Pleasure of knowledge-(lightning)
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Category: curiosity corner
Curiosity corner-Drinking soda for indigestion!!!
Drinking soda helps us during indigestion. How? Soda water or carbonated water is water in to which low levels of pressurized carbon dioxide has been dissolved, creating carbonic acid. The intake of soda water helps those with impaired digestion. Soda water causes bloating, which stretches the stomach. Mechanoreceptors...
use it or lose it-challenge-reposted
something to trigger your grey matter!! use-it-or-lose-it-challenge_reposted-1411use-it-or-lose-it-challenge_reposted-1411
question time-Electricity standard-
In India, why do we use electricity at 230 volt and 50 hertz while other countries like US use at 110volt and 60 hertz? The supply of electric power to our homes from generating station is mainly in the form of alternating voltage in which there is change...
Question time!!How is the oxygen differentiated from other gases in our respiratory system?
The atmosphere contains several gases. A person inhales that combination but how is the oxygen differentiated from that in our respiratory system? We inhale oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen and also exhale the same gases, though in different proportions to inhalation; that is, oxygen is exchanged for...
You don’t have to listen to experts; you are an expert!!!-a comic tragedy
The ultimate appeal of anti-vaccine advocacy: it flatters the ignorant One of the most attractive aspects of anti-vaccine advocacy, indeed of all alternative health, is that no particular knowledge is necessary to declare yourself an expert. It doesn’t matter that you don’t have even the most basic knowledge...
Tuesday with Bill-Do You Believe in Ghosts and the Afterlife?
Bill Nye tackles a tough question that every person alive has been hung up on – what happens after we die? Where does our life energy go? Transcript – Marsalina: Hi Bill Nye. My name is Marsalina. This is my son Ohenu. And we have a question about...
Why some songs that get stuck in your head-TED ed
You’re driving to work, listening to your favorite radio station, when on comes Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time.” By the time you pull into your office parking lot, you have, “Oh baby, baby” running through your head. You hum it at your desk. You sing it on...
How memories form and how we lose them-TED ed
Think back to a really vivid memory. Got it? Now try to remember what you had for lunch three weeks ago. That second memory probably isn’t as strong—but why not? Why do we remember some things, and not others? And why do memories eventually fade? Catharine Young gives...
The most astounding fact-(Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked what was the most astounding fact about the universe.This is his answer [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”48″ disable_keyboard=”0″]v1UB8kTsCmY[/wpdevart_youtube] Neil continues: “When I reflect on that fact, I look up...
