~ 3 min read. Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, is a technique for measuring brain activity. It works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity â when a brain area is more active it consumes more oxygen and to meet this increased demand blood flow increases to the active area.
The first documented appearance of a kazoo was that created by an American inventor, Warren Herbert Frost, who named his new musical instrument kazoo in his patent #270,543 issued on January 9, 1883. The patent states, This instrument or toy, to which I propose to give the name 'kazoo' ....Frost's kazoo did not look like present-day submarine-shaped kazoos. The modern kazooâalso the first one made of metalâwas patented by George D. Smith of Buffalo, New York, May 27, 1902.he kazoo is used regularly on the radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and kazoos are given to all audience members on show tours. The video game Yoshi's New Island, released in 2014, has synthesized kazoos in several tracks of its soundtrack.
The First Sweets - Who Invented First Candy. Cave man made candy out of honey by drying it and forming a taffy-like concoction to satisfy their sweet tooth. It is believed that Indians were the first to use the sweet juice of sugarcane about 3000 years ago and that they were the first to make brown sugar. Candy can be traced back as far as 2000BC to the ancient Egypt and it could be said that Egyptians were the first people who made candy. In ancient Egypt candy was used in ceremonies for worshiping their gods and goddesses. The Egyptians used honey to make candy by adding figs, nuts, dates and spices.