03/27/12 The Human Body

Our bodies, like our planet, consist of many strange features that could blow your mind. Every function in the human body has its reasons and unique pattern. You will never be the same after reading about some of these facts:

 THE EYES

 Your eyes, in fact, do some of the most tiring work every day. They blink over 27,397 times a day, can distinguish 500 shades of gray, and can process 36,000 bits of information in an hour. Also, guess why why we have our eyebrows? They are actually meant to prevent sweat from running into our eyes. 

THE HAIR

 Hair covers the whole body, except oles of feet, palms of hands, mucous membranes, and lips. It is actually the fastest growing tissue in the body, with an average of 35 meters of hair fibre growing everyday. Do you worry about the large bundle of hair you lose everyday after a shower? It is perfectly normal for each person to lose about 100 hairs a day.

THE BRAIN

Your brain is actually made up of 80% water. Also, the brain itself has no pain receptors therefore it cannot feel pain. The most interesting part is that the brain kicks in and keeps things illuminated whenever we blink so the whole world doesn’t go dark each time we do (so about 20,000 times a day!). 

THE HEART

Beating about 72 times a minute, the heart pumps approximately 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels every day. Did you know that laughter may be one of the best medicines for our heart? Having a good belly laugh sends 20% more blood flowing through the entire body. 

Even right now when you are peacefully seated and reading this post, all parts of your body are going through a hardcore workout!

 

03/03/12 Interesting Facts About The Earth

Although we think we know quite a lot about the planet we live in, Earth actually has endless unknown features that people are continuing to find out. Human-beings have yet to explore all of Earth's waters and seas and there is a possibility that there could be more than 700,000 undiscovered species in this world. For a little sneak peak here is a list of interesting facts that you may not be aware of:

1. The Atmosphere

 

 We all know that this earth is coated with numerous layers such as the mesosphere, ionosphere, exosphere, and the thermosphere. However, the layer that supports all lives, the one we live on is actually the thinnest layer; the troposphere. 

2. Deserts

Would you be amazed if I told you that the deserts on earth are not mostly composed of only sand? About more than 85% of them are rock and gravel. Not to mention that the largest desert, the Sahara, takes over almost 1/3 of Africa (and it is continuously growing!), which is enough to fill the continent of the United States. 

3. Salty Oceans

Oceans, as we know it, are where we can get natural salt. But the amount is so huge that if we were to evaporate all the water and spread the salt over all land on Earth, we would get a 500 foot layer coating everything.

4. Shaky Ground

  The majority of the people nowadays, especially after countless destructive earthquake cases around the world, may think all of them as deadly and life-threatening. However, the Earth releases about 1 million of these every year, and almost all of them are never even registered. 

Other than these brief pieces of information, there are numerous facts about the Earth that we may never even have imagined. Nowadays scientists find a continuously changing state of the Earth due to human abuse and wastes we dump on it. Let's just remember that without Earth, there is no other secure place for us humans to take shelter; let's make it a clean and safe place to live in ourselves.