MONKEY ORCHID

                                                            
                                     
          
          Who can guess what the image above is?If you are seeing this for the first time their is 99. 9%  assurance that you would be wrong.Come to think of it by mere looking at it an average human will think of it as been a monkey or a baby monkey that's  not very hard to guess how the Monkey Orchid got its name, but ever since photos of it started circulating on the internet about a year ago, people have had a hard time believing such a flower actually exists.
     As photoshoped as it may look, the Monkey Orchid actually exists, and yes, it really does match the grinning face of a very small monkey. The scientific name of this very rare flower is Dracula simia, with the first part hinting at the resemblance between its two long spurs to the fangs of Bram Stoker’s famous vampire count, and the second meaning “monkey” in Latin. It only grows in the mountainous regions of Ecuador, Colombia andPeru, at an elevation of between 1,000 and 2,000 meters above sea level, but there are a few lucky collectors who have managed to grow it in “captivity”. The Monkey orchid is not season specific, and in its natural habitat it can flower at any time. As if its striking resemblance to a monkey’s face wasn’t astounding enough, this flower actually smells a lot like a ripe orange, as well. Which is kind of ironic, because with a face like that you’d expect it to smell like bananas, right?
      Organisms are so diverse that some plant would have resemblance of an animal and vice versa,sometimes having both animal and plant features such as euglena that has both animal and plant properties.
      With this article i hope any time you come across this  specie again you would not mistaken it for a monkey.

INTERESTING SCIENCE FACTS

                                            
                                
           What are the facts you know about science that you found interesting? Here are loaded interesting science facts for you.

•        The energy generated from lightening can power a bulb for three months.
•        The maximum efficiency the motor car has achieved so far is 33%.
•         Do you know that;"LITTLE BOY" was the name given to atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima during the 2nd world war?
•          Violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
•          The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

•           In 5 billion years the sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
•          If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just an hour.
•          It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the sun's surface to the Earth.
•          10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
•          The speed of light is approximately 299,792,458 m/s.
•          The only letter not appearing on the periodic table is letter "j".
•          The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 6,700 mph.
•          Every year,over one million earthquake shake the Earth.
•          When krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.
•          Every second around 100 lighting bolts strike the Earth.
•          Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
•          The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit is 18 m/h.
•          In October 1999 an iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.
•          It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down the deepest part of the ocean.
•          Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
•          Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the big bang.
•          A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million ton.
•         The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the pacific with a depth of 35,797ft.
•          Around a million,billion neutrinos from the sun will pass through your body has you read this sentence.
•          Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy,Andromeda.
•          'Wireless'    communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telsar,the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
•          Astronauts cannot belch,there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
•          One million,million,million,million,millionth of a second after the big bang the Universe was a size of pea.
•          Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel prize for physics for discovering the x-rays in 1895.
•          The fastest computer in the World is the GRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer,It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel  central processor unit.  
•          The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 c) at the Tokamak fusion Test Reaction in Princeton,NJ,USA.
•          The most powerful laser in the world,the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,CA,USA generates a pulse equal to 100 trillion watts of power for 0.000000001 second to a target the size of a grain sand.
•          The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus,with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 c).

                                                     

HUMAN BODY FACTS

        There are lots of amazing and strange fact about human body some of which are listed below;

•           Everyone's tongue print is different.                     
•          Only humans sleep on their backs.                                                          
•          The human brain is 80% water.            
•          Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
•          The two highest IQ scores ever recorded belonged to women.
•          BRAIN is the only organ of the body that has no sensation when cut.
•          Their  are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in human body.
•          More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
•          For a very short period of time,you were the youngest  person in the World.
•          A corded telephone uses less electricity than there is inside human body.
•          The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
•          An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to complete a circuit of the body.
•          Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
•          Men have nipples because,as an embryo,everyone is a female until the Y chromosome kicks in.
•          The longest living cell in the body are brain cells which can live an entire life.
•          The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb.1.1 oz (2.3 kg).
•          The muscles of a locust are about 1000 times powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
•          By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back,you can't sink in quicksand.
•          The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
•          It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
•          Our eyes are always the same size from birth,but our nose and ears never stop growing.
•          In your life time you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.
•          Every minutes,30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.
•          15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.
•          The brain uses more than 25% of the Oxygen used by the human body.
•          If your mouth was completely dry,you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.
•          The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
•          Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make up about half of the body weight.
•          The best way to tell if you have a bad breath is to lick your wrist,let your saliva dry and smell it.
•          Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscle.
•          Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.
•          There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human being on the surface of the Earth.
•          The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth,but only an eight of our length by the time we reach adulthood.
•          As an adult,you have more than 20 square feet of skin on your body--about the same square footage as a blanket for a queen-sized bed.
•          The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
•          The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Click in 1953,but first discover  by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler in 1869.
•          The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone located in the middle ear,It is approximately 0.11 inches (0.28 cm) long.
•          The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons.They can be up to 4.5 ft (1.37m) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.
•          It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
•          Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8kg) on the molars.
•          40 to 50 percent of the body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory system.
•          There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the fuse together).

