What is the Ketogenic Diet? A keto diet is well known for being a low carb diet, where the body produces ketones in the liver to be used as energy. It’s referred to as many different names – ketogenic diet, low carb diet, low carb high fat (LCHF), etc. When you eat something high in carbs, your body will produce glucose and insulin. What is… Read more →
1. How do you get finger prints? A person’s fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother’s womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching, and their surroundings create what are called “friction ridges”, the faint lines you see on your fingers and toes. 2. How many genes does a human being have? Before… Read more →
1. What is bio-mining? Biomining is a technique of extracting metals from ores and other solid materials typically using prokaryotes or fungi. These organisms secrete different organic compounds that chelate metals from the environment and bring it back to the cell where they are typically used to coordinate electrons. 2. What is Bio Toilet? Bio-Digester is a decomposition mechanized toilet… Read more →
1. Why do we Yawn? One is that when we are bored or tired, we just don’t breathe as deeply as we usually do. As this theory goes, our bodies take in less oxygen because our breathing has slowed. Therefore, yawning helps us bring more oxygen into the blood and move more carbon dioxide out of the blood. 2. Why Does alcohol make you pee? Alcohol is a diuretic.… Read more →
1. Why is 1921 an important year for mountain climbers? Because it was in that year that Dalai Lama gave permission for Everest to be climbed for the first time. This first expedition was mainly to discover if a route to summit could be found from the Tibetan side. However, though many dreamed of standing on the rooftop of the… Read more →
1. When was the first website created? The first website built was at CERN within the border of France, and was first put online on 6 August 1991: Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. 2. Who wrote the first computer program? Augusta Ada King, Countess of… Read more →
1. How do capacitive touch works? They work with anything that holds an electrical charge – including human skin. (Yes, we are comprised of atoms with positive and negative charges!) Capacitive touch screens are constructed from materials like copper or indium tin oxide that store electrical charges in an electrostatic grid of tiny wires, each smaller than a human hair. There are two main… Read more →
1. What is URL? A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a form of URI and is a standardised naming convention for addressing documents accessible over the Internet and Intranet. An example of a URL is https://www.rem.my, which is the URL for this web page. 2. Cookies An HTTP cookie is a small piece of data sent from websites, stored on the user’s computer by the web browser of… Read more →
1. What’s Google Lens? Google Lens is a feature announced by Google during Google I/O 2017. It is designed for bringing up relevant information based on what your camera sees. For example, if you point your camera to a Wi-Fi sticker, the app will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi source that has been scanned. It is integrated with the Google… Read more →
1. How many planets do not have natural satellites? Two planets, Venus and Mercury, are the only planets in the solar system that do not have any natural satellites or moons. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth are inner planets. The outer planets are Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune. Earth has one large natural satellite, known as the Moon; and Mars has two tiny natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos. 2. How many moons… Read more →
