Good morning fellow NERDS. It’s been raining here so I’ve been reading through this wonderful page full of fabulous factoids. I decided that I couldn’t possibly keep them to my self any longer, as they’re too interesting not to share. So here they are – enjoy your Sunday reading!
Category Archives: Random Factoids & Stuff
Death by Balloon
Balloons – not so cute once they’ve landed.
I feel very strongly about this matter, so I decided to put a post up about it. When you buy balloons and let go of them, they float off into the sky and look ever so pretty. But eventually they will pop or deflate and land somewhere out of your sight. Then it’s very possible that an animal or bird will come along and try to eat it, or get tangled up in it. And your lovely little momentary thrill will torture this animal or bird to death.
Please use your awareness a little more and refuse to buy balloons. And pass this around, because it’s something people just don’t think about. And it’s time more people did. Thank you, on behalf of the animals of the world.
Read more about balloons and sky lanterns (formerly known as Chinese lanterns) here
Slugs and Dragonflies and Nits – Oh My!
C’mon now, is this not a thing of beauty?
If you want to know more about the critters above and more with a bit of humour thrown in, these videos by The Bug Chicks. I especially like the dragonfly one.
Bugs are cool! Yep, even slugs. Nature’s insect designs are mind-bogglingly clever. And even though I don’t particularly want them around my home, I admit to having a particular respect for the design of cockroaches. Nature’s tanks!
I am, however, quite grateful that bugs aren’t an awful lot bigger than they are. Can you imagine having to run and hide from the 10 foot-long fly coming towards you? Or having to carry a baseball bat to swat mosquitos off at a barbeque?
Have a wander around their site while you’re there. There’s all sorts of interesting stuff on it. Enjoy!!
The Bug Chicks
Nature’s tanks. Respect!!
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein
This is very cool. Some Nobel Prize-Winning scientists were given paper and crayons and asked to draw their discoveries. Then they did a photo shoot.
Read about it here
Not a scientist.
Nature’s Tattooes and Captured Lightning in Acrylic
I was reading about the Fractal Patterns of Lightning Strike Scars here, then I saw the captured lightning stuff. These guys get to play with some really cool toys!!
“This 3″ x 3″ x 2″ three dimensional Lichtenberg Figure was created by ebeam irradiation along multiple planes. The internal potential within the specimen prior to discharging it was estimated to be 2.2 million volts. The specimen is illuminated from below by blue LEDs.”
Lightning captured in acrylic.
See more about this at capturedlightning.com
Enjoy!!
Kiwi Humour in Advertising.
Here’s a bit Kiwi humour advertising ice cream. We all used the wording as often as we could for a while there. Oh, random fact. The Trumpet ads were how Rachel Hunter initially got famous.
Here’s the ad.
Another Cool Example of Physics… Bead Chain in Motion
Here’s another example of cool stuff in physics, using a bead chain and a beaker…
Check it out here
Energy Transfer – A Very Cool Pastime Indeed…
I was just wandering through the blog of another WordPress writer/photographer Wind Against Current, and he shared this on there. I liked it so much I had to pass it on. Thanks Vladimir. 🙂
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