Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Daily Journal

Picture Of The Day
Meet the woman who spent half a year with her head in the clouds - photographing every letter of the alphabet in the space between buildings. Keen photographer Lisa Rienermann, 30, spent six months wandering around Barcelona trying to find every letter of the alphabet. Lisa, from Berlin, Germany, said: "I tried it here in Berlin but it didn't work because the houses and streets are too far apart. They are very awkward streets in Barca - it would never work in New York because the way the buildings are made arelike a chequer board."
Picture: LISA RIENERMANN / CATERS NEWS

 Fact Of The Day

20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Water




Water is everywhere—there are 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on the earth’s surface. But less than 1 percent of it is fresh and accessible, even when you include bottled water.

4  Cheers! The new Water Recovery System on the International Space Station recycles 93 percent of astronauts’ perspiration and urine, turning it back into drinking water.

5  Kurdish villages in northern Iraq are using a portable version of the NASA system to purify water from streams and rivers, courtesy of the relief group Concern for Kids.

 Ice is a lattice of tetra­hedrally bonded molecules that contain a lot of empty space. That’s why it floats.
 












10  Good gardeners know not to water plants during the day. Droplets clinging to the leaves can act as little magnifying glasses, focusing sunlight and causing the plants to burn.









11  Hair on your skin can hold water droplets too. A hairy leg may get sunburned more quickly than a shaved one.

14  Although many doctors tell patients to drink eight glasses of water a day, there is no scientific evidence to support this advice.

16  Call waterholics anonymous: Drinking significantly more water than is needed can cause “water intoxication” and lead to fatal cerebral and pulmonary edema. Amateur marathon runners have died this way.

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Quote Of The Day

“It's easy to be confident when you have control of the puck.
 It's very difficult to keep that confidence when you have to take whatever   strange bounces life throws your way.
 Don't be careless, but don't be too careful either. You cannot be afraid to lose.
 That's how you gain the confidence- attack the game when the puck isn't yours.”
        
         ~D3: The Mighty Ducks



Websites Of The Day
Send A Personalized Call From Santa – Get Started

Take a Break & Play

Poppable Cascade – Play
Remove groups of three or more like-coloured balls with a few twists thrown in along the way.

Crimson Room – Play
Escape the room.

Have a nice day :)

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