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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Are You Capable?
10 Things That Are Almost Impossible To Do With Your Body
- Raise one eyebrow.
- Lick your elbow.
- Gleeking.
- Twitch your nose.
- Wiggle your ear.
- Touch you nose or chin with your young.
- Strange tongue tricks.
- Sneeze with your eyes open.
- Tickle yourself.
- Toot your own horn.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Bored....!!! :(
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
1. Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show
2.See how long you can hold a note
3.Try to not think about penguins
4.Use your secret mind power
5.Pretend you're a robot
6.Scratch yourself
7.Rate passers by
8.Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
9.Pinch yourself
10.Try to swallow your tongue
11.Pretend to be a car
12.Make Star Trek door noises
13.Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image
14.Get yourself as nauseated as possible
15.Invent a weird twitch
16.Make a low buzzing noise
If you want more info. and detail go to this link http://www.urban75.org/useless/bored.html
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH VERY LITTLE
1.See what's in your neighbour's rubbish/trash
2.Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent
3.Send spooky emails
4.Play our useless games
5.Make prank phone calls
6.Pretend all humans will die except for people in room with you
7.Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff
8.Try and sound Welsh
9.Burn things with a magnifying glass
If you want more info. and detail go to this link
http://www.urban75.org/useless/things-to-do-when-bored.html
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ANOTHER PERSON
1.Have a water gargling contest
2.Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around
3.Have a "Who is less competitive" competition
4.Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view
5.Pull out a hair, stick in someone's ear
6.Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck
7.Can you out-hum your friend?
If you want more info. and detail go to this link
http://www.urban75.org/useless/more-things-to-do-when-bored.html
1. Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show
2.See how long you can hold a note
3.Try to not think about penguins
4.Use your secret mind power
5.Pretend you're a robot
6.Scratch yourself
7.Rate passers by
8.Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
9.Pinch yourself
10.Try to swallow your tongue
11.Pretend to be a car
12.Make Star Trek door noises
13.Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image
14.Get yourself as nauseated as possible
15.Invent a weird twitch
16.Make a low buzzing noise
If you want more info. and detail go to this link http://www.urban75.org/useless/bored.html
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH VERY LITTLE
1.See what's in your neighbour's rubbish/trash
2.Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent
3.Send spooky emails
4.Play our useless games
5.Make prank phone calls
6.Pretend all humans will die except for people in room with you
7.Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff
8.Try and sound Welsh
9.Burn things with a magnifying glass
If you want more info. and detail go to this link
http://www.urban75.org/useless/things-to-do-when-bored.html
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ANOTHER PERSON
1.Have a water gargling contest
2.Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around
3.Have a "Who is less competitive" competition
4.Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view
5.Pull out a hair, stick in someone's ear
6.Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck
7.Can you out-hum your friend?
If you want more info. and detail go to this link
http://www.urban75.org/useless/more-things-to-do-when-bored.html
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Hot News
Study: Electric boost helps brain to learn better!!!!
NEW YORK – People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories.
Some 80,000 or more people worldwide have had stimulation units implanted, mostly for Parkinson's
In a small but tantalizing study, participants played a video game in which they learned the locations of stores in a virtual city. They recalled the locations better if they learned them while receiving a painless boost from tiny electrodes buried deep inside their brains.
In the future, that strategy might help curb memory loss for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, suggested Dr. Itzhak Fried, a neurosurgeon at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. But he cautioned that the results were preliminary.
Using implanted electrodes to treat brain disease is hardly new. Such "deep-brain stimulation" has been used for about a decade for Parkinson's disease and some other disorders. Researchers are also testing it for depression.
Some 80,000 or more people worldwide have had stimulation units implanted, mostly for Parkinson's.
Fried and colleagues reported the new work in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. It was financed by the federal government and the Dana Foundation.
"I think it's a terrific paper," said Dr. Andres Lozano, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, who didn't participate in the work but is studying the approach in Alzheimer's patients. The new work shows stimulation can modify the workings of brain circuits that control memory in people, he said.
But like Fried, he cautioned that the research was still in the early stages.
