Nina & Nana in Boneless Flubber
Do you know that Babies are born with 300 bones which gradually reduce to 206 when they become adults? Whatever happened to the 100 odd bones?
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Nina & Nana in SunDay Dose
Did you know that the sunshine vitamin aka vitamin D is not actually a vitamin? Despite the name, vitamin D is considered a pro-hormone and not actually a vitamin.
Read moreNina and Nana in Universal microwaves
See what Nina and Nana have to say about microwaves in space. Nina can learn a thing or two from Pell, that’s certain!
Read moreNina & Nana in Harappa Granpa
It isn’t always that you come across news relating to your lineage splashed on the pages of national dailies. It is even more unusual when they completely contradict “known facts” that you “knew” all your life. This astonishing article yesterday in the Economic Times, upends decades, nay centuries, of legacy on the Indus Valley Civilization and more importantly, all our lineages!
Read moreNina & Nana’s Catch -22
But I found on further research that this strange fava bean aversion was not isolated to Pythogoras. Aristotle forbade eating them too because he thought they were harmful to the eater as they resembled genitals! (Ari, this is why you should have thought a little less and stepped out a bit more)
On a somber reflection Aristotle decided they resembled the gates of Hades too. Hmph…
That did make me think though. Aristotle was one of the saner geniuses in the ancient world so I decided to dig further. That’s when I found he was right about fava beans being harmful though just not for the reason he stated.
Read moreNina & Nana across the yugas
Dharma was famously compared to a cow to illustrate this – Puranic sources say that the dharmic cow which started with 4 legs in the first Yuga keeps losing a leg in each Yuga until its left standing on a single leg in Kali Yuga.
Read moreNina & Nana in official zombie
Kanika and I came across this funnily weird article about zombie alert in florida and for the first time since I started blogging, I can’t think of something even weirder to embellish.
Read moreNina & Nana in Long Dead!
The skeletons are believed to be, remains of people killed in a sudden violent hailstorm in the ninth century AD and scientists have told a really grisly tale based on the condition of the remains found.
Read moreNina & Nana in I Spy
He is a god and a womaniser. She is his wife and sister. Together they rule the world!
Juno and Jupiter, erstwhile Roman chief god and goddess are now the satellite and the red giant planet in the cosmos.
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The orbit of this planet is supposedly many thousands of years long so it hasn’t been detected by telescopes or satellites yet! Only empirical evidence hints at the existence of the planet!
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