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AND THE OSCAR GOES TO....

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The academy awards also known as the Oscars are the most prestigious awards in film industries. The Oscars are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry given annually by the academy of motion picture arts and science located in Beverly hills , California , USA. Winners are chosen from 24 categories that include :- Best picture Best actor , best actress  , best supporting actor. Best supporting actress. Directing, Original screenplay, Adapted screenplay, Cinematography  , production design , editing , original score  , original song , costume design , makeup and hairstyling. Sound mixing , sound editing , visual effects , foreign language film , animated feature film , animated short film , live action short film , documentary feature and documentary short subject. The first academy awards ceremony was organised on May 16th 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel . The first Oscar ceremony comprised of 12 categories apart from 2 special honors.
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What Is Google?

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For a long time people relied on volumes of encyclopaedia for all the information they needed. But the idea of an online encyclopaedia is not more than 35 years old. These online encyclopaedia is called a search engines. A search engine is a program that searches the internet and finds web pages based on the keywords that you provide. Most popular of them is Google. In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey brin agreed to write a program for a search engine. They build a server network using cheap,used and borrowed personal computers. And then it lead to the path to the creation of Google. But the attempt for licensing the product was a failure. Nobody wanted to take the risk of investing in an advanced product at an early stage of development. Andy Bechtolsheim ,the co founder of sun microsystems appeared as a saviour. He was impressed by the quick demonstration of Google. Google Inc. finally came into being in 1998. Its mission is to organise the world's information and make
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Astonishing Predictions Made By Professor Stephen Hawking.

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Stephen Hawking Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist,  cosmologist and an author. He was also the director of research at the centre for theoretical cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Predictions. 1. AI (artificial intelligence) Stephen Hawking was fearful by the development of artificial intelligence , will give rise to a a new form of life that would outperform humans . 2 . Gene editing He said that gene editin g  will give rise to a new breed of humans, " superhumans ", who will be e self improving and self designing beings. 3.  Aliens He said that the meeting of aliens and humans might not give a positive outcome. At one of the programs conducted at Discovery channel in 2010, he told that" if aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the native Americans". 4. Colonizing other planet For the survival o
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9 Mythical creatures that are mind blowing.

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Unicorn When one talks about a unicorn, the image of a tall white horse with a colourful spiralling horn and long mane, comes to our mind. The original representation of the unicorn was strikingly different from the modern representation. The unicorn had the body of an ass, the feet of a goat and purple head like that of a deer. Its horn is red at the tip, black in the middle and white at the bottom. The unicorn is also believed to have the ability to purify poisoned water. Phoenix bird Phoenix bird is said to have Golden feathers and a sharp haunting cry. This bird is believed to live up to 97000 years . When the bird realises that it is time for it to die the phoenix builds a nest of spices and fragrant branches that catches fire from the strong rays of sun. When it dies in flames the bird sings a mournful song, from its ashes ,a new Phoenix bird rises. Werewolf the werewolf is a mythical monster. it is a human who can change into a wolf. It
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Things you didn't know about pinterest.

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Pinterest Ben silbermann is an American entrepreneur who founded the popular application Pinterest that allows sharing of photos. Ben silbermann was born in a family of ophthalmologists . He was born in 1982. When he was a child he had a fascination for collecting dried insects, stamps etc. And he used pins to pin them on cardboards. And this hobby of Silbermann led to the the idea of Pinterest. the site enables users to upload,save and arrange image or videos that are called pins . The collection of  pins are called pin board. Users can also browse other pinboards 'like' them. Before the creation of Pinterest in 2010, Ben silbermann work at Google ,on its online advertising group. Then he left Google and started designing iPhone apps with his college mate paul sciarra . After all these things only Ben silbermann started working on the idea of Pinterest with his friends paul sciarra and even sharp.             Ben silbermann ☝️ The site was
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Amazing and Shocking fact about Human Body.

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Human body is a miraculous machine. Our body continues to work, without stopping for a second. Here are the 10 amazing and shocking facts about human body. 1. Our eyes blinks around 20 times a minute. Now that's 10 million times a year!!!!!. 2. The stomach is capable of increasing by up to 20 times its original size when a person is eating a meal. 3. The sounds made by joints such as the cracking of knuckles,are caused by an explosive release of gas that permits shock-absorbing fluid to flow in. 4. Your ear never stops growing.!!!!. 5. When we listen to music our heart beat will sync with the rhythm of the music. 6. The only bone not connected with the rest of the skeleton is the hyoid bone,it lies at the root of the tongue. 7. More than half of your bones are located in hands and feet. When we are born, we have 300 bones in our body but as we grow up ,some of the bones fuses and only 206 remains. And from th
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Mysteries of the Universe: Black hole and Worm hole

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What is a black hole? a black hole is a region of spacetime. The gravity there is is so strong that nothing can escape from its pull. Is black hole really a 'hole'in space? No it's not a hole. Black hole is an object like any other object in space but it's extremely dense. And because of its extreme density it has an extreme gravity, everything including light is pulled towards it. Then why do we call it as a black 'hole' ? As mentioned in the above lines it has an extreme gravity because of its extreme density, everything that falls into it is trapped forever  ,that's why it is term as a ' hole '. What happens when we try to go inside a Black hole? If a human tries to go inside a Black hole his body will be torn apart because of its extreme gravity . What is a wormhole? just imagine wormhole as a tunnel that has two ends at different points in space. Is travelling through a wormhole possible? Yes,something
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