EYE FLOATERS

Your eyes are immensely intricate machines built through millions of years of evolution, so it's only reasonable that they should have developed a few glitches along the way. For instance, the dots or squiggly lines that are sometimes visible off to the sides of your visual field. They float around and then dart out of sight immediately if you try to get a good look at the bastards.

These damn things.

And then you have the bright spots that appear in front of your eyes ("seeing stars") when your body suddenly strains really hard. Maybe you sneezed or just rubbed your eyeball.

Both phenomena are completely normal, yet the explanations are weirder than you think.

It Happens Because ...

First of all, "eye floaters" are not  just lint  that fell into your eye 

Your eyes are mostly made up of a jelly called vitreous fluid, and this gel undergoes many changes as you age. As it slowly shrinks, it loses its smoothness and starts to look stringy. The vitreous can also become more liquid, and this allows for tiny fibers in your eye to come together and form (relatively) large clumps. These get big enough to become visible and freak us out, but they eventually sink down and settle at the bottom of your eyes where you can't see them. So technically, they're your little buddies for life.

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As for the bright dots that flash and move in front of your eyes, they're called phosphenes, and they're caused when cells in your retina are messed with (by rubbing your eyes or having a large person slap you in the dark), causing them to misfire. Strangely, scientists have found that they can also stimulate phosphenes by running electricity across the visual cortex part of your brain. Try it on a friend!

But wait, it gets weirder: Have you ever gone out and stared up at a clear blue sky, only to see faint white dots dancing around the edge of your vision? Most people can see it if they really look, and it's worth it because you are seeing the goddamned white blood cells shooting through the blood vessels in your fucking eyeball. The blue light causes the vessels and other cells to be invisible to your eye, so you wind up seeing the white blood cells zipping around like tiny ghosts.  Maybe there's a tiny ship full of scientists in there.

Creepy Creature Worm Squid Thing

The deep sea is made almost entirely out of wrong. It seems everything that lives more than a few thousand feet below the water's placid surface was concocted by the maddest of the old gods on his worst day. For example, this little miracle, which takes the worst and most repulsive features of both worms and squids and concocts something even more heinous than the sum of its already quite heinous parts.

Discovered over a mile under the surface of the Celebes Sea between Indonesia and the Philippines, this 4-inch cutie is technically known as Teuthidodrilus samae, but its friends call it the squidworm. If it had any. Which it obviously doesn't.

Seriously, look at that goddamned face. Why are there tentacles coming out of it, why are those tentacles as long as its actual body, and why are some of them curly? The answer to all of those questions is, of course, a faint, high-pitched scream.

Apparently one of the Great Old Ones took a selfie.

Well, almost.

Those face-tentacles actually serve a real purpose beyond ensuring that you never eat calamari again. Namely, helping the worm to breathe -- with an extra few tentacles reserved for eating delicious marine snow, which generally consists of "fecal material, dead animals, and cast off mucus."

Oh, and there are also six pairs of feathers buried in that hot mess that serve as its nose for reasons God forgot just as soon as the glue-high wore off. Scientists noted that squidworms have both "seabed-dwelling and free-swimming characteristics," meaning they inhabit the ill-defined space between the sea floor and the surface. A sort of oceanic purgatory, if you will. This suggests that the squidworm may be a transitional species, evolving as we speak toward securing a more permanent ecological niche, whatever that may be.

We're going to go ahead and assume it's your soul.

Tyrannosaurus' Cute Little Arms Could Rip You to Shreds

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Tyrannosaurus rex was the Tyrannosaurus rex of the dinosaur world. You don't need metaphors when you've got a bite force in excess of the weight of an African elephant. A single nibble from T. rex makes your whole goddamn species go extinct. The only thing powerful enough to kill and eat a T. rex is another T. rex. Still, there's one thing that made every T. rex grow up to develop a nagging inferiority complex, and that's the relentless teasing all the other dinosaurs gave him about his itty-bitty arms.

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"Dude, it's how you use it."

Hey, you guys, T. rex is napping -- quick, tickle his ear hole and let's watch him try to slap it! And then we'd laugh and laugh, and he'd use those hilariously inadequate arms to rip us clean the fuck in two.

