Can lightning strike the same place twice?

By Pian Pawakapan








"Lightning never strikes the same place twice" is a proverb that has been used for many generations. Though the true use is to say that misfortune rarely happens to the same person in the same way more than once, it has led many people to believe that lightning, somehow, really cannot strike the same place more than once. In this article I will attempt to understand lightning and disprove this myth.



First of all, I would need to understand how lightning works and what it is, which was done through research. Clouds in the sky contain water droplets and ice crystals. When the crystals and water start to become more dense, the crystals start to rub together and something call charging can happen. This rubbing causes the positive and negative charges to fall off the crystals. This is part of static electricity, much like when you rub against a wool carpet or a balloon. The positive charges will start to group together, as will the negative charges, forming high and low electric potential areas, respectively. If the potential difference is large enough, large amounts of current can flow from high to low, breaking the resistance that the air has to offer. This current will flow from the cloud to the ground in the form of lightning, and the appearance would depend on the configuration of the particles in the cloud and the air.
Finding the information to disprove this myth was fairly easy. Pictures and footage of tall structures being struck by lightning can be found throughout the internet. Skyscrapers in particular are easily struck, since solid objects offer less resistance than air and are closer to the sky for lightning to strike. Pictures of the Empire State Building in New York being struck are particularly easy to be found, since it is struck around 100 times per year.



After finding this information, I decided to go a bit further and research a bit more on lightning strikes. I found a research done by NASA-funded scientists in 2003 on the number of lightning strikes in an area, where the title was: "Lightning really does strike more than twice". They did this experiment by setting out into a plain during a storm, and recorded hundreds of lightning strikes on camera. The scientists found that some areas were struck by lightning more than once, and also that some strikes would strike the ground in more than one area. 35 percent of the lightning strikes recorded branched out and struck the ground in places at least ten yards away. They also found that the chances of being struck are around 45 percent greater than what normal people assume.



Disproving the myth that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice was simple, and required little to no effort at all. No experiments were conducted, partly because I didn't want to get struck. Anyway, from research I have found that lightning can strike the same place more than once, and also that it can strike more than one place at once.

8 facts of tomato juice

8 facts of tomato juice

People are conscious about their health whether it exercise, relaxation or food. Drinking juice is one option for enhancing a healthy body. During this period, tomato is popular juice in online world. Benefits of tomato juice are widely published in website, facebook and other social media. This article will show 8 facts of tomato juice.

1.     Can clear skin and decrease aging?

True, because a human body need lycopene at least 6.5 mg per day. If you drink tomato juice 200 ml per day. You will get 16 mg of lycopene, for 10 consecutive weeks. Because lycopene have anti-oxidant, it can protect your skin from sunlight and healthy clear skin and decrease aging.

2.     Can reduce the risk of heart disease?

True because lycopene inhibits the enzyme that produces bad cholesterol (LDL low density lipoprotein). This is the cause of heart disease and blood clots.

3.     Can reduce the risk of cancer?

True because anti-oxidant in lycopene is an important role in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells. Anti-oxidant can binds with the cancer cells and breaks the DNA of cancer cell.

4.     Can prevent kidney and gallbladder stones?

True because tomatoes have a disinfectant to protect the body from diarrhea and prevents the appearance of kidney stones and gall bladder stones in the long term.

5.     Can improves digestion and prevents constipation?

True because fiber in tomato can improve the functioning of the digestive system and liver, and the prevention of constipation.

6.     Can strengthen bones?

True because tomatoes help maintain healthy bones by enhancing the ratio of calcium in the body.

7.     Can make the beautiful hair?

True because vitamin k in tomatoes can help strengthen the tufts of hair and increase its luster.

8.     Can drinking tomato juice on an empty stomach is better?

False because lycopene in tomato is fat-soluble. After meals are best time for this compound it is well absorbed.

Tomato juice has many benefits if you drink in appropriate time and volume. However, eating tomato is better than tomato juice because it hasn’t been sanitized and safe for your health.

Read more :

http://www.beliefnet.com/Wellness/Health/9-Surprising-Health-Benefits-of-Tomatoes.aspx

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/273031.php

Thunchanok Phutthaphaiboon 56010014

Yokee powder ! The strongest powder in the world

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Have you ever heard "Yokee Powder"?
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     Yokee powder is very popular in Thailand. Many people have used it to protect their baby's body from bacteria. Some people think that it can protect their face too.

     One day my mother gave me yokee powder and told me that it was very good. That time I had many questions.

