How can we find out whether the water at home is hard or soft? What do these terms mean, anyway? Find out, through some simple and interesting activities. If you are a keen observer, you must have noticed that you require more or less shampoo than usual when you travel to some other part of […]

Stomach Stomach Our stomach is a fascinating part of our body. Learn about the way it works. How come the stomach digests everything that we eat, but it does not digest itself? Luckily for us, a living stomach has ways to protect itself from itself! To carry it through a day’s meals, the stomach produces […]

All about Silk Natural silk has its own irresistible charm. We know that silk comes from the silkworm. Read on to find out more. Have you ever dreamed of wearing those beautiful silk sarees in mummy’s cupboard? Whenever mummy wears them, doesn’t she look beautiful and elegant? There are so many varieties of man made […]

All about Lotus A symbol of purity, fertility, eternity and the divine seat of the goddess Lakshmi, the lotus is also the National Flower of India. Here’s why this flower is so pure. In India, the lotus is considered as a sacred flower and a lot of folklore and religious mythology is woven around it. […]

Quick Table of Multiples [Multiple of 2] If the last figure of a number is even, then the number is a multiple of 2. [Multiple of 3] If the sum of every figure is a multiple of 3, then the number is a multiple of 3. (Example) 8262; because 8+2+6+2=18 is a multiple of 3, […]

Mental calculation technique Mental calculation technique Example Mental calculation Reason 398*4 1600-8=1592 398*4=(400-2)*4 =400*4-2*4 =1600-8 240*5 120*10 divide by 2 and multiply by 10 240*5=240*10/2 =(240/2)*10 =120*10 320/5 640/10 multiply by 2 and divide by 10 320/5=320/(10/2) =(320*2)/10 =640/10 760*200 76*2*2000 calculate 76*2 and multiply by 1000 760*200=76*10*2*100 =76*2*1000 12*25 3*100 divide by 4 and […]

Portal Software Let me write about some IT stuff here today. May be its useful for teens visiting this site. As you all know IT has taken over most of the businesses and drive most of the things in our day to day lives. Nowadays the websites are driven by content management system (CMS). Content […]

Dinosaurs! Do you remember the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies? The dinosaurs in the movies are pure fantasy. Of course they are not real. But they used to live in real, ages ago. The movies related to these extinct creatures are a good combination of science and art. The famous director Steven Spielberg and […]

Energy Conservation Day by day the consumption of natural resources like wood, coal, natural gas, diesel, paper and leather, are increasing. There is a possibility of these natural resources to exhaust sooner than expected. Energy conservation is the only solution to this problem. There are lots of ways to conserve energy; you just have to […]

The first day of college is when there is nervous excitement in the air. The first day generally finds small groups of boys and girls wandering around the campus, trying to look assured and important but end up looking slightly bewildered at this rush of activity completing admission formalities and discovering the location of various […]

Volcanoes, one of the natural calamities with its destructive forces can destroy a large part of the earth with the eruptions of liquid boiling lava. Though volcanoes are rarely minor incidents of geology in action as per the geologists but can take a heavy toll from the lives that survive in the are where the […]