Plants - Monsters .

The American tropics widespread vine with dark green leaves spreading the split form, and with drooping down from the stems thick aerial roots. It occurs in the indoor horticulture is called Monstera Monstera. Interestingly, this genus Araceae family includes about 50 species. In young plants smooth-edged leaves, the old and the older they get, and even dissected holed.The name of the plant chose German botanist of the nineteenth century Schott, giving it the root of the French word "monster", which is synonymous as are the "ugly monster". And of course, this naming plants was far not accidental, around preceded amazing historical events. We are deeply convinced that there is nothing terrible in the Monster, it is quite suitable for the cultivation and maintenance of residential buildings. Is that vsplaknёt sometimes confusing unenlightened gardeners who discovered on the leaves wet drops, tears. Experienced florists have long revealed the secret of her - too high humidity of the soil and crying monstera indicate rainfall.And in the days of the so-called Paraguayan War (1864 - 1870 years) the whole of Europe was dumbfounded by the turn of events in the distant South American country that are presented in the news papers. Possess the ability to sniff out and make public sensation, journalists, hungry for the most incredible news readers, told the following story. The Paraguayan Chaco province, some trees have been found - the monsters, under which more and more often the locals are human corpses and skeletons, wrapped in large leaves of these plants. There were desperate assumption that plants are found literally - murderers, the soul in its powerful embrace sacrifice, gnawing her and drinking the blood.Later his witness description of this plant gave E. Menninger in his book "Whimsical Trees": "Blossfeld, while living in Mato - Grosso, specifically investigate these stories. He discovered that it was a question of Philodendron bipinnatifidum, which really leaves reach a length of a meter or more. According to rumors, people are attracted to the tree strong fragrance of its flowers; the smell stunned them, like a drug, and then leaves to wrap around an unconscious victim and sucked her blood. The flowers really smell like very much, but the people to the tree in the sun scorched Chaco desert, where there are only thorns, attracted by its shadow and sweet fruit pulp, edible, and how it benefits related Monstera (Monstera deliciosa). However, any flowers or fruits in no poison or drug. The bodies of the same underneath it belonged to the wounded or dying of thirst the people who took refuge in the shade of a tree. Leaves, always flowing to the ground, really closed up on them, but not in order to suck their blood. According Blossfeldiana, this legend is still circulating in Brazil - it is too exciting to newspapers so easy to give it up. "From the book DG KHessaĭon read that philodendron and closely related to them monstera live in the tropical forests of South America, and in vivo reach a length of two hundred meters or more. A Philodendron bipinnatifidum - tree-like plant that is grown for decorative purposes in the UK. The height of adult plants in room conditions up to 1.3 meters. And so it is stuck to the innocent houseplants notoriety ...

Greens Attacks!

Wherever you look they are everywhere! Plants left their homes windowsill of our apartments and crawl on the walls, hide in business cards and on the bookshelves. No one is nowhere to escape from the grip of their branches! What will be next? Who will stop the overactive imagination landscape designers? Or form a new fashion trend? It seems that today is the time to make a theme landscaping.Fashionable become green walls. Admired from a small seed and stagger the imagination with books young shoots. Japanese scientists have created a special unit Herbi, for any cultivation of spices and herbs on conventional podokonnikah.Osobennye containers (up to schesti pieces) are strengthened to the central unit and are filled with the desired ingredients (seeds, land, as well as nutrients). Then the device regulates the flow of nutrients and water / Of course, you need to replenish the water supply, which is reminiscent of the lights on the containers. However, when you consider that you need to update about once a month, it can be convinced to say that the rise beloved spices and plants are almost without your participation and support / Continuing the theme of books. This time we will focus on the New York hotel does not currently have unique that combines the functions of a bookshop, hotel and library. The owners want to move away from the traditional division of rooms by age, color or country (by the way, most hotels do not stand out, even in ways), offering guests a new special style of the hotel library. The founder of the hotel, probably very fond of the book, however, if the authors of the worldwide library project invented to get rid of surplus books for the benefit of all people in the world, the hotel owners have figured out how to use the collected books for the benefit of increasing the popularity of the hotel. But this, of course, just my speculation.

Hurricanes and other natural disasters.

