From The Wide Space To The Deep Ocean Kathryn D. Sullivan at 68 years old has become the first person to walk through space and also reach the bottom of the ocean, with her arrival at Challenger Deep last week. More than 500 people have visited space, 65 of them women, and 8 people have reached Challenger Deep, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific […] Brains Sebastian Opazo | June 18, 2020 0 Comments
Brain Post: How Far Does the Average Human Walk in a Lifetime? The average moderately active person take aound 7,500 step/day. If you maintain that daily average and live until 80 years of age, you’ll have walked about 216,262,500 steps in your lifetime. Doing the math; the average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles. Which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator. […] Brains SnowBrains | May 18, 2020 107 Comments
Brain Post: Why Do We Breathe? This question is simple, so you’d naturally expect a simple answer. Sorry. But we’ll break it down to the simplest terms possible. WHY DO WE BREATHE? THE SHORT ANSWER: – We breathe to get oxygen to our cells so that they can make energy. THE MEDIUM ANSWER – We breathe to get oxygen to our cells so that they can […] Brains SnowBrains | November 23, 2016 14 Comments
Record Mount Washington Avalanche Mount Washington in New Hampshire is best known for Tuckerman’s Ravine, a steep open bowl that holds snow into July. On March 29th the southeast slope of the Mount Washington summit cone experienced the largest recorded avalanche. U.S.F.S. Snow Ranger […] Avalanche SnowBrains | April 3, 2014 0 Comments
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