Monday, July 31, 2017

What is Happiness?

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Happiness is an expansive concept, it goes without saying. At its fundament, the term“happiness” is abstract and abstruse and can be a mind-numbing, migraine-inducingthing to try to explain with words. But it was this complex idea—the thought of beingtruly...

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Is Walking Good or Bad

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On average, every minute of walking can extend your life by 1.5 to 2 minutes.• Walking an extra 20 minutes each day will burn off 7 pounds of body fat per year.• To burn off 1 plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field....

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Giant Dragonflies

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Dragonflies are quick, light, and pretty bugs. They zip through the air, snatching mosquitoes and flies in the blink of an eye. It is hard to imagine these tiny creatures are related to the biggest bugs that ever lived.300 Million Years OldThree hundred...

Friday, July 28, 2017

Bug Stamps Around the World

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Almost every country in the world has a postal system for delivering its mail. They also produce stamps that represent important things in their lives. People all over the world like to collect the stamps that various countries produce. It’s fun, and...

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Think Like a Scientist

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Have you ever thought about how you think? Have you ever wondered how we can look at something that’s confusing and make sense out of it? Scientists do this all the time. Learning how scientists think can help us become better thinkers. The scientific...

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

What Good Are Pesky Bugs?

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Bugs can affect us in many different ways depending on where we live and the time of the year. Even in colder climates like Alaska, bugs can be a problem. Steve Kroschel of the Kroschel Wildlife Centre in Haines, Alaska, reports that the hungry black...

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Spit, Goo, and Honey Pots

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Spit, goo, and honey pots. Is this some kind of weird recipe? Or perhaps, the answer to some silly joke? Not quite. These are Mother Nature’s ways of giving bugs the means to protect themselves.Spit Protection The Frog Hopper larva spits to protect...

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Bugs or Insects? Whats the Difference?

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They seem to be everywhere – creeping and crawling and flying around. Sometimes we call them bugs and sometimes we call them insects. But how do we know the difference between bugs and insects? Bug is a general term referring to several classifications...

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Trends and Predictions for 2017

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Fake news is not new but as Mark Thompson points out in his new book Enough Said,10 “our digital eco-systems have evolved into a near perfect environment for distorted and false news to thrive”. In the last weeks of the US election, according to an analysis...

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Can a Corn

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Ken took dialysis Tuesdays and Thursdays. It fell to Tommy after hismom passed to check his stepdad out of the Pine Lodge CorrectionalFacility. Drop him at the hospital. Take him back three hours later.Ken groaned as he climbed up the truck. —Whatcha...

What is Hyperloop?

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Intro The first several pages will attempt to describe the design in everyday language, keeping numbers to a minimum and avoiding formulas and jargon. I apologize in advance for my loose use of language and imperfect analogies. The second section...

How Jack took Sugar Cane

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Jack Frost was tired and discouraged. For years he had stood like a tin soldier on the side of a blue box holding a tablet in his arms and smiling, smiling all the time. It began to be harder and harder to smile and the tabled seemed ever so heavy. Finally...

Roland, The Brave Lad

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Long, long ago in a city of France there lived a king who had a beautiful daughter named Elizabeth. One day as she was walking through her garden a fierce dragon swooped down upon her and carried her away.There was a great sorrow throughout the land....

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

9 Things You Should NEVER Google and I bet you Will

What things you should never google?It’s a human fact that people often do things which they are told not to or do the opposite of what they are told. However, who doesn’t love doing or searching anything when someone tells them not to.Google is your...

The Young Woodchopper and Pond

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It was the last day of school and four boys were walking home. Their names were Time, Jack, Bill and Joe. Time said, “Let’s go fishing Wednesday if it’s a nice day.” So all boys agreed. Then they went home.Jack’s mother said, “Jack please go to the store...

