The sonic boom problem
Did you know a dinosaur rattles the tail on the ground which covers 1200km/h to detect predators? A snap of the enormous sized claw of…
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Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter
William Shakespeare is highly regarded as the greatest writer in English literature. People who are poets or interested in poetry would definitely know about William…
How does your smartphone know your location?
The mechanism that your phone uses to know the location of the user originated from quantum physics. Satellite What a satellite does is that it…
Why do we have museums?
We all know that the purpose of museums is to gather, preserve, interpret, and exhibit things of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the education…
The last banana: A thought experiment in probability
Probability is the number of ways delivering success to the total number of possible consequences. Probability does not tell us what exactly the outcome is…
The law of conservation of mass
The question of existence arises from all the materials including, a rock, a cow, a basic human heart; the basic building block of them is…
How parasites change their host’s behavior
Parasites are organisms that live on or inside an organism, called the host. They get their food from the host or at the expense of…
Learning from smallpox: How to eradicate a disease
Smallpox is a disease which is caused by a virus namely – variola virus. It killed more than 300 million people of the entire world…
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
“The learning and knowledge that we have is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.” These wise words were…
What did democracy really mean in Athens?
“Democracy is government Of the people, For the people, By the people” These wise words were said by the 16th President of the United States,…