Turkish researchers have found that spearmint tea can help remove excess facial and body hair from body. Using women want to get rid of the unwanted hair to look beautiful. This finding will throw new light in the beautification of body. The study shows that women who have excess body hair (hirsuitism) after drinking 2 cups of herbal tea a day for 5 da
Scientist have already reported chimpanzee using sticks to take out termites from the termite hills. But recently scientist have found an interesting fact about the chimpanzees living in West Savannah region of Africa. The chimpanzees are using deadly spears from sticks. They are also using hand crafted tools to hunt small animals. This is the first routine p
Scientists studying equine evolution have assembled the genetic blueprint of a thoroughbred mare. A rough draft of its entire DNA sequence has been made. They wanted to study physiology and dozens of diseases of both horses and human. At Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the research was done under a senior scientist named Clair Wade. The genome conta
Scientists studying equine evolution have assembled the genetic blueprint of a thoroughbred mare. A rough draft of its entire DNA sequence has been made. They wanted to study physiology and dozens of diseases of both horses and human. At Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the research was done under a senior scientist named Clair Wade. The genome conta
Job burn-out occurs when someone does the same job for quite a long time. It may be 2 to 3 years or more. The person gets irritated in his job and many side-effects develop. Research shows that they are prone to develop type-2 diabetes. This study was done in Israel on 677 subjects. The study was done among male, middle-aged workers. The study shows
Generally the back office workers do their job even during festivals. We worked during the Kali Puja (a puja where Maa Kali, Goddess of Strength, with the idol portraying an angry woman with tongue protruding out with her husband, Lord Shiva under her foot and with decapitated heads made into garlands.) March 3 was celebrated in this year 2007 as Holi in India. On
The aquarium is an enclosure where fishes are kept and food is given to the fishes. Generally exotic fishes are kept here, fishes that have a variety of colors in their body are kept in aquarium to beautify the place where it is kept. In India, we have a wonderful museum at Kolkata, one of the major metropolitan city of India. It is called “Aquarium
On 18th of February in 2007, I embarked on a journey to see the wildlife in an enclosure at Alipur in Kolkata. The place is called Zoological Garden. It is wonderful place to visit in the holidays. It is in front of the famous National Library of Kolkata. I took a bus 3D/1 and went straight to the Alipur Zoological Garden. I entered the zoo after
Harmonica is a wind instrument. It is played by mouth. The harmonica is held by the hand with 2 hands and played by blowing air from the mouth. With a little air pressure, one can play harmonica. Soft blowing the instrument gives rise to a sweet sound. Being a wind instrument, you can play it any time and any where. It is small and portable. It can be carried i
A new research states that our memories are cemented in the brain during the sleep. It was reported in LiveScience. In Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researcher Matthew Wilson thinks that this work brings closer to an understanding of the nature of animal dreams. It gives them a clue to the role of sleep in processing memories of past exper
Scientists have found new recordings in the activity of the brain, which consolidates daily memories. This study throws light on how our brain interacts with itself in the process of day-to-day remembering of facts and figures. The recordings capture dialogues between hippocampus and neocortex of our brain. Hippocampus is the area where initial mem
Scientists have found new recordings in the activity of the brain, which consolidates daily memories. This study throws light on how our brain interacts with itself in the process of day-to-day remembering of facts and figures. The recordings capture dialogues between hippocampus and neocortex of our brain. Hippocampus is the area where initial mem
Science City is a wonderful place for creating interest in science for the young and old. This is the place where scientific principles are demonstrated with the help of simple experiments. The Science City is a large area with toy train, picnic area, food stalls, space odyssey, rope way, mono rail, maritime center, and evolution park. As you e
Science City is a wonderful place for creating interest in science for the young and old. This is the place where scientific principles are demonstrated with the help of simple experiments. The Science City is a large area with toy train, picnic area, food stalls, space odyssey, rope way, mono rail, maritime center, and evolution park. As you e
It was a cool dark night. Robinson was walking along the road tired after a whole day’s work in a factory. He works in a automobile factory at Africa. He was walking feeling quite fatigued. On this day, he had a dispute in his factory. His boss, Mr. John Simpson, will not allow him to leave one hour early from office. He has vomited food 2 times. He is working
One day Tom was moving along the road. He was returning from office. He worked in a multinational company. It was around 9 p.m. He had just completed his afternoon shift. The road was desolate. Cool breeze was blowing. Suddenly a black cat crossed him. He stopped for a while as he knew that there is misfortune if a black cat crosses you! All of a sudden he sa
Peter often travels by train from Kolkata to Mumbai. He works in a private firm called Dream Merchant. He is a marketing executive. In his home, he has his wife and son. He lives at Dhakuria in Kolkata. His company sells insurance. Generally he has no problem traveling alone in a train. He usually works in Kolkata and its adjoining areas. But this is the
Mr. Joseph works in a medical transcription company. Once this company used to give a big advertisement of half page in The Sunday Statesman. It was really a costly advertisement. It carried comments from the company employees. He saw such big advertisements when he was about to join its training. An advertisement was also given regularly at Times of India.
Today my brother came from London!! He lives in Jersey. His name is Subrata Banerjee. He is quite a sociable guy having an account in Yahoo 360 and Orkut. He works at a company called Infrasoft, whose branch is in Jersey. Jersey is a suburb of London. He lives with his friends. Infrasoft, his company, is based in Mumbai. He is an Oracle database administrator.
During my higher secondary level (class XII), I studied anthropology as additional subject instead of maths. I studied science stream in Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah in West Bengal. I studied hard to get this fascinating subject as Hons so that I can pursue higher studies. I did my graduation in anthropology. It was quite fascinating t
For a long time, I did not get any time to write something of my own. I went to Sundarban, a mangrove forest in West Bengal. As there was tremendous work pressure, I needed time to relax! So I opted for a short trip to Sundarban. It was 2 days and 1 night trip with the West Bengal Government Tourism. I wrote about this trip before and now I am wri
I made a two day one night trip to Sundarban. Sundarban forest is the only mangrove tiger land of India. It is situated in the extreme south of West Bengal in the vicinity of Bay of Bengal. I departed from my home in Kolkata, India on 28th October. It was a good day with clear sky. I took the metro at 7 a.m. in the morning from Belgachia and reach
We all know that meditation brings peace of mind and calms us down. I regularly practice medication. I know that it has positive effect on relaxing the body and it drastically reduces stress. Our body gets relaxed in meditation when we focus the mind on a particular thought, image or repetitive action. Our mind begins to loosen up and our body becomes relaxe
It has been found that children who got musical training `outside school showed brain changes and superior memory. The children who did not receive this musical training did not get this memory improvement. A study on Canadian children shows that children who learnt Suzuki had larger and faster responses to brain stimuli compared to those who did not have the l
Misconceptions of coffee consumption are as follows: 1. Previously it was thought that coffee drinking is addictive. 2. Many people think drinking coffee a lot causes heart attack. 3. Excessive consumption leads to irregularities of heart beats. 4. Pregnant women should avoid coffee as it causes habitual miscarriage is a myth. 5. Some p
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