This video is amazing, this guy shows the whole world how the Stonehenge was build. It’s just a matter of ingenuity. Just move the bigger rock with the help of smaller ones, and gravity. It’s amazing, just watch it.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Amazing Stonehenge Mistery Solved
Connie Talbot
Her's first song in Britain's Got Talent
In the FINAL
and Over The Rainbow ALBUM
Monday, May 12, 2008
Why do stars twinkle?
The scientific name for the twinkling of stars is stellar scintillation (or astronomical scintillation). Stars twinkle when we see them from the Earth's surface because we are viewing them through thick layers of turbulent (moving) air in the Earth's atmosphere.
Stars (except for the Sun) appear as tiny dots in the sky; as their light travels through the many layers of the Earth's atmosphere, the light of the star is bent (refracted) many times and in random directions (light is bent when it hits a change in density - like a pocket of cold air or hot air). This random refraction results in the star winking out (it looks as though the star moves a bit, and our eye interprets this as twinkling).
Stars closer to the horizon appear to twinkle more than stars that are overhead - this is because the light of stars near the horizon has to travel through more air than the light of stars overhead and so is subject to more refraction. Also, planets do not usually twinkle, because they are so close to us; they appear big enough that the twinkling is not noticeable (except when the air is extremely turbulent).
Stars would not appear to twinkle if we viewed them from outer space (or from a planet/moon that didn't have an atmosphere).
Sunday, May 11, 2008
What do you weigh on other planets?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/
Why is the sky blue?
Sunlight is made up of all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The gas molecules in the atmosphere interact with the sunlight before the light reaches our eyes.
The gas molecules in the atmosphere scatter the higher-energy (high frequency) blue portion of the sunlight more than they scatter the lower-energy red portion of the sunlight (this is called Rayleigh scattering, named for the physicist Lord John Rayleigh). The Sun appears reddish-yellow and the sky surrounding the Sun is colored by the scattered blue waves.
When the Sun is lower in the horizon (near sunrise or sunset), the sunlight must travel through a greater thickness of atmosphere than it does when it is overhead, and even more light is scattered (not just blue, but also green, yellow, and orange) before the light reaches your eyes. This makes the sun look much redder.
Caution: Never stare directly at the Sun.
How Big Do Numbers Get?
American
million 6(zeroes) 10^6 1,000,000
billion 9 (10^9) 1,000,000,000
The Roper Poll
Many Wonder What Government Really Knows About Other Intelligent
LifeGovernment Has More Information Than It is Sharing with Public...More than half (55 percent) of all adults say that the government does not share enough information with the public. Younger Americans are more apt to believe this; a clear difference of opinion exists between the 18-to-49-year-olds and those 50 or older.
Individuals with an interest and belief in — not to mention personal experience with — extraterrestrial or UFO encounters feel that the government has more information than it is sharing.
Not surprisingly, those who believe and take an interest in extraterrestrial life and UFO activity are significantly more inclined to believe that the government does not share everything it knows about these topics.
Adults who consider themselves at least somewhat psychologically prepared for the discovery of extraterrestrial life are significantly more inclined to believe that government information regarding this and UFO sightings should not be kept secret from the public. This same opinion is shared by believers of extraterrestrial life as well as those who are very interested in encountering such life forms themselves.
Happy Mother's Day !!!
Ở Hoa Kỳ, ngày Chúa Nhật thứ hai của tháng Năm dương lịch được mang tên là "Ngày Hiền Mẫu", ngày mà ai ai cũng nôn nức bày tỏ lòng kính yêu người thân mến nhất trên đời, tức là người Mẹ của chúng ta.
Thật vậy, không ai có liên hệ mật thiết và dịu dàng với ta cho bằng Mẹ. Không ai yêu thương và chăm sóc ta cho bằng Mẹ. Chín tháng cưu mang, ba năm nâng niu bú bởm, bảy năm quạt nồng ấp lạnh, rồi suốt đời an ủi, vỗ về, chiều chuộng, chở che và phấn khích...đời Mẹ đã thực sự gắn liền với đời con! Có bao giờ ta quên được những nụ cười hiền hoà, những ánh mắt trìu mến của Mẹ!? Cho tới lúc bạc đầu răng long, trái tim chúng ta sẽ vẫn còn rung động khi nghe tên Mẹ, bởi vì Tình Mẫu Tử khắng khít qúa, thiêng liêng qúa và mênh mông vô cùng không thể nào vơi can được.
Mẹ cho con tình yêu không mệt mỏi, vì chổ bắt đầu từ ngưỡng cửa yêu thương.
