Renee

August 28, 2023

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

Have you ever crammed a load of facts into your brain the night before stressfully, but still got an F? That isn’t too surprising. Everybody’s highly likely to forget newly learned things within a matter a time. This comes from a statement from the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve. The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve is a memory-based curve designed by German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus defined in his book Memory. Approximately, 3 days after learning something, 40% of the information is lost. If it is reviewed after 1 day, it will take longer to forget. Two days after reviewing, if it is reviewed again,...

Read More
August 25, 2023

Homemade Mosquito Bite Cures

Summer is full of fun activities but they also have a disadvantage: Mosquitoes. Their bites are itchy, and itching them will make the bite even itchier. You can always cure those bites with homemade mosquito bite cures! They are made with everyday objects, unlike specialized processed cures. Ways: Ice packs fresh from the freezer is a way to cure bite. Cover a pack with a thin but damp cloth. Wrap the ice pack with the cloth and gently press the pack onto the mosquito bite. If you don’t have an ice pack, you can simply drop a few ice cubes...

Read More
August 18, 2023

Gourd

Gourd is a type of fruit grown from flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae. Further in the family Cucurbitaceae, it is also in the sub families Cucurbita and Lagenaria. It is related to a number of different items, such as pumpkins, cucumbers, squash, and many types of melon. Gourd is known to look like a large peanut or pear. They usually are light green or orange. Many say that this kind of fruit has a very hard shell. The gourds found in the Americas seem to have evolved from the the gourds of Asia a long time ago. However, some...

Read More
August 12, 2023

Entropy

Have you ever wondered why sugar can dissolve in a pot of boiling water, why popcorn kernels pop, or why things get rusted after touching a fire? All of these examples include entropy, a scientific concept. Most people would describe entropy as a measurement of disorder. However, while that can be a meaning, it does not provide much knowledge of what it really should be and can be misleading. For example, which is more disordered: a glass of water, or a glass of ice cubes? The answer may seem like the glass of ice cubes, but it’s actually the water....

Read More
August 6, 2023

35 Interesting Facts

Friendship strengthens mental health and keeps us happy. It is considered fine to eat food beyond the date that marks its best before – it just won’t be in its best version. Jus 10 pushups a day can gradually help you strengthen your muscles. SS stands for “sailing ship” on a boat. Diet Coke is sweet not by sugar but by aspartame, a type of chemical. Snakes can predict earthquakes. There are so many Lego mini figures that their population is more than human population! In total, the average person spends 1 whole year on the toilet in their lifetime!...

Read More
August 3, 2023

Justin And Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Separate

After 18 years of marriage, Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada and his past-wife Sophie Grégorie Trudeau have announced recently that they will seperate. “Sophie and I would like to share the fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate,” Trudeau wrote in a message posted to Instagram. “As always, we remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build,” Trudeau and Grégoire Trudeau wrote in identical messages. “For the well-being of our children, we ask that you respect...

Read More
August 1, 2023

Calorie Count In Foods

It is important to know the number of calories in everyday food, so my alphabetical blog will demonstrate this question. Fruits: Apple: 95 calories (medium-sized) Apricot: 17 calories (1 apricot) Avocado: 160 calories (medium-sized) Banana: 105 calories (medium-sized) Blackberry: 62 calories (1 cup) Blueberry: 84 calories (1 cup) Cherry: 87 calories (1 cup) Cranberry: 46 calories (1 cup) Fig: 47 calories (medium-sized) Grape: 52 calories (1 cup) Guava: 37 calories (medium-sized) Kiwi: 61 calories (medium-sized) Lemon: 17 calories (medium-sized) Lime: 20 calories (medium-sized) Mango: 202 calories (medium-sized) Melon: 64 calories (1 cup) Nectarine: 62 calories (medium-sized) Orange: 62 calories (medium-sized)...

Read More
July 28, 2023

Hatchet By Gary Paulsen Summary

Hatchet by American writer Gary Paulsen is a very interesting book about a teenager named Brian Robeson who is riding in a plane. Brian Robeson is a teenage boy who lives with his divorced mother. He is not obese but has a considerably large amount of fat by his waist. When Brian is on his way by plane to visit his father, he goes through many struggles. As the copilot of the airplane, Brian Robeson watches the pilot suddenly have a major heart attack. Scared and yelling, Brian tries to get help through a radio, but the connection is insecure...

Read More
July 22, 2023

The Chicken & Rabbit Problem

The Chicken & Rabbit problem is a great math and logic question. Here is the question: There are some chickens and rabbits. The number of total legs is {number} and the total number of eyes is {number}. How many chickens/rabbits are there? There are also many different ways to express this: There are some {first thing} and {second thing} The number of total {first part of thing} is {first number} and the total number of {second part of thing} is {second number}. How many chickens/rabbits are there? For instance, you can sub first thing for motorcycles and second thing for...

Read More