50 Amazing Science Facts

Surprise yourself with the Mysteries of Science! 5 Facts about Human Body 1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times. 2. The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9m2 (20sq ft). The skin constantly flakes away – in a lifetime each person sheds around 18kg (40 lb) of skin. 3. Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 litres (2.2 pints) of blood per minute and expel up to 1.4 litres (2.5 pints) a day of urine. 4. The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day. 5. Brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the known universe! 5 Facts about Plants 1. A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground. 2. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from 10-25 gallons in 24 hours. 3. Plants cannot change their habitat. 4. Petals are usually colorful, and they attract insects and birds that help with pollination. 5. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot. 5 Facts about Animals 1. Shark’s need to swim, or they will sink! 2. All dogs are identical in anatomy - 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth 3. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain. 4. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. 5. Butterflies taste with their feet. 5 Facts about Pollution 1. A plastic cup can take 50 - 80 years to decompose. About 14 billion pounds of plastic is dumped in the world’s oceans every year. 2. Sewage from boating can pollute. Untreated sewage is a significant risk to human health and wildlife. 3. The things we do everyday contribute to over half the pollution in Puget Sound. Litter thrown on the ground can end up in our storm drains, ditches and streams. 4. More than 100 active pesticide ingredients are suspected of causing cancer, birth defects and gene mutation. 5. For every one of the 6 billion people on earth, nearly four tons of carbon dioxide is spewed into the air annually. 5 Facts about Planets 1. A Planet falls into two categories. It is either a Terrestrial Planet or a Gas Giant. 2. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430° C during the day and at night, plummets to minus 180°C. 3. A hundred pound man would weight 38 pounds on Mars. 4. Jupiter is so big that it could fit all the other planets in the solar system inside it, having the great red spot which is a storm that has been going on for over 300 years. 5. The clouds of Venus is filled with sulfuric acid. 5 Tech Facts 1. The Internet is the fastest-growing tool of communication ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years and the Internet just 4 years. 2. The United States generates more ewaste than any other nation. 3. The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972. 4. The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Alfred Southwick. 5. As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by our head. 5 Strange Facts 1. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet. 2. Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes! 3. At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth. 4. Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms. 5. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph. 5 Funny Facts 1. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 2. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest. 3. The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles. 4. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life. 5. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10. 5 Wierd Facts 1. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! 2. The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’! 3. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos. 4. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes! 5. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows! 5 Crazy Facts 1. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. 2. A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed. 3. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. 4. Snakes have no eyelids and are completely deaf. 5. Flamingoes are the some of the only creatures designed to survive in the caustic environment of a volcanic lake.

Time Management Skills

Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Time management will make us more efficient in everything we do

Below is a list of some time management (self management) techniques and tips . They are in no particular order.

• Keep a calendar/diary. Mark all your important dates/tasks.

• Keep a list of “Things to Do” and mark them off as completed.

• Every day make a list of what you have to do tomorrow.

• When possible do the unpleasant tasks first.

• Figure out when (what time of the day?) you work most efficiently.

• Establish your priorities for what you want to get done. Identify the tasks and activities that are the highest priority and eliminate those of low priority.

 

• Allow more time than you think you will need. This makes your schedule flexible and allows for the unexpected.

• Get into the habit of using your odd five minutes here and there more productively. Don’t just dismiss it as only five minutes – they add up throughout the week!

• Accomplish one or two important tasks rather than lots unimportant ones.

• Tidiness makes your life easier and reduces stress.

• Allow time to relax, recharge and do nothing.

• Leave time in your schedule for un-planned activities.

• Know your strengths, skills and weakness.

• Ask yourself, “What am I doing that someone else could do for me?” Delegate!

• Don’t be scared to ask for help

• Bin things straight away to reduce the clutter (junk mail, newspapers and spam email etc).

• Divide large overwhelming tasks into smaller chunks, and attack them one at a time.

• Complete at least one task each day that you don’t like to do, but know you should.

• Watch less T.V. If you watch T.V for three hours a day from the age of five years old, by the time you are fifty five the amount of T.V you will have watched will be the equivalent to watching non-stop 24 hours a day for six years and three months. If you cut this down by just one hour a day, so then only watch two hours of T.V, you will have gained back over two years worth of time.

• Realize that all your email checking, surfing the internet and other procrastinations add up to hours of lost time each week (sometime even each day!) 

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.

Don't judge life by one difficult season.

Persevere through the difficult patches

and better times are sure to come some time or later.

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."