Hello internet.
First of all, I would like to say sorry about the absence of posting. School has been really stressful and it's hard to keep up with my personal blog with seventy million projects and exams due the next picosecond. But I will have you know that more good stuff is coming your way quickly.
Secondly, me and two other people have made a new YouTube account where we post random gaming stuff like Happy Wheels (really?) and MineCraft (seriously?). I know, really original. But we also do some other stuff like real life videos and multiplayer console and flash games. If you have any suggestions, please go to our YouTube channel, RusticTelecast. By the way, one of them (named Brandon) also has another YouTube account (can be found here) and a blogger (can be found here). I will be appearing as TheAsianDude9000 AKA Bryant, XxLamaGuyxX AKA Brandon, and buddy480 AKA Lane. So yeah, go and check that out if you will.
Interesting fact of the day: On Venus, it is possible to snow/precipitate metal.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
A bunny.
Hello internet. Today I will be showing you a bunny. I already posted today so here's a bunny.
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Living with HALF A BRAIN?!
Hello internet. Today I will be talking about the subject of living with half a brain.
This type of surgery is one of the most invasive surgeries there is, it is called hemispherectomy. Although this surgery is considered the most invasive surgery procedure, it is not the most dangerous. This operation is only given to children usually under the age of three for treating seizures in only one of the two hemisphere in the brain. This procedure is a last-minute-resort when all other medications and surgeries result in failure.
You may think that since the "victim" only has half a brain, they may suffer from mental disorders and be a bit "retarded." This is actually a bit true, but only for a little while. Believe it or not, the victim's other intact half will actually take up the job of the missing half. Eventually, after a year or so, the so-called-victim will have fully recovered and will be able to do everything that a person with both halves of the brain can do. They can even live a full lifetime.
However this isn't true for any of the other organs...except the kidneys. Even though our bodies are pretty much symmetrical, there are some that requires two to keep running functionally. The kidneys are the only organ(s) other than the brain that can lose a "half" and still keep running for a full lifetime. If one of the kidneys gets damaged or fails, the other kidney grows by 50% and takes up the other kidney's job just fine.
If you think about it, every organ has another half or is symmetrical. You have two brain hemispheres, two lungs, two kidneys. Your heart has two ventricles and two atriums, your small intestine and your large intestine both are more or less symmetrical. Your skin is almost perfectly symmetrical. The only other ones are (correct me if I'm wrong at spelling, Blogger corrected it for me) unsymmetrical. The unsymmetrical organs are the stomach, the liver, the pancreas, and the gallbladder.
So yeah.
Interesting fact of the day: This one is for parents that have an infant child. If your infant baby is failing to sleep comfortably, sleep with your infant's blanket for a night or two. Your "smell" will catch on to your infant's blanket and will comfort the baby since they will smell their parents.
This type of surgery is one of the most invasive surgeries there is, it is called hemispherectomy. Although this surgery is considered the most invasive surgery procedure, it is not the most dangerous. This operation is only given to children usually under the age of three for treating seizures in only one of the two hemisphere in the brain. This procedure is a last-minute-resort when all other medications and surgeries result in failure.
You may think that since the "victim" only has half a brain, they may suffer from mental disorders and be a bit "retarded." This is actually a bit true, but only for a little while. Believe it or not, the victim's other intact half will actually take up the job of the missing half. Eventually, after a year or so, the so-called-victim will have fully recovered and will be able to do everything that a person with both halves of the brain can do. They can even live a full lifetime.
However this isn't true for any of the other organs...except the kidneys. Even though our bodies are pretty much symmetrical, there are some that requires two to keep running functionally. The kidneys are the only organ(s) other than the brain that can lose a "half" and still keep running for a full lifetime. If one of the kidneys gets damaged or fails, the other kidney grows by 50% and takes up the other kidney's job just fine.
If you think about it, every organ has another half or is symmetrical. You have two brain hemispheres, two lungs, two kidneys. Your heart has two ventricles and two atriums, your small intestine and your large intestine both are more or less symmetrical. Your skin is almost perfectly symmetrical. The only other ones are (correct me if I'm wrong at spelling, Blogger corrected it for me) unsymmetrical. The unsymmetrical organs are the stomach, the liver, the pancreas, and the gallbladder.
So yeah.
Interesting fact of the day: This one is for parents that have an infant child. If your infant baby is failing to sleep comfortably, sleep with your infant's blanket for a night or two. Your "smell" will catch on to your infant's blanket and will comfort the baby since they will smell their parents.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Short post, good video!
Like the title suggests, this short post is about a cool little video that I somehow found. It's a song for memorizing the Periodic Table! It's the Periodic Table Song!
