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  Hey guys! Before we find our next fear, I thought of making this blog to make you aware of few things. Let’s get going!   Why being fearless sometimes helps?   Well, this is a good question. Being fearless sometime helps as if we were too fearless, we won’t be very cautious of the dangers lurking besides us. Let’s say if a person is very fearless of dark and he is walking into a dark cave, he won’t be cautious about his surroundings. If there was a big hole front of him, the person would casually walk into the hole and fall to death. If you were fearful of dark, you would be very cautious and would react to the tiniest of sounds. This would help the fearful to survive and fearless to die.   2. Why we are afraid of few things from birth?   Well, this is a very important question. For this answer, we need to go to thousands of years ago, where humans were hunter-gatherers. At that time, we need to know that our ancestors lived in deep jungles, where they encount...

Bacteria:   Why are we afraid of them? Bacteria. Urg! Those tiny creatures which are of about 1nm in diameter and is impossible to see them in naked eyes. But they can see us! These ugly and nasty living things can enter our bodies and feed upon our immunity. Do you think that you house is spotless? Think again. An average house has 150 bacteria per inch on light switches, 200 on a fairly large sized telephones and about 1.5 million bacteria in toilets. You can’t escape, you can’t cheat but you can only wait till once of those enter your body. This makes me think whether Earth is the best planet for all us to live.....   Scientific facts and ways not to be Bacteriophobic: Woah woah! Calm down! Bacteria is tiny. Agreed. There are trillions and trillions of bacteria around Earth. Agreed. But do you know that there are millions of bacteria inside and outside your body right this minute? Yeah. You heard me right. Millions of bacteria are present inside and outside your body. Befor...

  Why are we afraid of them? Snakes. Yikes! Those slithering creatures just lurve to choke you down. That is not it all. Some snakes have really really dangerous poison which can kill you with just a prick. Have you heard of spitting cobras? Those killers don’t have to be close to take you down. They ‘spit’ poison from their mouths and they never miss their target. The fact which fears us the most that most of the snakes live in India. Run for your lives!   Scientific facts and ways not to be Ophidiophobia: Before we jump to the scientific facts about snakes, we need to understand why are we fearful. Fear is an emotion which occurs when we recall our bad moments. For example- If a person just had a experience of drowning, then the very next day the person would be really afraid of water. But after some time, the person forgets about the incident and starts swimming again. But it is not so easy for some people. They don’t forget incidents for months or even years and hence thei...

  Why are we afraid of them? Sharks. They are very interesting water-living animals. They have very good eyesight and sense of smell. Anyway, they don’t need any of them to catch their prey. They can also sense electricity, for instance, a beating heart. Some say that they swallow their prey whole! What would you do in the shark’s stomach? Cut your way out? Nah, sharks are way intelligent for that. Oh no! Shark is out there waiting for you! Run for your lives!   Scientific Facts: Sharks are intelligent. Agreed. But you know one thing. Shark attacks are so rare that only 1 unfortunate person gets killed every year. Yeah just one. And that too these attacks occur when sharks mistake humans as seals. Seals are like chocolates to sharks. When they sense someone paddling, they think that it is a Seal and.... you know the rest. After hearing this, you might be like- ‘Woah just one. That is just great!’ in a sarcastic way but if you see the actual figures of people dying from Heart a...

  Some people say that Music brings back Memories but others say it is a myth. So from this, a question arises. Can Music really bring back Memories? Well, the answer is a yes. To understand how it works, we will have to understand how the memories are stored in our brain. By the research of the Neuroscientists, it was found that the memories are found in pieces rather than whole. It was also found that the memories are made in one part of the brain while they are stored different sites of the brain. So, whenever you recall a memory, you are actually bouncing nerve signals between all these pieces to recreate the whole. So it is a bit like jig-saw puzzle which reveals the entire picture when complete. Now, you would probably wonder. Why would Brain break the memories down into pieces? Well, breaking down the memories would increase the storage space available to your brain, by reusing the similar bits of old memories, instead of create a...

  Which is more powerful? Religion or science? This is a million dollar question. Priests and Scientists all over the world argue on this. So which is more powerful? Well. Let’s see what the science has to say. Science is proven and Religion is not. Everything which science suggests is proven by various methods but nothing which the religion suggests is proven. Let it be the Big Bang theory or the existing of atoms in every matter. All is proven. Without any science, mankind won’t survive. Mankind won’t be able to reach its ultimate goal - How to be immortal. Only science can answer all the question which occur in a human’s brain. Can you find how to survive Alzheimer’s disease using religion? Of course not. Before science was born, death rate was so high and birth rate was very low. Now see. Birth rate have increased while very less people die today. How was it possible?  Ask the same question to a religion person. Religion is better than science. Even though every religion’s...

Hi guys! Today, I am gonna tell you all you need to know before you can create some cool apps in MIT app inventor.  What is MIT App inventor? MIT App Inventor is an online platform designed to teach computational thinking concepts through development of mobile applications. Students create applications by dragging and dropping components into a design view and using a visual blocks language to program application behavior. How to start with MIT App inventor? Go to your favorite Brower and type 'https://appinventor.mit.edu/'. Then, you would land on the home screen of MIT App Inventor. Then click on 'Create Apps'. Go ahead and type in your Gmail address. After all those process, you would eventually land on a screen which looks like this.  Now, click on 'Start new project' to create your very own app! Before starting your first project: Before starting your first project, it is advised to install the 'MIT AI2 Companion' app. It is available in both App St...

Hi guys! Today, I will focus on one of the best software for creating reports which is Microsoft Sway. Sway is a user-friendly tool which will allow to to easily create reports, presentation and personal stories. It is very easy to learn how to use and navigate through this software. I will teach you step-by-step so that you can create your very own sway! When you reach the welcome page, you will see something like this. If you notice, you would see 4 options besides 'My Sways'. Those are Edited, Viewed, Analytics and Deleted. 1. Edited - These are the sways you have edited or to put in another way, all your sway would be shown here. 2. Viewed - These are the sways you have viewed. For example if you have viewed your friend's sway, that sway would be shown there. 3. Analytics - This option allows you to get a brief data about a sway. But remember, this tool is enabled with subscription. 4. Deleted - All your deleted sways would be shown here.  After you have once gone throu...