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Knowledge, Learning & Leadership

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In this Bytes lesson learn how useful yoga can be for your health and also the science behind yoga

The science behind Yoga

Overview of the lesson

In this Unacademy Bytes video get to know who or what is Alexa and it works like your virtual assistant.

Who is Alexa?

In this Bytes lesson find out about the achievements of our first Prime Minister who passed away today.

Our first Prime Minister passed away!

In this Bytes lesson get to know about the traffic train accident and what caused the derailment of a super fast train traveling from Howrah to Mumbai killing 141 people

A tragic train accident happened today.

In this Bytes lesson learn about what Dwarf Planets are and which are dwarf planets in our Solar System

What are dwarf planets?

In this Bytes video get to about the history of your National Flag and also the significance of the Colors and how it evolved over time.

The history of our National Flag

In this Bytes lesson learn about the Zamindari System and how it worked before and even after independence

The Zamindari System

In this Bytes lesson find out about the achievements of the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service

The first Indian to join Civil Service

In this bytes video learn about how poverty is one of the biggest issues in the world and get to know some important statistics regarding the same.

Poverty - one of the biggest issues in the world.

In this bytes lesson learn about America's first space mission that led to the first space walk. Also find out about some more details of this mission

Pathbreaking space mission

In this Bytes video get to know about a brief history of SpaceX and its first maiden flight Falcon 9 which was flown today.

SpaceX's maiden flight was launched

This bytes lesson find out our body is a wonderful complex biological machine

Human body - A biological machine

In this bytes lesson learn about the current environmental changes that need urgent attention

Global environmental issues

In this bytes lesson learn about the first act of civil disobedience by Gandhi which took place on 7 the of June in South Africa.

Gandhi's first civil disobedience

In this bytes video learn about how the different time zones cane into existence and also about the history of the Greenwich Mean Time in brief.

How were time zones created?

In this Bytes video learn about the science behind self driving cars and also get to know about the advantages of self driving cars.

The science behind self-driving cars!

The speed of light might seem fast, but what if you went faster than it?
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What If You Traveled Faster Than The Speed Of Light?

In this bytes video learn about the history of cricket and how it evolved after first being played in England in the 16th century.

The history of cricket

In this Bytes video get enlightened by how one of the most important parts of an airplane functions - The Black Box.

How does the Black Box in airplanes work?

In this bytes video learn about what is organic farming and also in what ways it is different and better than conventional farming.

What is Organic Farming?

In this Bytes video learn about what was the Cuban Missile Crisis all about and what led to this 13 day military stand off.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

In this Bytes video learn about the Vietnam War, what caused it and what were the consequences of the war.

The Vietnam War

In this Bytes video, learn about the history of Taj Mahal and also about the significance of today's day.

The history of Taj Mahal

In this Bytes video learn about artificial islands, their creation, and environmental impact. Also get to know about some of the largest artificial islands according to their size.

Artificial islands around the world

In this Bytes video learn about what is Daylight Saving and also its impact on the health of people and the environment in general.

What is Daylight Saving?

In this bytes video get to know what the French revolution was all about and the factors that led to the revolution.

The French Revolution

In this Bytes video learn about what is Acid rain, what causes it, how acidic it is and it's effects on tress an acquatic life.

What is Acid Rain?

In this Bytes lesson find out more about deja vu and why it occurs or how common is it.

What is deja vu?

In this Bytes video learn about what happened in the Battle of Plassey which took place today - 23rd June 1757

The Battle of Plassey

In this Bytes video learn about how much noise pollution can damage your hearing.

How much noise pollution can damage your hearing?

In this Bytes video get to know about how China's economic strength comes from trade and also find out if China will dominate global trade in the recent future.

Will China dominate global trade?

In this bytes video find out what is Biometric, where all it is used and how it exactly works.

What is Biometrics?

In this Bytes video learn about the World Trade Organisation and how it functions.

The World Trade Organisation.

In this bytes video get to know about the islands around the world which are getting submerged due to rising sea levels.

Islands that will disappear in recent future

In this Bytes video find out about the different types of winds created around the different types of pressure belts around the globe.

Types of winds around the globe.

In this bytes video learn about the International Space Station, who owns it, how it works, and other interesting facts.

How does the ISS work?

In this bytes video find out the science behind the dancing colors in the northern and southern hemisphere skies. Also find out what causes them and where is the best place to watch them.