                  MORE  FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY

     Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!

•        If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000miles.
•       Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms are extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons height, eye problems, heart problems and very little fat. It is a rare, inherited condition.
•     In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.
•     Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
•     By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water.
•     Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound – over a thousand feet per second!
•     Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans (also making gases – pew!).
•     These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes
•     blood to clot. If we didn’t have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small cut!
•     It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
•     That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. It’s mostly made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses millions of skin cells every day which fall on the floor and get kicked up to land on all the surfaces in a room. You could say, “That’s me all over.”
•     It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
•     A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.
•     The human body is 75% water.
•     Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human’s blood vessels,they would be about 60,000 miles long. That’s enough to go around the world twice.
•     The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it’s hollow!l
•     The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
•     The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
•     The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
•     The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000miles.) That’s the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray “cloud” almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.
•     The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
•     Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
•     Your brain is 80% water.
•     85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
•     Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
•     Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot.
•     A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!
•     Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
•     Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.
•     You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.
•     There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206.
•     The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear!Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak!
•     When you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when you go to sleep, because you have let your spine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done!
•     It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
•     The average growth of hair is half an inch per month.
•     If hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long.
•     Your tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among the strongest muscles in your body.

               Inner structure

      Are you aware of your inner structure ? There are billions of actions going on in your inner body as you are reading this.All the actions doing fine in a right proportion,which is the reason for your still been alive  and active till this moment.Follow me as i take you round about your inner structure.

    Squirting high: The human heart is pumping with enormous pressure, capable of squirting blood up to 9 meters high. No wonder you can feel your heartbeats. It never stops and sends blood against gravity up to the head, and at the same time down to
    the rest of your body parts.
    100,000km: The length of your blood vessels is about 100,000km. To understand this distance – the circumference of earth is about 40,000km. The distance between the earth the moon is about 300,000km. So if we take the blood vessels of 3 people, and connect them edge to edge – we could easily step where Neil Armstrong did.
    Women’s heart beat faster than men’s: The main reason for this is that women’s hearts tends to be a bit small than men’s, but needs to pump the same amount of blood to the body parts, in the same amount of time.
    The left lung is smaller than the right: This is to make room for the heart. most people has a heart that tends to lean to the left, which pushes the left lung.
    You can live without a significant amount of inner organs: The human body may seem fragile, but it can definitely live without the stomach, the spline, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, one kidney, one lung and any productive organ. It wouldn’t feel so great, and you’ll have to be under medication – but it won’t kill you.
    Saliva at 160kph: During a sneeze the spit particles can reach up to 160kph. the sneeze is very dangerous while driving – there is no way of sneezing with your eyes open, which caused a few road accidents already.
    Who snores more?: 60% of men and 40% of women up to the age of 60 snore. In most cases a snore can reach 60 decibels. but some people can even reach 80 decibels – same as a concrete drill.

           5 Senses

       Below are the actions perform by the five senses of the body,some sound rare but that's just the simple fact for you.

