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The PITAYA is more commonly referred to as the dragon fruit. It is an extremely beautiful fruit that has dazzling flowers and an intense shape and color. The dragon fruit is usually a dark red color, although some types of this fruit are pink or yellow. The skin of the dragon fruit is a thin rind. The skin is usually covered in scales, and the center of the fruit is made up of a red or white, sweet tasting pulp.

Dragon Fruit

TRIVIAS
Do U know that . . .
Only bird that flies backward and is also the fastest avian currently living on the planet is Humming Bird The tongue of the whale is heavier than a mature elephant. Mouse is bigger than the infant of a panda. A bee flaps its wings 250 times per second to stay in the air. Worms got 5 hearts

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The LIFESTRAW...

LifeStraw is a water filter designed to be used by one

person to filter water so that they may safely drink it. It filters a maximum of 1000 litres of water, enough for one person for one year. It removes 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria, 99.99% of viruses, and 99.9% of parasites.

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 750 million active users.[6][7] Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Facebook users must register before using the site. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists, e.g. "People From Work", or "Really Good Friends". The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the website.

Lets Talk About Chemistry

"I think your website is beryllium!" (read as brilliant) "That's a pro-phosphorous idea!" (read as preposterous) "I can't be arsenic-ed!" (read as arsed) "This is so boron!" (read as boring) "Pick it up off the fluor-ine!" (read as floor) "Lith-ium alone!" (read as leave him) "This is a-bismuth!" (read as abysmal) "I've got a bad gold" (read as cold) "Is she Indium?" (read as Indian) "Did he have a car-bon?" (read as car bomb) "Pass the lattice" (read as lettuce) "Would you like a polo-nium t?" (read as polo mint) "Can you iron my shirt please?" (read as iron) "I can't bar-ium" (read as bare him) "Can they cur-ium?" (read as cure him)

"Caes-ium!" (read as caese him) "That was so-dium good" (read as so damn) How many have we done sul-phur? (read as so far) "Keep your i-on the ball" (read as eye on) "A friend of mine pierced his tung-sten" (read as tongue) "A-cid that one" (read as I said) "A-mine the other one" (read as I mean) "You're too easily lead" (read as lead) Julian: "My trousers keep falling down!" Nick: "This man-ga-nese a belt!" (read as man needs) Nick: "We need to get so many things for our cat" Julian: "I don't think we'll be able to remember them all" Nick: "Well then we will have to make the cat-a-lyst!" I zinc we are done because all the other jokes ar-gon!

Eating raw eggs: safe or not?

Many ideas have come when the issue about raw eggs have released. Some of them do not agree that raw eggs arent safe but most of them believed. If I were to ask you, is it safe to eat raw eggs or not? The main issue regarding eating raw eggs is contamination with the Salmonella bacterium with the secondary issue regarding the availability of Vitamin B, biotin. According to the Department of Agriculture in U.S., about 1 in every 30,000 eggs contains Salmonella contamination but it does not mean that when someone eats egg contains Salmonella bacteria he will be infected. Eating raw eggs is one way of getting Salmonella infections but you might get a Salmonella infection even if you never eat raw eggs.

The Toughest Little Bird You've Never Heard Of

They're nothing to look at. They're not colorful. They seem so ordinary, in mottled brown, black and gray, if you noticed them at all, you'd think, "ah, just another shore bird, pecking at something in the water." But you'd be so wrong. Bar-tailed Godwits are special. So special, they deserve special attention. They are the only birds known to fly more than 7,000 miles nonstop, that means no food breaks, no water breaks, no sleep breaks, no pausing, just pushing through cyclones, storms, headwinds, flappity flap, flap for days and nights and this is their championship season. In September and October, they leave Alaska, head straight for the ocean. Though they are land birds, and cannot fish or rest on the sea, they will cross most of the Pacific Ocean, and fly all the way to New Zealand. Many of them are young, and have never done this before. No other bird can do what they do, and they're doing it right now.

