■ A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation - 10 days compared to a few weeks.
■ A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
■ After hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
■ An average person uses the bathroom six times per day.
■ Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
If you’re a teen growing up in America, you’ve been profoundly influenced by television. We tend to have such an unyielding fixation with television that the media are able to easily influence our opinions and actions. No matter how much we may want to think that TV doesn’t have an impact on our behavior, the truth is that we are teens with real-life situations that can’t be ignored by simply flipping to another channel.
By Keith Burke
The Taser gun was originally designed in order to allow police officers to subdue a violent individual without actually killing them. They are particularly good as they allow a police office to arrest or take down a suspect without having to worry if a stray bullet may injure or kill an innocent civilian. In fact many police officers will attest to the fact that a taser gun such as the ones that the Taser C2 has been developed from and which will be available for civilian use is a safer way of dealing with a violent criminal or suspect.
You may have wondered why the use of cellular telephones is not permitted in the cabin of the plane. There are very good reasons for this.
Modern aircraft depend greatly on radio waves to carry out many functions, including communication with the control tower, navigation, and even control of the atmosphere within the cabin. Radio wave interference from cell phones seriously disrupts these functions.
How bad is this disruption? Between March 1996 and February 2002, the British Civil Aviation Authority recorded no less than 35 air safety incidents related to the use of cell phones. NASA has analyzed 118 cases related to the use of personal electronic devices in aircraft. The NASA
report, released in June 2001, concluded that 25 of these cases were strongly correlated with the use of cell phones, and 16 of these were critical cases.
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By Steven Gillman
Can you tell if someone is lying? No, say some scientists - at least not consistently. This is what their research shows, but the research done in this area is often flawed in several important aspects. Let’s take a look at a couple of those flaws.
Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - A mild earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted the western coast of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province on Thursday morning.
“The tremor that occurred at around 9 a.m. was strongly felt by people living in Meulaboh and Sinabang. But it caused no panick to the people,” Head of the Mata Ie Geophysics Station Syahnan said.
The quake`s epicentre was located at 4.64 degrees northern latitude and 96.13 degrees eastern longitude and some 65 kilometers beneath the sea level, he added.
The quake was felt by people in the two regions for 30 seconds. But according to the seismograph, it lasted for seven minutes, he said.
Thursday`s quake was the strongest to hit the province in the past two months, he said.
He said four quakes measuring between 4.1 - 5.7 on the Richter scale rattled Aceh in January and five quakes with a magnitude of between 3.7 - 5.7 occurred in February.
Aceh was hit hardest by a powerful earthquake followed by a gigantic tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing more than 170,000 people.
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