What are Northern Lights?

In this Bytes video find out what is ADHD, and what are the symptoms and possible causes of ADHD.

What is ADHD?

In this bytes video find out why we yawn and also some interesting facts against the myths that we have about yawning.

Why do we yawn?

In this Bytes video learn about the white mutiny and the reason and circumstances under which it occurred.

The White Mutiny

In this Bytes video learn about what constellations are, how did they originate and a bit about the stories behind the naming of some of the famous constellations

What are Constellations?

In this Bytes video learn about what led to the October revolution in Russia and also understand how it was instrumental in the larger Russian revolution in 1917.

The October Revolution

In this Bytes video learn about one of the most interesting theories about the history of the existence of the universe - the Big Bang Theory.

What is the Big Bang?

In this Bytes video learn a bit about the Bhakra Nangal dam project which was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru on this day 8th of July - 1954

Nehru inaugurated the Bhakra Nangal Dam

In this Bytes video learn about the IUCN red list of threatened species. Find out what their formal goals are and also get to know about the nine groups that the IUCN is categorised into.

The IUCN red list of threatened species

In this bytes video find out about the Goldilocks Zone and what happens if a planet or a moon lies within the Goldilocks Zone of a star system.

The Goldilocks Zone

In this Bytes video find out everything about the interesting concept of dazzle camouflage that was used sitting the world wars for making ships invisible.

What was Dazzle camouflage?

In this Bytes video get to know about one of the most interesting and ambitious projects which aims at human settlement on Mars by 2023.

The Mars One Project

In this bytes video learn about coral reefs, where you can find them around the globe and the major threats that they are under.

Coral Reef in a brief

In this Bytes video learn about Geothermal power and also get to know how powerful can Geothermal energy be.

Power of Geothermal energy.

In this Bytes video explore some mind boggling questions about the 4th dimension. Also try to understand how easy or difficult it is for our brains to comprehend the fourth dimension.

What is fourth dimension?

In this Bytes video get to learn about what is Solar wind, how it interacts with planetary atmospheres and the scientists who first came to know about it.

What is Solar Wind?

In this Bytes video find out what is inside a human eye and the function of every part in a nutshell.

What's inside the eye?

In this Bytes video learn about the India Independence Act that came into force today - 18th July 1947

The Indian Independence Act

In this Bytes video find out how and why tides occur and the different types of tides.

How do tides occur?

In this Bytes lesson find out what Polar Wandering means. Also learn about apparent and true polar wander.

What is Polar Wandering?

In this Bytes lesson get to know about what the European Union is and how it works.

What is the EU?

In this Bytes video learn about how the WHO came into existence, is operational history in a bit and about its main objective.

A little about the WHO.

In this Bytes video learn about the achievements of a famous Indian revolutionary in a brief.

The birth of a revolutionary

In this Bytes video get to know about what UNICEF does, where does it operate from and where is it based.

What does UNICEF do?

In this Bytes video learn about how tornadoes are formed, their shape and size and about what different types of tornadoes exist.

What are tornadoes?

In this bytes video, we will discuss about what is NATO, what is the main purpose of NATO and what do they do. For the same lesson in Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-nato/RB9CSQ7F/?source=Course

What is NATO?

In this Bytes video learn about the Silk Route, how and when it got established and how it was beneficial in trade, religious pilgrimages and in contributing to the development of science, technology, literature and arts.

The Silk Route

In this bytes video learn about what are bioluminescent waves, how they are formed, what causes them and where do you generally get to see them. For the Hindi version click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-are-bioluminescent-waves/QMZ75EH5/?source=Course

What are bioluminescent waves?

In this bytes video get to know what a DNA is, what its structure is like and how relevant is it to us. (For the Hindi version click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-does-your-dna-say-about-you/KZCYWKOO/?source=Course )

What does your DNA say about you?

In this bytes video learn about what are communicable diseases, how do they get spread and what are the different types. To learn in Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-are-communicable-diseases/UVC2K440/?source=Course

What are communicable diseases?

In this bytes video learn about the origin and history of human civilizations and a bit about all the civilizations.

History of human civilizations

In this bytes video learn about the achievements of an Indian revolutionary. For Hindi version click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/the-birth-of-a-revolutionary/M45PJNUK/?source=Course

The death of a revolutionary.