Fighting the Winds

Pacific winds will constantly change; both for them and against them. Once they hit mid-passage, equatorial breezes slow, and the bird has to beat his or her way south without much help. They burn half their body weight as they fly, and sleep, bird-style, by shutting down one side of the brain at a time. Past the equator, they bump into the southeasterly trades, which are the runner's equivalent of an uphill slog, pushing them west, so they have to navigate to keep on course. How they do that, many of them never having been in the southern hemisphere, never having seen the southern stars, nobody seems to know. But they manage. One female, dubbed E7, because that was the code on her wireless transmitter, is the current world champion: she flew 11,680 kilometers (7,369 miles) in 8.1 days. Non-stop. (Gill knows that because the transmitter told him so.) What a bird! There are 70,000 of them, but they seem to be losing population. The trek back north in the spring takes them west, to Asia, where they stop and feed.

2011 Invention Awards: A Mirror that Detects Vital Signs

How It Works: Medical Mirror: The webcam behind the two-way mirror captures the changes in the light reflected off the subjects face when the heart beats. The

computer translates the light data into a heart rate reading.

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Trivia
Lithium can alter how you think and has been known to cure certain mental illnesses. In fact, lithium is used in a lot of psychoactive drugs. One of the first x-rays, a picture youve probably seen of a womans hand with a ring on it, was of Bertha Rontgens hand.She thought seeing her bones was a death omen. device called the Revigator. It was considered to be a healthy drink.

Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.

Diamonds arent the rarest gems on Earth. In fact, theyre relatively common. The rarest gem is jadeite and costs about $3 million per carat.

People used to drink radioactive water from a

Only 28 grams of the rarest substance on Earth exist.

Whats the rarest substance on Earth? Astatine. Gallium, a metal element, will melt in your hand. You can even buy some here.

The letter J is the only letter that doesnt appear in the periodic table.

Every time lightening strikes, ozone is created.

Liquid oxygen is blue.

Meet the Immortal!

urritopsis nutricula, the potentially immortal jellyfish, is a hydrozoa whose medusa, or jellyfish, form can revert to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the only known case of a metazoan capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage. It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation. Cell transdifferentiation is when the jellyfish "alters the differentiated state of the cell and transforms it into a new cell". In this process the medusa of the immortal jellyfish is transformed into the polyps of a new polyp colony. First, the umbrella reverts itself and then the tentacles and

mesoglea get resorbed. The reverted medusa then attaches itself to the substrate by the end that had been at the opposite end of the umbrella and starts giving rise to new polyps to form the new colony. Theoretically, this process can go on indefinitely, effectively rendering the jellyfish biologically immortal, although in nature, most Turritopsis, like other medusae, are likely to succumb to predation or disease in the plankton stage, without reverting to the polyp form. No single specimen has been observed for any extended period, so it is not currently possible to estimate the age of an individual, and so even if this species has the potential for immortality, there is no laboratory evidence of many generations surviving from any individual.

Planet Diamond
In What can be called a "gem of a discovery," astronomers at

the University of Manchester found a rare planet made of diamonds, which orbits a pulsar about 4,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. The astronomers from Australia, Germany, Italy, the UK and the U.S. used the Parkes 64-meter radio telescope in western New South Wales to find the carbon-based planet, which is denser than any other discovered so far. A diamond forms when carbon is put under immense pressure. As the planet largely consists of carbon, scientists speculate that the conditions are right for the carbon within it to be crystallized -- in other words, a giant celestial diamond -- and believe it to be completely made of diamond. In addition to carbon, the new planet is also likely to contain oxygen, which may be more prevalent at the surface and is probably increasingly rare toward the carbon-rich center.

Its high density suggests the lighter elements of hydrogen and helium, which are the main constituents of gas giants like Jupiter, are not present. The diamond planet measures up to 60,000 km across, is about five time Earth's diameter and about 300 time heavier, as indicated by the astronomers' measurements.

