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Scientific Temperament: The Need of the Hour

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First of all, we must know what does temperament mean? According to the Oxford Dictionary temperament means, “a person's or animal's nature, especially as it permanently affects their behaviour”. The term ‘Scientific Temperament’ was first coined by our former prime minister, Pt . Jawahar Lal Nehru in his book ‘The Discovery of India’ in which he described it as a search for truth and new knowledge, and the refusal to accept anything without tests and trials. So, scientific temperament or scientific temper refers to a person’s attitude of logical , rational and scientific thinking and hypothesizing things by observing them deeply and analytically.   Importance Of Scientific Temper India has a population of over 1.2 billion (Census of India, 2011) out of which about 444 million people are under 18 years of age (i.e., 36.6% of the population) . It is very important to develop a scientific temperament amount this young population of India to develop our human r...

What is Science: Static or Dynamic

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It is an age-old question, Is science static or dynamic? There have been a lot of debates on this topic and the results have varied. Today I am going to share my opinions on this topic. So, let us begin............. According to me, science is a mixture of static and dynamic nature. There is some part of science that is static and there is some dynamic part. "Science" is not simply a body of knowledge. Science can be referred to as an interactive and dynamic process of learning about the world. The basic 4 processes behind any science are: Observing Making a Hypothesis Testing/Experimenting Giving a Theory And this cycle keeps on repeating.  These can be classified as the FOUR PILLARS OF SCIENCE, with any of these missing or the loop being stopped science will become static (ummmm, which it has become to some extent 😅, it is addressed later in the post ) If we take the example of the periodic table which we all have studied in our schools. It all started from 62 elements but...

5 Scientific Myths Which Must be Busted: Part-2

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Hello, my dear readers! Welcome back to another blog post of the myth-buster series and I hope you would be loving reading it. If you have not seen my first part of this myth-buster series then you can click here to read that. So, once again let us begin this journey of myth-busting: MYTH #1: Bulls become ferocious on seeing red colour. This is a thing which children are taught since their child, whether from their peer group, parents or TV Cartoons. This myth is not at all true. Moreover, bulls and other cattle are partial colour-blind and are unable to see the colour red properly. The only reason the bulls get angry by a person showing him red clothes is not because of the red colour but due to their inciting behaviour.  So, from next time do not believe in such things blindly🧐 MYTH #2: Duck's quacks don't Echo. Hmm, First of all, what do you think about this? Isn't it illogical? This is the most illogical thing I have ever heard of. It isn't that the ducks quack...

5 Scientific Myths Which Must be Busted: Part-1

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Hello my dear readers, welcome to my blog. Today we are gonna discuss some prevalent science myths that must be busted and require correct reasoning. If you have not followed or subscribed to my blog then please do it or you will miss such interesting content in the future. So, let us begin our journey of debunking these myths!!! MYTH #1: If a penny (coin) is dropped from the empire state building, it can kill a person standing below it. This is the most prevalent myth in the world. It even sounds realistic when we hear it at first. We all have learnt Newton's equations of motions in our schools and it is one of its application. The height of the empire state building is around 400m so if we calculate the final velocity of the coin, it would be around 90 m/s which is around 324 km/h 😲. It is a really high speed. But does the impact depends on the speed? Hmmmmmmmm, No. The impact of anybody depends on its momentum and if we find its momentum it would be very less as its mass is ve...

15 Short Stories By Modern Indian Writers : BOOK REVIEW

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15 Short Stories stories by Modern Indian W riter is the best every moral story collection I have ever read. So without wasting time let us dive into the book review. Cover Page of the Book It is the collection of FIFTEEN moral stories by many versatile writers. Each and every story carries a distinct moral and different reading tastes. It is a hundred pages book but will teach us life lessons which will last forever in our mind.  The Stories in the book are (but I should not tell): One **** ******* by Dilip Raote Tr******! by Sigrun Srivastav *** Moon ****** by Viswajita Das. Dear Mr. ***** by Vandana Bist and I will not tell further otherwise this review will convert into a leak! I had read this book as a night-time storybook and it really taught me a lot of life lessons and also entertained me that I could not get from somewhere else. This is an excellent edutainment pack for kids in their high schools. Some stories are of a mysterious kind and some are leaned towards animal abu...

The Reality of Social Media: Is it Really a Grim?

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I fear the day when technology will surpass our human intervention. The world will have a generation of idiots. This is a quote from the year 1995 and I think that time has come. Nowadays, we spend much of our time using social media. The graph of daily social media has been increasing throughout the world.  Courtesy: Statista.com In this post I will discuss few things about social media, what was its motive, what are its pros and cons and the biggest issue throughout the world, "Is Social Media a Rumour Spreader?". So without wasting time let us start. What was the motive of social media? The first social media website was made in 1997 named SixDegrees.com (it is still in use). On this website, people could make their profile and enter their personal details. Social media was introduced so that people could come close to each other and friendship could begin on a world scale.  Earlier it was limited to only a few people, afterwards with advancements in science and technology...

Top 5 Facts about Christmas that you probably didn't know!

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Merry Christmas all my happy readers. I wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous Christmas. May Lord Jesus grant you great wisdom and health. So, let us come to our today's topic. After a lot of research, I have found some interesting facts about Christmas that you probably didn't know until you read this article. So, let us start. #1. Christmas trees have a very long history. The Christmas trees which we see nowadays have been used for a long period of time. These were first used by ancient Egyptians and Romans. They used evergreen trees such as fir for this purpose. Nowadays we decorate them with grizzly lights and fancy props but earlier it was totally a different case. Romans used to decorate these trees with fruits. #2. The word "X-mas" is derived from Greek. Most of the people wonder that from where is this word X-mas derived. It is originally derived from the Greek language. In Greek, the name of Christ starts with the letter "X" and that ...