Sunday, 28 September 2014
Climbers Lit the Magnificent Matterhorn to Celebrate 150 Years of Climbing
Climbers
“painted” the beautiful Matterhorn with Red Colors to celebrate the special
anniversary. A group of 16 trained climbers left Red beacons along the route of
the famous climb, which is one of the highest mountains in the Alps Switzerland
and as nightfall came the imposing mountain came alive with color. The event
was organized by clothing brand Mammuth to celebrate the 150th anniversary of
the first explorers to scale the epic mountain. This massive cragged rock tooth
standing alone on the horizon in a sea of clouds has for decades been an electromagnet
for mountaineers, and has claimed the lives of 450. On 14 July 1865, British climber Edward
Whymper reached the peak of the Matterhorn together with his rope team, but
lost four climbers during the descent. Therefore 6 years later, on 22 July
1871, Englishwoman Lucy Walker became the first woman to climb the Matterhorn
wearing a long flannel skirt as was suitable for a Victorian lady. Her ascent was seen as a jewel in the crown of
female mountaineering.
The Mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls
If you have ever worried that we have solved all the
mysteries of nature, fear not. Minnesota’s Devil’s Kettle Falls has been perplexing
hikers and geologists for generations. The Devil's Kettle is a mystifying
geological wonder situated inside Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota,
in USA, just off the North Shore of Lake Superior. The Brule River makes its
way through the park; it drops 800 feet in elevation and makes plentiful
waterfalls in the process.
One of these waterfalls is quite distinct. Approximately 2.4
km before the river empties into Lake Superior; it gets split in two by a rocky
outcrop. The eastern part drops 50 feet below and continues towards Lake
Superior. The western part falls 10 feet into a massive pothole, which is
called the “Devil's Kettle” and disappears. No one knows where the water goes.
It is thought there must be an exit point somewhere underneath Lake Superior,
but it has never been located. From the last several years, investigators have
dropped brightly colored dyes, ping pong balls, and many other things into the
Devil's Kettle.
Surprisingly none of them have ever been found. One philosophy
is that the river flows along a subversive fault and comes out somewhere under
Lake Superior. This is dubious, because for this to happen, the fault would
have to be exactly oriented towards the lake, and would have to be big enough
to let the flow of half the river. Even if such a fault is real, it would have probably
been clogged over the years as rocks, sand, logs and other materials fell into
the kettle. Besides, there is no sign of such a fault in the area. One more
theory is found when millions of years ago a lava tube formed when the rocks
first solidified.
The issue with this theory is that the rock at Devil’s Kettle
waterfalls is rhyolite, and lava tubes never form in rhyolite. Lava tubes form
in basalt flowing down the slopes of volcanoes, and the adjacent basalt layer
to Devil’s Kettle is situated much too far underground to be any kind of factor
in the mystery. The existence of a big underground cave is also ruled out
because underground caves form in limestone rock, and there is no limestone in
the area. The mystery is compounded by the fact no floating debris suddenly
appearing at one spot offshore in Lake Superior has ever been reported.
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Beautiful Glowing Interactive Circular Swings Change Colors with Motion
In the coming few months, you’ll be able to see this interactive Swing
Time installation on The Lawn on D in Boston offers residents and people to sit
back and ease while swinging in one of 20 glowing hammocks. This beautiful
temporary project was concept by Höweler + Yoon Architecture and was created as
a way to "make a new type of city park" where everyone is invited to
gather and play games or do exercises to be fit. Every swing is custom made in
three diverse sizes from welded polypropylene. The inside of the circular
structures, LED lighting responds to movement contingent on whether or not it
is being used. At a standstill, the round form emits soft white lights,
nonetheless then, as a sightseer swings and rocks inside of the structure, an
internal micro-controller modification the lighting from white to purple to
indicate motion.
Sunday, 21 September 2014
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Unique Color Changing Ice Cream as its melt.
Well, if someone offers you to have an
ice cream which changes the colors as it melt? Then what’ll be your
expression? Obviously you’ll be amazed. Spanish ice cream enthusiast
Manuel Linares has formulated a dessert that will change from blue to
pink to purple with the help of the temperature and acids from the human
mouth and a spritz of something he calls a "love elixir." Thanks,
science! The beautiful idea of color changing ice cream actually a
unique kind of idea when ice cream changes its color as it melts.
He
has attended a course in ice cream making at the Hotel Business School
Hoffman in Barcelona, where students were motivated to create a novel
flavor of ice cream. Manuel Linares announced that his ice cream would
be able to change color as its melts, a surprise statement that earned
him laughs from his instructor. But Manuel stuck to his goal, and
managed gets the objective of color changing ice cream and he is
convincing everyone he wasn't joking. He created the ice cream and give
him name “Xamaleon” a special ice cream that changes from purple to pink
when it melts.
Mysterious Blood River in China
There’s a river in China
mysteriously turns into red color overnight, widespread fear in the region. The
mysterious incident took place in the region of Chinese city of Wenzhou. Everything was normal but then suddenly within the space of a few
minutes the water started turning darker and eventually was completely red. It
is reported that the place is surrounded by the mountains on three sides with
the front of the city facing Pacific Ocean.
The related incident was reported
back in the year of 2012 when Yangtze River changed its color. However; the
local inhabitants says at 4am the water flow was normal but at around 6am it
had turned a terrifying shade of crimson. This is
considered one of the healthiest rivers in China, and it gives obvious baffles
to locals because there were no factories along its banks were baffled when
within the space of an hour the river turned a deep, dark red and turned a
strange smell in it.
An elder local who has lived
entire his life by the river says it has never happened before. Many peoples
believe that changing of river color is due to the Industrial contamination
that has ruled out because there is no chemical plants along it length. While,
the environmental protection officials are taking water samples to figure out
what is actually going on, and why river color is changing. Wenzhou is a famous
town in East China's Zhejiang Province.
The officials claimed the
blood-red waters were a result of sand distribution due to upstream flooding but
sceptics were not convinced and social media sites were full of bizarre
theories including one that it was the start of "The Apocalypse". The local peoples say; this is really strange thing that we have
always been able to catch fish and you can even drink the water because it's
just normally so good. Nobody has any idea how it could have ended up being
polluted because there are no factories that dump anything in the water
here."
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Natural Wonder of Cherry Blossom Stones
An
intriguing geological peculiarity has found in the Japanese city of Kameoka,
which lies just over the western mountains of Kyoto city. It’s a small
sub-hexagonal-shaped stone of very fine-grained muscovite mica hosted on a type
of metamorphic rock called “Hornfels”. Interestingly when the cracked was
opened, their internal cross-sections appearance just likes tiny golden-pink
flowers. They’re exclusively called “cherry blossom stones”, after the revered
flower of Japan and one of the most renowned icons of the country.
The science
alert explains the pattern of these flower weren’t always made of mica. They
began their existence as a multifaceted matrix of six prism-shaped crystal
deposits of a magnesium-iron-aluminium composite called cordierite, radiating
out from a solitary dumbbell-shaped crystal made from a
magnesium-aluminum-silicate composite called indialite in the center. Moreover;
cherry blossom stones are hosted in a matrix of hornfels, a very fine-grained,
contact metamorphic rock shaped underground about 100 million years ago by the
intense heat of molten lava. The sub-hexagonal formed masses of
cordierite-indialite in the hornfels contain of seven individual crystals. At
the center of each mass is a dumbbell-shaped indialite crystal very narrow at
the center, and fairly wide at the ends. Adjacent the indialite crystal are six
prism-shaped cordierite crystals. They’re widest at the center of each cherry
blossom stone and narrowest at the ends.
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