Author: Kinooze Learning
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No Bursting Crackers After 10 p.m.
In Bengaluru, Karnataka, police have banned the bursting of crackers between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. during Diwali.There can be no bursting of crackers around the silent zones like hospitals. Crackers not only cause noise pollution but their smoke also pollutes the air and increases the air pollution levels way above acceptable limits. Police will patrol…
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Plastic Indian Flags Might be Banned
Indian government wants to ban the use of large number of plastic Indian flags used at national, cultural and sporting events. Plastic is harmful to the environment as it takes years to degrade during which time harmful residues seep into the ground. Instead goverment is suggesting the use of bio-degradable paper for making flags for…
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Discovery or Invention?
Imagine if no one had discovered dinosaur fossils we would not have known that these majestic creatures existed. If Issac Newton would not have discovered the law of gravity, we would still be clueless about why things fall downwards and don’t fly back up. Think if cars, planes and computers were not invented. Without these incredible discoveries and marvelous inventions,…
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Spade-Toothed Beaked Whale Exists
The spade-toothed whale is a very little known because it is the rarest species of beaked whales. It was unknown until a partial jaw was found on Pitt Island in New Zealand in 1872 by a geologist named James Hector. In December 2010, a female and a baby whale were found stranded on Opape Beach,New…
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Precious Sunshine
Sunshine shines Sunshine shines Oh! look the dark cloud whines Its rays are falling bright yellow Making me so calm so mellow.. I am sure you all know that sun’s rays are super for us. But have you ever wondered why they are so cherished? Sunshine helps us in many ways. When it falls on our…
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First Sandy now Nor’easter hits NY
New York and New Jersey residents have been warned to evacuate their homes as a new storm hits the area. The storm moving towards NY area has already brought some snow. So far around 1200 flights have been cancelled and there will be more power cuts. Although the storm is not as strong as Sandy…
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Now You Can See it, Now You Can’t!
Can you find the owl in the above picture? You can if you look very closely. The owl’s body is so similar to the trunk of the tree that it almost blends in the tree. A predator that is using vision to hunt will almost miss the owl. This method that allows animals, people or objects…
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Barack Obama Re-elected as the US President
Barack Obama has been re-elected by the people of United States of America to be the 45th president of their country. He gets a second term which means another four years to serve the office. He had a very tough challenge from Republican Mitt Romney. Obama thanked all the voters online by tweeting from his official account “This happened because of you. Thank…
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Why is Plastic Harmful for Environment?
You must have observed that grocery shops these days do not use plastic bags. They hand out all your things in either paper bags or cloth bags. So what happened to the plastic bags that we used? There is a reason plastic is slowly disappearing. In fact, it is a conscious effort by everyone as…
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US Gearing up for Elections
United States general elections will be held on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012. Current President and Democratic Party member Barack Obama is contesting for a second term of presidency against Republican Party Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. Latest polls reveal that the race among the two presidential candidates will be very close. Both of them are equally…
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The Rubbing Tool
“You make way too many mistakes while writing. If it were not for the eraser your notebook would be filled only with criss crosses”, Myra told Ken. Ken smirked and said, ” If I had a time machine, I would go back in time to thank the person who invented the eraser. But who should I…
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Sunita Williams Spacewalks Again
Indian-American Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams recently completed her seventh spacewalk. Any time an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space, it is called a spacewalk. A spacewalk is also called an EVA meaning extravehicular activity. She ventured out along with Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide for about six hours to fix an ammonia leak…