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How much do we miss when we blink?

We normally blink 15-20 times per minute, which means our eyes are closed about 1/10th of our whole time awake.

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You might not even notice it, but every minute you’re awake, you have to blink your eyelids. Your body does this without you even trying, and for a few reasons. Blinking keeps our eyes wet, pushes dust out of the way, and gives our brains quick, restful breaks from looking at stuff. So our friend Alexis V. asked, how many times do we blink while watching a movie? (And happy birthday Alexis!) To figure that out, we need to know how many times we blink in 1 minute, and that depends on what we’re doing. We normally blink 15-20 times per minute, which means our eyes are closed about 1/10th of our whole time awake. BUT scientists have found that we blink less often when we’re watching something interesting — like a movie. That said, even if we drop to 10 blinks a minute, over a 2-hour movie our minds will still get lots of breaks, as we’ll find out when we do the math.

Wee ones: If you blink 8 times, what numbers do you say to count those blinks?

Little kids: Kids blink less often than grownups — you blink faster and faster until you’re 14! How many years from now is that for you, or how long ago was it? Bonus: Babies blink only 2 times a minute. How many minutes does it take for them to blink 6 times?

Big kids: If a movie lasts 2 hours, how many minutes of blinking is that? Bonus: If you then blink 10 times every minute, how many times do you miss out on little bits of the movie?

Answers:

Wee ones: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Little kids: Different for everyone…count up to find the years until you’re 14, or count down from your age to 14. Bonus: 3 minutes.

Big kids: 120 minutes. Bonus: 1,200 times.

The sky’s the limit: 60 times and 40 times. If the kid blinks only 2/3 as much, then the difference in their blink counts will be 1/3 of the grownup’s total. We know that difference is 20, so the grownup must blink 60 times, and from there the kid will blink 40 times.

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What's the world record for not drinking water?

for 18 days The longest someone is known to have gone without water was in the case of Andreas Mihavecz, an 18-year-old Austrian bricklayer who was left locked in a police cell for 18 days in 1979 after the officers on duty forgot about him. His case even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.

The river wasn’t far away. Chaz Powell could see the Zambezi churning over boulders in the gorge a few hundred metres below him. It was tantalisingly close, but out of his reach. “I can't describe how thirsty I was,” says Powell. Teetering on the edge of a cliff at the top of a gorge, he had run out of water and had no way of getting down to the river. Recalling the precarious position he found himself in, Powell describes an overwhelming feeling of panic as he worried about how to find something to drink. “By this point I was starting to feel really ill,” he says. “I started to overheat, and my body temperature was just insane.” Powell, an expedition guide from Shropshire in the UK, was about to experience what it is like to be stranded without the commodity most of us take for granted. In most developed countries, accessing clean water is as simple as turning on a tap. People in these places pour gallons of it down the drain every day without a thought, as they brush their teeth, shower and flush the toilet. But around 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water around the world, and a total of 2.7 billion find water difficult to access for at least one month of the year. Water is one of the fundamental ingredients for life on Earth and our bodies are mainly composed of it. When we are forced to go without water, things can turn nasty very fast indeed.

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