Category: Did you know?
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Did you know? Memory
Have you made a checklist of things to be done and then only a few minutes or hours later forgotten most of it? Just as computers have RAM and hard drive the human mind has two storage repositories. When we sleep the memories from the day are moved to permanent memory from the hippocampus to…
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Did you know? Sleep
There are fundamentally three different kinds of sleepers amongst humans. The morning larks – These are people who like to go to bed early and wake up early as well. They like to sleep (9 -5) The Night Owls – The late nighters who like to sit up the whole night and go to bed…
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Did you know? Freelance
So we keep hearing certain terms and do not really think to know why they came to be. As someone who works with startups, I hear about freelancers all the time. In the 18th century when kings lost wars, their soldiers were left without any allegiance. Soldiers in the day used to carry lances. These…
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Did you know? – Bite the bullet
You may have heard of the phrase – ‘bite the bullet’. It is used to describe the act of doing something unpleasant or difficult, which you have been putting off. Anaesthesia was discovered by accident in 1840’s American physician Crawford W. Long noticed that his friends felt no pain when they injured themselves while staggering…
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What is Stem Cell?
I happened to learn about Stem Cells last week and wanted to share this short note! Cancer researchers started treating cancerous cells with radiation. While they found that this kills the cancerous cells, along with it, the radiation also kills several types of blood cells. We call this chemotherapy After the treatment was done researchers…
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Did you know – Gut
You must have heard the term gut instinct; for the past few years science has spent all of its effort rubbishing it! Well, gut instinct is real! The brain is the organ that consumes the most amount of energy in your body. Almost 20% of all energy consumed is by the brain. The gut is…
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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…
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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…
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Did you know? – Oxygenation
I keep learning random stuff, here and there. I never document these things although they might contribute to an interesting read. I also have a writing problem. It takes me a lot of time to think through things and condense it into a blog AND I am mightily indisciplined. So for the benefit of other…