Month: May 2017

  • Did you know? – Sound

    Why do you hear a thunderclap when the sound barrier is broken? If you throw a ball at 10 Km/hr when stationary, the ball will begin travelling at 10 Km/hr, as it travels through air friction will slow it and it will come to a halt eventually. Let us say you were travelling in a…

  • Did you know? – Mesmerised

    Anton Franz Mesmer was a German physician in the 18th Century experimenting with magnets to cure maladies. He began by using magnets and soon discovered that he did not even need them. He referred to his approach to curing as Animal Magnetism. Nobody at the time understood what was happening. In the 19th Century one…

  • Did you know? – Banana

    Almost half of all bananas grown in the world come from the same tree. The Cavendish. Cavendish does not have seeds and hence every tree is graft of another plant. So all of the Cavendish trees are the same tree being regrown. Half the world eats Banana’s coming from the same tree!