By Anupum Pant Like lakes, bizarre and rare disorders also fascinate me. Of course I would never want to experience one of these, but it’s good to know about them. Besides the horrible, body-turning-into-stone disorder, Alien hand syndrome is one of the most bizarre disorders I’ve heard of. If someone has the Alien hand syndrome, they’d have … Continue reading An Extremely Rare and Bizarre Disorder – Alien Hand Syndrome
By Anupum Pant Background In the Judge Magney State Park, Minnesota, as the Brule river makes it way towards Lake Superior, something very unusual happens at the Devil’s Kettle Falls – The river splits into two streams, one of which moves away like a normal stream and joins the Lake Superior. But the other stream falls … Continue reading No One Knows Where This Water Goes
By Anupum Pant Red colored water, which gives it name blood falls, emerges continually from the edge of a glacier in east Antarctica. The source of this red-colored-water is said to be a lake that is buried 400 meters under a glacier. The water of this lake is extremely salty and is about 3 times … Continue reading Blood Falls – A Strange Place Home to Strange Creatures
By Anupum Pant It is normal for birds to swoop down and catch fish from water. But, since 1940s, stories about a meter-long-demonic-African-fish leaping out of water to catch birds in mid-air have been told. They were only stories; no one had seen the actual occurrence…Until now. Recently, a video of it happening was captured by … Continue reading Tiger Fish Jumps Out of Water and Catches Flying Birds
By Anupum Pant Benford’s law is a fairly simple law to grasp and it will blow your mind. It deals with the leading digits of numbers. So, for example, you have the number 28 – The leading digit for it would be 2. Similarly, the leading digit for 934 would be 9. Just pick the … Continue reading Benford’s Law Will Make You Wonder For a While
By Anupum Pant Our eye doesn’t work like a camera – with pixels and frame rates. It moves rapidly in small amounts and continuously updates the image to “paint” the detail. Also, since we have two eyes, both the signals are combined by the brain to increase the resolution further. Due to this, a much higher resolution image … Continue reading Scientifically, Do Retina Displays Make Sense?
By Anupum Pant Agreed, sometimes, when you find yourself being interrogated in a room covered with one-way mirrors, you can’t see the people who are observing you; Instead, you see yourself in the mirrors. Otherwise, If you can see something, it seems normal to assume that the thing can see you too. A trout’s window to … Continue reading The Underwater Optical Man-hole
By Anupum Pant Water on Earth It’s Christmas! On this happy day let’s take a minute to look at what the major part of the world is facing today. The present situation might not look as bad, but the truth is that we are running out of fresh water. To give you an idea about … Continue reading Making Fresh Water With Apple and Tomato Peels
By Anupum Pant The length of Australia’s coastline according to two different sources is as follows: Year Book of Australia (1978) – 36,735 km Australian Handbook – 19,320 km There is a significant difference in the numbers. In fact, one is almost double the other. So, what is really happening here? Which one is the … Continue reading The Coastline Paradox
By Anupum Pant An experiment so slow that a professor overseeing it, died without having seen the results for half a century! The Pitch Drop experiment, started by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in the year 1930, is the probably slowest science experiment and also holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest … Continue reading Longest Continuously Running Experiment – 83 Years and Counting
