Boffin Daydreamer

  Hey guys! This is your Boffin Daydreamer, presenting you an platform to publish and read various stories and poems!  Before starting, a quick question. Do you know who is Thoth? Well, Thoth is egytian god of learning and literature.  He was held to be the inventor of writing, the creator of languages, the scribe, interpreter, and adviser of the gods, and the representative of the sun god, Re.  (Source - Google) Now, before wasting any more time, let's get started!   Features of this app: 1. When you open 'Thoth', you would be welcomed with the welcome page. Go ahead and click on login in. And if you want to know more about the app, click 'About Thoth'. 2. Before signing in, do sign up first. Choose a suitable nickname and sign up. 3. After entering your email address and password, click on 'Get OTP'. 4. Once you click that button, you would automatically receive an email in your registered email id. Go ahead and type in that automatically-generated OTP in...

This is a question which pops every time when we eat anything spicy. When we eat anything spicy, we immediately feel a burning sensation in our tongue. Tears start pouring out from our eyes if it too spicy. But why? Why is it so? Does our body does not like spicy food? Well, let us understand it with science. There is a family of protein sensors which is present in tongue. It detects hot or cold things. The chemicals present in the spicy food triggers these proteins and they (the proteins) think that the tongue is in fire and send signals to brain. Hence, we think that our tongue is in fire when we eat spicy food. There are a lot protein sensors in our body. They are mainly found in skin and tongue. The sensor which detects temperature is TRP-channel protein. For example - TRP-A1 detects temperature from 10-15 degree Celsius while TRP-V1 sense temperature from 40-45 degree Celsius. Now, 10-15 degree Celsius range is too cold to burn us. So, when TRP-A1 sends signal to the brain, the br...