by Diego Ross (9th grade)
A dragonfly has 30,000 lenses in its eyes, assisting them with motion detection and making them very difficult for predators to kill.
Owls are the only bird which can see the color blue.
The human eye can see 500 shades of grey.
Our eyes are made up of over 200 million working parts.
If you want to SEE more information, please go here: http://www.lenstore.co.uk/blog/101-amazing-eye-facts
by Augusto Llull (9th grade)
A 28 year old Japanese man was send to prison with a term of two years, for making two pistols at home with a three-dimensional printer.
After his arrest Yoshitomo Imura admitted the facts, and said he knew his actions were illegal.
Shortly before his arrest, Imura posted online a video showing the weapons he created with his 3D printer, which quickly alerted the police.
3D printers create objects made of plastic or other materials with data provided by a computer.
In Japan, models for the general public are sold from about $ 575.
These penguins seem just like impatient humans in this hilarious video… enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFAK8Vj62WM
A young man in London named James Heptonstall recorded his attempt to race the subway, which Londoners call the “Tube.” How do you race a subway? He started inside the train, and ran out the moment the doors opened to begin running up the stairs, out of the station, and to the next subway station 380 meters away. The goal was to reach the next station in time to board the same train.
In order to record his attempt, he had a go-pro camera on his head, and left a friend with a video camera on the train to prove he made it onto the same train. In addition to feeling very fast, he can also be proud that his video also went viral, and has over 5 million views!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH_Z8Ghuq6E
Read more about his attempt here. The BBC has a cool report about how the video went viral, and copycats tried the same stunt in over 20 cities. What do you think? Would you try this?
That’s the question some musicians in New Orleans wanted to answer, and they built a synthesizer to turn weather data (temperature, wind, rainfall, sunrise and sunset, etc.) into sounds. They were inspired by the fact that many blind people are unable to establish sleep patterns because they do not perceive the changes of sunrise and sunset.
Would you listen to this background noise to find out what the weather is like? Or use it to wake up or go to bed if you were blind? In any case, it is a very interesting project that brings together art, music, and technology.
Listen to the live sounds of “Weather Warlock” at the website: http://weatherfortheblind.org/
by Maite Tupper (9th grade)
In New Bremen, Ohio, a group of giant pumpkin growers, cooked a 1,678 kg pumpkin pie, for the annual New Bremen Pumpkinfest, on 25 September 2010. The pie had a diameter of 6 meters and the crust was made of 440 sheets of dough. This enormous pie won the Guinness world record for the world´s biggest pumpkin pie. Actually, the second biggest pie in the world was also made by the New Bremen pumpkin growers.
by Jorge Sanhueza (9th grade)
In the first classic of the season between Barcelona and Real Madrid, in some sites millions of people bet that Luis Suarez will bite the superstar of Real Madrid.
Maybe this is the most ridiculous bet that they can make, but if Luis bites Ronaldo, many people can win millions in the site named luckia.
Another bet that people do about bites by Luis is that he will bite Sergio Ramos or the football player Pepe.
Link: http://www.infobae.com/2014/10/24/1603973-cuanto-paga-un-mordisco-suarez-cristiano-el-clasico
by Clemente Sáez
There are many ways a person can arrive to the afterlife, but there is one beyond just “weird” and it can happen to anyone at any moment without any previous advertising, the spontaneous human combustion.
This is a really unlikely to happen and it consists in “burning” to ashes in a few seconds, the victims are devoured by the fire which unexplainably appears from nowhere but their own body.
Until this date this is been unable to be explained even by the most capable doctors and scientists.
Source: http://www.mundoparanormal.com/docs/parapsicologia/combustion_espontanea.html
By Tomas Aviles (9th Grade)
Speaking to “The Hollywood Reporter” Leonetti, the director of the movie, said that two supernatural things happened during the recording of the movie. The first incident occurred when the recordings were prepared in the old apartment where John and Mia Gordon lived. In one of the windows of the place, three fingers appeared drawn in the dust that was on the glass.
“Our devil in the movie, has three fingers and three claws. The marks were being backlit by the moon. I have a picture. It was sick,” Leonetti said.
The other incident occurred when a scene where a janitor of the building, where the protagonist couple lived with her daughter, was chased by a demon rolled. Producer Peter Safran called it “much worse” because it injured a person. “We shot in this awesome, old apartment building near Koreatown and things went a bit funky (…) When the concierge was placed near a lamp, it broke and fell on his head,” said.
In Pakistan, many people are trying to capture scorpions to sell to foreign countries for huge prices. Even though this is not officially illegal, it is unregulated and hunters and buyers have developed a strange black market for these animals. Those looking to buy or sell often hold secret meetings and do their best to avoid the police. Some claim a 60 gram scorpion could be sold for as much as $50,000 US dollars. Americans, Sweeds, and Australians buy them for medical research. Read more on Al Jazeera here.
