The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...
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The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...
Curiosities and wonders; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Questions and answers; Science -- Miscellanea; Technology -- Miscellanea
Wrinkles come to us in several ways. An easy way to cause wrinkles is
to scowl and frown and get into the habit of doing this. When you scowl
or frown you pucker up the skin on your forehead into wrinkles and if
you continue the habit the skin on your forehead makes the wrinkles
permanent. You have given your skin the wrinkle habit. This acts just
the same way as your arm would, if you tied it up in a sling and held
it close to your side for a very long time--a number of weeks. When you
took the sling off you would find your arm useless--a dead arm. It had
developed the habit of doing nothing.
In old people, however, wrinkles come more naturally. There it is the
case of the skin not receiving the proper nourishment and attention to
keep the circulation of the blood right. When people become old they
are apt to lose the fat which has accumulated under their skins. If
they had taken just the right amount of exercise all of their lives and
kept their circulation perfect in all parts of the body, there would
have been no fat there. But when the fat accumulates, it makes the
skin grow larger, and then when the fat disappears and people get thin
again, the skin is too large and makes the wrinkles.
Does Thunder Sour Milk?
Milk will sour in any kind of warm and moist temperature and, because
just before and during a thunderstorm the air is generally quite warm
and moist, it is only natural that it should turn sour. It is wrong,
however, to say or think that thunder makes milk sour. Thunder is only
a noise and noise cannot do anything but make itself heard. The fact
that it is generally warm and moist, however, when it thunders, coupled
with the fact that these conditions of the air sour milk very rapidly,
have led people to connect the two in their minds and caused them to
fall into the error of believing that the thunder is responsible for
the change in the milk.
What Makes the Rings in the Water When I Throw a Stone Into It?
Every movement has a beginning. When a movement on the earth is once
started it keeps on going until something stops it. If nothing stops it
it will go on forever.
When you shout you start air waves going in every direction, which
keeps on going until stopped by something which has the power to break
up their waves.
When you throw a stone into the ocean you start a series of ripples
or waves which spread out in every direction and if you dropped your
stone into the exact middle of the ocean--half way from each side--in
a perfectly calm sea undisturbed by other forces, your ring of ripples
would go on getting larger until it landed on the beach or shore on
each side of the ocean at the exactly the same time and there the beach
or shore would stop it.
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