1. Last Hurricane Sandy caused damage to the United States, according to some sources of information, in the twenty billion dollars, and this is not the limit, it is possible further losses increase. Although hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and bring country-specific losses for the financial system, they are not harmful. After all, money to solve these problems, the US government is likely to take in interest-bearing debt at the Fed. Of course, it can not do this, to raise funds from the budget, but in this case, the latest incident would mean for the ordinary citizens of another tightening of belts.
2. Over the past hundred years, the number and severity of natural disasters is increasing rapidly. There is a logical question of what is the cause, or rather the main reasons for the strength of the relationship in all that is happening in this world it is impossible to establish a single root cause. The scientists of this field believe that the main reason is to increase the temperature of the planet associated with a constant increase in the burning of fossil energy sources. However, these assumptions almost no one but environmentalists do not pay enough attention.
The current system to date international trade is based on the extraction of profits from the product catalog in the regions with a low standard of living, and its sales in regions with high. It provides constant transport of the finished product and raw materials for its production. This causes an increased consumption of fossil fuel, mainly produced from petroleum. The use of alternative, renewable energy sources can rob profits modern oil companies. Recent use their capital to harden their positions, that is, make every effort to ensure that their products have been in demand as much as possible. To do this, they prevent the introduction of the use of other energy technologies. With the help of large amounts of capital to do it simply. Enough to buy a patent for the production of solar cells and other similar inventions or not fund research in a particular area, preventing it to do the rest.
The behavior of this hurricane raises suspicions that may seem ridiculous. He passes by Cuba as the storm, and then, like, subsides, and then suddenly a powerful falls directly to New York. One may get the impression that this hurricane, like previous ones, is a kind of weapon with which, one gets more and more accurate strikes on the bastion of democracy. Thanks to him for some time inactive smart this casino for the rich world - the world's stock markets. The Internet is already a joke heard for a long time, that the spirits of the martyrs of the Islamic avenge her murderers and slanderers. Jokers are less inclined to mysticism, suggest that this is a new kind of weapon - meteorological. And what if the next hurricane razmechet worldwide printing press, which printed a world currency, and will bring down those storage media, which recorded who and how should the Fed? However, after the issue, there is another no less interesting question. Do I need to conspirators in this case? Hurricanes are a consequence of using oil as an energy source. They are closing in on those whose actions gave rise to them.
Imagine our current civilization, which instantly abandoned oil and other fossil fuels! One thing is clear - to transport goods around the globe to sell their profitable becomes unacceptable. This will contribute to the development of production in the field of its direct consumption. This will change the course of development of the world economy from megalomania to mikromanii. Kinda revenge subsistence farming. Nowadays, most people still think the scale of a single country. It would seem that the Russian citizen should not be the case before, what is happening in South Africa, or in the same America, even in neighboring Kazakhstan. Now, however, there are problems of this nature, which can not be solved in a single country.
In conclusion we can only remember the prophecy of the Indian chief Seattle. Wise and impeccable warrior humbly accepted defeat, prepared for him by fate. Many times he told the great white chief, it is impossible to sell the air, river, earth, for it is with all, without exception, people and animals, and its creator, is a single unit. He has not seen a great tragedy that the people of his lot fell softly and slowly die on reservations. The fate of the white man, it seemed worse. Poison the air, polluting water, cut down forests, exterminated the animals, for the sake of profit, pale-faced, he predicted suffocate in their own waste miasma. He promised them a bright and at the same time terrifying and painful end, which will follow the nightmare of their lives dedicated to the mutual humiliation, exploitation, extermination ...

Fireballs its secrets.

The occurrence of lightning very complex physical process still remains an under-researched . In nature, there are several types of lightning , the most mysterious of which is a ball .Samu fireball scientists noticed and described long ago. However, as it is formed , we can only guess. Known only by the properties and capabilities are not endowed fireball people in the old days ! Ball lightning attributed the properties of a certain nature , aliens , supernatural forces and a number of other unexplained phenomena because they could not explain the nature and behavior of this type of lightning. Accurate scientific theories of ball lightning there to this day .Based on observations , the researchers came to the conclusion that ball lightning is somehow connected with electricity , or rather the electrical phenomena in gases. For the emergence of life and of decisive importance is the presence of a strong electric field , which would produce a gas discharge . Obviously, the ball lightning in an area with very high temperatures ( in thousands of kelvins ), most likely composed of plasma. The scientists also found that the fireballs are not stable and metastable systems, and appears to represent the decay of the plasmoid , but for some reason very slow .Many scientists have tried to create ball lightning in the laboratory , but the fact that they were able to play, there was a few seconds and is not consistent with the natural phenomenon. In modern science, there are many theories to explain the appearance of ball lightning , but none of them can be tested in practice.The essence of one of the latest theories (hypotheses of L.Holmlid) is to ensure that the fireballs are Rydberg matter. It should be noted that the group L.Holmlid prepared under laboratory conditions until Rydberg substance not to create fireballs , and to obtain high-power ion and electron beams . The hypothesis that ball lightning is a Rydberg matter is one of the most plausible and explains most of the observed properties of ball lightning , from their ability to be composed of different atoms and occur in different circumstances and opportunities to penetrate the walls of buildings and restore the spherical shape .On Earth, there is up to a thousand fireballs at the same time , however, the probability of once in my life seen such a lightning accounts for only 0.01%.

Yakutia diamonds of an ancient volcano.

On one of the Yakut deposits were discovered by prospectors once three major dimensions of the diamond . The cost of the largest of them , according to preliminary estimates, accounts for almost one and a half million dollars. A diamond the size of a walnut plan to auction and, in all likelihood, this amount there will increase significantly.Precious stones of this size rarely found in deposits of Yakutia: no more than 15 units per year . Therefore, production of three identical units in the same time - the high-profile events . First , the most pure rock has become the object of pursuit of many collectors . Two other large fragment of the diamond is likely to be divided into parts. They are allowed to attend the proceedings as diamonds and diamond parts for various machinery and high-tech machines.Diamonds have always attracted considerable interest jewelers , collectors and designers, is usually mined in kimberlite pipes - ancient volcanic vents . Precious stones were formed there under the influence of high temperatures and great pressure within the earth's crust centuries ago.The share of Russia , as we know , only accounts for about 25 % of mined diamonds all over the planet. It is possible that the Yakut miners again and again surprise the world with new unusual finds.

own body.

