Category: Family and Kids
Life Long Learning
There's no excuse for not being able to learn because you are not in school
By Samina Saifee
Our lives are highly inundated with technology and it [...]
Why do we lose our sense of taste when suffering from Cold?
A human individual is endowed with the capacity to detect up to 10,000 smells. Our sense of smell is responsible for about 80% of what we taste. The [...]
Do You Know?
ï¶ An adult has about five to six litres of blood in his body.
ï¶ The heart of an adult pumps around 7,000 litres of blood through the body eve [...]
Bio-Fuels
Can we extract oils from plants that can work as fuel in automobiles in place of petrol or diesel. Answer is, Yes.
Juices of several plants, seeds a [...]
Measuring an Earthquake
Earthquakes can be measured by the help of a seismograph. The scale used for this purpose is called Richter Scale, name after its inventor.
A seismog [...]
Airmail
The first 'airmail' was used by the Egyptians through pigeons in 2500 BC. Pigeons were used widely throughout the world. One may be surprised to kno [...]
What is a Pension?
Pension usually refers to the remuneration or payment a person receives after he retires from the active job. He is paid a part of the salary which he [...]
Poky Learns a Good Lesson
By Yoginder Sikand
You would have thought that it was high time Poky retired and spent the rest of his years thinking about what are called the 'high [...]
A Glass of Milk
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one penny left, and he was hungry. He dec [...]
Heaviest Newspaper
The Sunday edition of the New York Times on September 1987 contained 1,612 pages and weighed 5.4 kgs. It is said the newsprint required to produce thi [...]