Here are the lyrics (in the tune of Can-Can):
There's Hydrogen and Helium Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everywhere Nitrogen all through the air
With Oxygen so you can breathe And Fluorine for your pretty teeth Neon to light up the signs Sodium for salty times
Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon Phosphorus, then Sulfur, Chlorine and Argon Potassium, and Calcium so you'll grow strong Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium and Chromium and Manganese
CHORUS This is the Periodic Table Noble gas is stable Halogens and Alkali react agressively Each period will see new outer shells While electrons are added moving to the right
Iron is the 26th Then Cobalt, Nickel coins you get Copper, Zinc and Gallium Germanium and Arsenic
Selenium and Bromine film While Krypton helps light up your room Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium, Zirconium
Niobium, Molybdenum, Technetium Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium Silver-ware then Cadmium and Indium Tin-cans, Antimony then Tellurium and Iodine and Xenon and then Caesium and...
Barium is 56 and this is where the table splits Where Lanthanides have just begun Lanthanum, Cerium and Praseodymium
Neodymium's next too Promethium, then 62's Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium and Terbium Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium Ytterbium, Lutetium
Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten then we're on to Rhenium, Osmium and Iridium Platinum, Gold to make you rich till you grow old Mercury to tell you when it's really cold
Thallium and Lead then Bismuth for your tummy Polonium, Astatine would not be yummy Radon, Francium will last a little time Radium then Actinides at 89
REPEAT CHORUS
Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium Americium, Curium, Berkelium Californium, Einsteinium, Fermium Mendelevium, Nobelium, Lawrencium Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium Bohrium, Hassium then Meitnerium Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium
Ununtrium, Flerovium Ununpentium, Livermorium Ununseptium, Ununoctium And then we're done!
Here are the lyrics (in the tune of Can-Can):
There's Hydrogen and Helium Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everywhere Nitrogen all through the air
With Oxygen so you can breathe And Fluorine for your pretty teeth Neon to light up the signs Sodium for salty times
Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon Phosphorus, then Sulfur, Chlorine and Argon Potassium, and Calcium so you'll grow strong Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium and Chromium and Manganese
CHORUS This is the Periodic Table Noble gas is stable Halogens and Alkali react agressively Each period will see new outer shells While electrons are added moving to the right
Iron is the 26th Then Cobalt, Nickel coins you get Copper, Zinc and Gallium Germanium and Arsenic
Selenium and Bromine film While Krypton helps light up your room Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium, Zirconium
Niobium, Molybdenum, Technetium Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium Silver-ware then Cadmium and Indium Tin-cans, Antimony then Tellurium and Iodine and Xenon and then Caesium and...
Barium is 56 and this is where the table splits Where Lanthanides have just begun Lanthanum, Cerium and Praseodymium
Neodymium's next too Promethium, then 62's Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium and Terbium Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium Ytterbium, Lutetium
Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten then we're on to Rhenium, Osmium and Iridium Platinum, Gold to make you rich till you grow old Mercury to tell you when it's really cold
Thallium and Lead then Bismuth for your tummy Polonium, Astatine would not be yummy Radon, Francium will last a little time Radium then Actinides at 89
REPEAT CHORUS
Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium Americium, Curium, Berkelium Californium, Einsteinium, Fermium Mendelevium, Nobelium, Lawrencium Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium Bohrium, Hassium then Meitnerium Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium
Ununtrium, Flerovium Ununpentium, Livermorium Ununseptium, Ununoctium And then we're done!
Thursday, September 5, 2013
GT #1: Wii U: SUPER SMASH BROS!!!
Hello internet. Today I'm starting yet another series, probably the last one I'll make, and this one was requested by and is for the gamers looking at this blog. So these come out pretty much as often as AT5s. Don't worry, I'm not gonna stick to just one console. Every time GT comes out, I'll cycle through every console in the order of Wii/Wii U→Xbox 360/One, PS3/4, and sometimes PCs. So let's start with the Wii and upcoming Wii U game: Super Smash Bros.
Overview:
If you're a big Nintendo fan and like pretty much all Nintendo characters, you'll love this fighting game. In all three games, they include a character selection screen with at least 12 characters, and a stage selection screen. Once you chose those, you can fight away with up to four players. One of the most unique features of the entire series is the damage/health bar. Instead of showing a bar of HP, it's a percentage scale, and the higher it is, the bigger the chance that you're gonna get KO'ed, and you KO people by knocking them off the screen. Characters are additionally not limited to only facing opponents, instead being allowed to run around freely on the stage. Every character (characters featured in all three games are Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Samus, Pikachu, Ness, Fox, and Captain Falcon) has unique fighting attacks at your disposal, some are weak but fast, and some are strong but slow. So pick wisely.
Super Smash Bros.
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl, known in Japan as Dairantō Smash Brothers X, is the third installment to the series. There are now 35 available characters to play as now. However, some characters have been cut, and some character's appearances are more updated. The game is once again refined and rendered in HD. There are two new characters that stand out; Sonic the Hedgehog from Sega, and Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Brawl now contains 41 stages, 21 initially, and some are from Melee. You can also create your own!
Super Smash Bros. For Wii U and 3DS
This series is not ending yet! Little is known about Super Smash Bros. "4", but here's the trailers and new character introduction videos! Megaman from CapCom and Villager from Animal Crossing!
Interesting fact of the day: Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
The lowdown
Hello internet. I've noticed that I haven't posted in a long time. Sorry about that. I've been caught up in a lot of schoolwork. But don't worry, as I have a lot of drafts that should be posted within this week. I have five almost done:
Sorry it's kind of low quality. If you can't see that well, here's what the five draft titles are...
