Friday, November 18, 2011

A Friendship Between Two Men And A Lion

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A Friendship Between Two Men And A Lion | A Friendship between human and animal is natural in our life. But what about a friendship between human and wild animal ? Is it possible ? The answer is "it may be real".

Lion is a dangerous animal. You must think that it is impossible to have a strong bond of love with a lion. But this is a real story that I will tell you.

In 1969, John Rendall and Ace Berg saw a lion kid in Harrods, cramped and lonely in a small cage. The lion kid was for sale. They decided to buy and to bring it to home.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

What is Culture ?

What is Culture ? | The word culture has many different meanings. For example, we sometimes say that people who know about art, music and literature are cultured. However, the word culture has different meaning for anthropologists (people who study humankind). To an anthropologists the word culture means all the ways in which a group of people act, dress, think and feel. People have to learn the cultural ways of their community; they are not something that the people in the group are born with.


The brain, The Three-pound Miracles


The brain, The Three-pound Miracles | The brain of human being is only a small part of the human body, but it is an extremely important ones. The human brain weighs only about three pounds and looks like a mass of jelly. The volume of the brain is about three pints (in metric units about 500 cubic centimeters [cc]). This is because of pound of water has a volume of one pint, and the brain, like the rest of human body, contains a good deal of water. Yet there is a computer in that three-pound jelly-like mass. The computer in the human brain is more powerful and more complicated that any computer that scientists engineers have been able to build.