Sunday, November 20, 2011

Gold in Seawater - Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.


With the current estimate for the concentration of gold in sea water as 10 ng-1 and the total volume of the oceans at 1.37 x 109 km3, the total quantity of gold dissolved in sea water is calculated to be 13.7 million tons. A lot of gold, but not extractable on a commercial basis as yet.

The most determined attempt to recover gold from sea water was undertaken by Fritz Haber, [F. Haber, Z. Angew. Chem. 1927, 40, 303.], who researched the matter extensively after the First World War. He wanted to find a way to pay Germany's war reparation debts.

Albert Einstein Marlin Monroe Eye Test


How to test Shortsightedness - This is a clever test developed by Dr. Aude Oliva, a cognitive scientist at MIT.

Normal Vision people will see Einstein in the above Picture !!

Short sighted people will see Marilyn Monroe !!
If you see Einstein in the picture, Walk back a few meters and You'll see it into Marilyn Monroe.

And if you see John F. Kennedy in this picture, you are bipolar.

Names of the 3 wise Monkeys and an additional 4th wise Monkey.


The Three Wise Monkeys sometimes called the Three Mystic Apes are a pictorial maxim and together they embody the proverbial principle to "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".The names of the 3 wise monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. Sometimes there is a 4th monkey depicted with the others,Shizaru with crossed arms symbolizing the principle of "do no evil".
In English, the monkeys' names are often given as Mizaru, Mikazaru,and Mazaru,but the last two names were corrupted from the Japanese originals.