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Neoseeker : Blogs : Dramon Knight : What you probably didn't learn in school, can be learned right here. :)
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What you probably didn't learn in school, can be learned right here. :)
Seekers, arm yourselves with knowledge. Even if you learn something that you can't find a use for, it's good to have the knowledge in the first place is it not?
And that's what this blog post is all about. Each day I'm going to post some random fact or information, to give you something to think about, or just to see if you learned anything.
Day 1: Penn State Professor of biology and an Insect physiologist Finds "Harmless" Parasite that may cause obesity and diabetes in humans.
A study preformed by Professor Marden showed that a reportedly harmless parasite known as gregarines belonging to the group of parasites that cause malaria, may be the cause of obesity in many Americans.
The study was conducted on a large group of dragonflies and found that the symptoms many dragonflies had when infected with the gregarines parasite were similar to those faced by obese humans and those who suffer from type 2 insulin resistant diabetes.
"All of these symptoms, and the underlying processes behind these symptoms that we're seeing in these dragonflies, are pretty much identical to what you see in mammalian metabolic syndrome and obesity,"
Day 2: Pencils: affecting the environment more than you think?
An average sized tree can make about 170,000 pencils. So, it’s safe to assume that if there are 14 billion (14 000 000 000) pencils made each year world wide then, and one tree can produce about 170,000 pencils, there are approximately 82 000 trees cut each year, to meet the annual demand of about 14 billion pencils.
Day 3: Pearls in vinegar are good as gone
That's right, pearls "melt" in vinegar. Except, it's not really melted, it's more or less dissolved by vinegar in a way. But the reasoning is because a pearl is mostly calcium carbonate, which is susceptible to even a weak acid solution. The crystals of calcium carbonate are converted by acetic acid (vinegar) into calcium, which dissolves in the residual water, and carbonate that effervesces as bubbles of carbon dioxide, the formula for which is CaCO3 + CH3COOH --> Ca + H2O + CO2.
And that's what this blog post is all about. Each day I'm going to post some random fact or information, to give you something to think about, or just to see if you learned anything.
Day 1: Penn State Professor of biology and an Insect physiologist Finds "Harmless" Parasite that may cause obesity and diabetes in humans.
A study preformed by Professor Marden showed that a reportedly harmless parasite known as gregarines belonging to the group of parasites that cause malaria, may be the cause of obesity in many Americans.
The study was conducted on a large group of dragonflies and found that the symptoms many dragonflies had when infected with the gregarines parasite were similar to those faced by obese humans and those who suffer from type 2 insulin resistant diabetes.
"All of these symptoms, and the underlying processes behind these symptoms that we're seeing in these dragonflies, are pretty much identical to what you see in mammalian metabolic syndrome and obesity,"
Day 2: Pencils: affecting the environment more than you think?
An average sized tree can make about 170,000 pencils. So, it’s safe to assume that if there are 14 billion (14 000 000 000) pencils made each year world wide then, and one tree can produce about 170,000 pencils, there are approximately 82 000 trees cut each year, to meet the annual demand of about 14 billion pencils.
Day 3: Pearls in vinegar are good as gone
That's right, pearls "melt" in vinegar. Except, it's not really melted, it's more or less dissolved by vinegar in a way. But the reasoning is because a pearl is mostly calcium carbonate, which is susceptible to even a weak acid solution. The crystals of calcium carbonate are converted by acetic acid (vinegar) into calcium, which dissolves in the residual water, and carbonate that effervesces as bubbles of carbon dioxide, the formula for which is CaCO3 + CH3COOH --> Ca + H2O + CO2.
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Dragoon
since Mar 2009 | Sep 7, 09You actually learn a minimum of 16 new thigs everyday.
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Dramon Knight since Jan 2008 | Sep 7, 09Yeah, but 1 interesting thing is better than 16 non-interesting ones, no?
Dramon Knight
Middlesex, London 
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