Polywater

Polywater is an idea devised by Russian scientist during the 1960s. This so called new form a water was much thicker than regular water and also boiled at a higher temperature and froze a at lower temperature. Soon the US and British scientist found out about this new water and started to test this so called polywater because of its appearance of polymerizing (forming chains). The public soon began to fear that if polywater came into contact with regular water in lakes, oceans, or rivers, than an entire body of water could automatically change to polywater. Soon however, scientist began to notice that it was merely a laboratory error. It was noticed that there were contaminates in the glassware that made the waters viscosity, boiling point, and melting point change.

Links:

http://itotd.com/articles/588/polywater/

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944149,00.html

Can All Websites Be Trusted?

The internet is filled with a lot of great resources but there are some that are a hoax. For example, the website http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ is a great example. The website looks real and even gives a scientific name to the creature. All of this helps to add to the credibility of the site. You will first start to question the reliability when they start mentioning Sasquatch. It is common understanding that Sasquatch does not exist. If people were not careful, they could start believing that there really are Tree Octopuses.

Here is another website that is pretty interesting:

http://www.shardsoglass.com/main.cfm