Though they were only slightly longer than an average man's, you've got to remember that a T. rex's arms were attached to nine salivating tons of pure, fabulous muscle. His biceps alone could curl 430 pounds apiece, and that's not even taking into account the fact that those guns had backup in the form of the friggin' nuclear weapons that were his chest and shoulder muscles. Paleontologists think that a T. rex's arms were powerful enough to help him push his enormous body up from the ground after sleeping, or to latch onto a female T. rex during mating. 

Why Do Your Fingers Prune When You Take a Bath?

Everyone knows how to tell when bath time is over: you suddenly notice the bath's gone chilly and the whiskey bottle is empty. However, when we were younger, there was a slightly more liver-friendly way to know when to get out of the tub: when your fingers started pruning. As a kid, you probably just assumed this was the first sign that your body was about to start melting. And for the longest time, science's answers weren't much less stupid.

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"Melting? Fine. Sure. Whatever. Now can you excuse me? I've got stuff to grow on rats' backs."

However, it looks like they've finally cracked this particular nut: A new theory suggests that pruning not only has a function, but is a straight-up evolutionary advantage that allows us to grip wet items more tightly. You may have noticed that the wrinkles that form on your fingers resemble treading on tires and other high-friction materials. The point of treading is to increase surface area and thus friction, and that's what scientists think pruning does, too.

In the modern world, this helps us with holding on to the soap and, well, that's basically it. But back in caveman days, pruned fingers may have been a huge survival advantage for our ancestors living in wet and humid climes. The extra gripping power provided by nutsack-textured fingers meant they had a surer grip on the spears and other weapons they used to fend off hungry beasts.

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Keeping their precious genes safe so that future generations might masturbate in the shower more efficiently.

The pruning response doesn't work with fingers where the nerve had been severed, which heavily implies that pruning is an intentional response from your central nervous system, which knows a thing or two about keeping your ass alive.

HOW TO NOT LOOK GOOD IN PHOTOS

To those people who are super photogenic all the time.. I envy you guys.
Because I can never take a good photo whenever I try hard or not.
Whether it is a good smile, lighting, or angle coming from the photograph, I still look like a person who had just got out of jail.
This is why whenever photo taking is in session, I give up on trying to look good and look "fabulous" instead.

*strike a pose*

*smile like theres no tomorrow*

*question life itself*

Either I'm having too much fun looking goofy in photos or I have serious issues.

lol..

Life is too short to wast time on good photos - yiphann 2014

Things You Won't Believe Crocodiles Are Learning to Do

Soo recently I have read an article concerning crocodiles and their nature habits..
The thing is, recently those hard scaled meat chomping reptiles have learnt to actually CLIMB TREES
Its scary enough to know you might encounter one of them while swimming in rivers but to see them above you on trees is taking horror to a whole new level

when you thought it was safe to build a tree house or pluck mangos from trees,

SURPRISE!! *CHOMP CHOMP*
THERE GOES AN ARM.

Apparently scientists have theorized that the reason was because they are probably trying to control their body temperature by basking under the sunlight. As much as I think that its cool that these reptiles have evolved to become prime predators in rivers, being face to face with one will definitely send me running back home and hiding under the blankets.

source of article at: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/if-you-think-climbing-tree-will-save-you-crocodile-180949728/?no-ist

BEAAACHHH

It was the month of May and I have just recently finished the second semester of the year in my studies. SEM BREAK MOOD was all on the rise as holidays arrived along with it.

After months of tedious work on assignments and studying it was always good to have a break from all of it. This was when my family decided on a 3 day 2 night vacation trip to Pangkor Island which was situated in the state of Perak.

I have always loved nature and going to the beach since I was a child so I was naturally excited for the trip.

It took us at least 3 to 4 hours of driving and ferry till we finally managed to reached our destination.

Once we checked in to the hotel and unload our luggage, it was beach beach beach all the way for me already.

One thing that I always do at beaches is finding and catching crabs. The big ones are harder to find and are quick on their feet. To catch a proper sized crab you gotta be cunning, quick, and silent at the same time.

 STEP ONE: Scout from a distance for any moving things on the sand.

 STEP TWO:  Approach silently with caution and take notice on the crab’s movements. This is because                              before anyone gets close to a crab they usually scurry away in to their holes in the sand.

STEP THREE: By now the crab would have noticed you approaching towards it and already took shelter in                         their holes. This is where it is important to remember exactly which hole the crab went in to

STEP FOUR: START DIGGING TILL YOU FIND THAT LITTLE CRITTER.

STEP FIVE: Be quick with your hands and pick the crab up on its hind side and pray that you do not lose a                     finger