Getting Out Of The Rain Have you ever dashed across a parking lot in a sudden rainstorm? You might think that youll stay drier by running as fast as you can-but wait-the faster you run, the more drops youll run into horizontally, soaking your front....
Blenheim Palace Helen: Today were taking you to a huge and stunning palace about two hours north-west of London. Its called Blenheim Palace. First John told us why the house was built. It was due to a battle that happened over 300 years ago. The huge...
Leeds Castle Chen Li:Helen, Im very excited about this place were going today. Helen: Me too. Today were taking you to Leeds Castle, set in the stunning countryside of Kent, about one hour from London. Taking us on a tour of the castle is Victoria Wa...
Other studies have backed this up. A Harward study found a relationship between early childhood music lessons and enhanced verbal skills and reasoning. The study also found that learning an instrument can help dyslexic children overcome their reading...
You've never heard of worm grunting? Well,it's a practice of driving a wooden stake into the ground and vibrating it with a flat piece of iron. The vibrations run through the soil and cause nearby earthworms to burrow up to the surface, where they ca...
How much alcohol the yeast can tolerate depends partly on the type of yeast. And thats another reason wine is stronger than beer: beer-yeast, with a lower tolerance for alcohol, is killed by the time the alcohol reaches about nine percent. Wine-yeast...
You start with a liquid containing some kind of sugar, add yeast, and wait. The yeast digests the sugar, giving off alcohol in the process. The sugar in beer comes mostly from a grain called barley. With wine, the sugar usually comes from grapes. Eit...
Studies have shown that unsound thinking can sort of pass from one person to the next. Say I bought a house with the intent of fixing it up and then selling it. Its one of those deals where you keep sinking money into it, doing repair after repair, r...
Monkey Mother Love Picture a mother cradling her newborn infant. She looks intently into the babys eyes, making kissing noises. Its a typical scene, right? Except that the mother and baby arent human. Theyre rhesus macaque monkeys. Until recently, sc...
Likewise, light travels at its maximum speed through a vacuum-the interstellar highway-but it slows down when it enters air, water, or some other medium. Through air, light moves a hint slower: forty miles-per-second less than its maximum speed. Thro...
Although the film is a 21st Century, technology-laden, visual feast, it is based on the works of the 19th Century mathematician Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll was actually the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Ch...
If youre driving on an interstate highway, the only thing keeping you from going faster than the speed limit is your sense of civic duty, or perhaps that police car up ahead. Theres one speed limit, however, that most scientists agree nothing will ev...
Narwhals arent fish, theyre mammals--a rare type of whale. They have a famous spiraled tusk. The tusk, which is commonly misconceived for a horn, is actually an elongated tooth. Only male narwhals grow tusks, which can be over six to almost ten feet...
Each pig has been fed on a special diet of acorns and roots to give the ham its distinctive flavour, and given a pasture of ten hectares each to live in. After, what is by pig standards, an idyllic life of roaming oak groves and feeding naturally, th...
Why Teflon Is Slippery Teflon is the trademark name for PTFE, a type of plastic. If you own any non stick cookware, then you probably use PTFE on a daily basis. You might not realize, as you fry your morning eggs, that PTFE is one of the most slipper...
