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- Teen Sleeps Outside for a Whole Year to Raise Awareness to Plight of the Homeless
- Ever Wonder What Sand Really Looks Like Up Close?
- Japanese Researcher Uses Controversial Experiments to Prove Our Thoughts and Intentions Can Alter the Physical World
| Teen Sleeps Outside for a Whole Year to Raise Awareness to Plight of the Homeless Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:56 AM PST 17-year-old Rudy Hummel has been sleeping outdoors every night for the past seven months. He plans to continue until he has reached his one-year goal. Through this unique project, Rudy wants to test himself and also raise awareness about the difficulties that the homeless face. "I came up with the idea to do this for a whole year just because I like to challenge myself, but now it means more than that," he said. "I've got a couple of organizations picked up that I want to try and collect money for, to donate to. Trying to turn this into a fundraiser." The high school junior from Hermantown, Minnesota said that he has always loved camping and spending time in the outdoors. His initial plan was to sleep outdoors only during the summer, but then he just kept going. "Geez, this has not been hard enough," he said. At first Rudy slept on a platform in a tree in the Hummels' backyard that he had built with his dad. When winter came, he piled up snow with a shovel in the backyard and hollowed it out to create a small bedroom. "It's a quinsy, which is a type of snow shelter," he explained. |
| Ever Wonder What Sand Really Looks Like Up Close? Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:26 AM PST All those times I spent building sandcastles as a child, I never imagined I was working with particles so breathtakingly beautiful. Professor Gary Greenburg's work reveals to us that tiny grains of sand are actually colorful, delicate structures. You will be amazed at how each grain is so unique in terms of shape, size and color. "It is incredible to think when you are walking on the beach you are standing on these tiny treasures," said Professor Greenburg, who has a PhD in biomedical research from University College London. He views these extraordinary particles at a magnification of over 250 times, exposing their real shapes – fragments of crystals, tips of spiral shells, bits of coral, or crumbs of volcanic rock. |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:06 AM PST Self-help gurus have been telling us about the power of positive thinking for years. Now, the results of an experiment might just prove that they were right all along. Dr. Masaru Emoto, a researcher and alternative healer from Japan, has researched the effects of positive and negative thoughts on materials such as water and cooked rice. The results are pretty amazing. Dr. Emoto shot to international fame in 2004, when he was featured in the documentary film What the Bleep Do We Know. In that film, he demonstrated through experiments that human thoughts and intentions could cause a great deal of change to the molecular structure of water. His discovery was path breaking, given the fact that human bodies are made of almost 70 percent water. |
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