Do we love your body? As a child, we just do not notice it if had not taken his stomach or a sore leg . During adolescence, the body nothing but trouble starts fighting with acne, after thirty smoothly passing in the fight against wrinkles.As a young girl, I exclaimed , "You just do not notice all of my ugliness , you just got used to me " . Then, from the hapless ugly duckling I gradually turned into a swan. Men began eyeing the street , letting the admiring glances , attention is booked not only the face but also the feet , and the figure . I realized that very attractive. However, the love of my body was , so to speak , differentiated. Face " rode " first class, was VIP (very important part), feet and hands - followed on the lower deck , not to mention the more intimate corners .In the critical days I hated myself . Pain, unpleasant discharge . If the body was taking a trap, made ​​an accomplice of bad plot. Fear of pregnancy did not give sleep . The smell of sweat was considered indecent. At the same time terrified me , " abandoned the body."One day I was walking down the main avenue near their hometown. On the sidewalk , leaning to the side of the body and covering her wretched piece of cardboard boxes, lay a beggar. There was nothing worse than this kind of half-decayed living person. I thought about how he was born. Probably wrinkled red baby, screaming , that is urine hoping for a wonderful life , to a bright future. Whatever his mother, she loved him , loved him already inside. She listened to a future life , grinned , feeling his swaying . " It's like a fish fins for you inside" - told me a familiar mother of many children , - " but you love this fish , which has no name or gender, more than anything , more than myself , more than any of the most beloved man." Future mother and father must have come up with the name of the baby , the mother was preparing dowry grandmother groaned , my father certainly wanted a son . Everyone seemed to be stopped in the wild in anticipation of an hour of birth .And what has shifted in the horoscope which star fell from the sky when the baby started to grow ? However, in the beginning, he grew exemplary boy . I went to kindergarten and then to school. On the dusty sideboard still photos are stored in a red tie , report cards and certificates from work. What happened, why the body has come into such disrepair ? Where is the fine line that led to the destruction ?... As recently as two years ago, I myself was in a terrible state , not very far removed from the status of the St. Petersburg clochard . I could not wash, could not comb his hair , could not look at myself in the mirror. The face was covered with huge pimples , body exuded a stench . In an interview in the same place with the shame drove me smug clerk - " format is not one that does not fit " - arrogantly and contemptuously he said.After that I took myself firmly in hand. I myself, " put off the evil eye ." One day I woke up and decided to revive yourself , love yourself , and always full . I turned to God , and , reviving the soul, and I took over the body . Now I'm not only carefully pull out his eyebrows and am getting my eyes, but his feet and anoint the best and most expensive cream , buy high-quality installation - but only on critical days . On other days, the natural smell of a female , fresh sweat after taking a bath (the same " scent of a woman " ) only attracts . I decided that if I get pregnant , be sure to face a chick - and never, under any pretext to commit the crime , disguised by the word " abortion."Now I feed the body of high-quality food , bathed in a fragrant bath and walk their dress in the most expensive clothes, a fine linen . Decorate with jewels and anoint creams.Love yourself, love all and always ! Love your body - the Earth's transport eternal Divine soul.

teaching in shock at lightning is free neutrons.

In 1985 , Soviet scientists noticed that when on their neutron detector storm passed , there was an increase in the neutron flux . Unfortunately , the level of monitoring equipment did not allow them to find out if any additional information apart from this observation .Since then, scientists have put forward several possible explanations for the observed flow . One of them says that the strong fields generated by lightning strikes , change the trajectory of cosmic ray muons . According to a second , lightning occurs during radiation of gamma rays, neutrons during generation photonuclear process. However, recent measurements have shown that none of these theories can not explain the findings.Russian scientists have conducted a new experiment that will significantly clarify previous data . They found three neutron detector , which were sensitive to low energy neutrons , one above ground , another part in the building , and the third above the ground with a strong screening . Also used more traditional and high-energy neutron detector . In addition, the electrical activity of the storm was measured through a number of devices that can more accurately compare the dependence of the electrical activity and indicators of the number of neutrons in a thunderstorm.Why do we need so much of neutron detectors? The fact that they are required to account for the influence of background noise cosmic radiation.The data show a clear jump of sensor low energy neutrons simultaneously with the electrical discharge of lightning. Unfortunately, the time resolution of the neutron detectors is 1 minute , so you can not remove any more details about the tide of neutrons. Three shielded detector indicate that the neutrons themselves are not formed inside the detector .High-energy neutron detector also showed an increase in activity during the storm, but this is due to the fact that he also receives signals from low energy neutrons . Thus , the cosmic radiation is not a source of a tide of neutrons during a lightning storm .To the scientists' surprise , the new data suggest that when lightning strikes per second produces up to 5000 neutrons per cubic meter.This high number is not combined with a second explanation , according to which neutrons are produced by high-energy photons (gamma rays) .