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10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 6:58pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
1). WHY IS YAWNING CONTAGIOUS? : Yawning is a puzzling phenomenon. Even the simple act of talking about it is enough to make some people do it (some of you are probably doing it right now). There really is no other bodily function quite like it. Now, some of you reading this may be aware of the long-standing theory that the purpose of yawning is to keep us alert by forcing our bodies to take in an extra large gulp of oxygen. That makes sense, because we mostly yawn when we’re tired or bored, situations where an extra burst of energy would come in handy. The thing is, experiments have conclusively disproven that theory over the years. In fact, there is no universally agreed upon theory for why we actually yawn, even though everyone does it. A commonly accepted theory is that yawning actually cools down the brain, because various experiments have shown that one of the few things to actually change in the body during a yawn is the temperature of the brain itself. As for why yawning is contagious, no one knows that either.
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 6:59pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
Pals your criticism and thoughts are welcome, let's just have fun. |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 7:27pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
2) THE PROOF FOR '1+1=2' is 300 PAGES LONG: The equation 1+1=2 is probably the very first bit of math that most of us learned, because addition and subtraction are probably the simplest concepts in mathematics. If you have one apple and somebody gives you another, you have two apples. By the same logic, if you have two apples and someone takes one away, you only have one apple. It’s a universal fact of life that transcends barriers like language or race. Which is what makes the following sentence so unbelievable: The proof for 1+1=2 is well over 300 pages long and it wasn’t conclusively proven until the 20th century. Oga benbuks are you with me
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 7:35pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
3) The Definition Of ‘Almost Surely’ Is A Mathematical Nightmare: In more basic language, that essentially means that even when an event has a 100 percent chance of occurring, it won’t necessarily occur. For example, if you flipped a coin a million times, statistically, the odds of the coin landing on heads at least once is essentially one. However, there is an infinitesimally small chance that the coin could land on tails every single time. So although the odds of the event happening are for all intents and purposes guaranteed, it is impossible to say that.
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 7:38pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
4) How Long Is A Piece Of String? It’s Impossible To Know If someone was to give you a piece of string and ask you how long it was, you’d assume that answering them would be a fairly simple, if rather odd task. But how would you answer that person if they wanted to know exactly how long that piece of string was? That was something comedian Alan Davies wanted to ascertain for a BBC TV special aptly called How Long is a Piece of String? by posing the deceptively simple question to a group of scientists. The answer was, rather ironically, “it depends,” because the exact definition of how long something is depends on who you ask. Mathematicians told the comedian that a piece of string could theoretically be of infinite length, while physicists told him that due to the nature of subatomic physics and the fact that atoms can technically be in two places at once, measuring the string precisely is impossible. 5
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by Sabadon(m): 7:40pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
Dat yawning part tho....i personaly av made research abt it.....hmmm only God knws d mystery behind it....cos i even yawned while typing dis n i knw somebdy wud yawn y reading dis |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 7:43pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
5) Defining The Word ‘The’ Is Really Difficult: The word “the” is one of the most commons words in the English language. It’s so ubiquitous that most of us have probably never stopped to think about how strange of a word it actually is. As discussed here, it’s easily one of the most difficult words to explain to a non-native English speaker because it has such a massive range of applications, some of which are remarkably odd when looked at objectively. To quote: “Why do we say, ‘I love the ballet,’ but not ‘I love the cable TV?’ Why do we say, ‘I have the flu,’ but not ‘I have the headache?’ Why do we say, ‘winter is the coldest season,’ and not ‘winter is coldest season?’ ” Think about it—we use the word “the” in dozens of different situations and in reference to many different concepts, ideas, and objects interchangeably. We can use the word to refer to everything from a specific item to an abstract metaphorical concept, and native speakers can instinctively tell when it’s being used incorrectly without thinking about it.
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 7:45pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
Sabadon: Dat yawning part tho....i personaly av made research abt it.....hmmm only God knws d mystery behind it....cos i even yawned while typing dis n i knw somebdy wud yawn y reading dis I almost yawned o |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by Sabadon(m): 7:47pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
QAPHAYNE:lols |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 7:56pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
6) WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY KNOW HOW BICYCLES WORK: Bicycles have existed for over 100 years, and since they were invented we’ve mastered land, sea, and air travel while making impressive headway into space. We have planes that can traverse the globe in a matter of hours, so you’d think that by now we’d have the humble bicycle just about figured out. But oddly, that’s not the case. As mentioned in this article, scientists have been arguing about how exactly they work, or more specifically, how they stay upright, almost since they were first invented. For a long time, the major theory was that the gyroscopic force of the wheels spinning kept bikes upright, but when scientists built a special bicycle with contraptions attached to it designed to counteract any gyroscopic forces produced by the wheels, it stayed upright and no one could explain how.