Life on Mars (and some other places)?
Living with HALF A BRAIN?!
AT5s #6
Short post, great video!
GT#1: SUPER SMASH BROS!
GT is yet another series I'm gonna start (probably the last series I'm gonna make). GT stands for "Game Time." It's where I take a game, review it, and talk about the game and its predecessors and successors. Sometimes, I'll also talk about new gaming consoles (Xbox One, PS4, etc.). This series was requested by a lot of gamers and is pretty much, I bet, only going to be read by gamers. So yeah.
Interesting fact of the day: If you eat too many carrots or other foods that contain carotene, or the orange pigment, you skin color will actually turn into a orangish hue. However, if this happens, the condition isn't life-threatening, and if you stop ingesting carotene, eventually your skin will return to it's natural color.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
AT5s #5
Hello internet. Today I will be listing the top five best (or rather, most effective) defenses in the world. Now I know the pattern of the basis of posting the AT5s is off a little bit. It's usually two regular posts then one AT5s post after, but it's been off. Sorry about that. But let's go on.
5. The Spitting Cobra(s)
All snakes bite. Some are venomous that can inject venom through their fangs. Some can even spit this venom at predators. That's right. Spitting cobras can spit venom through contraction of muscles in the venom glands. While the venom isn't harmful to intact human skin, it can cause permanent blindness if the venom contacts the eye.
4. Horned Lizard
Horned lizards have a lot of defense mechanisms. First, it uses its body coloration as camouflage. If approached too closely, they generally run in short bursts and stop abruptly to confuse the predator. If this fails, they puff up their bodies to cause them to appear larger, thus making them more difficult to swallow. At least four species are also able to squirt an aimed stream of blood from the corners of the eyes for a distance of up to five feet! The blood is used to confuse the predator, but it also is foul-tasting to some predators.
3. The Carpenter Ant
Now you may not expect much from ants, but this little guy sure is an exception. When in a fight or cornered by a much bigger and superior enemy and there's no hope of surviving, the ant goes to as close to the enemy as possible and literally explodes itself by rupturing its skin and spraying toxins all over the place in hopes of a successful kamikaze.
2. The Bombardier Beetle
Basically the equivalent of a fire breathing dragon, but the "fire" comes out of the other hole. When threatened, two chambers within the beetle's body open and mix the two chemicals in a bigger chamber. The mixing of these two chemicals creates a violent reaction and comes out of the beetle's anus. The temperature is of the mixture is around boiling point.
1. The Pistol Shrimp
Imagine a gun. Now imagine the gun in the shape of a lobster claw. Now imagine if the "bullet" was actually sound created by the snapping of the claw. This is somewhere close of how a pistol shrimp "snapping" defense works. First it opens the claw when the prey is nearby. Then, it quickly shuts the claw, creating a cavitation bubble that is high in pressure and can reach temperatures as high as the surface of the Sun. In fact, the pressure and temperature of the cavitation bubble is so high that it creates sonoluminescence (where sound itself creates light)!
Interesting fact of the day: Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
5. The Spitting Cobra(s)
All snakes bite. Some are venomous that can inject venom through their fangs. Some can even spit this venom at predators. That's right. Spitting cobras can spit venom through contraction of muscles in the venom glands. While the venom isn't harmful to intact human skin, it can cause permanent blindness if the venom contacts the eye.
4. Horned Lizard
Horned lizards have a lot of defense mechanisms. First, it uses its body coloration as camouflage. If approached too closely, they generally run in short bursts and stop abruptly to confuse the predator. If this fails, they puff up their bodies to cause them to appear larger, thus making them more difficult to swallow. At least four species are also able to squirt an aimed stream of blood from the corners of the eyes for a distance of up to five feet! The blood is used to confuse the predator, but it also is foul-tasting to some predators.
3. The Carpenter Ant
Now you may not expect much from ants, but this little guy sure is an exception. When in a fight or cornered by a much bigger and superior enemy and there's no hope of surviving, the ant goes to as close to the enemy as possible and literally explodes itself by rupturing its skin and spraying toxins all over the place in hopes of a successful kamikaze.
2. The Bombardier Beetle
Basically the equivalent of a fire breathing dragon, but the "fire" comes out of the other hole. When threatened, two chambers within the beetle's body open and mix the two chemicals in a bigger chamber. The mixing of these two chemicals creates a violent reaction and comes out of the beetle's anus. The temperature is of the mixture is around boiling point.
1. The Pistol Shrimp
Imagine a gun. Now imagine the gun in the shape of a lobster claw. Now imagine if the "bullet" was actually sound created by the snapping of the claw. This is somewhere close of how a pistol shrimp "snapping" defense works. First it opens the claw when the prey is nearby. Then, it quickly shuts the claw, creating a cavitation bubble that is high in pressure and can reach temperatures as high as the surface of the Sun. In fact, the pressure and temperature of the cavitation bubble is so high that it creates sonoluminescence (where sound itself creates light)!
Interesting fact of the day: Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
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