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MOVIE FACTSInitial release: May 29,2009Director: Pete DocterMusic composed by: Michael GiacchinoNotable Awards:  Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Film...

Our unusually wet summer has provided plenty of opportunities for breeding mosquitoes, with water butts and containers retaining pools of water all through the year. The water butt attached to our greenhouse has been swarming with culicine mosquito larvae.The larvae hang from the surface film, breathing through a  siphon tube, which you can see in this image on the tail of the larva; you can...

How to make your eye colour lighter: honeyCan you make your eyes a little bit lighter with honey? Some people believe in the power of honey and use it on their eyes for a lighter eye colour. Of course, it is interesting to know how and why honey lightens up the eye colour. Is it true or just a myth? Lets find out if honey really lightens up your eye colour.Honey change your eye colour?Youve probably...

Cue sinister music: here’s the animal with the most formidable jaws currently living in my water butt. Strictly speaking it’s an omnivore, dining on algae as well as other animal life, but it has impressive chewing equipment. It’s the larval stage of a chironomid midge – one of those little midges that form dancing swarms at dusk – and it’s the third commonest organism in the water butt at the moment,...

On 24th May 1934, in Louisiana, USA, a car was driving fast along a country road. A young man was behind the wheel. Sitting next to him was a young woman. She was smoking a large cigar and she had a machine gun on her knees. Suddenly there were gun shots. The car crashed into the side of the road. The police had killed the famous gangsters, Bonnie and Clyde.Bonnie Parker was a waitress until she met...

"Did you see the frightened ones Did you hear the falling bombs Did you ever wonder Why we had to run for shelter When the promise of a brave new world Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky ?"- Goodbye Blue Sky,The Wall,Pink FloydI never spoke on religious bias before anywhere in the blog.But its time I will have to open my mouth.If the victims would have been the Jews today,they would have spent millions in printing out banners that this was terrorism - but not when they are Palestinians,not...

The need for care of the weak and sick exists ever since the earliest days of human society. However, people much later came to the idea to set up a hospital.Old Greeks for example, didnt had any public institution for the care of the sick. Some doctors had their rooms for operation, in which they could do their job, but they were so small that they could accommodate only one patient. Romans at the...

Blue eye colour in humansThe blue eye colour is a recessive trait in humans and is quite a unique thing in the world. In the US, only 1 out of 6 (some people think 1 out of 10!) have blue irises. In some other countries, especially those in Africa and Asia, the blue eye colour is almost non prevalent. A blue eye colour gives rise when the eye produces only a very little amount of melanin. Melanin...

An Ant was speeding along on its three pairs of legs when, suddenly, it stopped."Im thirsty," the Ant said aloud."Why dont you get a drink of water from the brook?" cooed a Dove perched in a nearby tree. "The brook is close by. Just be careful you dont fall in."The Ant sped to the brook and began to drink. But a sudden gust of wind blew the Ant into the water.  "Help!" cried the Ant, "Im drowning!"...

What do you think the air contains? It contains millions of tiny, fast-moving particles.Waves of energy pass through the air, too.This kind of energy, called electromagnetic energy, is made of vibrations of electricity and magnetism. There is a whole range of different electromagnetic waves.Some electromagnetic waves vibrate very fast. These waves have a great deal of energy.Other waves vibrate slowly...

Imagine if you find yourself into an empty space at the height of 4-5 miles above the Earth, and yet you have landed on the ground as if you jumped from fence 3 meters high.This we can do with a parachute!The parachute is just a big umbrella, that with its shape and surface, due to air resistance, slows the decline and fall of man through the air, slowly and slowly enough, that he does not hurt himself...

What is a Proton?Protons are positively charged (+1), quite the opposite, as the electric charge of electrons (-1).The number of protons in the nucleus determines the total amount of positive charge in the atom.In electrically neutral atom, the number of protons and electrons is equal, such that positive and negative charges are balanced to zero.Proton is very small, but it is quite massive in comparison...

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I. A BeginningEvery author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing. Those who do not like him, magnify it, shrug up their shoulders, and exclaim—there he is again! I, for my part, know very well how I can bring about this movement and this exclamation. It would happen immediately if I were to begin here, as I intended to do, with: "Rome has its Corso, Naples its Toledo"—"Ah! that Andersen; there he is again!" they would cry; yet I must, to please my fancy, continue...