Kewl Kids Sunday - Typographic Portraits

You can check out heaps more portraits "painted" with words here.

Lesson for the Kewl Kids: Weather Forecasting

Magic Number

Knowing mathematics can make you seem to have psychic powers.

1. Mind Reading

Materials Needed

Paper, pen, phone book, envelope.

Before doing this demonstration, you need to write the number 1089 onto a piece of paper. Then put it in the envelope and seal it.

The demonstration is done as follows:

1. Tell the audience some nonsense about you being able to predict the future or read their minds. Give someone the envelope. Ask them not to open it yet.
2. Ask for a three digit number, where all the digits are different. Write it down.
3. Write the number backwards.
4. Subtract the smaller from the larger. You will now have either a two or three digit number. It will have a 9 in the tens column.
5. Write this new number backwards. If it is a two digit number, you need to write a zero at the end. (e.g. 94 goes to 490).
6. Add these two numbers. You will get 1089.
7. Open the envelope to reveal the answer.

2. When Were You Born

With this trick you can tell someone their age the month that they were born in and the day they were born on. 

Now tell your friend to: 

1. Write down the number of the month they were born on.
2. Multiply by 100.
3. Add the day of the month they were born on. 
4. Multiply by 2. 
5. Add 9. 
6. Multiply by 5. 
7. Add 8. 
8. Multiply by 10. 
9. Subtract 419. 
10. Add his age. 
11. Subtract 111.

The 2 digits on the right is the person’s age. The 2 digits on the left from the person’s age is the day that they were born on. The numbers that are left are the month your friend was born in.

Here is an example: Pretend that the person’s age is 16 and was born on November 4th. 

1. He writes down 11 for November. 
2. He multiplies by 100:1100 
3. He adds the day of the month, 4:1104 
4. He multiplies by 2:2208 
5. He adds 9:2217 
6. He multiplies by 5:11085 
7. He adds 8: 11093 
8. He multiplies by 10:110930 
9. He subtracts 419:110511 
10. He adds his age: 110527 
11. Then he subtracts 111 and he gets 1110416.

The 2 numbers on the right tell you he is 16. The middle numbers tells you the day of the month he was born. The first 2 numbers tell you he was born in the 11th month, November

Photo: "Math Homework" by Kolchogo Tiko

Kewl Kids Sunday

I thought I was pretty good with geography but I just this week I found out about the Socotra islands so I thought it was only fair I share it in case it is new for others too!

It was their fascinating plants that were my doorway (so many photos to choose from but I narrowed it down to these two). The Socotra islands are in the Indian Ocean, off the horn of Africa and are a part of Yemen. If you check out the wiki article, you also get some great cave photos. I also found great info here.

Kewl Kids Sunday

Stereoscopic pics are those that make 2D into 3D. I am not sure if this pic has translated properly but you can check the real ones here at Cretique :-)

Wiki has (of course) everything you every wanted to know about them and more.

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Just in keeping with the theme of the weekend - many thanks to Pita for the photos :-) Click to make it bigger :-)

Kewl Kids Sunday - Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That

Okay I have been away, have had lots of thinking time and am trying so hard to stump the Kewl Kids so today I am going to try riddles. There are 5 in the challenge - I am hoping I can stump you on at least one!

1 What English words keeps it's pronunciation even if you take away four of its five letters?

2 A basket contains 5 apples, how do you divide them among 5 kids so each kids gets an apple and one apple stays in the basket?

3 What is so unusual about: "Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "  The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's

4 A word I know, six letters it contains, take away one and twelve remains. What am I?

5 The following number is the only one of its kind: 8,549,176,320. Can you figure out what is so special about it?

Please tell me you get stumped (at least a little bit) or else I will have to bring out the very big guns lol

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Can you tell me the name of the animal, vegetable and mineral?

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No these are not animated pics! (but they do make my eyes ache lol) Check out the info here.

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Cirrus cloud

Altostratus cloud

Stratus cloud

Cumulus cloud

How much do you know about clouds? According to Wikipedia, there are five main forms:

• High clouds (cirrocumulus, cirrus and cirrostratus),
• Middle clouds (altostratus and altocumulus),
• Low clouds (cumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus and stratus),
• Vertical clouds (cumulonimbus, cumulus, pyrocumulus) and
• everything else.

Well okay I may have bundled the last category together but you can look at the article here is you want more details on the "everything else" clouds or on the various sub-groups of each category. And this website is devoted to shots of rare and incredible clouds if you want to check it out.

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The Pink Fairy Armadillo

The Proboscis Monkey

The Sucker-Footed Bat

Not sure what this one is called by it was too cute to leave out.

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This is both a pretty lady and a man playing saxophone ...

Can you see the horse's head or just the rocks?

Can you find the faces?

You can go here or here for more :-)

Kewl Kid's Sunday

These "Living Statues" are the finalists from a competition held in Russia. You can see more here.

Kewl Kid's Sunday

You can find our more about these amazing galaxies (and see more of them) here.

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Apparently none of these are Photoshopped, the just use perspective :-) Many thanks to FunnyPhotos.

Kewl Kid's Sunday

PS: I am not sure who did these but I will offer full credit to the artist (including links) when I do find out.

Kewl Kid's Stuff

More work from Guido Daniele. The first one's were posted last Monday.

For the Kewl Kids

Guido Daniele is the artist behind these pictures. He takes 3 - 4 hours to do each one and often uses the hands of his children as his palette. :-) I have a heap more (including a Dalmation) so I will post them on Sunday for you :-)