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by ladyfeli(f): 8:01pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
If they don't Knw Hw bicycles work Dn Hw was it invented. They shud ask d inventor(s) 1 Like |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 8:02pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
7) Some Mosquitoes Bite People Because Of Their Clothes If you’ve ever been bitten by a mosquito, chances are someone nearby has given you a recycled explanation for why the insect decided to ruin your day. Maybe they said that you smelled good, or that you had a particular blood type, or maybe they just told you that your shirt makes you look like a victim. We’re not being facetious with that list, by the way—they’re all things that scientists believe can cause mosquitoes to find you more attractive. As a recent Smithsonian article details, 20 percent of people seem to be strangely attractive to mosquitoes, and no one is really in agreement as to why. The simple answer would appear to be that it’s something in a person’s blood that attracts mosquitoes. However, it would appear that the mosquitoes are actually attracted by a chemical signal given off by the body. It’s present in around 85 percent of us—which also explains why some people seem invisible to mosquitoes—and it indicates what your blood type is. Another, stranger theory is that mosquitoes are naturally attracted to darker, more vivid colors. In other words, it’s actually been theorized—and in some cases shown—that mosquitoes will bite people because they like their shirt.
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 8:27pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
8] We Enjoy Things For Reasons Other Than Enjoyment: Enjoyment is a weird thing because it’s so subjective— for every person who loves a given food, song, or movie, there’s another person who adamantly hates it. You’d think that the reason we enjoy things is because it feels good in some way, but scientists have conclusively proven that that’s only half the story. For example, people can be fooled into thinking they love a certain food or wine just by telling them it’s really expensive. The same can be said for objects—people will instinctively choose an expensive product over a cheaper one purely because of the price. Enjoyment is barely even a factor. In marketing, this is known as the “Chivas Regal effect,” named for the scotch of the same name which saw sales explode after they simply raised the price of their product.
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 8:37pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
9) Left And Right Have Been Confusing Philosophers For Years How would you explain the concept of left and right to someone who had no idea what those words meant? Would you explain it in terms of your relative position to a well-known stationary landmark? Or maybe you’d think outside the box and refer to the rotation of the Earth or something comparably massive and unchanging. But what if you were talking to an alien whose planet rotated differently to our own, or one who didn’t have eyes? It’s a question that has been intriguing philosophers for years because, without an agreed upon point of reference, it’s incredibly difficult to define what left and right actually are. For exam
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Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 9:14pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
Still thinking about no 10, pals ur suggestions and comments are welcome. |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by dammyjay93(m): 11:19pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
Lol I actually yawned 1 Like |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 6:01am On Aug 22, 2014 |
ladyfeli: I will comment wen I c all of dm Oya o ladyfelli the post dun complete, what do you think. |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 6:03am On Aug 22, 2014 |
dammyjay93: Lol I actually yawned Hahaha actually 65 per cent of readers would yawn #YAWNS# 1 Like |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 7:15am On Aug 22, 2014 |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by Nobody: 10:25am On Aug 22, 2014 |
QAPHAYNE: 2) THE PROOF FOR '1+1=2' is 300 PAGES LONG: The equation 1+1=2 is probably the very first bit of kinda .? wana teach me something .? BTW: y mention my name , knew me smwer or wah .? |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 11:10am On Aug 22, 2014 |
benbuks: Yeah used to read your posts as a guest on nl b4 I joined. |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by kayojosephy(m): 12:22pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
wonderment..... got ova d yawning stuff as I no free yawn..... |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 1:26pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
kayojosephy: wonderment..... Your signature na wa o |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by eemjay17(m): 1:48pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
I try not to yawn but i end up yawning and still yawning while typing this reply...#DamnStrange |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by abdulaz: 1:56pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
QAPHAYNE: 9) Left And Right Have Been Confusingsame thing applies to clockwise and anticlockwise direction to those who are left handed. |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by abdulaz: 1:57pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
QAPHAYNE: 9) Left And Right Have Been Confusingsame thing applies to clockwise and anticlockwise direction to those who are left handed. |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by Olajummylove(f): 2:00pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
Wow... the yawning and no 9 got me thinking |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 2:03pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
abdulaz: same thing applies to clockwise and anticlockwise direction to those who are left handed. On point sir. Very very on point. |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by QAPHAYNE: 2:04pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
Olajummylove: Wow... the yawning and no 9 got me thinking Did you yawn while reading it? Talk true o |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by dapyd1(m): 2:30pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
Source? |
Re: 10 Things That Are Deceptively Complex by ladyfeli(f): 5:01pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
QAPHAYNE:I ve commented |
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