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Friday, July 30, 2010


A list of the top 10 scientists of all time.

1.Sir Issac Newton. Discovered laws of gravity and motion. Made investigations into a whole range of subjects maths, optics, physics, and astronomy

2.Louis Pasteur. Probably saved more lives than any other person. Contributed greatly towards the advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies, anthrax and other infectious diseases. Also enabled process of pasteurisation to make milk safer to drink


3.Galileo. Using first modern telescope, Galileo revolutionised our understanding of the world successfully proving the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around.

4.Marie Curie. Discoverd radiation and helped to apply it in the field of X ray.


5.Albert Einstein. Revolutionised physics with his theories of quantum physics. Lay framework for atomic energy.

6.Charles Darwin. Developed theory of evolution against a backdrop of disbelief and scepticism. Collected evidence over 20 years.

7.Emil Fisher The outstanding chemist of the modern age. Synthesied many products to show their constituent parts.

8.Paul Dirac. One of the early exponents of quantum physics. Paul developed theories of the electron and the special theory of relativity.

9.Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. Great Bengali scientist who made important contributions in the field of radio and microwave technology. Also showed how sap in a plant rose.

10.Aristotle. Great early Greek scientist who made many researches in the natural sciences including botany, zoology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and meteorology, geometry

Thursday, July 29, 2010

50 new facts

50 Interesting Facts· Filed under Interesting Stuffs

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.


6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

99 SCIENTIFIC FACTS

1. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

3. In October 1999 the 6 billionth person was born.

4. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

5. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

6. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

7. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1 kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

8. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

9. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.







10. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.

11. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

12. All the hydrogen atoms in our bodies were created 12 billion years ago in the Big Bang.

13. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

14. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

15. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

16. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

17. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

18. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

19. The Australian billy goat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

20. Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

21. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

22. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

23. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.





24. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

25. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

26. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

27. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

28. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

29. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

30. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.

31. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

32. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

33. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

34. Chimps can understand 300 different signs.

35. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

36. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

37. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

38. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

39. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

40. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

41. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.




42. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

43. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

44. A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

45. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

46. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

47. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.

48. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

49. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

50. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

51. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

52. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

53. A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

54. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

55. The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

56. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

57. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

58. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

59. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

60. Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

61. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

62. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.

63. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

64. Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

65. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.

66. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

67. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

68. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

69. The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees Celsius.

70. Space debris travels through space at over 18,000 mph.

71. The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.

72. Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.


73. Tuberculosis is the biggest global killer of women.

74. Hummingbirds consume half of their body weight in food every day.

75. Some species of bamboo grow at a rate of 3ft per day.

76. Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.

77. The highest recorded train speed is 320.2 mph by the TGV train in France.

78. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg.

79. The research spacecraft Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun.

80. 65 million years ago the impact of an asteroid is estimated to have had the power of 10 million H-Bombs.

81. The temperature at the centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5500 degrees Celsius.

82. Argentia in Newfoundland has an average 206 days of fog each year.

83. Mount Waiale’ale in Hawaii is the rainiest place in the world and has 335 rainy days a year.

84. 68% of all UFO sightings are by men.

85. 15% of the world’s fresh water flows down the Amazon.

86. A cat has 32 sets of muscles in each ear.

87. Over two-thirds of people admit to urinating while in public swimming pools.

88. More people die of heart attacks on Monday than on any other day of the week.

89. Beetles are the strongest animals on Earth relative to their size. A rhinoceros beetle can carry 850 times its own weight in its back.

90. In 1961 the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space.

91. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

92. In 1885 Karl Benz built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine.

93. Scotsman John Baird invented the Baird televisor (now the television) in 1925.

94. Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, is the most volcanically active place in the Solar System.

95. The Walkman was launched in Japan by Sony in 1979.



96. Traffic lights with red and green gas lights were first introduced in London in 1868. Unfortunately, they exploded and killed a policeman. The first successful system was installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.

97. Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.

98. 3 billion of the world’s 6 billion population are under the age of 25.

99. Infant mortality in 1900 was 142 in 1000 births. By 2000 it had reduced to just 6 in every 1000.

EDUCATION








SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WITH THEIR

ANSWER

1..Why does each of Scout Emblem have three sections?What other symbols do you
see?

ANS:EAch part of Scout has three sections.It means the duty of the nation,Head of the state
and the God.I always remember my duty to nation,head of the state and God and Emblem of
nepal scout.I always help ohers following the laws of the scout;is written on the Nepal
Scout.Batch,wages I and scarf represent Nation,Head of the state and God.Besides there are
the names of Nepal Scouts in Nepali and English and symbol of date of establishment in the
logo of Nepal Scouts.


    Ans-EAch part of Scout has three sections.It means the duty of the nation,Head of the state

    and the God.I always remember my duty to nation,head of the state and God and Emblem of

    nepal scout.I always help ohers following the laws of the scout;is written on the Nepal

    Scout.Batch,wages I and scarf represent Nation,Head of the state and God.Besides there are

    the names of Nepal Scouts in Nepali and English and symbol of date of establishment in the

    logo of Nepal Scouts.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010











The WEDDING CEREMONY of our Maths teacher Miss.Smita Rana on 30th asar,2067.