Earth Is Not Round

The Earth Is Not Round

From the time that we are in grade school, we are taught that our planet is round. However, this is not exactly true. Planet Earth is not, in fact, perfectly round. Rather, mass is distributed unevenly within the planet. This makes Earth look bit like a bumpy, deflated ball.

Mountains and valleys dot the surface of the planet due to plate tectonics. Occasionally, meteors crater the surface with gaping holes. The changing weight of the oceans and atmosphere cause deformations in the crust. And the gravitational pull of the moon and sun cause earth tides.

We haven't Explored 95% of the ocean

The ocean is an amazing place. It helps drive Earth's weather, is home to a vast assortment of species, and it covers over 70% of the planet. However, despite its central positioning on Earth-for all of our reliance on the ocean-95 percent of this realm remains unexplored, unseen by human eyes. In face, the number of experts

deployed to study the ocean is not even 2% of the people deployed on land. Scientists estimate that we have explored about 5 to 7 percent of the ocean floor and about a half a percent of the ocean itself.

The Largest Planet Has The Fastest Rotation

Jupiter has the most mass of any planet in the Solar System. In fact, Jupiter's mass 318 times the mass of the Earth. It is also two and a half times the mass of All the planets in the Entire Solar System. And this planet is big. Over 1,300 Earth's could fit inside Jupiter. Since it is so massive and huge, you might expect it to be a bit slow-but you'd be wrong. Jupiter has the fastest rotation of all the planets in the Solar System, completing one rotation on its axis every 9.9 hours (at 24 hours, Earth takes more than twice as long).

Neptune's winds Reach 2,100 kmh

It takes Neptune 165 years to complete a single orbit. Since its discobery in 1846, Neptune has only completed one full orbit around the sun, a feat it accomplished in 2011. Of the eight planets, Neptune is the only one you cannot observe with the naked eye. And its storms are out of this world (literally). The winds on Neptune reach at least 2,100 km per hour (1,300 mph ) and are capable destroying any structure on earth. The strongest hurricanes on our planet have winds of about 250 km/h (155mph), meaning that Neptune's winds could whip all our creations from the surface of the Earth.

Gliese 436 b is coated in Hot Ice

The Neptune-sized planet orbits a red-dwarf star, Gliese 436, and completes one full orbit in just 2 days and 15.5 hours. This short orbital period indicates that the planet in question is located very close to Gliese 436, perhaps orbiting its star from a distance that is roughly 13 times closer than Mercury (the innermost planet of our solar system ) is from the Sun. Amazingly, astronomers believe the planet may host a large concentration of an exotic from of hot water-ice (now dubbed "Ice-x"). The water substance can remain solid despite the blisteringly hot temperatures exceeding 400C / 700F.

FIRST SCIENTISTS IN THE WORLD

Siddhas discovered Alchemy, which was the best ever scientific and chemical research. Metals, salts, arsenic,roots,leaves, seeds,bark of the trees, flowers, coral and other marine products, and the things which lay in the bodies of animals such as musk-deer , civet, urine and dung were identified by the siddhas.

They had even established the healing capacities of those materials. They found the combinations of materials for a specific medicine and also indexed the medicines for respective diseases. They categorized the intake of medicines in various forms such as inhaling, drinking, coating and so on.

Those days there was no scientific laboratory. It was quite surprise that siddhas who had lived in forests, mountains and caves had done many researches and found medicine qualities of each material. Siddhas also did research on astronomy, astrology, medicine and concluded their results.

Though siddhas lived thousand of years ago, their practical solutions applicable event to the current era. They had dedicated their researches to the welfare of the Humankind. Hence we could call siddhas as the world's first scientists and foregoer of science.

ART FROM WASTE FOR KIDS

Stamps Boxes Or Jars

Need

Small wooden or cardboard box with lid OR a baby food (or other small) jar

Canceled postage stamps (make sure no on is saving them!)

