THE HOME OF FANTASY!

 Letter from The God!  Many years ago a farmer named Ravid lived in a small village of Sylhet. He used to work in other people’s lands. Because he hadn't got any ground of his own. He toiled hard for earning livelihood. His children weren't allowed to play outside in the fields. Mostly he was cheated by landholders and the affluent people of whom he worked for. Ravid was very distressed about all these.       One day like a marvel, he found a land at a cheap price. It had a rate of 80,000 taka. He wanted to buy that ground. But he had savings of only 60,000 taka. So, he needed more money. He requested his friends and relatives for lending him some money. But every time he had to hear, “You’re nothing but a poor peasant. How will you return it?’’ And the land owner even didn’t agree to decrease the charge.      But Ravid had a master plan. He knew that who wouldn’t refuse him. He decided that he would ask God for money! He...

 A clever experiment reveals how fake traffic noise drives songbirds out of forests and harms the ones that stay behind. In the autumns of 2012 and 2013, any hikers walking along a particular ridge in Idaho’s Lucky Peak would have become very confused. One minute they’d be enjoying the tranquil chirps and rustles of a temperate woodland. The next, they’d be immersed in the unnervingly realistic sounds of a roadway: metal rushing past at speed, tires rolling over asphalt, honking horns. The nearest road, however, was several miles away. These noises were coming from 15 pairs of large bullhorn speakers that had been lashed to the trees. The hikers were walking along a phantom road. This half-mile corridor of disembodied sound, this road in noise only, was the work of Jesse Barber and a team of scientists and volunteers from Boise State University. Their goal was to answer a simple question: How does the bustle of traffic affect the presence and health of birds? ...