“Keep smiling” may not be the best piece of advice or coping strategy for some people after all, suggests new research. The researchers found that smiling frequently may actually make people feel worse if they’re sort of faking it — grinning even though they feel down. When people force themselves to smile because they hope
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Introduction Viscosity simply means friction in fluids. It is observed that it is easier to pour water or kerosene from a container than to pour honey or engine oil. A little stone dropped into a cylinder of water gets to the bottom of the cylinder faster than when the same stone is dropped into a
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There is the very interesting story of a young boy who was such a nuisance to his dad. The dad was working on his office assignment he had brought home, but his son wanted to play with him. So to keep the little boy busy, his dad took a magazine centre spread with the map
So maybe you were too embarrassed to ask, but we’re guessing you’ve been wondering why your flatulence is so much less offensive than that of other people. It turns out that science has several explanations, according to a new video (above) from the YouTube series ASAPScience. For starters, “the more familiar you are with something,
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The wait is over for Instagram users who want to change the captions of their retro-style photographs. Since its launch in 2010, users of the photo-sharing app have had to put up typos in their captions because they couldn’t be corrected after publication. But now the California-based company has at last added an editing tool.
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The Yobe Government has closed down all public and private schools in the state, following Monday’s suicide bomb attack on Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum. The attack had claimed 48 lives and injured 79 others. The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Muhammad Lamin, said in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria
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Teens are often seen trying to study while listening to music, watching TV and juggling texts and tweets. But new research by two final year school girls, overseen by Stanford University, found that 85 per cent of young people struggle to perform simple tasks when distracted by music, phones or email. For a fortunate 15
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Introduction In everyday life, the term work is applied to any form of activity that requires the exertion physical or mental effort, someone may say ‘I go to work’, another may say ‘I work in the office of the director’, so it is used variously with different meaning as it appeals to the user. In
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Introduction Alkanoic acids are also known as carboxylic acids. A carboxylic acid can he identified from the carboxyl functional group and the ‘-oic’ name ending. Structural Examples of carboxylic acids Nomenclature (Naming Alkanoic Acids) Alkanoic acids are named as follows: The number of carbon atoms in the longest carbon atom chain is noted The corresponding
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Standard Index Form Standard index form is also known as standard form. It is very useful when writing very big or very small numbers. In standard form, a number is always written as: a × 10 n a is always between 1 and 10. n tells us how many places to move the decimal point. Example
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