Glue ( or Modge Podge )

Paint brushes (older ones for spreading glue)

Liquid Tempera or acrylic paint (optional)

Paint brushes for paint 

Clear water-based sealer OR a mixture of 80 % glue 20% water

How To Do 

Glue a few handful of canceled stamps all over the jar or box (don't forget the lid)

Apply the glue with an old paintbrush, making sure to brush a layer on top of the 

stamps to prevent them from peeling away.

If you wish - paint the remaining area of the box or jar with whichever colors of 

paint you choose.

Finally, when your work is dry, add a light coating of water-based sealer or hair 

spray to protect your work.

Bottle bank

Need

Empty bottle

Scissors

Double-sided tape

Hot-glue gun

Pipe cleaner

How to do

Rinse an empty bottle with hot soapy water; let dry. Cut features such as eyes, 

ears, and nostrils from construction paper (ears should have tabs).

Attach with  double-sided tape, as shown. Tape patterned paper around body. 

Hot- glue empty thread spools on for legs. Cut a slot at the top for coins, and a 

hole in back to insert a pipe-cleaner tail.

Amazing Facts About Your Babies

With a new one born every few seconds, babies keep the world going round. However, they have more to teach us than originally thought.

On birth, babies do not have kneecaps. Rather they have a structure of cartilage that resembles kneecaps. They usually don't develop them fully until after six months. Most seen on babies who "army crawl" instead of doing it on all fours.

One would think that January sees the heaviest babies given all the holiday eating but this is untrue.May is actually the month that sees the heaviest babies born. Usually about an average of 200 grams heavier than any other month.

They can scream and holler for what they want or need, but newborn can't technically cry. Tears can't actually be created or released until about three weeks in some cases, it isn't unusual for babies to shed their first tears until four or five months.

When babies are born, they have 300 bones. Adults have 206. Bones fuse together during growth to come up with the new number.

If your newborn has a birthmark or other abnormality, this is actually normal. Around 80 % of all babies are born with some form. The most common includes stork bites and port wine stains.

While adults and babies can do both, only at a certain age can you do both at the same time. At around six months is when babies can both take a breath and a bite at the very same time.

At six months in, babies have usually doubled their birth weight. A near impossibility at any other age.

Pound for pound, your baby is stronger than many animals. An oxen is the best example of compatible strength. Their strongest muscles?  The legs.

While Caucasian babies are born with blue eyes, around now they will change color. If both parents have blue eyes, the baby definitely will. If not, now is the time that they change,if they will.

Although they can't speak, babies can still communicate physically.  Waving bye-bye, clapping, pointing, and others are ways that they communicate. Studies show that the more physically they communicate, the better they will verbally communicate.

With a population that is ten percent left-handed, now is about the time you will begin noticing your child's preference. However, if your baby is a twin, they are 22 % likely to be left handed.

At the end of the first year, your baby's weight will have tripled. That means if they were born at ten pounds, at their first year they will weight around 30, give or take.

Stem Cell Therapies Bringing New Hope To Patients And Their Families

What are stem cell

Stem cells are a class of undifferentiated cells that are able to differentiate into specialized cell types.

Commonly, stem cells come from two main sources

Embryos formed during the blastocyst phase of embryological development (embryonic stem cells) and

Adult tissue(adult stem cells).

Both types are generally characterized by their potency, or potential to differentiate into different cell types(such as skin, muscle, bone, etc.).

Benefits Of Stem Cells

It provides medical benefits in the fields of therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine.

It provides great potential for discovering treatments and cures to a plethora of diseases including.

Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, spinal cord injuries, and diabetes.

Limbs and organs could be grown in a lab from stem cells and then used in transplants or to help treat illness.

It will help scientists to learn about human growth and cell development.

Scientists and doctors will be able to test millions of potential drug and medicine, without the use of animals or human testers. This necessitates a process of simulating the effect the drug has on a specific population of cells. This would tell if drug is useful, or has any problems.

Stem cells research also benefits the study of development stages that cannot be studied directly in a human embryo, which sometimes are linked with major clinical consequences such as birth defects, pregnancy - loss, and infertility.