Chemistry Word Hunt

H Y X Z X L U U M U T O D H I F J I R X O E N N X N V I J Q A U L R E E O Y U S X U N D E U M N J B G O X I I I C T E M T I R E P D U L U C L X E O R A N M M O L U E S G J J G C S O S E R E C N A T S B U S C J T M H E N C M H D P L S S V M Q S Y E R O H Q X O A C I D A X X G Y T M M D X X Y V B Y Q Z O S A C I S F Q K O H O W S R T W U T N E M I R E P X E D A M N S J M S A G Q H H K Y L Y K A E O D W V O Z T H H Y O Z E M R N E N E R G Y L G C H E M I S T J K M R

Find the following:

ACID CARBON CRYSTAL EXPERIMENT LIQUID SODIUM SUBSTANCE

ATOM CHEMIST ELEMENT GAS MOLECULE SOLID URANIUM

BASE COMPOUND ENERGY HYDROGEN OXYGEN STRUCTURE

General Science Word Hunt

Y G R E N E W W Y T Y B V I K E Z W E B R U H F F X D N M L A C T A E G Y E E T Q S T A S D I U I T W E L E H E I H V R M L I K K O E C M C N W E U J C M U R X E H O T F T H Z I V R L H N B N E K C F P R W K C U R Y H O S A F A T T P T A H T Q P L B B B C I V C B R O X H S O G F E U C B A I E H Y Y L G H L U W E R I E Q S S G A Y E R K R Z F D R I E T O M T A C K F J B Z C L C N L I Z D C E P R V S K L A A O N B Y T I V A R G M E P L I A J U P I T E R P G C S P B

Feed Your Mind!!!

ANIMALS CARBON CHEMISTRY ENERGY JUPITER PLANTS WEATHER

BACTERIA CAT EARTH GRAVITY LIGHT SPACE WHALE

BIOLOGY CELL ELECTRICITY INSECT PHYSICS TECHNOLOGY

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montague Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. Gerard Piel Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Large Hadron Collider under construction. Engineer assembling a section of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. The LHC is a 27kilometre long high-energy particle accelerator. It has been designed to probe the inner structure of matter, in order to explain the origins of matter, dark matter and the mysteries of the early universe.

Science Update

Meet the Obscure, Useful Metals Lurking in Products All Around You
In Ytterby there are two secret pasts. Two centuries ago, the sleepy villagenow dotted with vacation homes belonging to wealthy residents of nearby Stockholmwas a restless mining settlement, shipping out high-grade feldspar for the royal porcelain factories of Europe and quartz to line the blast furnaces springing up across England. It is also the birthplace of some of natures most wondrous and least appreciated chemical elements.

The latter story began in 1787, when an amateur geologist named Carl Arrhenius was visiting a mine in Ytterby. He discovered an unusually heavy black rock among the gray outcroppings and, being a man of healthy scientific curiosity, sent a sample for analysis to Johan Gadolin, a prominent chemist at the Royal Academy of Turku in Finland. In 1794 Gadolin concluded that the specimen contained an entirely new element, later named yttrium. By 1879 chemists had isolated six additional elements from the same rock, bringing the grand total in the newly invented periodic table to 70. Three of those elementsytterbium, erbium, and terbiumwere simply given additional variants on the name of Ytterby, while the other three were named holmium (for Stockholm), scandium, and thulium (both from the Latin for Scandinavia), in the nationalistic fashion then in favor. After a long, lucrative run, the Ytterby quarry was closed in 1933. In many ways, though, the towns influence looms larger than ever. The elements discovered there, known collectively as rare earths, today form the backbone of the modern wired and wireless worldeven though you have probably never heard of them. The name rare earths made sense to the 19th-century mind: rare because it seemed at first that they came only from Scandinavia, and earths because they occurred in an earthy oxide form from which it was exceptionally hard to obtain the pure metal.