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Okay guess what: addiction is not just limited to humans. Apparently new research found that bees can get addicted to caffeine and nicotine. According to the study, bees were offered “artificial nectar that containted various natural sugar levels and various levels of caffeine and nicotine, alongside clean nectar that comprised sugar alone.” The bees indicated [...]

Having witnessed 5 solar eclipses, one of which was a totality – over a period of 14 years, and having read about the one from 1980, I am going to try and chronicle how the eclipse viewing has changed over the past 29 years. The photo at the top shows a normally busy income tax [...]

Eclipse time again. These celestial happenings are among the most watched in the world, and I like to watch them too. Some photos: More photos below, click to enlarge: When viewed from the Earth, the apparent size of the sun and the moon is the same. If the sun were smaller, the Bailey’s beads would [...]

As a teenager, I used to have a video game console with a ‘gun’. On the screen you could see some ducks – flying around – and you had to shoot them down. I used to wonder how, with a normal TV - the gun was able to detect whether a duck has been shot or [...]

Now the English word unjumbling service at unjumble.SeeingWithC.org is also available via Twitter. It can be accessed directly from the mobile phone using text sms messages. This is what you need to do: Sign up on twitter if you do not already have an account. If you want to use mobile phone, your number should [...]

Growing bread mold might sound outrageous, but that is what I did. Here is a photo of what grew: Click on the photo to see the high resolution version. I realised later, that a sideway photograph might have looked better, because it would show the tendrils, like this photo (source):