Long ago, Thunder and Lightning lived on the earth with the other people. Thunder was an old mother sheep and Lightning was her son, a ram. The King made them live at the far end of the town, as far as possible from the other people’s houses. Whenever the ram was furious, he used to […]
Parrots have been loved as pets. Their colours and the way they speak are one of the factors that people love them. Parrots imitate what others speak. They do not form words or know meanings but speak what they listen to. Parrots speak words, which are formed differently from the way humans form them. They
We take curd in almost our daily diet but do you know how it is really done? Actually, it can help you digest your food as well as can give taste too to your mouth. To make curd the solid and liquid part of milk are required to be separated. So after warming the milk
Plants need water to survive, which is an idea we’re probably already familiar with. Cactuses are thrifty plants that live in dry regions. They may not get much moisture where they live, but they manage to make the most of what they do get. Cactuses (sometimes also called ‘Cacti’) are types of plants called ‘Succulent,’
Taste is actually a chemical sense which is perceived by the receptor cells of the taste buds present on tongue. Our tongue actually is divided into four different types of papillae which are also called bumps. In each papilla, 50-250 taste buds exist and these taste buds consist of 15 to 20 taste receptor cells
You must be known to the fact that it is the eggshells which protect growing chickens. If used for protection purpose, it means they are strong but to which extent, is really a less known fact. The eggshells are the outer covering made up of fertilized gamete which locates on the yolk surface and is
Beauty is always compared with the moon and it has a spot on it. The moon contains both. Earlier, it was believed that dark patches on the moon are actually a large sea and so they named it ‘Maria’ but in reality, on the moon water is not found. These dark patches are actually because
On a man’s head around 100,000 to 150,000 hairs are found which gets lost in old age but a few starts going bald from the age of 30 too. There are various reasons behind such like privilege, gender, power, youth, etc. In males generally, baldness appears on the front side which is called Androgenetic Alopecia.
Olympic game, which is also called Pan-Hellenic Games, was firstly held in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and continued till Theodosius I stopped it after 393 AD. It was then restarted after 1503 years, in 1896, by Baron Pierre de Coubertin and from that time it is held every 4 years and lasts for one
A report says that whether male or female they must cry once at least in month and when we cry tears come out. Tears are actually produced in lachrymal glands near the eyes and consist of water, mucous and oil. In tears, several hormones exist and prolactin is one of them which regulates the moods
Long ago, there was a town of exceptionally lazy people. They neither cleaned their houses nor kept their streets clean. They did not even bother to weed their vegetable patches. The chief of the town hated looking at the dirty streets and so every now and then he would start a clean-up campaign. But only
Google is actually derived from the term ‘Googol’. It is actually a mathematical term which means 1 followed by 100 zeros. This term was invented by Milton Sirotta who was nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. This term was used in book ‘Mathematics and the Imagination’ written by Edward Kasner & James Newman. The term
Google is now the widely popular Internet search engine but how it started is not known by all. Google was actually started by Sergey Brin and Larry Page who met each other as students in science program at Stanford. It was earlier just started as a research project in 1996 with the name of ‘Back
Snakes are sometimes taken as pious creatures in certain communities, so people offer them milk. Especially on Naag Panchami, you must have seen people feeding milk to snakes but in reality, snakes don’t take milk. Snakes just lick milk because of their thirst and not take as their food because before such festivals snake-charmers give
Most of us believe plants live and also make their own food but how they see the world. Plants do not have eyes but are sensitive to sunlight. The leaves of the plant make food with sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nutrients from the soil. The green pigment in the leaves called chlorophyll detects sunlight