    Who will blink first?: Women blink twice as much as men. The average person blinks around 13 times a minute.
     Blinking is very important to the eye’s health: It helps cover the eye with liquid that has enzymes and
    Lubricating fluid, that protects it.
    The strongest: The outer muscles that moves the eye ball are the strongest muscles in the body, relative to the amount of strength they require: They are stronger 100 times than needed.
    Blue, but temporary: Many babies are born with blue eyes, but they wont stay that way for long. The reason for that is the pigment called “Melanin” that sometimes sinks in the eyes cornea after birth. This process require exposure to ultraviolet light, which in the end reveals the child’s real eye color.
    Remember 50,000 scents: Our nose can remember 50,000 different smells, many of them are burnt into our memory for many years. but that’s nothing compared to men’s best friend – the dog’s nose is sensitive 1,000,000 times more than ours.
    The last to go: The last sense that disconnects while dying is the sense of hearing. The first one being eye vision, followed by taste, smell and touch.
    See for a distance: The longest distance that you can gaze into without any help is about 2.4 million light years – 225 trillion kilometers. This is the distance to the Andromeda galaxy, which you can see in bright sky.
    Noise sensitive: The smallest noise can make our pupils dilate - this is one of the reasons why surgeons are bothered by noise - dilation of the pupil might cause to be blinded with light , that can cause a disaster.
    From birth to old age: Our eyes stay the same size from the moment we are born until we are old age, but the ears and nose does not stop growing. That is why if someone did a nose surgery when he was young – you can see his nose changing over the years.
    The strongest organ in our body is the tongue: You may not able to lift weights with it, but relative to it’s size, this is the strongest muscle in body that works almost nonstop by talking, eating and swallowing.

  

THE HUMAN EYE

              It's interesting if we can know at least little about our eye because the eye is one of the important organ of the body.With the eye we are able to view everything around us but their are also essential parts of the eye that makes it possible for the eye to perform it's role which are:
      The Ciliary Muscles : It support the lens and attach it to the wall of the eye .Due to their concentration and expansion  it alter the focal length of the lens changing it's shape.We are able to see both near and far object with ease with the aid of the ciliary muscles.
      The Cornea : it is the thick transparent bulge in the front of the eye.It serves as a protective covering in front of the lens and allows light into the eye.It also partly focuses the light entering the eye.
      The Aqeous humour : It is the transparent liquid between the cornea and the lens and the vitreous humour is a jelly-like liquid between the lens and the rest of the eyeball.These liquids serve mainly to keep the eye in it's spherical shape.
      Iris : It is the part which gives the colour of the eye.It has a tiny opening at its centre called the pupil which regulates the quantity of light entering the eye .The pupil looks black because the inner layer of the eye,the choroid, is black.
      The Crystalline lens : It focuses the light from the object on to the light sensitive retina.
      The Retina : The Image is formed on the retina which consist of the light sensitive nerve endings which are connected to the optic nerve.The optic nerve conveys the sensation of sight to the brain.
       The Yellow spot :  It is the most sensitive spot of the retina and also where the light entering the eye are usually brought to focus with the clearest image formed.
       The Blind spot : It is the exit of the optic nerve from the retina which is insensitive to light.
      Major optical system of the eye consists of the the cornea,the lens,the aqueous and the vitreous humour .The retinal transmits the impression created on it by this image to the brain through the optic nerve.The brain then interpretes the impressions.
       

            THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE HUMAN EYE

• Each eye weighs ¼ ounce, measures less than 1 inch in diameter, and is shaped like a slightly flattened ball.
•  We should never put anything in or near our eyes, unless we have a reason to use eye drops. We would only do that if our doctor or parent told us to use them.
• Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
• Our body has some natural protection for our eyes.
• Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. 
• Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
• Our eyes are very important to us, and we must protect them. We don't want dirt, sand, splinters or even fingers to get in our eyes. We don't want our eyes to get scratched or poked. That could damage our sight!
• The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
• The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
• The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
• The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
• The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
• The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
• The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye.
• Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
• Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
• People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
• Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
  In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.
• All babies are colour blind when they are born.
• A human eyeball weighs an ounce.
• If the lens in our eye doesn't work quite right, we can get glasses to help us see. Glasses have lenses in them that work with our eye's own lens to help us see better.
• Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
•  Choose polycarbonate lenses for eye wear and sun wear. They are strong, durable, and impact resistant.
• The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
•  The most effective sunglasses provide at least 98 percent protection from both UVA and UVB rays.
• The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
• Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.
•  Your body protects your eyes. Bony sockets guard against impact; eyebrows provide shade; eyelids and eyelashes keep things out of eyes;and tear ducts moisten eyes.
• The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
•  When using a computer, adjust the lighting and sit at least 20 inches away from the screen in order to reduce glare.
•  Smoking increases the risk of some eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and cataracts.
•  People sometimes have red eyes in photographs, especially those taken with a flash, due to the light that reflects off the blood vessels of the retina.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
• Inside our eye, at the back, is a part called the "retina." On the retina are cells called "rods" and "cones." These rods and cones help us to see colors and light.
• Just behind the pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle.
• Over the front of our eye is a clear covering called the "conjunctiva."
•  One in every 12 males is color blind. Color blind does not mean you see in black and white, but that you have trouble telling the difference between certain colors.
• The white part of our eye is called the "sclera." At the front, the sclera becomes clear and is called the"cornea."
•  When you blink, you shut your eyes for 0.3 seconds. That’s a total of 30 minutes each day!
• Certain patterns confuse your eyes and brain, causing you to misjudge the size of a circle or the length of a line.
•  The retina is about the size of a postage stamp. It has 130 million light sensitive cells.
• Around the pupil is a colored muscle called the "iris." Our eyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY OR BLACK, because that is the color of the iris.
• Our eyes have many parts. The black part on the front of our eye is called the "pupil." It is really a little hole that opens into the back part of our eyes.
• Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!
•  Your eye is always making tiny, jittery movements. Each time your eye moves, it receives new information. This continuous supply of new information helps you see images.
•  Around the world, an adult goes blind every five seconds and a child goes blind every minute.
• Light-sensitive cells in the retina include rods and cones. Rods let us see shape and movement. Cones combine the three main colors—red, blue, and green—to let us see thousands of colors.

