Knowledge Appetite

You may have heard its name if you're a Marvel Comics Fan or if you've watched movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) & Sci-fi movies where this name was featured. Apart from that, if you're a student of Physics or Mathematics, it might be as common to you as sugar CUBES (pun intended). Other than that in layman's term it might sound like a horrible virus, disease, an unknown Latin word for something & what not! Trust me, it's not what you think & even not anything you can possibly think of. Though it might sound a bit complicated, I will try my level best to make it as easy and comprehensible as possible. Let the drum roll begin... I'm talking about ' Tesseract '. A 3D projection of an 8-cell performing a simple rotation about a plane which bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom You would ask, What in the world is that? Actually, it's not from this world, literally! A Tesseract is a representa...

Can you imagine the difficult situation you would have to face if you had to lace up your shoes without the tiny & humble, hard plastic tips on your shoelaces? As funny & ridiculous as it may sound, b ut just think about how much harder it would be if your shoelaces didn't have those special hard plastic tips on them. What many of us doesn't know is that those small plastic tips at the end of shoelaces or any laces are called ' Aglets ', in spite of the fact how important these little things are. An Aglet is a small tip or sheath, often made of plastic or metal, used on each end of a shoelace, a chord or a drawstring. Despite their simplicity, aglets perform several functions: They stop the ends of the shoelaces from unravelling They make it easier to hold the ends of the shoelaces when lacing They make it easier to thread the shoelaces through the eyelets or lugs They may also provide a colourful or decorative finish to the laces. Today, most aglet...

Thespis (6th Century B.C.E.) of Icaria (present-day Dionysos, Greece) is thought to be The First Actor, the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of narrating as himself or herself). Greek Theatre Mask from about the 1st Century A.D. In the 6th century B.C.E., when the tyrant Pisistratus, who then ruled the city, established a series of new public festivals. One of these, the 'City Dionysia', a festival of entertainment held in honour of the God Dionysus, featured competitions in music, singing, dance and poetry. When the head of state requests something, you do it. After an Athenian military man and tyrant Pisistratus came to power in 560 B.C.E., he instituted many artistic and cultural innovations. He expanded the offerings at the City of Dionysia by having plays performed. It’s said that Pisistratus asked Thespis and his troupe to perform in that initial drama festival in 534 B.C.E. Most remarkable of all th...

Graphene is the strongest material in the world and known to man till date.