Author: Kinooze Learning
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Let The Schools Do Their Job!
This is a guest post by Ashma Gomber. Ashma is currently working with Hewlett Packard India. She is an electrical engineer by profession, an avid reader and a loving mother. Ooh! My child’s school bag is heavier than our weekly grocery supplies. Oh, he has one test after the other, one competition following previous!…
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Prehistoric Humans
Who were prehistoric humans? What does it mean? Hmm. Let us start by explaining what pre-history means. Pre-history is the time before the inventions of writing. We have no written records of those times. Pre-historic time is a bit different from different civilizations. For example, in places like Ancient Egypt, things were recorded from very early times…
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Kilogram Heavier Than Before?
Such an exciting news! If kilogram is getting heavier, then we all must be getting lighter, right? Or heavier? Lighter? Confused? Well this is how it works, The standard unit for the kilogram weight – known as the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) was first introduced in 1875. The original IPK is a matchbox sized piece of platinum…
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Wildfires in Tasmania
A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in vast area with lots of vegetation that can easily catch fire. Dry weather and strong winds help the wildfire spread speedily. Wildfires usually occur in Australia during the hotter months of the year due to Australia’s mostly hot, dry climate. Wildfires have swept across Tasmania, the island state of Australia, damaging large areas of…
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Martian Flower
Curiosity is always up to something. Now it has sent back images of a blooming flower on Martian soil. Actually it is peculiar petal-shaped cluster which might or might not be a flower but it sure looks like one. A similar find in October last year had turned out to be a piece of plastic that…
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Hercules, The Hero
Hercules (HR-ku-leez) was a great Greek hero who was half human and half God. His father was the famous Greek God Zues. Hercules was not considered to be God initially, but because of his bravery and heroic deeds, he was finally given a place amongst gods. Hercules had immense strength when he was little. Once he saved his twin brother from two…
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World’s Largest Solar Plant in Ladakh
World’s largest solar telescope will be in India soon. It will be located near Pangong Lake Ladakh and would be used to study the sun’s atmosphere and understand more of it. Currently the world’s largest solar telescope McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope is in Kitt Peak National Observatory at Arizona in the US. It will be a Rupee 300 Crore project…
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Lance Armstrong Might Admit Wrongdoing
In 2012, ace cyclist Lance Armstrong, fell from grace after being stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles over using medication for enhancing strength, which is not allowed in the sporting events. He was proved guilty by US anti doping officials on basis of testimonies from former teammates, laboratory results and various other things. Armstrong didn’t fight the…
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Martian rock found in Sahara is 2 billion years old
A year back a coal coloured, baseball-size meteorite was discovered in the Sahara desert. It later turned out to be a rock from Mars! A year long study of the rock has revealed that the rock is around 2 billion years old and contains more water than other Martian rocks found till date. The rock…
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The Red Eyed Beauty
Who is this beauty that I am talking about? Am I talking about some girl with beautifully painted red eyes? No. Am I talking about a cousin of Red Riding Hood? No. The red eyed beauty I am talking about is a FROG !! What! Did you just say that’s a funny joke. Haven’t you…
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Angry Birds Happy On Christmas!
Angry Birds were really happy this Christmas, according to the Rovio blog. This application had astounding 8 million downloads on Christmas day. It was a good month for the game company as there were 30 million downloads between December 22 and December 29. “Wow, what a year!” the Rovio blog post added. “We released four critically-acclaimed bestselling mobile…
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Living Next to The Sun – Mercury
If Sun always has a fever then its neighbor Mercury, would definitely feel unusually hot. It is indeed very hot during the day time (almost 400 Degrees). However, since Mercury has no atmosphere to hold the heat in, it becomes extremely cold in the nights. Mercury’s surface looks remarkably similar to our moon filled with craters…