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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Amazing And Interesting Facts About INDIA..
(Source: Gemological Institute of America).
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
10 Weird Facts from the 1768 Encyclopaedia Britannica..
Written in 1768, the very first edition provides insights into how vastly man’s priorities have shifted between the eighteenth century and today. The three-volume book includes, for example, 40 pages devoted to the diseases of horses, and 40 pages about algebra – but no information about children.
To inspire readers to raid dusty bookshelves, charity shops and attics, The Telegraph picked out some of the weirdest and most wonderful facts about the world, as it was written in 1768.
1. Humans and monsters
Homo sapiens were sub divided into five varieties: the American, the European, the Asiatic, the African and the monstrous.
2. Medicine
Cures for flatulence included drinking chamomile tea and blowing smoke from a pipe ‘through the anus.’
Visiting the dentist was, literally, a pain in the backside; cures for toothache include drinking laxatives, or bleeding in the foot. If the tooth is rotten ‘it will be best to burn the nervous cord which is the seat of the pain with a cautery; and then the cavity may be filled up with a mixture of wax and maslich’. Or, the French way was to fill the hole with another human/animal tooth of the right size.
Drinking tea or coffee was a common cure for heart-burn. Alternatively hot wine infused with camomile flowers and sugar was also thought to work.
3. Chocolate consumption
Chocolate was a luxury, and ready made chocolate and cacao paste were prohibited to be imported from overseas. It could, however, be made at home for private use ‘upon three days notice given to the officer of excise, and provided no less than half an hundred weight be made at one time.’
4. Aphrodisiacs
Vermicelli noodles were first brought from Italy, where the food was in ‘great vogue’; it was chiefly used in soups and pottages, ‘to provoke venery’.
5. Petrol
Petroleum was used as an ointment to treat pains of the limbs, and to try and cure paralysis.
6. Australia and New Zealand
Despite the fact that both lands had been discovered their existence was not recognised in the Encyclopaedia until they had been colonised.
7. California
The US state of Callifornia was spelt with two ‘L’s’ and is described as ‘a large country of the West Indies. Unknown whether it is an island or a peninsula.’
8. The solar system
The solar system was described as having six planets; Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have yet to be discovered.
9. New England
Boston, the capital of New England, had numerous English attributes. It was described as being defended by a castle and platform of guns.
10. Cheese
The cheese of Ireland was prohibited to be imported into the UK. Parmesan cheese was renowned abroad, especially in France.
10 Things Your Student Bag Should Never Be Missing..
1. Reading Assignment: An absolute necessity is to take along a reading assigment. This usually means one extra book or a few pages stapled together, and it becomes insanely useful in those times you’re just stranded waiting with nothing to do. This is efficient study time usage.
2. Markers: To go with your reading, markers are a must for any student. Pens and pencils are an obvious part of a student bag, and markers shouldn’t be an exception.
3. Notepad (small): A collection device, a small notepad. Always handy for jotting down agenda items, tasks, ideas. I personally carry nothing else than the classic Moleskine.
4. Notepad (large): Even though I’m a laptop person, I make sure I have some letter sized (A4) paper with me at all times. Taking meeting notes, lecture notes and the likes is much easier on larger sheets. I’m considering a large Moleskine for this as well, but it just seems expensive for a scrapbook.
5. Laptop: I love my Macbook Air. It’s light, it hardly takes any space, and it holds my documents, tasks and calendar. It also reduces my carrying load as I don’t print out lecture slides anymore, I just use the laptop. I also store all notes and other school documents on here. I print them out just before exam phase.
6. Water: A bottle of water keeps you alive. And healthy. Quit the soda and coffee.
7. Swiss Army Knife: You never know when you might need a toothpick, or a knife, or more importantly: a bottle opener.
8. Paper tissues: The next time you spill soda on someone’s pants, sneeze your brain out or simply need to wipe the grim out of your face, you’ll thank me.
9. Small perfume vial: I always keep one of those free sample vials of eau de toilette you seem to find everywhere. Keeping a small version of a deodorant, or anything else to freshen up will save your appearance on a long day. This goes for us men, too.
10. Mints: Or chewing gum, either way you’ll need something to neutralise that garlic bread from the cafeteria. It’s also proven that chewing enhances brain activity.
Monday, August 2, 2010
4 Biggest Misconceptions We Learn In School..
1) Einstein got bad grades in school.
Generations of children have been heartened by the thought that this Nobel Prize winner did badly at school, but they’re sadly mistaken. In fact, he did very well at school, especially in science and maths (unsurprisingly).
2) Mice like cheese
Mice enjoy food rich in sugar as well as peanut butter and breakfast cereals. So a Snickers bar would go down much better than a lump of cheddar.
3) Napoleon was short.
He was actually around 5ft 7, completely average for the 18th/19th century.
4) Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
Edison invented a lot of things – in fact he’s one of the most famous inventors of all time – but the light bulb wasn’t one of them. What he did was develop a light bulb at the same time as the British man, Joseph Swan, who came up with it originally.
10 Amazing Facts About Magnets..
1. If you cut a magnet in half, you get 2 smaller magnets as a result, each with their own north and south pole.
2. The north pole on a magnet points towards the north pole on the earth. This is because they are both giant magnets and are aligning themselves together. This is how a compass works.
3. To make a new magnet, take one you already have and then rub it on a new piece of metal. This process is called magnetisation and will turn any piece of metal into a magnet.
4. Electromagnets are not magnetic all the time. If you pass electricity through a nail wrapped in a copper wire, it turns into a magnet. Once you stop the flow of electricity – it is just a nail and wire again.
5. A magnetic field is an invisible area around every magnet that attracts metals and other magnets to it. That is why you can slowly push 2 magnets together and they will jump to each other, due to them entering their magnetic fields.
6. The magnetic field made by The Earth is so big and strong, that it stretches out into space. The Earth is made from metals and materials like iron, which makes it just like a smaller magnet you might have at home.
7. Fridge magnets are used all over the world in families homes and in America, are seen on an average of 20 times per day !
8. The power of a magnet is measured in Tesla (which was the name of a scientist who specialised in electricity). Even though The Earth is massive and is a giant magnet, it is around 1000 times weaker than a small magnet you might have at home.
9. Magnetism was discovered and used over 800 years ago in ancient Greece and China. They even had their own compasses.
10. Iron is the best metal to use as a magnet as it is naturally magnetic. Others are nickel and cobalt, but if you have a magnet at home, it is most likely made from iron or ferrites, which is a metal made from many different elements.
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