Forgot to go to the gym today…
| June 20, 2012
Category: Need more MoPo? Check Out These Random Posts
Math Class
| June 19, 2012
This is Why Honeybees Die After they Sting Someone
| June 19, 2012
A photograph of a honeybee stinging a man with its abdominal tissue trailing behind, the first of its kind, was more than 100 years in the making.
UC Davis Communications Specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey in the Department of Entomology said she’s taken at least 1 million photos of honeybees in her lifetime, but this snapshot won the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition. The international organization includes communicators, educators and information technologists.
Role Reversal
| June 18, 2012
How to Memorize a Deck of Cards with Superhuman Speed
| June 17, 2012
In 2009 Ron White set a USA record for the fastest person to memorize a deck of cards. he did it in 1 minute and 27 seconds. This record stood for two years in the United States. Now this may seem freakishly fast. But the good news for anyone attempting to memorize a deck of cards is that the first time he tried—just a year before—it took him over 6 minutes! He was not born with a natural ability; instead, he perfected a system that anyone can learn to memorize a deck of cards with seemingly superhuman speed.
The system consists of two main ingredients:
1. Creating a mental map
2. Creating substitute images for each playing card
Watercross: Racing Snowmobiles on Water
| June 16, 2012
What, you think that snowmobiles only go on snow? Joe Barrett of The Wall Street Journal explores the sport of watercross, where participants race snowmobiles on water:
Most people think snowmobiling is strictly a winter sport. Mr. McCurdy, a rider on the International Watercross Association circuit, disagrees. He and his fellow drivers wait all year to race their machines on northern lakes when there isn’t a snowdrift or a patch of ice in sight.
“It’s totally mind-blowing” for some people that snowmobiles can race on water, said Derek McPheeters, another driver and president of the association. “But they work excellent.”
