SHOCKING ELECTROFYING PERSON

A West Australian country doctor who has won a worldwide cult following online for his spectacular displays of electrifying exhibitionism has come up with another feat of high voltage chutzpah. The project, which Dr Peter Terren calls the Modern Thinker, involves passing about 200,000 volts of electricity over his body, a routine that [...]

How To Type Special Characters Using The ‘ALT’ Key.

Have you ever Wondered how someone makes a '±' , 'µ' or even a ™ (Trademark) with a Keyboard? Computer systems based on Western English language use a particular character set known as US-ASCII or simply ASCII, which may or may not contain the characters we need. These character set has been replaced by the ISO 1 character set that contains [...]

Things you must know

112 is the international emergency number for mobile phones 112 is the worldwide Emergency number  for Mobile . If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly ...this number 112 can [...]

22 July eclipse is best chance to look for gravity anomaly

On 20nd July,09 A crew of Chinese scientists is planning to conduct an experiment on July 22, for the first time  to test how much the controversial theory that gravity drops slightly during a total eclipse is true. It will take many more months before the final decisionto be made , but scientists are already studying the latest data. The last [...]

what is yellowcake?

Yellowcake (also called urania or uranium oxide U3O8) is a kind of  uranium concentrate obtained from leaching ( the extraction of certain materials from a carrier int o a liquid ), in an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. Yellowcake concentrates are prepared by various extraction and refining methods, depending on the [...]

Why do matches light when you strike them?

When you strike a match , you rub the head of the match against the rough surface on the side of the matchbox. This makes the head of the match get hot. The head contains substances that burst into flame when they get get hot. As the head of the match moves over the rough surface , the molecules in the head and the surface collide with [...]