• What is the meaning of the word "good" in my mother opinion?
• If it's really good, why didn't many popular powder or cosmetics business go bad?

This blog will tell you what happened after you use yokee powder.
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Yokee Powder

     Yokee powder is traditional medicine that consists of while clay filler, borneo camphor, camphor and etc. Sound good?

     Yokee powder prevent acne, pimple and blemish. It relieves discomfort due to itchiness, minor skin irritation. It is the solution to irritable and sore sweet rashes (kind of rashes that's caused by yeast named "candida") by applying the powder after shower. Foot odors will disappear by using this powder directly on your feet or into your shoes and socks. Yokee won't stick or stain your clothes.

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My Experiment

     My mother gave me yokee powder and it's only 25 baht. So it was very cheap to try. My objective was to find that yokee powder can decrease my acnes like my mother said.

1. Use yokee powder before sleeping about 2 weeks (This number was from how long could I do this).

2. Use yokee powder only 1 side because we can compare our face between 2 sides. The truth is I don't want to be monster if yokee doesn't work lol just kidding.

3. Observe and compare my acne on my face in the next morning.

4. Collect data by taking selfies 2-3 times a weeks.I like selfie.It's made me confident.

Was it too difficult?

How to use yokee powder

1. Wash your face with fresh water.

2. Dry your face with fresh towel.

3. Pour yokee powder about 1 table spoon. Make sure that your hand is clean too.

4. Sprinkle water and mix it with yokee powder. Be careful when you sprinkle water. If it's too much, you have to add more powder.

5. Use that powder mix to spread a thin layer on your face.

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My fantastic results

     My acne is dry in the next morning. I can try to decrease my acne after it dried. It can solve itches very well (very well).

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Conclusion

     Yokee powder can't decrease my acne but can dry my acne. So yokee powder can help you decrease your acne.

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Interesting thing

     One day I felt very itchy. I covered my itchy area by yokee powder. After that, my feeling was stopped. It was very amazing for me.

     Next thing that I will try is to use it to decrease my friend's foot odor and find the answer of this question "If it's really good, why didn't many popular powder or cosmetics business go bad?"

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Vampire myth is a real vampire or patient.

 Vampire myth is real vampires or patients.

Nowadays, vampire lore is very popular. 

If you see in Century 18 – 19, the most popular phantom myth would be Count Dracula. The smart vampire was talking about his horrors. Unlike nowadays, the most popular vampire is being about handsome like Edward Cullen in vampire twilight. Vampire myths are not only in Europe.  Many myths about vampires in the world such as Asia has “yara-ma-yaha-oh” like vampires which stay in forest, Romania has “stikol” like dirty vampire which their face are pale and dislike garlic.

When you read the previous line, have you ever thought that vampires are not just a horrors or thriller story only but they are real and people in past might be afraid with fear. What did they see in the past? Vampire? Dead man walking? Or some patients who unfortunately suffer from some diseases that are synonymous with a vampire?

           This myth was explained in 1874 by Dr.felix Hoppe Seyler, a.German chemist who has studied the history of the patients in the hospital: one of which fell ill with strange symptoms. Those patients had been changing their physically and mentally to worse. The patients were disliked by family doctors, nurses and patients themselves.

         Some patients have a critical condition, for example they did not want to see their face in a mirror. Some get very effective photo sensitivity    that their skin will be produced rash and blister immediately when contacting to sunlight. Their face is miserable. Their symptom appears that patients cannot live like normal people. They stay to home all day and out at night because patient’ eye reaction to the light is poor. But they see well in the dark. There are many myths that can explain this. Dr.Hoppe explains these diseases are disorders of   the synthesis Porphyries like heme in red blood cells. He denominates these diseases of Vampire    syndrome or Porphyria syndrome

·      Aversion to garlic: their ‘sinus is very sensitive with pungent smell because it gets pain in their sinus.

·       Drinking blood : in the past , Porphyria syndrome will be cured by blood drinking because Porphyria that it is defectiveness of hemoglobin want fresh blood so they think it can help by drinking fresh blood but we use blood which transfusion now

·    Transforming into a bat: In Africa, a vampire bat forages at night and leech another animal.    This behavior was used to make up vampire stories.

            Although think this diseases is awesome, everyone could be this patient. Fortunately, the research shows that this disease is not common. The average is 1 in 10,000 and 1 in 1,000,000 for mild to severe ones. 

            Now, the vampire story is not scary anymore. However Porphyria patient is very unlucky.   When you find them .you should not fear and help Porphyria patient.

