Author: Kinooze Learning
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Blue Algae Boom In Hong Kong
Many of Hong Kong’s shores are shimmering with bright blue waves. The Tolo Harbour, in northeast of HongKong and the Silver Mine beach in the Lantau island, the biggest island of Hong kong, are one of the few places that are lit up by the glowing waves at the night. What makes this phenomenon exceptional is that humans have nothing to do…
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How Magnets Work?
Have you ever played with magnets? Magnets are objects that have an invisible force acting between them. Take two magnets and bring them closer and click! – they stick together. However, sometimes you feel an invisible force acting between them pushes them away from each other. If you keep two magnets far away from each…
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Teenager Shubham Banerjee Invents A Cheap Braille Printer
Shubham Banerjee is all but 13 years old. He lives in San Jose, California with his parents. He goes to school and loves it, especially science. Everything about him sounds normal except this: Shubham, for his 7th-grade school science fair project, made a Braille Printer – a fully functional Braille printer! Braille is a system of dots and…
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The History of ToothBrush
All of you know that it is so important to keep your pearly whites clean. What helps you the most in doing so? Isn’t it your toothbrush? But, have you ever thought how people cleaned their teeth in earlier times? Or did they bother to clean their teeth at all? Let us find out when…
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Instruments To Measure
Instruments are measuring devices that gauge and tell the size, extent, degree, scope or magnitude of somethings. Instruments can be big or very small. We come across instruments in our daily lives but do not think of them as instruments. Let us see how many of them you know about. Ever been sick? A tiny…
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Fathers
(Sneha, 10, writes a heartfelt poem about fathers) Fathers are good, the best, They’ve passed the sacrifice test. They help us in realizing our dreams, And treat us with biscuits with cream. They give us food to our fill, And also pay our phone bill. Fathers make big sacrifices for us, And we just make…
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A Historic Rock Climb
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson climbed the summit of El Capitan, 19 days after they took the first step to fulfilling their dream. El Capitan is a 3000 feet granite rock in Yosemite National Park in California, US. To climb the granite rock has always been challenging for climbers because it is steep and not…
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What is Turning Taj Mahal Yellow?
Since long, dust and industrial pollution have been known to have a hand in tanning of the beautiful Taj Mahal. Now we have one more culprit, and it is the least expected one. Just like how it happens in most of the mystery novels. It is cow dung! How can cow dung turn Taj Mahal…
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A Slice of History in Time Capsule
A time capsule containing some snippets of 220-year old history was recently opened in Boston, Massachusetts. Did it travel to the future in the time machine? Nah! Nothing like this has happened. The actual story goes like this – MFA ( Massachusetts Fine Arts) conservator Pamela Hatchfield along with Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson…
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The Red Rose City – Petra
Habib was an eleven-year old boy. His father Abdul was an incense trader. Incense of Arabia was famous all over the world in olden times. Once in three months, Abdul traveled to the neighboring city of Petra for trade. This time, he thought his son Habib was old enough to travel with him. He wanted…
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What is Bio-luminescence?
Long time ago there was a little girl who was curious to go visit the glowing forest, but her mom told her not to go to that weird place. One day she decided to check it out on her own. She went there to see if there were any pixies or gnomes, but there were…
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The Tribal Princess – Pocahontas
Who was Pocahontas? Pocahontas, a young tribal girl from Virginia, is an important person in history because she was the first Native American to travel to England. This is a big event in history. Let us read her story today. Pocahontas was born to the tribal chief Powhatan, who was the leader of various tribes…