then return 10 billion of them to the patient’s bloodstream. Those cells will be immune to the virus, and they will keep the patient’s T-cell count up even if the rest are destroyed.

 

Flamingos

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.

Impotence and divorce

Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

Water world

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.

Morbit betting

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

Space dust

One tonne of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.