This Is On Me

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:10:36 +0000

  NAPOLEON only slept for 4 hours every day. He slept 12am to 2 am and then from 5 am to 7 am. Despite his short sleep hours, he seemed to enjoy napping and was able to energize himself within just half an hour. Genius Einstein slept for 10 hours during the night and would […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 11:08:25 +0000

  JELLYFISH, despite their names, aren’t actually fish they are in­vertebrates, or animal without back­bones related to corals and anemo­nes. There are about 2,000 different jellyfish that have been identified. An ocean full of jellyfish is a prob­able future, considering problems that ocean face at present. Chang­ing ocean temperatures and ocean acidification has caused a […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:46:39 +0000

  THE French Fencing Fed­eration officially recog­nized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport. The physicality of lightsaber com­bat is part of why the French Fencing Federation threw its support behind the sport and is now equipping fencing clubs with lightsabers and training would-be lightsaber instructors. “With young people today, it’s a real public health is­sue. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:26:09 +0000

  DESPITE the name, it is not an eel, but rather a knife fish, and is more closely related to catfish and carp than to other eel families. They have long, narrow bodies with long dorsal and anal fins. A full-grown electric eel (1.5 m to 2m) can generate about 600 volts of electricity. They […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:10:03 +0000

  ALEXANDER von Hum­boldt (1769-1859) was a notable German geographer, explorer, and naturalist. He is widely recognized for his works on botanical geography which laid the foundation for biogeography. To this day, he is known as one of the most significant contributors to the earth sciences. In March 1800, while he was exploring the Orinoco […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:10:37 +0000

  IN Singapore, more than 5.5 million people live in a small area of 720Km2. As more and more towering apartment buildings are built, what little land was available for farming was disappeared fast. Only seven percent of Sin­gapore’s food is grown locally. The country imports most of its fresh vegetables and fruits dai­ly from […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:22:41 +0000

  SHINICHI Ue, a professor at Japan’s Hiroshima University, warned that “the world’s seas will be in big trouble”, if the interna­tional community “fails to get seri­ous about countermeasures against jellyfish massive outbreaks.” A study by Ue found the jellyfish, especially Nomura jellyfish, are born in northern parts of the East China Sea. China’s coastal […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:10:10 +0000

  JELLYFISH are found all over the world, from surface waters to the deep sea. Jel­lyfish have been in existence for at least 500 million years, and possibly 700 million years or more making them the old­est multi-organ animal group. They are boneless, bloodless and brainless. Jellies drift at the mercy of the currents, though […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:20:04 +0000

  INDIA produces about 15,000 tons of plastic waste daily, of which about 9,000 tons are re­cycled. The remainder clutters landfills and clogs drains, and is blamed for urban flooding. Rajagopalan Vasudevan, an Indian scientist, and professor in Thiagarajar College of Engineer­ing, developed an innovative method of dealing with plastic pollution, by turning them into […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:10:05 +0000

  CHINA is the world’s largest tea producer, accounting for around 43% of world produc­tion. Tea consumption has also grown rapidly in China faster than the rest of countries across the globe thanks to emerging economies. Shift of consumer preferences from traditional tea to specialty tea and the growing number of tea houses are the […]