              Now you see how important the human eye is very crucial for mankind,so take care of your and don't joke with it.It's too fragile to handle helplessly. 

                                                    

THE HUMAN KIDNEY

                                             

      Did you­ know that kidney stone plagued even the ancient Egyptians? Or that 26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease? Hundreds of thousan­ds of people suffer from renal failure each year and undergo dialysis or await a kidney transplant.
But what do your kidneys do? Why are they so important? Don't they just produce urine? In this article, we'll take a close look at our kidneys and find out exactly what they do.
    Your kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, each about the size of your fist. They are located in the middle of your back, just below your rib cage, on either side of your spine. Your kidneys weigh about 0.5 percent of your total body weight. Although the kidneys are small organs by weight, they receive a huge amount -- 20 percent -- of the blood pumped by the heart. The large blood supply to your kidneys enables them to do the following tasks:
    Regulate the composition of your blood: Keep the concentrations of various ions and other important
substances constant; Keep the volume of water in your body constant; Remove wastes from your body (urea, ammonia, drugs, toxic substances); Keep the acid/base concentration of your blood constant.
  Help regulate your blood pressure.
  Stimulate the making of red blood cells.
  Maintain your body's calcium levels.
  Your kidneys receive the blood from the renal artery, process it, return the processed blood to the body through the renal vein and­ remove the wastes and other unwanted substances in the urine. Urine flows from the kidneys through the ureters to the bladder. In the bladder, the urine is stored until it is excreted from the body through the urethra.

 In humans, the kidneys are the organs that produce urine. There are two kidneys, one on each side of your back, just below the ribs. Like most organs in the body, the function of the kidneys is closely tied to its structure.

Each kidney has three distinct areas:

The renal cortex, which is the outer layer.

The renal medulla, which is the middle layer.

The renal pelvis, which becomes a ureter.

Each kidney contains more than 1 million nephrons, which are microscopic tubules that make urine. Each nephron contributes to a collecting duct, which carries the urine into the renal pelvis. From there, the urine flows down the ureter, which is the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder.

Each of the million tiny nephrons in the kidney is a mass of even tinier tubules, as shown in the figure.
The main part of the nephron consists of the proximal (near) and distal (far) convoluted tubules, which become the nephron’s collecting duct.


Structure of the kidneys and the nephrons inside the kidneys.
At the beginning of the proximal convoluted tubule is a ball-like structure made up of the glomerulus, which is the site where the nephron’s tubule intermingles with a capillary, and the glomerular capsule (also called Bowman’s capsule).

In the glomerulus, the transfer of waste products from the bloodstream takes place through the capillary wall into the tip of the proximal convoluted tubule. Also at this site, any materials that are filtered by the nephron and are to be returned to the bloodstream are reabsorbed from the glomerulus through the capillary wall so that they can be recirculated.

Venules (smallest veins) join the capillaries (smallest arteries), and together, they join the renal vein, which carries blood away from the kidney.

Urine is spurted from the ureter into the top of the bladder continuously. The bladder holds a maximum of about 1 pint of urine, but you begin to feel the need to urinate when it is only one-third full. When the bladder is two-thirds full, you start to feel really uncomfortable.