56010013 W. Tassapak    

Milk VS Water for decreasing spicy

Milk VS Water For Decreasing SPICY

Many people would like to eat spicy food, but they have to endure the irritation or spicy taste in the mount and don't eat it too much or they have to drink something to reduce the spicy taste. Many people think the water can reduce the spicy taste. Is it true or false?

I studies about chemical in chillies that make the spicy taste. It is capsaicin that have approximate 97% in the chillies. The capsaicin can dissolve very little in water or don't dissolve but it can dissolve in lipid same as vitamin a, d, e and k. So know now that the water may not reduce the spicy taste. I want to sure about this hypothesis so I did a small experiment about water or milk to reduce the spicy taste.

Chemical structure of capsaicin in chillies

The experiment was done in my daily life that has spicy food in each meal. I did each experiment 5 times (water and milk experiments). First, I drank the water after I had eaten the spicy taste, the result in this experiment is the water didn't reduce the spicy taste or reduce a little so you have to drink a lot of water for the reduction. Second, did the same taste in milk group 5 times. I think the milk group can ostensibly reduce the spicy taste from spicy food and you drink it very little when compare with the water group because In the milk have fat and sugar. Milk help?

I can conclude that the milk can reduce better than the water and I think you should choose drink milk more than water when you feel spicy!!

Refference

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/cure-milk-hot-chilies

Thitipong Pathomkulnun M.5 56010010

Squatting make good health defecate

Squatting make good health defecate

I have a stomachache and it hard to defecate. So I think it because of the food I ate. But you know it about my position when I’m defecating too. I have known this topic from my project teacher. He told me that if we squatting when we defecating we will easy to defecating.

So now my hypothesis is squatting can make defecating easier. Then I designed my experiment to prove my hypothesis by searching a data

So I have found the video clip deal with my hypothesis. They build up an toilet that can defecate with a squatting position

You can watch that on link below

http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videos/the-squatty-potty

in the video they said when you stand anus and rectum will be press so that feces cannot came out of your anus

And when you sitting in 90 degree position to defecate anus and rectum will have more space to get a feces out but this space are not enough for good defecating

So if we change from 90 degree to 35 degree by squatting it will make a maximum space to anus and rectum. So you can have an easier defecating

Next step I will test it myself first. And I will tell my family to test it.

Blue color can decrease your appetite, doesn’t it?

Blue color can decrease your appetite, doesn’t it? 

          It’s well known that color can trigger or encourage your subconscious responses or feeling. The color blue can have many positive effects on human’s mind and body such as calming you mind down because blue can create chemicals in the body that are slow down human metabolism. We usually see that a room wall of the living room or bedroom is blue. However, we rarely see a room wall of dining room or restaurant blue. It’s usually red or yellow instead. Do you know why?

Another effect of the color blue

It’s normal that human try to adapt to their surroundings and environment. The fact is the environment doesn’t have many blue items. Some naturally blue foods are blueberries, blue corn and some types of blue potato. The brain doesn’t recognize blue foods as something safe to eat. If we think of the poison, we usually think it’s blue. The evolutionary instinct of colored food protects us against eating poisonous and dangerous foods. This instinct creates aversion to eating whatever that has blue as a dominant color. Thus, the color blue can decrease your appetite. 

The research

There is a study had participants spend time in blue, red and yellow room. The result shows that the participants from the blue room ate foods 33% less than other rooms. Another study was serving food with different colors food dye. When served food with blue food dye, participants eat foods less than usual. It shows that participants lost their appetite. Furthermore, product testers of new food have a tendency to inhibit blue foods because blue color made it look unappetizing. For example, blue Pepsi which didn’t last long. If you think about blue liquid in your mind, what do you think first? Definitely, you don’t want it to go inside your body. It seems like drug, potion or anything that can make you sick. 

How to use blue effect in daily life?

You usually see many blue rooms, in which you can relax because the color blue can calming you down. And many restaurants use red or yellow which have opposite effect of blue. You also can use the color blue in your diet plan. Eating foods with blue food dye can decrease your appetite and make you eat less than usual. But it’s hard to make every meal with blue food dye. A simple way is changing your plates, spoons and forks to blue or install blue light into your refrigerator. These method can decrease your appetite, too.

          If you want to weight loss, try to use blue that is the natural way to decrease your appetite. Remember to try it to your next meal and see if it helps you in your diet plan. 

Vittunyuta Maeprasart M.5 56010022 (No.21)