The past month saw the world rejoice as major pharmaceutical companies rolled out their vaccines against Covid-19. Previously, Pfizer-BioNTech had already formulated its mRNA- the based vaccine in November 2020. Now, FDA has approved another similar vaccine on 18 December 2020: the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine by Moderna Tx, Inc. This meant that the vaccine could …
Music is a protean art form. It is something delicate and is easily able to influence human emotions. We habitually listen to it when we are not feeling our best. It helps us to change our mood and gain a new perspective in our life. We always turn to music when we think that people …
The Puzzling Powers of Poop Our environment shows a plethora of diversity in plants, animals and birds living in a diversity of habitats from the ice-cold poles to the scorching hot desserts, eating a diversity of food. Not surprisingly, this diversity is retained even in the excreted You Know What, showing a variety of …
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names” The previous edition had been a knowledge tree for the seekers of the under-rated gem of all sciences-TAXONOMY! Here’s something a little offbeat yet interesting enough to grab everyone’s attention. As Wendy Carroll has rightfully stated: “It’s all in the name.” So …
A few hundred years ago, there was a beautiful landscape somewhere in the tropics of the Earth. Rich with flora and fauna, it was a paradise. Different plant families co-existed there for years. But we will talk about two of them, the Gram family (Gramineae = grasses) and the Areca family (Arecaceae = Palms). Both …
Highschool biology lessons would be incomplete without reading a bit about Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish Botanist who most definitely skipped his literature lessons for he truly missed the famous Shakespearean quote ‘What’s in a name?’. He ended up naming pretty much everything that exists around us. Although quite contrary to the previous supposition, Linnaeus was …
