Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Good Samaritan Scam


These people are usually compared to a famous Bible character known as the Good Samaritan which helped his enemy without anything in return. When you are going to fly to a place for the first time and you are not familiar with it, you will usually bump into good Samaritans. They will offer you help to find your way. Sometimes, these “good Samaritans” are con artists.

There are other people who will want to assist you in using the ATM machine. However, they are just going to try getting your PIN code. Some will put something on the machine that will eat your card.
Others will stay nearby at train stations and inquire as to whether you require help buying a ticket - then take your cash and run. You ought to likewise be careful about individuals at train stations who offer to demonstrate to you to your seat. When you arrive, they will request installment.

While driving, an auto may draw up alongside you and the driver will supportively bring up that you have a punctured tire. While one individual helps you in changing the tire, an associate will grab your wallet or some other assets. Customarily, the individuals that wave to you are the individuals that punctured your tire in any case.

In Spain, there's a famous trick where a more established lady offers you a sprig of rosemary, as an indication of fellowship. At that point she'll snatch your hand, read your fortune and interest installment.


How would you abstain from falling casualty? Try not to look or acknowledge anything that is given to you. Buy any tickets yourself. In the event that you require help, use the attendant at a lodging. Never let anybody bail you out at an ATM, and never give anybody your PIN.

Here are travel tips for women:


5 Unhealthy "Healthy"

We read a lot of articles about the best healthy foods that you should eat and the best health habits you should continue to do. But sometimes, they are not healthy though.
Diet Soda
You think you avoided a few calories but it diet soda also has side effects from the ingredients they make to substitute the sugar. There was research conducted last 2013 which gave a connection between growing diabetes and the increase percentage while drinking soda, whether it’s just the regular or the diet one. Another study said that the sweeteners mixed with diet sodas are also as dangerous as the sweeteners in a regular soda.
Smoothies
Many websites suggest smoothies to be a substitute for a healthy snack or meal. However, if you are going to buy smoothies commercially, there is a great chance that it has ore sugar than it should be. If you want to drink smoothies, you can always make your own at home. All you need are healthy fruits, vegetables and milk. You can use your blender at home!
Xtra Light Olive Oil
Olive oil has been proven to contain a kind of fat which decreases heart disease, cancer and diabetes risks. But too much “extra light” is not going to do those things anymore. The lightness of the olive oil mirrors how it was processed and how refined it is. But nevertheless of the color, 3 teaspoons of olive oil still have more than a hundred calories.










Hand Sanitizer
Many people would say that the best way of cleaning your hands is by using hand sanitizer. Actually, nothing beats the old fashion way of thoroughly washing your hands using soap and water. Too much use of hand sanitizers will kill the good bacteria in your body which is also responsible for your immune system. It will not make you cleaner but it will make you more prone to sickness.

 How about unhealthy fashion habits?



Guide Dogs



Aide dogs help visually impaired or outwardly debilitated individuals get around on the planet. In many nations, they are permitted anyplace that general society is permitted, so they can help their handlers be wherever they may need to go.


To do this, an aide pooch must know how to: Continue an immediate course, disregarding diversions, for example, smells, different creatures and individuals, keep up an enduring pace, to one side and only in front of the handler, stop at all checks until advised to continue, turn left and right, make headway and stop on summon, perceive and stay away from obstructions that the handler won't have the capacity to fit through (limited entries and low overheads), stop at the base and top of stairs until advised to continue, convey the handler to lift catches, lie unobtrusively when the handler is taking a seat, help the handler to board and move around transports, trams and different types of open transportation, comply with various verbal orders, also, an aide pooch must know not any charge that would put the handler in threat. This capacity, called specific noncompliance, is maybe the most astounding thing about aide pooches - that they can adjust dutifulness with their own evaluation of the circumstance.

This limit is to a great degree essential at crosswalks, where the handler and puppy must work nearly together to explore the circumstance securely. At the point when the group achieves the control, the canine quits, motioning to the handler that they have come to a crosswalk. Canines can't recognize the shading of activity lights, so the handler must settle on the choice of when it is safe to continue over the street. The handler listens to the stream of activity to make sense of when the light has changed and after that gives the order "forward." If there is no threat, the pooch continues over the street in a straight line. In the event that there are autos drawing closer, the pooch holds up until the peril is gone and afterward takes after the forward order.