In this video learn about what is the Ring of Fire and where is it located. Also find out which volcanic erruptions and earthquakes are present in this region. For Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-the-ring-of-fire/JJ4T4IRF/?source=Course

The Ring of Fire.

In this bytes video learn about what is fibre optics and how it works. for Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/how-does-fibre-optics-work/266HSEMM/?source=Course

How does Optical Fibre work?

In this Bytes video learn about what is GDP, its history in brief and how to determine GDP. For Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-gdp/J3YJ5Q62/?source=Course

What is GDP?

In this video learn about what is Biomagnification, what are the causes and different levels of the problem. For Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-biomagnification/PAF7GJ48/?source=Course

What is Biomagnification?

In this bytes video learn in a nutshell about the history and evolution of transport in India. For Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/the-history-of-transport-in-india/9WK3JU21/?source=Course

The history of transport in India

In this lesson learn about the life and achievements of one of India's Nobel laureates who passed away today. For Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/the-death-anniversary-of-a-nobel-laureate/3HNRG3KN/?source=Course

The death anniversary of a Nobel Laureate.

In this video learn about what is Myocardial Infarction, what happens in the process, it's symptoms, and causes. For Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-myocardial-infarction/Q4PQGRGV

What is Myocardial Infarction?

In this bytes video get to know about the Kakori Train Conspiracy, the actual robbery incident, the leaders behind this incident and the final verdict.

The Kakori Train incident

In this bytes lesson learn about Earth Spheres, the various types, and a little more in detail about them. For hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-are-earth-spheres/8HA77RO7/?source=Course

What are Earth Spheres?

In this video get to know about a strange yet really interesting phenomenon of what causes moons of some planets to hum. For Hindi click here: https://unacademy.com/lesson/why-is-europa-whistling/HZKLWIQA/?source=Course

Why is Europa Whistling?

In this video learn about the history and origin of vaccines and how the past two decades have seen the application of molecular genetics and it's insights applied to vaccinology.

The history and origin of vaccines.

In this Bytes video learn about the National Highways of India, about who manages them, the recent projects and how they form the economic backbone of the country.

The National Highways in India

In this video find out what agglutination means, who first discovered this and how helpful it is in blood transfusion.

What is Agglutination?

In this bytes video get to know about landslides, how they are caused and what are the factors that lead to landslides.

What are landslides?

In this bytes videos learn in a nutshell about the Amazon Rainforest, Ankit where it got its name from, how old it is and how we can conserve this beautiful biome.

The Amazon Rainforest

In this Bytes video learn about how Solar energy works, what are the different solar techniques and also the different applications.

How Solar Energy works?

In this Bytes video let's understand why Venezuela is going through the most crippling economic crisis.

Venezuela's inflation crisis

In this video learn about what was the Non-aligned Movement, its founding fathers, about its origin and purpose.

The Non-aligned Movement

In this Bytes video learn about the formation of Brahmo Samaj and why it was one of the most important reform movements of that time.

Foundation of one of the most important reform movements

In this bytes video learn about what Coriolis Force is and also about the Coriolis effect. Find out its effect on weather patterns and human activity.

The Coriolis Effect

In this Bytes video learn about how one of the metropolitan cities of India was fixed by the East India Company today.

Foundation of one of the metro cities.

In this Bytes video learn about the NPT, the idea behind its formation, the three pillar system of NPT and what critics say about them.

What is the NPT?

In this video get to know the shocking effect of what you eat on the climate.

What we eat, changes climate.

In this bytes video find out what machines and computers do for us now and if robots can replace humans and take up our jobs in recent future.

Will robots take our jobs?

In this Bytes video get to know about the historic battle that took place between Alauddin Khilji and king Ratan Singh of Mewar before Chittorgarh got captured.

Chittorgarh was captured on this day.

Up until now it has never been thought that we can go too close to the Sun. In this bytes video find out if we will ever really be able to touch the Sun.

Will we ever really touch the Sun?

In this Bytes video find out why and how was the great wall of China built.

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The science behind Yoga

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Overview of the lesson

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Who is Alexa?

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Our first Prime Minister passed away!

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A tragic train accident happened today.

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What are dwarf planets?

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The history of our National Flag

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The Zamindari System

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The first Indian to join Civil Service

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Poverty - one of the biggest issues in the world.

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