Education
Quote of the Day by motivational speaker Brian Tracy on discipline: ‘Your life only gets better when you get better’
Antarctica is the largest desert on the planet, because a desert is defined by how little water falls from the sky rather than by heat, and almost nothing falls on the frozen continent.
A single kilogram of conventionally farmed beef requires approximately 15,400 litres of water to produce, the equivalent of around 100 standard bathtubs, and generates approximately 99 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of driving an average car about 250 miles.
The single loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883 — heard from approximately 4,800 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean — with a sound wave so powerful it traveled around the entire planet four times, was measured on barometers thousands of miles distant, and ruptured the eardrums of sailors aboard ships up to 65 kilometers from the eruption site
The Mediterranean Sea was once completely dry — about 5.6 million years ago, the connection to the Atlantic Ocean was closed by geological shifts, and the entire sea evaporated into a massive salt-floored basin two miles below sea level, which remained empty for roughly 600,000 years before the Strait of Gibraltar reopened and the Atlantic refilled it in what may have been the largest waterfall in Earth’s history
IITian unable to land job after graduation seeks advice on PhD versus industry career
Scientists finally unravel the mysteries of a pianist’s ‘touch’ after measuring hand and finger movements with "microscopic spatial precision"
Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, University of California faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants
Quote of the day by Aristotle: ‘Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom’
The Pacific Ocean is so vast that it’s larger than every continent on Earth combined — and there’s a single straight line you could sail through it for nearly 20,000 miles without ever touching land
A rainbow is not actually located in any specific place in the sky — every person watching the same rainbow is seeing a slightly different one, formed by different raindrops, and if two people stood next to each other looking at the same rainbow, the rainbows they are seeing would be technically different, with no two viewers in the world ever sharing the exact same rainbow
A single aspen grove in Utah called Pando is one organism sharing a 106-acre root system and 47,000 genetically identical trunks, weighs roughly 6,000 tons, and has been quietly cloning itself for somewhere between 9,000 and 80,000 years while every visible trunk above it lives and dies on a 130-year cycle.
Almost every atom in your body heavier than hydrogen was forged inside stars that died long before the Sun was born, which means the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones are quite literally the remains of dead stars
Ex-Google intern meets IIT Kharagpur grad who solves JEE questions ‘for fun’: ‘Different league altogether’
College admissions: Demand for professional courses rises
Work afoot on law to cap annual fee hike by pvt schools: Punjab minister
The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all
Why do stars appear different colors in the night sky?
Why Is the Sky Blue?
Katharine Birbalsingh: Middle class parents shun my schools
