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HOW GLACIERS FORM?Some of the snow on a high mountaintop melts and runs off. But much of it stays all year round. The snow that stays becomes hard and grainy, like salt. As new snow falls each year, the grainy snow underneath is squeezed together and becomes hard as ice.The weight of all the snow pressing down squeezes out a stream of ice, like toothpaste is squeezed from a tube. This gigantic stream...

Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese method of relieving pain and treating disease. The procedure involves the insertion of needles into various parts of the body. Acupuncture has been used to treat conditions such as: asthma, deafness, migraines, ulcers, eye diseases, and some types of mental illness.According to Chinese philosophy, disease and pain occur because of...

Our Indian prayer to Lord Ganapathi -- may now be patented in USA as Super Brain Yoga.What we have been practising for generations since childhood may soon be packaged by Yale university school of Medicine as Superbrain Yoga to increase intelligence.Nothing but our simple Pillayar THOPPUKARNAM.. ( Obeisance to Lord Ganeshji---as we say in Tamil ) Amazing. See the YouTube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwhpF9iJSsJust shows that so much of wealth is there in our culture, tradition...

Hercules, the most renowned hero of antiquity, was the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the great grandson of Perseus.At the time of his birth Alcmene was living at Thebes with her husband Amphitryon, and thus the infant Heracles was born in the palace of his stepfather.Aware of the animosity with which Hera persecuted all those who rivalled her in the affections of Zeus, Alcmene, fearful lest this hatred...

The first photography post from The Perspectives. I clicked this with this one thought in my mind : To me, THE COLOUR OF HOPE IS RED. I clicked it in the dark so that the only light (signified as hope here) is that of the candle. The entire background is red and there is a certain illusion created from the light and the colours. Hope you like it. Thank y...

People said "The Evening Bell is sounding, the sun is setting." For a strange wondrous tone was heard in the narrow streets of a large town. It was like the sound of a church-bell: but it was only heard for a moment, for the rolling of the carriages and the voices of the multitude made too great a noise.Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound...

A while back I posted some pictures of the smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum infecting the anthers of white campion .The flower above is a pink campion - probably a hybrid between white campion Silene latifolia and red campion Silene dioica - whose stamens are also full of the brown fungal spores. Both red and white campions exist as separate male and female plants. This fungus fills the anthers...

Do you know what it is like at the center of the earth? It is very, very hot. The temperature is thought to be about 13,000 °F (7000 °C), which is hot enough to melt rock.The heat spreads to the rock around the center of the earth and to water trapped between the layers of rock. In some parts of the world, this hot water is close to the earth’s surface. By pumping it out of the ground as hot water...

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Because Your Wife DOES NOT WORK....???"The following are Questions and Answers between Husband (H) and A Psychologist:P : What do you do for a living Mr. Bandy?H : I work as an Accountant in a Bank.P : Your Wife ?H : She doesnt work. Shes a Housewife only.P : Who makes breakfast for your family in the morning?H : My Wife, because she doesnt work.P : At what time does your wife wake up for making breakfast?H...

The Reproductive SystemThe female body is incredible. The following list describes the events in a females body that enable her to bear children.At birth, a girl baby has about 400,000 immature eggs, or ova, in her ovaries. During puberty the eggs begin to mature. Each month one egg ripens and leaves the ovary. It passes through a fallopian tube where, if not fertilized by a sperm, it disintegrates. The uterus, which has built up tissue and blood to make a nourishing nest for the...

Nanaue is not your average little boy. For one thing, he sports some mean snapping jaws between his shoulder blades. Perhaps thats because Dad is the Shark King, a shape-shifter who fell in love with Nanaues mother, a mere mortal.The Shark King, one of Toons graphic novels, retells a Hawaiian legend, adapting it for beginning readers. The story is simple, yet powerful. Nanaues father leaves the night...

In honor of Valentines Day (this coming Monday), here are five books that feature hearts in one way or another.Hear Your Heartby Paul Showersillustrated by Holly KellerCollins, 40 pagesPublished: 2000Lilys Chocolate Heartby Kevin HenkesGreenwillow Books, 24 pagesPublished: 2003Valentine Hearts: Holiday Poetryselected by Lee Bennet Hopkinsillustrated by Joann AdinolfiTurtleback, 32 pagesPublished:...

Todays the start of Childrens Book Week so take the time to share some great reads with the kids in your life. (Love Caldecott award winner David Wiesners poster created especially for this event.) The Childrens Book Council has a clever bookmark from Lane Smith you can print out. And check out libraries and bookstores for special events. My local library chose today to close for two weeks for much...

Nothing beats watching your kids learn about something by direct observation. The wonder in their faces as they see a process unfold and “catch on" to principles that you have talked about is worth the time it takes to think about how to fashion the lesson! Along that line, in order to teach your children about frogs and their life cycle, why not let them actually watch a tadpole grow up?To do...