Monday, July 17, 2017

Ace High who won Cups

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There once was an aviator who was called Ace High. He was called Ace High because he won cups and medals for records and tricks that no other aviator could perform. When the World War broke out he went as an aviator. One day five American aviators went...

Sunday, July 16, 2017

The Parson and the Clerk

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There was once a parson who was such a tyrant that whenever he met anyone on the road he would cry out, “Out of my way!” One day it happened that he met the king on the road and he did not recognize him. He called out as usual, “Out of my way!”But the...

An Explorer of the Gobi Desert

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Dr. Roy Andrews and his party of forty men have traveled in a great caravan, of seven automobiles and one hundred twenty-five camels, into the Gobi Desert of China. The are searching for skeletons of men and animals that are supposed to have lived millions...

Sheep, Autumn

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“Sheep, Autumn”, was painted by a Dutch artist whose name was Anton Maure. A weary white-haired farmer is returning home from the hills where he has been watching his flock of sheep. In his right arm he has a baby lamb.He holds a crooked stick in his...

Saturday, July 15, 2017

How The Discovery of Electricity Took Place?

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@page { margin: 0.79in } p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120% } In the old Quaker city of Philadelphia the people were laughing at a man named Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin who is now known as the famous discoverer of electricity....

Dairy Development in Nepal

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Overview of the sectorLivestock sector significantly contributes to national AGDP by nearly one third and the dairy sub-sector shares more than half of the livestock sector contribution. The annual production of milk is 1.35 million metric ton...

Diabetes in Nepal – Future and Perspectives

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Before We Start Think Yourself• What are the three main diabetes-related problems in your area?• Which groups are the worst-affected or the most vulnerable in relation to each of these problems?• What solutions to these problems are already in place?•...

MANGO - Is is good for health?

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The mango is a stone fruit which belongs to the Anacardiaceae family, which are flowering plants that produce fruits. Mangos are native to south Asia and is the national fruit of India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Since the mango leaves are considered...

Friday, July 14, 2017

Looking Back Tech 2016

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This was a historic year, but not always in a good way. Trump was elected, Brexit happened, there were repeated terror attacks in Europe, Aleppo was turned to rubble and David Bowie died. These were events that shook the world, but it was also a year...

How Fruit Texture differ?

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Textural parameters of fruits and vegetables are perceived with the sense of touch, either when the product is picked up by hand or placed in the mouth and chewed. In contrast to flavor attributes, these characteristics are fairly easily measured using...

Flavor—Aroma and Taste

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Flavor has been defined (Anon, 1959) as: A mingled but unitary experience which includes sensations of taste, smell, and pressure, and often cutaneous sensations such as warmth, color, or mild pain. Flavor is typically described by aroma (odor) and...

Color - How it affect Fruit and Vegetable

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Color is derived from the natural pigments in fruits and vegetables, many of which change as the plant proceeds through maturation and ripening. The primary pigments imparting color quality are the fat soluble chlorophylls (green) and carotenoids (yellow,...

Thursday, July 13, 2017

What is Cancer?

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Cancer is a genetic disease:– Inherited cancer – Sporadic cancer • Cancer typically involves a change in gene expression/function: – Qualitative change – Quantitative change • Any cancer causing genetic alteration typically results in loss of cell growth...

The next generation in purified water technology

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Veolia Water Technologies has recently launched its new Orion product, offering reliable and proven purified water technology in the age of sustainability. This new Orion combines its pedigree of providing compendial purified water through tried and...

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Next-generation robotics : Believe it or not!

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The popular imagination has long foreseen a world where robots take over all manner of everyday tasks. This robotic future has stubbornly refused to materialize, however, with robots still limited to factory assembly lines and other controlled tasks....

Monday, July 10, 2017

Industrialized analytics : Data is the new oil

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Data is the new oil. Where are the refineries? Data is a foundational component of digital transformation. Yet, few organizations have invested in the dedicated talent, platforms, and processes needed to turn information into insights. To realize...