"Whether it will translate into something useful, we do not know," he said, noting that years of additional study would be needed.
"You don't want to do brain surgery on people unless you have a pretty clear idea you're going to make them better," Lozano said. Deep-brain electrodes are implanted through holes drilled in the skull.
The study participants were seven epilepsy patients who had the electrodes implanted to help surgeons identify the source of their seizures. Fried and colleagues took advantage of that to stimulate a part of the brain that's key to learning. The patients could not feel the stimulation.
The patients played the video game on a laptop at their beds. Using a joystick, they took the role of taxi drivers in a small town consisting of four blocks by four blocks. They searched for passengers and dropped them off at any of six stores they were asked to find. The electrical stimulation was turned on while they learned the locations of some stores, but not others.
Testing showed that the stimulation made a difference. When given a store to find, the patients took a more direct route to it, and got there faster, if they had learned its location during a time of stimulation. When researchers looked at how much extra wandering they did beyond the shortest possible path, they found that stimulation reduced this excess by an average of 64 percent.
The patients were tested only a few minutes after learning the store locations, so it's not yet clear how long the effect can last, Fried said. Researchers will also have to see if stimulation helps for other kinds of knowledge, he said.
What I thought!!
I think that this is important because many people don't study anymore. Instead of using their knowledge on school or studies, they just take drugs and ruin their lives.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Ping Pong
SPORTS
Table Tennis.
Table tennis is a game played, usually indoors, by two or four players.It is more or less a miniature form of lawn tennis. It is also called Ping-Pong, after the trade name that a manufacturer adopted (c.1900) for the equipment.
The regulation game is played on a table that measures 9 ft by 5 ft (2.74 m by 1.52 m) and stands 2.5 ft (76 cm) from the floor. A transverse net 6 in. (15.25 cm) high divides the surface, which is generally dark in color, edged with white stripes, and halved longitudinally (for doubles play) by another white stripe. The celluloid ball is hollow, seamless, and about 1.5 in. (3.81 cm) in diameter, with a weight of .1 oz (2.8 grams); the racket, or bat, is a wooden paddle with a handle 3 in. (7.62 cm) long and a round blade about 6.5 in. (16.5 cm) long, covered with rubber.
In the service (unlike tennis) the ball must bounce once before clearing the net and again bounce before being struck by the receiver. After the service (only one is allowed, not two as in tennis), the returns should go over the net without bouncing on the near surface. A point is scored when a service does not land properly in play or when a player fails to return the ball properly. Each player in turn serves consecutively five times until the winning score of 21 is reached. (If the score is tied at 20-all, play must continue until a 2-point margin is won.) In doubles matches partners rotate in units of five consecutive services, and the server must deliver the ball into the diagonally opposite box.
Table Tennis.
Table tennis is a game played, usually indoors, by two or four players.It is more or less a miniature form of lawn tennis. It is also called Ping-Pong, after the trade name that a manufacturer adopted (c.1900) for the equipment.
The regulation game is played on a table that measures 9 ft by 5 ft (2.74 m by 1.52 m) and stands 2.5 ft (76 cm) from the floor. A transverse net 6 in. (15.25 cm) high divides the surface, which is generally dark in color, edged with white stripes, and halved longitudinally (for doubles play) by another white stripe. The celluloid ball is hollow, seamless, and about 1.5 in. (3.81 cm) in diameter, with a weight of .1 oz (2.8 grams); the racket, or bat, is a wooden paddle with a handle 3 in. (7.62 cm) long and a round blade about 6.5 in. (16.5 cm) long, covered with rubber.
In the service (unlike tennis) the ball must bounce once before clearing the net and again bounce before being struck by the receiver. After the service (only one is allowed, not two as in tennis), the returns should go over the net without bouncing on the near surface. A point is scored when a service does not land properly in play or when a player fails to return the ball properly. Each player in turn serves consecutively five times until the winning score of 21 is reached. (If the score is tied at 20-all, play must continue until a 2-point margin is won.) In doubles matches partners rotate in units of five consecutive services, and the server must deliver the ball into the diagonally opposite box.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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