Category: History

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Intel 4004

November 16, 2021

the 1st commercially available Microprocessor. Arduino’s distant Ancestor !

The wandering hippopotamus

November 14, 2021

It’s not about anything else, it’s about an asteroid named ‘2003 SD220’ (2003 SD220). The asteroid was found 18 million miles away from Earth. This distance is seven times the distance between the earth and the moon. NASA compares the shape of the rock to a hippopotamus moving along a river. In 2018, the asteroid…

White Greenland and Green Iceland!

November 10, 2021

What are these names like?.Greenland for a place that is always snowy and white, and Iceland for a place with good greenery. .A Norwegian seafarer named Floki went to the island with his family and livestock and settled on its western side.One spring, he climbed a hill to check the weather. There the ice was…

The “Eye of the Earth”, Mount Dinara Nature Park, Croatia.

November 8, 2021

This karst spring is named as such due to its strong resemblance to an eye with the various shades of blue and turquoise when seen from above. It is formed by a hole of unknown precise depth, but is said to be apparently more than 300 ft deep. This small body of water is the…

Nicolaus Copernicus ideas

November 8, 2021

The earth is not the center of the universe Only the moon revolves around the earth All the planets orbit the sun The distance from the Earth to the Sun is negligible compared to the distance to the stars The stars seem to move due to the self-rotation of the earth The daily motion of…

Dodo bird

November 2, 2021

Although many species have disappeared from the face of the earth due to climate change and natural disasters, the dodo birds of Mauritius are an endangered species due to human. These birds were large and could not fly. They get their name from the sound of ‘dodo’. Dodo birds, although similar in appearance to terrestrial…

Named for the planet Pluto

October 30, 2021

In 1930, we discovered a dwarf planet in the Solar System. What’s the name of the game? People all over the world suggested many names. What if an eleven-year-old schoolboy named Venetia Burney finally named the new planet Pluto? Asked his grandfather. The boy’s grandfather shared the suggestion with his friend, a physics professor at…

Living Fossil …. Frilled Sharks.

October 28, 2021

Fried sharks are one of the oldest living species on earth today. These are known as ‘living fossils’. This is because there have been frilled sharks on Earth for the last 80 million years. Although dinosaurs were killed 60 million years ago, they managed to survive. They have not undergone any significant changes in their…

Tunguska event

October 25, 2021

Extreme levels of flood danger were announced in at least two places. The last such was 113 years ago. The meteorite disaster known as the Tunguska event occurred on June 30, 1908. The asteroid exploded 5-8 km above the Earth’s in the Tunguska forest in central Siberia, Russia, and exploded about 2,000 square kilometers, eroding…