Author: Kinooze Learning
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One Horned Rhino
Who is the one with one horn on the nose? Do you know? Not know, I suppose. He can very well swim. But doesn’t want to stay trim. So often he’d like to wallow. And find waters that are shallow. Endangered! Is what the story goes. Lets save him, help him ease his woes. No prizes for guessing…
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Self Driving Cars
Google had been working on the autonomous cars project for some time. It had been testing these cars in Nevada. Yesterday California joined in to allow testing of such cars. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin hopes that self-driving cars will be able to drive on public streets in five years or less. Another 30 years and no one…
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T20: Sri Lanka beats New Zealand, Windies beats England
Sri Lanka and New Zealand match was what twenty twenty cricket is all about. Absolutey thrilling. Both teams were tied on 174 runs at the end of 20 overs. In such a situation of a tie like this, an extra over called super over is played by both teams. whoever scores more runs is the winner.…
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Two Flowers in One
Hmm! What is this flower that we are talking about? Daisy:). A Daisy is made up of two types of flowers – disk florets and petal-like white ray florets. The disk is made up of many tiny flowers squeezed together. The name “daisy” is thought to have come from the old English “daes eage”, meaning “day’s eye”,…
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All about Circus
Circus is a group of performers that entertain the spectators with their binding performances. Though circus is not so popular now as we have gadgets like TV, computer and ipad to entertain us. But in olden times when these were not invented circus was a nice reason for people to get together and enjoy. Some…
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T20 : Super Eights
Super Eight matches are kicking off from today when Sri Lanka plays New Zealand. This time Super Eights have been divided into two groups. Group 1 includes West Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and defending champions England. Group 2 includes South Africa, Australia, India and Pakistan. These groups will play matches amongst themselves and top…
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Third Wave of Floods in Assam
More fresh rains have lashed Assam, flooding more areas yet again. Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes. Relief packages containing food, medicine and aid material are being dropped by the defense heavy-lift helicopters. But whether this relief material is reaching the needy is unknown. As of yesterday, Upper Assam flood situation had improved but…
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Curiosity Rocks!
Nasa’s Curiosity rover has completed its first up close examination of rocks on the planet. The robot pushed its high-tech arms against a rock to find out which elements it was made from. The rover has used the special technology – a “hand lens” and X-ray spectrometer. The mission of Curiosity is to find out…
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Jumping Jacks or Squirrels!
Squirrels are the most interesting in the family of rodents. They argue with the birds jumping from tree to tree. And yes how can we forget that their mouths are always full of nuts. These greedy little beauties have the most adorable big eyes and bushy tails. The tail serves a lot of purposes for…
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How did We Start Travelling on Water?
We have these huge travelling cities that take us from one place to another via water. But how did we get to these travelling cities commonly known as ships. We must have had boats for a long time before we had ships. But how did we get to use the boats? There is a very interesting…
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Penguin and Cactus
Once a penguin lost her way while exploring with her friends. She ended up in a desert. You will wonder how? Penguins live in oceans, how can they reach the desert? Well, that penguin actually stayed in the Balleras islands of Pacific ocean in Peru. And the Peruvian landscape has a desert set between the Pacific…
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T20: West Indies beats Ireland
It was an important game for both Ireland and West Indies as both teams had lost their first game in the tournament. Ireland started of well by hitting 33 for 1 in 5 overs but then rain interrupted the game repeatedly. Windies in the end benefitted from Duckworth-Lewis method and were declared winners.