Unusual Discoveries of British Scientists

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Unusual Discoveries
of British Scientists

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Scientists are people without whom we would
live without everything that we have now. We
would know little about ourselves, our body and the
world around us. All over the world, scientists have
made, are making and will make discoveries.
The UK is known not only for discoveries that we
are told about in school lessons or lectures at
university. Modern scientists are making more and
more interesting, and sometimes slightly unusual and
funny discoveries every year.
Let's take a look at them.

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Scientists have calculated
that if Batman jumps from a
building 150 meters high, his
maximum speed will be 109
kilometers per hour.
However, in this case,
Batman will crash into the
ground at a speed of 80
kilometers per hour.

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287 million tons is the weight of the entire
population of the globe. The Americans are the
heaviest people.
The average adult weighs 62 kg, in the USA this
figure is higher by a third. If the average weight of
an adult in the world were the same as in the United
States, this would be equivalent to an increase in the
population by one billion people.

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British scientists have found out that
elephants are the only four-legged animals that
use all four legs for both acceleration and
braking. This conclusion was reached by a
group of scientists led by John Hutchinson from
the British Royal Veterinary College.

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As part of the study, six young
Indian elephants were driven at
different speeds on a platform with
sensors recording the force with
which the animals pushed off the
ground with each foot. It turned out
that both the front and hind limbs of
elephants receive the same load
when moving at different speeds and
with different acceleration.

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This gave scientists a reason to liken elephants to four-wheel drive
cars. In other four-legged animals, the acceleration and braking
functions are distributed between the front and hind limbs: during
acceleration, as a rule, the hind legs / paws receive a large load, and
when slowing down, the front ones.

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In 2007, the best forces of British science were
thrown into the development of chewing gum that
does not stick to anything, including asphalt.

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Scientists have estimated that London utilities
annually spend about 100 thousand pounds to scrape
gum from the streets of the capital. Researchers are
still struggling to solve this problem.

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British scientists have
come up with an interesting
initiative. They believe that
the bumblebee movement
algorithm in search of
nectar and pollen will help
law enforcement agencies
catch serial killers.

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Scientists became interested and invited criminologist Kim
Rossmo to help. Together, they came up with such an
experiment: tiny beacons were attached to insects and their
trajectory was monitored through flower apiaries.

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Bumblebees create a kind of "buffer zone" inside
which they do not collect pollen. This is necessary
so that predators or parasites do not figure out
where the nest of the colony is located. It is very
similar to the instinctive behavior of many criminals
who try to divert suspicion from their hiding place.

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But even the most advanced specialists in the
world do not have all the necessary information on
maniacs, and bees or bumblebees can be
methodically observed.

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300 thousand pounds sterling
was spent by British scientists to
study the interaction of ducks
with water.
As a result of a long study, they
managed to find out that ducks
prefer rain to all other ways to
spend time in the water, which
replaces a shower for them.

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Another shocking
discovery by researchers
from the Foggy Albion
has finally explained to
overweight sufferers
what their problem is.
During a scientific
experiment, British
scientists managed to
establish that thin
people, as a rule, eat less
than full.

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The best people at the University of Leeds conducted a study
designed to calculate the formula for the perfect bacon sandwich. As
many as 50 British test subjects helped scientists in this difficult task,
trying various samples of sandwiches.

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As a result, it turned out that the formula for the perfect sandwich
looks like this:
N=C+{fb(cm)·fb(tc)}+fb(Ts)+fc·ta,
N – the biting force of the cooked product
C – the force of biting off an unprepared product
Fb – bacon type function
Fc – a function of the seasoning type
Ts – temperature when serving to the table
tc – time of cooking (toasting)
ta – time of exposure to application
cm – the cooking method

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the types of bread – white, homemade cakes
kind of bacon – from the neck or scapular
the thickness of the bread – 1 to 2 centimeters
the thickness of the bacon – thin
method of preparation – in a pre-heated oven with grill
cooking time – 7 minutes
cooking temperature is 240 degrees
special notes – during the preparation of turn over once
seasoning to taste

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In the UK, bacon is the most popular meat
product. Every year, residents of the United
Kingdom spend more than a billion pounds on
bacon.

