Skip to main content

Posts

The Power of Recycling | EstheraSTEM

As the World battles with environmental challenges like Climate change, Pollution, Deforestation, Biodiversity loss, etc. Recycling emerges as a one of the crucial practices to solving some of these challenges. It helps lessens the harmful disruption and damage being done to the natural world by conserving it's resources, reducing waste, saving energy, creating jobs and improving our health in general. In this blog post, we'll explore the Power of Recycling, it's benefits and look at initiatives promoting Recycling efforts. Put Simply , Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. Benefits of Recycling The Benefits of Recycling have a far reaching impact on our daily lives and planet and It can be seen in two key areas: Environmental , and Economic Environmental Benefits of Recycling Recycling conserves Natural resources (reducing the environmental impacts of resource extraction and processing) Recycling reduces emissions of greenh

Hepatitis: Everything You need to Know about this disease

This blog is written in honor of world hepatitis day and all patients who once suffered it or currently suffering from it. What is Hepatitis? Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver which results from various infectious diseases and non infectious ones. This leads to a variety of health problems, some of which can be fatal. Types of Hepatitis Autoimmune hepatitis. Hepatitis A. Hepatitis B. Hepatitis C. Hepatitis D. Hepatitis E. Neonatal hepatitis. These types of hepatitis are categorized into two groups. Viral hepatitis and non viral hepatitis . VIRAL HEPATITIS Includes: Hepatitis: A, B, C, D, and E (caused by a virus) NON VIRAL HEPATITIS Includes: There are three types of non-viral hepatitis:   Toxic hepatitis  is caused by chemicals, drugs (prescription and over-the-counter) and nutritional supplements . VIRAL HEPATITIS: Causes & Mode of Transmission Hepatitis A Hepatitis A is c aused by the hepatitis A virus ( HAV ) and is p rimarily transmitted via consumption of contaminated

Chess: The Story Behind This Fine Art | EstheraSTEM

Chess is an ancient board game that goes back centuries. It is a board game which involves two players. It is sometimes called  international chess  or  Western chess  to distinguish it from  related games  such as  xiangqi  (Chinese chess) and  shogi  (Japanese chess). Chess is an  abstract strategy game  that is played on a  chessboard  with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as  "White" and "Black" , each control 16  pieces 1 King  1 Queen  2 Rooks 2 Knights 2 Bishops 8 Pawns How is Chess Played? White moves first , followed by Black . The game is won by checkmating the opponent's king, In other words, threatening it with inescapable capture. There are several ways a game can end in a draw or stalemate. Each Chess piece moves a certain way: •The Queen moves diagonally, horizontally & vertically in all directions. •The King can move one square at a time .The only time it's movement is compromised is when it is under "chec

The Scientific Methods

To begin with, What is this Intriguing method? The Scientific Method is a series of procedures that individuals can utilize to know more about the world around them, better that knowledge, and set out to to elucidate why and/or how things come about. This method, or as they say Modus Operandi in Latin , involves recognizing observations, devising inquiries, forming hypotheses, performing experiments, analyzing the given facts and drawing a deduction. Every scientific experiment performed exemplifies the scientific method in action, but it is also used by non-science figures in everyday situations. Introduction: A biology investigation usually starts with an observation—that is, something that catches the biologist’s attention. For instance, a cancer biologist might notice that a specific kind of cancer can't be treated with chemotherapy and begin to wonder what the reason behind this abnormal result the case is. A marine ecologist, seeing that the coral reefs of her/his field site