Friday, March 10, 2023

Grammar ep 2: The Noun

Concrete and Abstract nouns.

Concrete nouns are together or grown, or something physical, and Abstract is like away or drawn, or not physical.

Sadness is not considered an abstract noun as it is not physical.

A chair would be counted as concrete as it is a physical thing that we can measure/hold.


Science of Relaxation

Even if you are "relaxed" your body is not. 

Your body is always on high alert your body is important to keep yourself alive, just try living without your brain working, or your heart stops, what would happen oh wait, I know. You would definitely, die.

So if you stretch on your bed before going to sleep and being "relaxed", you are, just your body is not.


Maldives

 It is one of the lowest counties in the world and is known for honeymoon destinations.

The Maldives is made of 26 vertical atolls and around 1200 islets, but even with a large amount of space, only 185 of them are inhabited.

Capital Male (pronounced Maaaleee) with a population of half the country lives.

The largest island is 8km long and 3.4 km wide.

The male is about 6 sq KM so if you zoom in it looks like a regular packed city. 

Known for their water bungalows, for around 10-30k USD.

100 species of coral. 145 crabs, and lots of fish.

450 thousand population, and one of the less populated counties in Asia.

Maldivian Rufiyaa is their currency.

Dehivehi is their language.



Wednesday, March 8, 2023

The science of sleep paralysis

Sleep paralysis happens in the rapid eye movement or REM sleep as it is named, in this stage you are likely to have dreams, and the body prevents your muscles from moving to help stop your body from acting dreams out and substantially hurting yourself. 
Sleep paralysis is when you wake up while this REM sleep is happening and thus you feel like your body is locked and cannot move. 

But this may not happen to only sleeping people, as people have reported that they have gotten sleep paralysis while being fully awake.

One of the things reported while having sleep paralysis is hallucinations, which is usually part of dreams. 

Eswatini (Swaziland)

Eswatini used to be known as Swaziland but now is Eswatini, so that's cool.

It is the second smallest Mainland African county. 

Strangely the largest city (Mbabane) is not the main capital, that title goes to Manzini. 

The Hlane national park is known to have the largest population of nesting vultures in the world.

They are famous for making Ngwenya glass, a type of glass that is most commonly molded into animals.

And Swazi candles are very pretty-looking candles with a colorful marble type of texturing.

1.4 million people. And 40% of the population is under 14 years old.

South African rand as their currency.

And the lowest age expectancies in the world at 50 yrs. 

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Malawi

 The capital is Lilongwe.

Most of Lake Malawi belongs to them since it is their country is named after this lake.  

Even though they do have not much of the GDP they still have "decent roads".

The Shire river connects to the Zambezi with is in Zimbabwe.

Lake Malawi holds more species of fish than any more than country about 1000 fish species, and it is the 3rd largest lake in Africa.

They also have a Brewery for the national beer of Denmark (Carlsberg) and are the only country that this brewer outside of Denmark.

The top 5 poorest countries in the world. 

18 million people.

Malawian Kuacha as their currency.


history of the Creampuff

 Creampuffs originated in France, but they were made in the US in 1800.

The Brooklyn Evening star mentioned that hundreds of creampuffs were sold each day in Brooklyn.

But the most famous creampuffs come from Beard papa's hailing from Japan, it started out as a small bakery and now they have over 400 stores in at least 15 countries.

Mainly eaten in the 13th century as a cheese-filled pastry from the Victorian age.

There are many types of creampuffs, such as the Chous, puff, profiterole, and bun, all with different ways to prep and make, making a different creampuff.