Interesting things to know

  All of us have been to doctor or medical shops to purchase medicine for some reasons. This is a common thing. But have you ever notice that the doctors always write a word Rx on prescription before prescribing any medicine. Also, Rx is written on many medicines. The thing is, Have you ever thought why it is written so and what it means? If No, then think about it.  The popular explanation is given that, In old age Rx was related to the sign of roman god Jupiter. Jupiter was called the planet of healing.  The reason behind to write Rx on prescription and medicines that we are praying to the planet of healing (Jupiter) that the person who takes this medicine heal early. The physicians invokes god’s blessings on the drug by writing Rx on prescription to help in the early recovery of patient. There was a belief in that period, that diseases were a result of planetary positions. So, medicines was thought to must take under the influence of Jupiter planet. It is said that the planets w

 We all are familiar with term “clock”. In our daily life we use clock number of times to get know about time. But, have you ever wonder that how this clock works?   How it shows us time? If you know already then you are such a smart person though. But if you do not know then, no worries we will see and learn how this clock named thing works. First, let we jump into the history of clock? Who made this? There are many clocks that were invented in past. Some of them are sundials, Greek water clocks, candle clocks, hourglass etc. But here we are talking about modern clocks. Don’t know how much it is true but it is said that the first modern clock was created by a german inventor named “Peter Henlein” in 1511. Now let’s see how today’s clock works. Here I will talk about only modern clocks in which quartz is used as main component. Many of us have seen quartz written on clocks because quartz is main component in that clocks. In quartz clocks battery is used as power source becaus