From Lifehacker …
How To Pull A Van Uphill (with Only A Rope) – video powered by Metacafe
This video shows one of the simplest machines, the pulley–not a lever as Lifehacker says–and how it increases your ability to lift/pull heavy things.
If you want to try this at home … try something other than a car … log or something.
Technorati Tags: simple machines, physics, pulley
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Yawning is an interesting activity. Just thinking about it has made me yawn twice as I’ve written about it. Seeing other people, and sometimes other mammals, yawn will trigger it. So what’s the point? Turns out it is to wake you up and trigger your brain into action:
Yawning is not something we usually aim to provoke among our readers, but have a yawn now. Does your brain feel cooler? Do you feel more attentive? According to psychologists Andrew Gallup and Gordon Gallup of the State University of New York at Albany, that is why we yawn: to boost blood flow …read more
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Creepy crustaceans Batman! Those bugs are destroying that island!
HIGASHIHIROSHIMA, Hiroshima — An island off the coast of Higashihiroshima is crumbling away due to countless crustaceans that have made holes in its rocks and caused its highest peak to completely disappear.
The rocky Hoboro Island has become a breeding ground for huge numbers of creatures known in Japanese as nanatsuba-kotsubumushi, a type of isopod. The surging number of insects has caught the attention of local researchers. Source: Crustaceans eating away island off Hiroshima – MSN-Mainichi Daily News
Amazing huh? Isopods are a type of crustacean more commonly known as pill bugs or wood …read more
Thanks to Geek Dad I bring you some full moon facts like:
21 Scientists have long battled to explain the “moon illusion” – whereby the full moon appears to be larger the closer it is to the horizon. The phenomenon is understood to be caused by human perception rather than the magnifying effect of the earth’s atmosphere.
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15 According to superstition a male child is more likely to be conceived at full moon.
countered by:
35 An analysis of the birthdays of 4,256 babies born in a clinic in France found no relationship between the full moon and fertility.
The next full moon is June 30th so, …read more
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