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Amazing Deep Water Creatures

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:19:50 GMT

clipped by: janwaren
clipper's remarks: why do they choose living in the deep?

Clip Source: science.readigg.com

Tags: deep, water, sea, creatures, amazing

Sea Water as Fuel??

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:12:14 GMT

clipped by: mrouk

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

'Remarkable' Discovery: Scientists Burn Saltwater

ERIE, Pa. (AP)—An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.

Tags: science

The fish that can survive for months in a tree

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:26:25 GMT

clipped by: michellezm

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

t's one of the golden rules of the natural world – birds live in trees, fish live in water.

The trouble is, no one bothered to tell the mangrove killifish.

Scientists have discovered that it spends several months of every year out of the water and living inside trees

Hidden away inside rotten branches and trunks, the remarkable creatures temporarily alter their biological makeup so they can breathe air.

Biologists studying the killifish say they astonished it can cope for so long out of its natural habitat.

The discovery, along with its ability to breed without a mate, must make the mangrove killifish, Rivulus marmoratus Poey, one of the oddest fish known to man.

Around two inches long, they normally live in muddy pools and the flooded burrows of crabs in the mangrove swamps of Florida, Latin American and Caribbean.

The latest discovery was made by biologists wading through swamps in Belize and Florida who found hundreds of killifish hiding out of the water

Tags: fish, animals, fauna

If fire was water... very cool images

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:14:40 GMT

clipped by: BigBadWolf

Clip Source: www.boredstop.com

Tags: pics, images, art, creativity

Water drop photography

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:27:21 GMT

clipped by: Fussypants

Clip Source: www.frogview.com

Tags: photography, water drop

Drink Water On Empty Stomach

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:43:23 GMT

clipped by: Newfman
clipper's remarks: * Headache
* Body Ache
* Heart System
* Arthritis
* Fast Heart Beat
* Epilepsy
* Excess
* Fatness
* Bronchitis
* Asthma
* TB
* Meningtitis
* Kidney and Urine diseases
* Vomiting gastritis
* Diarrhea
* Piles
* Diabetes
* Constipation
* All Eye Diseases
* Womb Cancer
* Menstrual Disorders
* Ear Nose
* Throat Diseases

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It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value.

They publish below a description of use of water for their readers.

For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses, the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a hundred percent cure for the following diseases

As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink four glasses of water each of 160 ml.

Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minutes.

After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for two hours.

Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink four glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to four glasses per day.

The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.

Tags: health

11 must see pictures

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:46:39 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: www.adidap.com

Since all my friends know that I love photography I receive tons of forwarded emails with pictures. I rarely share these since most of them are already wide spread but this collection is different.

Needless to say that I didn’t take any of these pictures and that the copyright remains to their original owners, I am just sharing them here for their exceptional quality. So here we go

First Nuclear Bomb test France 1968

Boat in the clear water of Maldives

This is not a boat it is a fountain

Elephant going out of the water

Lions fight

Some birds

Tags: photographs, photography, art, birds

Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:15:33 GMT

clipped by: abramsv
clipper's remarks: something that I definitely did not suspect... Hard to believe, but it's true! A new evidence, statistically proven

Clip Source: thrillingwonder.blogspot.com

Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

1. BREAD IS DANGEROUS

Research on bread indicates that

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!

7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.

8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.

9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.

11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

2. WATER IS DANGEROUS

A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide."

He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.

* and only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.

Tags: humor, food

Designs For The Poor

Thu, 31 May 2007 14:03:01 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Solutions The exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt has many items to show a grasp of the depths of world poverty and ingenious ways to attack it. They include a 20-gallon rolling drum for transporting water, above.

A pot-in-pot cooler that relies on the evaporation of water from wet sand to cool the inner pot.

The Lifestraw drinking filter, which kills bacteria as water is sucked through it.

To that end, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, which is housed in Andrew Carnegie’s 64-room mansion on Fifth Avenue and offers a $250 red chrome piggy bank in its gift shop, is honoring inventors dedicated to “the other 90 percent,” particularly the billions of people living on less than $2 a day.

Their creations, on display in the museum garden until Sept. 23, have a sort of forehead-thumping “Why didn’t someone think of that before?” quality.

Tags: inventions, poor, better, life, quality

Clever uses for Aspirin

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:41:51 GMT

clipped by: traviscrocker

Clip Source: www.gomestic.com

To remove perspiration stains from white T-shirts, dissolve two aspirins in half a cup of warm water and apply to the area of the fabric where the stain is. This should be left for a couple of hours before washing.

First aid for pimples: Crush an aspirin tablet and add a little water to make a paste. Cover the pimple with this paste and after a few minutes rinse it off. The pimple will be less red and reduced in size. Aspirin is an astringent.