A more comprehensive understanding of normal development will ultimately allow the prevention or treatment of abnormal human development.

It holds the key to reversing the effects of aging and prolonging our lives. It has already found many treatments that help in slowing the aging process, and a bonus of further research is a possible "cure" for aging , altogether.

An advantage of the usage of adult stem cells to treat disease is that a patient's own cells could be used to treat a patient, Risks would be quite reduced because patients' bodies would not reject their own cells.

Embryonic stem cells can develop into any cell types of the body, and may then be more versatile than adult stem cells.

Why Parents Save Their Baby's Stem Cells

Every person's stem cells are unique. A child is always a perfect match to his or her stem cells and may be a match for a sibling or other family member.

Requirements for treatments vary. In some cases, a child may use their own stem cells. In others, a matched sibling's stem cells would be the first choice. 

Ultimate use of newborn stem cells will be determined by the treating physician who consider if they are applicable for the condition. To be best prepared for the unexpected, save cord blood for every child.

Cord blood stem cells have advantages over bone marrow in transplants and have been used in more than 30,000 transplants to regenerate healthy blood and immune systems. 

Nowadays, an estimated 90% to 95% of cord blood is discarded after birth. Cryo-Save is convinced that cord blood storage is essential and cord tissue should be saved, either with a family private cord blood bank or made available for public use or research. We firmly believe that these important cells should be discarded.

Barbie Doll

Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler(co-founder of Mattel). Barbie was introduced to the world at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Barbies's job was teenage fashion doll.

Barbie's real name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. The first Barbie doll was available as either a blonde or a brunette. In 1959, the first Barbie doll sold for $3.00 (that would be the equivalent of $23.97 today).

 The first Barbie dolls were manufactured in japan and their clothes were hand - stitched by Japanese workers. Barbie is not from Malibu, she is actually from (fictional) Willows, Wisconsin. Barbie was originally a 17- year- old "Teen Age Fashion Model." Over the years, Barbie had seven siblings. 

Barbie has close to 150 inspirational careers ; they have included being an elementary school teacher, a business executive, a McDonald's cashier , a doctor , an astronaut , and yes, even a rapper.

The military series of Barbie, Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps went through approvals by the pentagon to ensure the most realistic costumes. 

Ken is two years and two days younger than Barbie ( he was introduced in 1961). Also, his full name is Ken Carson. Ken has never put a ring on it ( he and Barbie have never officially been married). The very first Barbie car was a 1962 Austin Healy roadster. 

Barbie's first pet was a horse named Dancer. Since then, she had more than 50 other pets, including 21 dogs , 6 cats, a chimpanzee, a panda, a parrot, a lion cub, a giraffe, and a zebra. Brown is the color most frequently used for Barbie's eye shadow. In 1985, Andy Warhol created a silkscreen painting of Barbie. Totally Hair Barbie (1992) is the best-selling Barbie doll ever. 

In 2004, after breaking up with Blaine, an Australian surfer . Barbie has never been pregnant (only her best friend Midge has).Barbie has collaborated with more than 75 different fashion designers and has served as creative inspiration to more than 150 famous designers. Every second, two Barbie are sold somewhere in the wold. Barbie is currently marketed in more than 152 nations around the world.

Secret Of Concentration

Concentration is the essential for our knowledge, nothing can be done without it. Above ninety percent of thought force is wasted by the ordinary human being and therefore he is constantly committing blunders, the trained man or mind never makes a mistake.

• Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves,every part of your body, be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Other are mere talking machines.
• This is the difference between man and the animals - man has the greater power of concentration. The difference in their power of concentration also constitutes the difference between man and man. Compare the lowest with the highest man. The difference is in the degree of Concentration.
• Simply by the observance of strict Bramacharya all learning can be mastered in a very short time- one has an unfailing memory of what on hears or knows but once. It is owing to this want of continence that everything is on the brink of ruin in our country.
• The very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.We should develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument we can collect facts at will.
• The knowledge in the world is gained by concentration of the power of mind. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated he is, the more power is brought to bear on one point,that is the secret.