Here is an example of a life as a guide dog:





3 Monster-Like Animals


There are some animals that were created with weird looks. Here are interesting facts about these 3 monster-like animals.
Oarfish
For thousands of years, the oarfish represents ancient disorder in contributing food for livestock of folklores and tales. They’ve been trying to find the fish that was described in the ancient tales. The closest animal to it is the Regalecus gesne which is a kind of ribbon fish that likes to swim in the deepest parts of the ocean so it’s not surprising that there have been only a few sightings of this animal. It looks like an eel but it has red-orange fins on top of its long body. It is also known as the largest bony fish that can grow as long as 50 feet.


Assassin Bug
If you look this bug under a lens, you will probably get terrified on how terrible it looks. They were named “assassin bugs” because they ornament their body with their dead preys. Not only one, but a lot of them! But they do not do this to scare other bugs but to serve as a luring scent for other prey. They have a body similar to a cactus. They also inject something toxic to their prey’s body so it will get paralyzed and it won’t be able to move at all. Thus, it can make it easy for them.

Tongue-eating Louse

They are literally small so you won’t be able to see it sometimes.  When it has the chance to enter someone’s mouth, they will replace its tongue and use your blood supply as their own, like a parasite. They will also lay eggs there and make little ones of their own kind. Usually, it’s called a rose snapper. The next time you try swimming in a beach, don’t open your mouth. 






How about in horror movies?

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

3 Unbelievable Animals

1Here are interesting facts about the top 3 animals you thought were mythical creatures.

Tasmanian devil
We usually hear this creature in one of the famous shows of Warner Bros. which is the “Looney Tunes”. However, this animal actually exists in a Tasmanian Island which is near the country of Australia.  Usually, these animals grow as long as 80 centimeters and more than 20 pounds. This is a heavy animal with a fur covered in dark brown color and white patches on its throats and marks on the sides. It has a pinkish muzzle. It might look cute to you but both its head and jaw are very strong.



2.       Devil Bird
Sometimes, they are also called the ulama or the woman whose youngster has been killed by her husband and then she committed suicide after running into the dark jungle. The natives in Sri Lanka believed that their gods changed her into this creature which can tell if something wrong is happening or will be happening near to this owl. But during an expedition by an ornithologist during the 1950s, they discovered that it was actually a Spot-belied eagle owl. It looks like a devil because of really long black eyebrows and black eyes (which looks like the owl is being possessed by something)

3.       Platypus
If you’ve seen Phineas and Ferb from the Disney Channel, then there is a great chance that you know their pet Perry the platypus which is also a spy. It looks unreal because it’s like it has been imagined from different kinds of animals. It is covered fur but it also swims underwater. It has legs which look like duck feet and it has a body of a small seal. It also lays eggs, like a duck. Even years ago, before it was discovered, they thought it was unreal and was only invented by a taxidermist. It collects food supplies from muds or streams.


Wanna see more weird animals? Watch this video below:



Why are Pre-historic Animals Gigantic?

The cause behind why such a large number of ancient creatures: mastodons, mammoths and numerous dinosaurs were so enormous is something of a secret. For quite a while, natural elements, for example, higher oxygen content noticeable all around and more noteworthy area masses  were thought to add to their expansive size. Cope's Rule, which says that as creatures advance over the long haul they get bigger, was another by and large acknowledged clarification. Individuals suspected that ancient creatures developed amid the a large number of years between mass annihilations, developing bigger as time passed. At the point when the following mass termination happened, the tremendous creatures were wiped out and new, littler creatures took their spot, becoming bigger until the following annihilation.
Cope's Rule likewise clarified why we don't have tremendous area creatures today, at any rate by ancient measures. It has been 66 million years since the keep going mass eradication - the Cretaceous mass annihilation, which wiped out the dinosaurs. That is not sufficiently long in transformative terms and under Cope's Rule for animals to end up tremendous.
Later fossil studies, nonetheless, have provided reason to feel ambiguous about both speculations. These studies demonstrate that dinosaurs of different sizes existed in the meantime. What's more, now and again, they became littler instead of bigger over the long haul.
In view of this confirmation, a fresher clarification has developed for why there were such a variety of colossal dinosaurs. It indicates the physiology of their bones and lungs, which were like those of feathered creatures. The biggest dinosaur, the since quite a while ago necked Supersaurus, is thought to have measured more than 40 tons, about as much as 7 African elephants. They had air stashes in their bones, which helped their weight and kept them from breaking down as they became bigger. They likewise had exceptionally proficient lungs, so their breath and warmth trade could better backing the bigger size. The way that they laid eggs and could recreate generally rapidly may have given the greater creatures a regenerative point of interest too.