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British scientists Brenda and Robert Weil have
published a book under the shocking title "Time to
eat a dog?". This phrase came to us from those
times when people conquered Antarctica. In those
cases, when the provisions ran out, travelers had to
eat sled dogs.

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The authors address the reader
with a message: at a time when
natural resources are being
depleted, pets become a luxury
that we cannot afford.
According to Weil's
calculations, each dog needs 164
kg of meat and 95 kg of grain per
year. It takes 0.84 hectares of
land to produce these products.

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According to scientists, to build and
drive an SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle – "a practical
vehicle for sports". A practical car for outdoor
enthusiasts) 10 thousand km, energy in
the
amount of 55.1 gigajoules is needed.
And one hectare of land can produce
energy equal to 135 gigajoules per year. In
other words, the polluting effect of a car on
the environment is two times lower than a
dog.

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Similar equations apply to other pets. It turns out that a cat consumes
energy (in terms of hectares — 0.15) as much as a large van, a pair of
hamsters with 0.28 hectares is comparable to a plasma TV, a red fish
(0.00034 hectares) consumes energy like two mobile phones.

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Radiation from cell phones has an extremely negative
effect on bees, leading to the collapse of the colony and even
to their mass extinction. This conclusion was reached by
British experts led by Dr. Daniel Favre.

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Scientists set up an experiment by putting a working
mobile phone under the hive. It turned out that bees
become very anxious if an incoming call comes to the
phone. They gather in a swarm, and after the signal is
interrupted, they calm down.

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In previous experiments, the
phone left near the hive led to the
collapse of the bee colony and to
the mass extinction of bee colonies.
Radiation from mobile
communications kills 43% of bees,
whereas, for example, pesticides
kill only 3% of these insects. The
fact is that cellular networks
operate at frequencies from 800 to
1200 Mhz. Bees communicate and
navigate at the same frequencies.
Cellular networks "clog" the
channel, and disoriented bees do
not find the place where they live
and feed.

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According to Bill Hughes from the University of Leeds,
studying the social structure of the society of ants and bees,
it is possible to note their cooperativeness. However, they
are also prone to conflicts and fraud.

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The inequality that is present in anthills, scientists compared with
what happens in hives, where drones and ordinary bees live. Ants,
like bees, have their own owners of "royal genes".

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Dr. Hughes and Jacobus
Boomsma from the University
of Copenhagen found that the
daughters of some fathers
become "queens" more often
than others. In addition, ants
carrying special royal genes
have the opportunity to fool
their relatives and deprive them
of the opportunity to leave
offspring.

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Let's do an exercise

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1. How high should the building be so that Batman's jump speed is
109 km/h?
2. Average American weight.
3. What scientific institution discovered that elephants are four-wheel
drive animals?
4. What kind of gum did British scientists want to invent in 2007?
5. Why did scientists follow bumblebees?
6. Why did scientists spend 300 thousand pounds on ducks?
7. What is the reason for being overweight?
8. The formula of the perfect sandwich (products).
9. What are dogs/cats/hamsters/fish comparable to in terms of the
amount of energy consumed?
10. Why are mobile phones harmful?
11. Is it good to be the queen of ants?

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Down:
1. What is characteristic of ants and bees?
2. Where were the scientists who discovered the cause of excess weight?
5. How many pounds do utilities spend on cleaning asphalt from gum?
6. What influences the collapse of a colony of bees?
7. How many kilograms of grain does a dog need on average per year?
10. What do ducks like besides water?
11. Two hundred and eighty-seven million … (singular) is the weight of the planet's population.
Across:
3. What did the scientists want to calculate by paying attention to Batman?
4. What was the object of scientists' observation when they came up with a way to find maniacs?
8. What is the most popular meat product in England?
9. What kind of animal is "four-wheel drive"?

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The lesson is over!
Thanks for your attention!