Drop a soluble aspirin tablet into the water before arranging cut flowers in a vase. It helps to keep them fresh for longer.

Mosquito bites can be eased by wetting the skin and rubbing an aspirin over the spot.

Tags: lifehacks

Lifestraw Named World-Changing Idea

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:12:48 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: A revolutionary portable drinking filtration system, that will save thousands of lives.

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Clip Source: www.treehugger.com

Lifestraw, the portable drinking filtration system, nabbed the top honor in the fifth Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas last Thursday. Worn around the neck and used like a regular straw, Lifestraw claims to filter 99.9999 percent of bacteria and 98.7 percent of viruses using a halogen-based resin.

Saatchi's worldwide creative director Bob Isherwood had nothing but high praise for the company. "I think it's an amazing idea, a world-changing idea," he said.

"You have such a huge proportion of the world's population that can't drink safe water; 6,000 children a day dying from polluted water. To have a straw that you wear around your neck that you can put in contaminated water and turn it immediately into totally safe water is incredible; it is world-changing."

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The Lifestraw is a little longer than a toilet paper tube

filters are rated for 700 liters of water -- approximately one year's use for a single individual

But perhaps most exciting is the cost: Only 2 dollars US

Tags: drinking water, water crisis

Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:58:27 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.

The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle.

Looking down deep

The pair analyzed more than 600,000 seismograms—records of waves generated by earthquakes traveling through the Earth—collected from instruments scattered around the planet.

They noticed a region beneath Asia where seismic waves appeared to dampen, or “attenuate,” and also slow down slightly. “Water slows the speed of waves a little,” Wysession explained. “Lots of damping and a little slowing match the predictions for water very well.”

“That’s a real back of the envelope type calculation,” Wysession said. “That’s the best that we can do at this point.”

Tags: science, earth, water, ocean

water drop shots cool pics

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:20:37 GMT

clipped by: mingkymomo

Clip Source: haha.nu

Water drops shots

Beautiful gallery of close-up water drops, bubbles and ice photos by Lord V (Brian Valentine). Click on the images to see more.

Images copyright @ Brian Valentine.

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Tags: amazing, photo, beautiful, water, cool

8 glasses a day? No way! says webMD

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:05:43 GMT

clipped by: ericskiff
clipper's remarks: I've always thought that was bunk! If I need to drink so much, why do I have to run to the bathroom 6 times a day when I'm keeping hydrated?

Clip Source: www.webmd.com

Myth No. 1: We need to drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day

Researchers aren't sure where this familiar advice came from, but most agree there's very little solid scientific evidence to support it. The average adult loses only about 1 liter of water a day through sweating and other bodily processes -- the equivalent of only four 8-ounce glasses. We typically get that much water just in the foods we eat. Drinking an additional eight tall glasses of H₂0 is probably more fluid than most of us need.

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Myth No. 2: Caffeinated beverages make you dehydrated

Not true.

Myth No. 3: By the time you feel thirsty, you're already becoming dehydrated

Maybe if you're an elite athlete running a marathon or a hotshot tennis player sweating in the noonday sun -- but not if you're going about your everyday activities.

Myth No. 4: Drinking plenty of water can help you lose weight

"Water sneaks right past without triggering satiety signals, the cues that tell your body when you're full," says nutritionist Barbara Rolls, author of Volumetrics.

Tags: water, myth, myths, health, healthcare, science

Mystery of Antarctica's 15-Million Year-Old Lake

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:31:49 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Researchers have thawed ice estimated to be perhaps a million years old or more from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica using novel genomic techniques to determine how tiny, living "time capsules" survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold, and without food and energy from the sun.

Lake Vostok is located beneath four kilometers of ice in East Antarctica. The lake is approximately 250 km long and 50 km wide. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleo-climatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for as long as 15 million years.

Because of the long isolation, it's believed that Lake Vostok could contain new lifeforms, and unique geochemical processes. For five years, scientists in Russia and the United States have sought to probe the ancient lake to discover the secrets lying inside this pristine body of water.

Tags: antarctica, lake, water, genomics, ice, time, life

Clipmarks | pokkets's 'water' clips

Amazing Deep Water Creatures

Sea Water as Fuel??

'Remarkable' Discovery: Scientists Burn Saltwater

The fish that can survive for months in a tree

If fire was water... very cool images

Water drop photography

Drink Water On Empty Stomach

11 must see pictures

Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

Designs For The Poor

Clever uses for Aspirin

Lifestraw Named World-Changing Idea

Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth

**water drop shots** cool pics

Water drops shots

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8 glasses a day? No way! says webMD

Mystery of Antarctica's 15-Million Year-Old Lake

water drop shots cool pics