Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
Did you know?
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
Did you know?
Not getting enough sleep can greatly weaken the immune system. Lack of sleep makes you more likely to catch a cold, or more difficult to fight off an infection.
Did you know?
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Did you know?
As the western states of America were settled, pioneers often had to drink rancid water from ponds and other sources. This often resulted in chronic diarrhea, causing many cases of dehydration and death that could have been avoided if clean water had been available.
Electron Shells Determine the Reactivity of Atoms.
Using Parallax to Determine Distance
Knoop’s experiments to determine the b-oxidation of fatty acids
How to determine if a table of values represents a linear or quadratic relationship