YOUR HEARTBEAT CHANGES WITH THE MUSIC YOU LISTEN TO !

Music can be so powerful it can affect your mood, brainwaves, and even your heartbeat! It turns out that when we listen to music our body reacts to the sounds we hear.

Music is so influential it can alter your heartbeat, pulse rate, blood pressure, decrease your muscle tension, and even affect your body movement and coordination !!!

If a person listens to rock or techno, their heartbeat will involuntarily speed up. The opposite is true if someone listens to more calming or instrumental music.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOUTUBE

1. The very first video uploaded was called “Me at the Zoo”, on 23rd April 2005.

2. By June 2006, more than 65,000 videos were being uploaded every day.

3. YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day.

4. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.

5. The U.S. accounts for 70% of YouTube users.

6. Over half of YouTube’s users are under 20 years old.

7. You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube and its increasing day by day.

8. YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth as the entire Internet used in 2000.

Nick Vujicic

The astonishing story of the man born without arms or legs... who plays golf, surfs, and swims :
Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs - but he doesn't let the details stop him.
The brave 26-year-old - who is mainly torso - plays football and golf, swims, and surfs, despite having no limbs.
Nick has a small foot on his left hip which helps him balance and enables him to kick. He uses his one foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up between his toes.
At age ten Nick, tried to drown himself in the bath but luckily the attempt was unsuccessful.
'I felt there was no purpose when you lack purpose and strength it is hard to hold on,' he said.
But with the help of his religion, friends and family, Nick managed to pull through to become an international symbol of triumph over adversity.

Eiffel Tower Electrocuted

Awesome Photography : 'Eiffel Tower Electrocuted'

Illuminated in vivid blue and dwarfing neighbouring buildings, the Eiffel Tower’s impact on the Paris skyline was already dramatic......
But Mother Nature clearly felt she could lend the scene a little added pizzazz. This remarkable shot of a forked lightning bolt streaking through the sky behind the 1,063ft iron tower was captured by amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik.

leap seconds?

You've heard of leap years but do you know that there are 'leap seconds'? Time keeping became incredibly accurate with the invention of the first reliable atomic clock in 1955. This proved to be a problem because the Earth's rotation varies and is slowing down due to tidal changes, earthquakes, and friction from galactic dust. On average, the rotation of the Earth slows 1.5 seconds every 100 years but the rate of the atomic clock never varies. To make up for this, scientists began adding 'leap seconds' to the atomic clock in 1972. There is a showdown between scientists in Geneva at the UN over whether or not to abolish leap seconds. Some say that leap seconds don't matter. Others argue that if we abolish the leap second, the world's clocks will be off by one whole hour... in 550 years.

The fastest man on No legs

Known as the "Blade Runner" and "the fastest man on no legs", Oscar Pistorius is a South African Paralympic athlete and the double amputee world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres (sport class T44) events.
Oscar Pistorius was born with congenital absence of the fibula in both legs. When he was 11 months old, his legs were amputated halfway between his knees and ankles. He attended Constantia Kloof Primary and Pretoria Boys High School where, between the ages of 11 and 13, he played rugby union in the school's third XV team, water polo and tennis. He also played water polo and tennis at provincial level. In addition, Pistorius took part in club Olympic wrestling. After a serious rugby knee injury in June 2003, he was introduced to running in January 2004 while undergoing rehabilitation, and "never looked back".
On 9 December 2007, he was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award, which is conferred for outstanding courage and achievement in the face of adversity.

Unusual Rock Formations at Torcal de Antequera :
El Torcal de Antequera is a nature reserve in the Sierra del Torcal mountain range located south of the city of Antequera, in Spain. It is known for its unusual limestone formations and magnificent geology formed over millions of years. El Torcal de Antequera Nature Reserve has one of the most impressive landscapes in Europe.
Millions of years ago the entire area of El Torcal was submerged under the ocean being part of a marine corridor that stretched from the Gulf of Cádiz to Alicante. During the Tertiary era, violent movements of the earth’s crust lifted these seabeds out of the water to an elevation of over 1300 meters, resulting in a modest mountain range of flat-lying limestone, which is rare in Andalucia. For the next 100 million years, these rocks were subjected to severe erosion by wind and rain leaving some of the most peculiarly shaped rock formations in the world today.