The world this week is an attempt to provide worldly news to kids once a week. The idea behind this is to make them get started on reading world news but it’s written in a child friendly manner and explains some concepts too
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated around the world on 8th March, as people unite to champion the advancement of women’s rights and gender equality. While the day itself carries the clear theme of female empowerment across the world, the way it’s acknowledged and celebrated differs from country to country. Read on to see how International Women’s Day celebrations vary across the globe. United States In the US, the whole of March is Women’s History Month. This has been an ongoing celebration since February 1980 when President Jimmy Carter declared the week of 8 March as National Women’s History Week.…
The world’s largest bee was found in the wild 38 years after its last sighting. It was one of the planet's top most wanted species. In 1858, the famed British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace discovered a large bee buzzing about on the Indonesian island of Bacan. Now known as Wallace’s giant bee, the critter can grow up to an inch and a half in length, has a wingspan of two and a half inches and boasts an impressive pair of beetle-like mandibles. It is the world’s largest bee—and one of its most elusive, having been seen only a few times since its…
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic has officially put its first passenger into space. The company’s spaceplane made its second trip in March this time with three people onboard: two pilots and one passenger. The previous flight only contained the two pilots. It is an effort towards the company’s commercial spaceflight mission. Two pilots directed the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to an altitude of 90 kilometres over the Mojave desert after it was released from its carrier plane at 45,000 ft.up. The duo pilots were accompanied by the company’s chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses, who took the first ride as a passenger.…
Spotify is an audio streaming platform launched in October 2008. It provides DRM- protected (DRM is Digital Rights Management) music and podcasts from record labels and media companies. As a freemium service, basic features are free with advertisements or automatic music videos, while additional features, such as improved streaming quality, are offered via paid subscriptions. Spotify provides access to more than 40 million tracks. Users can browse by parameters such as artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists. Spotify arrived in India merely a week back and has already got 1 million users including both free and paid Premium accounts, as a representative for the company…
The Scientists studying in the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi constructed ‘DotBook’, India’s first Braille Laptop for Blind people in the country. It is framed with dots or the Braille format and not the one which is operated visually. Scientists namely Pulkit Sapra, 26, from Delhi and Suman Muralikrishnan, 27, from Chennai studying in IIT Delhi, constructed the laptop choosing to move out from the placement drive and continue researching on the laptop from the last 5 years. The students launched two editions of the laptop, one with the 20 cell edition and another with 40 cell edition, referring to the number of…