Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 4,042 There is a century-old magic trick that Jim Steinmeyer finds particularly fascinating. It involves a burglar, a safe, and mind-reading, and it unfolds like this: A group of random audience members file on stage and each place a personal possession inside a sturdy, commercial-model safe, out of view of the magician, … Read more
Number of words: 260 Scientists, while conducting genetic tests on tissue samples of anglerfish, came across an interesting fact about the immune system of the species. A study, conducted by researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute and the University of Washington, revealed that when male and female anglerfish connect they share a single respiratory and … Read more
Number of words: 2,320 But as we know from our phones that hold less and less juice the older they are, lithium-ion batteries have their limitations. Over time their capacity to hold a charge decreases, meaning they store less energy. In extremely hot or cold weather, their performance also falls. And there are also concerns … Read more
Number of words: 754 Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have made progress toward a higher-capacity lithium-ion battery to meet rising consumer demand. With the growing number of electric vehicles on the road and an increasing reliance on consumer electronics, demand has never been greater for development of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) that can sustain a higher … Read more
Number of words: 215 Here is an interesting historical fact. Just have a look at the calendar for the month of September 1752. Go to Google type “September 1752 calendar” & see for yourself. You will notice, 11 days are simply missing from the month. Here’s the explanation: This was the month during which England … Read more
Number of words: 3,455 In 2017, Scott Galloway anticipated Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods a month before it was announced. Last year, he called WeWork on its “seriously loco” $47 billion valuation a month before the company’s IPO imploded. Now, Galloway, a Silicon Valley runaway who teaches marketing at NYU Stern School of … Read more
Number of words: 170 Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of cars, airliners and military jets all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. American engineers heard about the gun and … Read more
Number of words: 978 The introduction to Bella Bathurst’s book is very clear on what it is not: it’s not going to “tell the reader how to differentiate between brands of derailleur or explain why riding a bicycle is good for your heart”. It will explain neither the technicalities of zero emissions nor the finer … Read more
Number of words: 1,205 Leigh Van Valen was a crazy-looking evolutionary biologist who came up with a theory so crazy no academic journal would publish it. So he created his own journal, published it, and the idea eventually became accepted wisdom. Those kinds of ideas – counterintuitive, but ultimately true – are the ones worth … Read more
Number of words: 371 A paper by Oxford University researchers suggests that the UK population may already have developed sufficient levels of herd immunity required to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The paper, titled ‘The impact of host resistance on cumulative mortality and the threshold of herd immunity for … Read more
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