Mẹ ơi, đây một đóa hồng
Con dâng lên mẹ ghi công sinh thành
Ghi đêm thức đủ năm canh
Khi con trở gió ươn mình không vui
Ghi ngày miếng ngọt miếng bùi
Nhường cho con để con tươi tuổi hồng
Quản chi tháng Hạ ngày Đông
Thương con mẹ biết bao công vun bồi
Lớn khôn, con đã nên người
Mong manh, mẹ, nắng cuối trời, hoàng hôn
Cầu xin mẹ khoẻ vui luôn
Cho con muôn một ghi ơn, báo đền
Yêu thương săn sóc mẹ hiền
Mong cao tuổi hạc, mong thêm nụ cười
Con cầu xin lượng đất trời
Ban ơn cho mẹ như lời con mong
Lòng con, một đóa hoa hồng
Xin dâng lên mẹ nhớ công sinh thành
Thơ: Ngô Minh Hằng
MOTHER = MẸ nghĩa là :M…Million là hàng triệu điều mẹ trao cho con ,O…Old nghĩa là mẹ sẽ vì thế mà ngày càng già đi, T…Tears là những giọt nước mắt mẹ ðã đổ vì con, H…Heart là trái tim vàng của mẹ, E…Eyes là đôi mắt mẹ luôn dõi theo con, R…Right là những gì đúng đắn mẹ hay khuyên bảo.
"Famous Mothers"
The oldest known birth mother in the world currently is Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara of Spain who gave delivered twins at the age of 66 in 2006.
Bobbie McCaughey is the mother who holds the record for the most surviving children from a single birth. She gave birth to the first set of surviving septuplets - four boys and three girls -on November 19, 1997, at the University Hospital, Iowa, US. Conceived by in vitro fertilization, the babies were delivered after 31 weeks by caesarean in the space of 16 minutes. The babies are named Kenneth, Nathaniel, Brandon, Joel, Kelsey, Natalie and Alexis.
Jayne Bleackley is the mother who holds the record for the shortest interval between two children born in separate confinements. She gave birth to Joseph Robert on September 3, 1999, and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000. The babies were born 208 days apart.
Elizabeth Ann Buttle is the mother who holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of two children. She gave birth to Belinda on May 19,1956 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 days apart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph was born.
The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.
The modern world record for giving birth is held by Leontina Albina from San Antonio, Chile. Leontina claims to be the mother of 64 children, of which only 55 of them are documented. She is listed in the 1999 Guinness World Records but dropped from later editions.
Jenna Cotton gave birth to three children on the same date - October 2. Her son, Ayden, arrived on Oct. 2, 2003; son Logan was born Oct. 2, 2006, and daughter Kayla was born Tuesday, which was Oct. 2, 2007. The odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million.
Goodbye's the saddest word
Mẹ Yêu
Lòng Mẹ
Mẹ Yêu: Tam Ca 3 Con Mèo
Friday, May 9, 2008
World Hunger
Still a concern???
"There has been no improvement since last count in the rate of decline of the number of undernourished in the world: 826 million people still do not get enough to eat in a time of unprecedented plenty"
"1.2 Billion People Live On $1 A Day Or Less--And Numbers Are Not Declining"
Over 200 million children under the age of five in the world are hungry. In fact, 23 boys and girls die every minute from hunger - that's 12 million children every year.
The financial costs to end hunger are relatively slight. The United Nations Development Program estimates that the basic health and nutrition needs of the world's poorest people could be met for an additional $13 billion a year. Animal lovers in the United States and Europe spend more than that on pet food each year
14450 tons of food wasted in America today
3025 tons global food aid provided today
Believe It Or Not?
Alain Robert: born August 7, 1962 in Digoin Sanone-et-Loire(71)- Bourgogne, French. Nickname: Spiderman, he is famous for scaling skyscrapers. Robert has scaled 85 giant structures around the globe including many of the world's tallest structures, most of which he has scaled using only his bare hands and climbing shoes. Robert's urban climbing career has been characterized by an ever-expanding list of famous landmarks which includes the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and the Montparnasse Tower in Paris (in the 90s), Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (the tallest building in the world at the time in 1997), the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois (110 stories building in 1999), the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE (watched by about 100,000 spectators in 2003, 200 meters = 656 ft), the Total, French (187 meter = 614 ft in 2004), the Taipei 101, Taiwan (the world's tallest building 508 meters = 1,667 ft in 2004), the Cheung Kong Centre, Hong Kong ( 283 meters = 928 ft in 2005), the Baltic Sates - Europa Tower, Vilnius (148 meters = 486 ft in 2006), on March 20, 2007 he again climbed the Petronas Twin Towers marking the 10th anniversary of his previous ascent of this building, the Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, then China's tallest skycraper in 2007, the Federation Tower, Moscow, Russia's tallest skycraper (244 meters = 801 ft in 2007), the Four Seasons Place, Hong Kong ( 60-story in 2008), and many more.
Believe It.