By Anupum Pant I haven’t been ever stung by a jelly fish, but from how Destin says it in the video, and other people I’ve seen getting bitten, tells me that it is something no one would want to experience in their life. If you did not know, the sting is awfully painful. A jelly … Continue reading Jellyfish Stings and The “Pee on it” Myth
By Anupum Pant It only seems logical to think that spending millions of dollars to save lives of poor children must be aggravating another problem that Earth is facing today – Overpopulation. Fortunately, that isn’t the case. In fact the complete opposite of what seems logical, happens. Saving lives of the poor is a necessity … Continue reading #StopTheMyth Saving Lives Leads to Overpopulation
By Anupum Pant I have never felt the necessity to pay attention to diet related news/facts till date (now I do). So, never in my life had I read the phrase “negative calorie foods”, until yesterday, when a friend posted the following “WTF fact” on Facebook: Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to … Continue reading Myths on Facebook – Negative Calorie Foods
by Jerry Rhodes Math is one of the subjects that make a lot of students struggle while in school. However, the math does not only challenge students, but it also puts a lot of parents in difficulty. Everyone knows that education doesn’t end in the classroom. Those parents who want the best from their child, … Continue reading 11 Websites That Can Help You with Your Math Homework
BY JACKIE EDWARDS The ‘dumb Neanderthal myth’ is continually debunked. With the discovery of prehistoric art galleries on rocks worldwide we see how our extinct human cousins appreciated beauty and life. Advancement in understanding Palaeolithic Europeans and their accomplishments and communications – especially as seen through cave paintings – has opened our eyes to a people that were creative and … Continue reading In A Modern World Can We Learn From Cave Paintings?
By Anupum Pant Everyone knows pineapples and everyone who has eaten a lot of it in a single go knows how it can make your tongue sore. Pineapples, the sweet/sour tropical fruits, are evil. They contain protein digesting enzymes that can divide the proteins in your tongue, as well as in steak – which makes … Continue reading Evil Pineapples
By Anupum Pant It has been said that several hundreds of years ago, during the 600 BC, the Chinese had developed a method to construct a battle armour using just paper. Sounds like an implausible myth. But turns out, after a good amount of testing by mythbusters, it can be said that paper armour probably … Continue reading Paper Armour was Real
By Anupum Pant I knew that carrots don’t give you a superhuman vision – a myth propagated during the times of war. But I didn’t know that carrots are sweeter in the winter! It’s so easy for us to protect ourselves in the winter. You could just switch on the heater and there you are. But … Continue reading Why are Carrots Sweeter in Winter
By Anupum Pant It always seems like boarding a plane could be a much more efficient process. Normally it takes too much time, even when airliners are always trying to make it better by doing the back to front board. Or are they? Of course, business class boards first. And then, the most common, seemingly … Continue reading This Way Boarding a Plane Could be Much Faster
By Anupum Pant Have you ever heard people say that we use just 10% of our brains and 90% of it is lying dormant waiting to get awakened? I’ve heard this all the time, from parents, teachers and “self-help” gurus. And that what I believed too, until a couple of years back when I read … Continue reading 10% of Our Brains? Oh, Come on Lucy!
By Anupum Pant This is really interesting and I can’t explain why. You’ll have to see it for yourself. Long time back, researchers at the University of Twente in The Netherlands thought of something very weird. They decided to drop a thin stream of shampoo from a height of about 20 cm, ended up discovering an … Continue reading The Leaping Shampoo Trick – Kaye Effect
By Anupum Pant Background In the year 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea suffered with a very mysterious, contagious and a scary disease. Till date, doctors or science has no explanation on what really was going on in her body and the disease is still named among one of the most bizarre and the most unexplainable diseases … Continue reading Dozens Died During The Dance Epidemic of France
By Anupum Pant I have been lied about taste areas on the tongue, gas station & cellphones and what not! I feel everything I have ever known is wrong. And here we have one other myth that got busted today. I always thought was true. Thanks to the following Vsauce video (0:28 seconds) which opened my eyes and … Continue reading Carrots Don’t Really Make your Eyes Better
By Anupum Pant Here are some impractical, practical and bizarre ways to lose weight scientifically: 1. Practical – Switch to Smaller Plates [Study] While it may sound like switching plates won’t help your diet, it actually greatly affects the way you see, and consume food. In the long run it helps you lose weight effortlessly. … Continue reading Practical, Impractical and Bizarre Ways to Lose Weight
By Anupum Pant The search for Yeti, the mythical human-like creature that is assumed to have been living in higher elevations of the Himalayas, has continued for several thousands of years. Back in the days of Alexander the Great, during the 326 BC, when he was in the Indus valley area, he learned from the … Continue reading Yeti Probably Does Exist + Fun Yeti Facts
