Once, a young man took his cows for grazing and on his way he tripped on a skull that looked very beautiful. He looked at it for a while and uttered aloud, “Oh my God, but why are you killing such beautiful people?” He then continued with his grazing. The next day also, he saw […]
Once upon a time, Ganya and his son went into the forest to hunt. They did not find any hunt and soon started feeling hungry. It was evening and now they were tired. Throughout the day, they did not find any animal. At last, they killed a hyena. Sadly, the Nuers do not eat the
Once, some birds and some animals lived in the sky. The dog and the hen also lived there. One day, it was very cold and rainy in the sky. So, to make the sky warm, the birds asked the dog to go to the Earth and bring some fire. The dog went to a man’s
Long ago, there was a King in Uganda who was very unkind to his people. The people were afraid of the King. Every day, he thought of new ways to distress and trouble people. No one in his kingdom was safe and happy. Though it was a beautiful country and the Sun shone every day
Spiders have two fangs, one cephalothorax (joined head and middle), one abdomen, and eight legs. But how many eyes do these arachnids have? Most spiders, but definitely not all spiders, have eight eyes, and the way those eyes are arranged can often help scientists work out what kind of spider it is. Of course, that’s
In general, we hear a popping sound when we crack our knuckles and there is a scientific reason behind this. The sound in the knuckles is caused when we deliberately or undeli-berately extend the finger joint to its maximum range. The joints are enclosed by a lubricating fluid and when we extend the knuckles the
We sneeze when our nasal mucosal membrane is swollen or the nerve ending is irritated. The irritation can be caused by anything, which may be a foreign substance or allergen. However, sometimes sneezing occurs when our optic nerve is exposed to bright light. Multiple sneezes or one single sneeze is a reflex of the human
The human body is of such type that it cannot hold excessive loss of blood. So there should be some hormone which helps humans to keep stick their wounds and cuts so that they may be intact with their proper working of the body. Blood platelets are the required hormone that helps them for blood
Most of the times we do a deep knee bend and then we hear a popping sound that comes from your knee joints. This is a very common thing that is faced by the people of different age groups. The reason for these sounds in the knees and other joints is because of the tendons,
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Long ago, a hyena, a fox and a monkey lived together in one house. One day, they went hunting and stole four cows from a village farm. “Each of us will have one cow,” the hyena said. “But who will have the fourth cow?” “The oldest one of us will have it,” the fox advised.
Food absorption is also known as ‘digestion’ in the language of science. The full system of digestion or food absorption is twelve meters long in the body of the human. In the body of the healthy human this process takes place in normally between 24 to 72 hours. The digestion is also depending on the
There are lots of ways to keep your coats and pants and sweatshirts warmly wrapped around you, like buttons, snaps, hooks, and bowties. Then there are zippers, which are just as helpful as the other ways, but slightly more mysterious. How do they work? A zipper track is made up of dozens of teeth, each
Once upon a time, an old man was going to the river to wash his clothes. On the way, he met a little boy. The boy asked him where he was going. The old man replied, “I am going to the river to wash my clothes.” The boy offered himself to wash his clothes. The
Pencils can only write for so long before their graphite tips are worn down to nubs, and then we can’t write anymore. This is when we go to the very helpful machines called ‘pencil sharpeners’. Early pencil sharpeners consisted only of two blades situated in a metal housing that was manually turned around the pencil.
Epiglottis has a flap structure which is made up of an elastic cartilage that is covered with hard roof or hard skin known as mucous membrane, which is closely attached at the start of the larynx. There is a risk of epiglottis in the young children or growing children because these glands at some times