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Tuesday 23 September 2014

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Mysterious Bermuda Triangle

  • Located in the Atlantic Ocean, the Bermuda Triangle falls between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Florida.
  • The Bermuda Triangle has long been believed to be the site where a number of mysterious plane and boat incidents have occurred.
  • While it has become part of popular culture to link the Bermuda Triangle to paranormal activity, most investigations indicate bad weather and human error are the more likely culprits.
  • Research has suggested that many original reports of strange incidents in the Bermuda Triangle were exaggerated and that the actual number of incidents in the area is similar to that of other parts of the ocean.
  • While its reputation may scare some people, the Bermuda Triangle is actually part of a regularly sailed shipping lane with cruise ships and other boats also frequently sailing through the area.
  • Aircraft are also common in the Bermuda Triangle with both private and commercial planes commonly flying through the air space.
  • Stories of unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle started to reach public awareness around 1950 and have been consistently reported since then.
  • Unverified supernatural explanations for Bermuda Triangle incidents have included references to UFO’s and even the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.
  • Other explanations have included magnetic anomalies, pirates, deliberate sinkings, hurricanes, gas deposits, rough weather, huge waves and human error.
  • Some famous reported incidents involving the Bermuda Triangle include:
  • The USS Cyclops and its crew of 309 that went missing after leaving Barbados in 1918.
  • The TBM Avenger bombers that went missing in 1945 during a training flight over the Atlantic.
  • A Douglas DC-3 aircraft containing 32 people that went missing in 1958, no trace of the aircraft was ever found.
  • A yacht was found in 1955 that had survived three hurricanes but was missing all its crew.

Hagfish Slime Might Provide Fibers for Future Eco-Friendly Clothes


At the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, a large blue building sits in the middle of campus. A room inside is filled with giant fish tanks.
Biologist Tim Winegard walks over to a tank that holds what look like eels. He dips a wooden pole in the water to fish one out.
These are hagfish, ancient snake-like creatures that live on the bottom of the ocean. Winegard places one of the animals in a bucket and lightly squeezes it.
He removes his hand from the bucket and displays a thick mass of clear mucus. "There's a pretty impressive volume of slime there," he says.
Hagfish produce a lot of slime. It serves as a form of defense.
When a shark tries to bite a hagfish, its mouth and gills are covered with slime. "The slime and the fibers that are within it clog the gill surface of [the shark]," says Winegard, "which causes them potentially to suffocate, but definitely to abort the attack."
Useful Properties
It turns out that hagfish slime may have uses for people, too.The slime is composed of thread-like fibers."When you stretch the fibers in water and then dry them out they take on properties that are very silk-like," says Douglas Fudge, who heads this research project at the University of Guelph.
Hagfish fibers are incredibly thin and extremely strong, and that gave Fudge and his colleagues an idea.For years, scientists have been looking for natural alternatives to synthetic fiber like nylon and spandex that are made from oil, which is a nonrenewable resource.In contrast, hagfish threads are made from proteins."Proteins are a renewable resource because we can get organisms to make them," says Fudge.
No one has made a spool of hagfish thread yet, but Fudge and his team see a future where hagfish slime or similar proteins could be turned into high-performance, eco-friendly clothing. The fibers might be used for stockings or breathable athletic wear or even bullet-proof vests.Hagfish Slime–without HagfishThe scientists don't plan to harvest slime from hagfish directly. (It's not easy raising hagfish in captivity.) Instead, they hope to produce these fibers in the lab."And I'm just taking my tweezers, and then kind of drawing it up," she explains.
As she pulls with the tweezers, it looks like she is pulling the skin off a cup of hot cocoa. This skin collapses, forming a short fiber. She twirls it between her fingers.
"It's kind of like a little piece of hair," she says.
Other members of the team are trying to make threads like these using genetically engineered bacteria, bypassing the hagfish entirely.The scientists are still nowhere near making fabric from these threads, but biologist Tim Winegard is hopeful."With increased interest and increased support and collaboration," he says, "it could be something not too far into the future."

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NSFW: This Is What Sex Looks Like Under An MRI Scan

Ever wished you could see what was going on inside your body when you have sex with your partner?You're in luck! A new NSFW video featuring footage from multiple MRI scans affords a remarkable glimpse inside human bodies as they engage in intimate activities ranging from a kiss to yes, full-bore coitus.
MRI scanners create still and, in this case, moving images with the help of strong magnetic fieldsthat interact with protons inside our bodies.And as you can see in the video above, those interactions can tell us a lot about interactions of our own.

So Many Varities Of Apple

It has been found in a study that almost 7500 different varities of apple are there on earth.