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Blood Flow - HowStuffWorks - 0 views

  • All blood enters the right side of the heart through two veins: The superior vena cava (SVC) and the inferior vena cava (IVC) (see figure 3).The SVC collects blood from the upper half of the body. The IVC collects blood from the lower half of the body. Blood leaves the SVC and the IVC and enters the right atrium (RA) (3).When the RA contracts, the blood goes through the tricuspid valve (4) and into the right ventricle (RV) (5). When the RV contracts, blood is pumped through the pulmonary valve (6), into the pulmonary artery (PA) (7) and into the lungs where it picks up oxygen.
guzman5860

Why is the sky blue? - 0 views

  • The wavelength of the blue light scatters better than the rest, predominates over the other colors in the light spectrum, and makes the sky appear blue to us.
    • guzman5860
       
      The wavelength of the color blue scatters better than the other colors because of its wavelength. And it makes the sky to be blue.
trevino5824

Nightmares | Psychology Today - 0 views

  • Most nightmares may be a normal reaction to stress, and some clinicians believe they aid people in working through traumatic events.
    • trevino5824
       
      On nightmares you have strees because you wake up and then you cannot sleep and you have diffrent traumatic event
  • A nightmare is a dream occurring during rapid eye movement
marino5856

Why are there 24 hours in a day? › Ask an Expert (ABC Science) - 0 views

  • "The origin of our time system of 24 hours in a day with each hour subdivided into 60 minutes and then 60 seconds is complex and interesting," says Dr Nick Lomb, consultant curator of astronomy, from the Sydney Observatory.
  • Our 24-hour day comes from the ancient Egyptians who divided day-time into 10 hours they measured with devices such as shadow clocks, and added a twilight hour at the beginning and another one at the end of the day-time, says Lomb.
  • "Night-time was divided in 12 hours, based on the observations of stars. The Egyptians had a system of 36 star groups called 'decans' — chosen so that on any night one decan rose 40 minutes after the previous one.
    • marino5856
       
      The 24 hours has been invented by the egyptians. They first divided it into 10 hours but then they divided it in 12 because of the twilight. So night time was divide in 12 hours because they wanted to see the stars in the night and also that there would be light in the day.
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  • The subdivision of hours and minutes into 60 comes from the ancient Babylonians who had a predilection for using numbers to the base 60. For example, III II (using slightly different strokes) meant three times 60 plus two or 182.
  • "We have retained from the Babylonians not only hours and minutes divided into 60, but also their division of a circle into 360 parts or degrees," says Lomb.
  • While each country has (in broad terms) historically had distinct measurements for distance, weights etc the method of splitting the day into 24 hours, one hour into 60 mins and one minute into 60 seconds seems to be the only one in use, and indeed to me the only one I know of. This non-metric measurement of time is far from ideal, but what other comparably accurate methods have been used historically?
guzman5860

Getting Started with Chrome extension - Diigo help - 0 views

  • Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
  • Highlighting can also be accomplished from the context pop-up. After the Chrome extension is installed, whenever you select text on a webpage, the context pop-up will appear, allowing you to accomplish text-related annotation. Highlight Pop-up Menu – After you highlight some text, position your mouse cursor over it and the highlight pop-up menu will appear. The highlight pop-up menu allows you to add notes to, share, or delete the highlight.
  • Sticky Note Click the middle icon on the annotation toolbar to add a sticky note to the page. With a sticky note, you can write your thoughts anywhere on a web page.
mijares5812

Solving the Problems of Flight - Wright Brothers National Memorial (U.S. National Park ... - 0 views

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    Solving the Problems of Flight
Esteban Cantu

Jupiter - Astronomy For Kids - KidsAstronomy.com - 1 views

  • If you weigh 70 pounds (32 kg) on Earth, on Jupiter you would weigh 185 pounds (84 kg). This is because Jupiter is such a large planet and so has more gravity.
    • Esteban Cantu
       
      If you weigh 32 pounds on earth, you would weigh 147 pounds on jupiter! That's 115 more pounds. Gravity on jupiter is harder because jupiter is such a big planet..
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