Tidur Boleh Menguruskan Badan

Sebagai seorang graduan fizik, saya memang suka membuat pengiraan yang bukan-bukan, contohnya pengiraan kuku yang tumbuh setiap hari, pengiraan bintang di langit, dan sebagainya.

Walau bagaimanapun, ilmu matematik saya masih di peringkat kanak-kanak lagi, jadi janganlah segan memberi tunjuk ajar.

Kita kerap dengar orang berkata bahawa tidur boleh membuat kita gemuk. Namun, pengiraan menunjukkan sebaliknya. Jika anda menimbang berat badan sebelum dan selepas tidur 8 jam, anda akan mendapati bahawa berat badan anda menjadi ringan selepas tidur.

Why Male Antechinuses Mate Themselves To Death

Animal copulation is an awesome topic, because you get to write about phalluses and balls and explicitly use the terms which would otherwise considered taboo (though I will not be using a lot of these terms today). 

Why Do Bees Build Hexagonal Cells?

Have you ever wondered why bees build hexagon-shaped cells?

Isn't it fascinating? Why hexagon? Why not other shapes? And these apparently simple, instinct-driven creatures could build the perfect-six-sided-hexagon which, when you stack them up together, form a perfect array of honeycomb.

Image: www.bee-hexagon.net

More than 2000 years ago, Marcus Terentius Varro proposed an answer to this question. He thought maybe honeycomb built of hexagons can hold more honey and require less building wax, and this answer has since been called "The Honeybee Conjecture".

Which One Are You?

印度--后记....India--An Epilogue

一时的冲动，一生的故事。

印度给你的印象是什么？

你对世界上最大的民主国，第九大经济体，十二亿人口国家了解有多少？

2013年七月二十七，我从新加坡飞往印度新德里，再从新德里飞往阿摩达巴，为期一个月。