It all started long long ago.. 40,000 BCE… In the dense forests of africa a group of pre-historic humans are working hard all day long, lifting rocks, moving boulders, breaking and rearranging them, clearing the entrance of a cave, to build a new home for themselves. Humans then used to do all the physical labour themselves. Each one of them

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I wonder what you are? All your light from the world so high Why isn’t it visible in the night sky? Okay, this was my attempt to poetically state the Olber’s paradox Olber looking at the night sky started wondering, and came up with a reasonable paradox of his times that, considering all the light

I am the shark among the fishes, and the Ganges among the rivers – Krishna in Bhagavadgita In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: The Ganges, above all is the river of India, which has held India’s heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. The story of the Ganges, from her

Indian supercomputer Eka (meaning one in sanskrit) built by the Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) of the Tata Group is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world! Great going! The top two fastest ones are from US and the third one is from New Mexico. Then, read a news report which said that MDGRAPE-3, a new super computer from Japan

Whatever is here, is found elsewhere. But what is not here, is nowhere else. – Thus goes a line in the first chapter of Mahabharata In the 21st century, the same could be said about the Internet Internet has become the sum total of the entire knowledge collected by humans all over the known history. Thousands and thousands of new

Disclaimer: Trying to be as non-technical as possible, requires basic physics at the level of quantum mechanics and relativity Scene I Unlike other physicists, Einstein developed almost the complete theory of relativity based on this thought experiments. In other words, he carried out the experiments of his theory in his mind! He set up the required experimental setup, conducted the

Today is the tomorrow that we used to worry about yesterday So folks, stop worrying, for worry is the misuse of imagination. Use your imagination wisely, and think about the shape of time! Shape? Yes, not a physical shape, but an imaginay one. As we are aware, time flows at the rate of one second per second, locally! Why only

How is it possible to see the past via a live telecast? Live means present, right ? How can past be telecasted live? Clue: Light cones. So here we go Wouldnt it be nice if we can watch the actual video of the evolution of our solar system? How were the planets around the sum formed? How were the outer

Never take your life seriously. Nobody gets out of it alive anyway Not only people die, even civilizations die, even planets die, stars die, and so does the universe too! Once I had written an article called How to avoid death , and some cool guy commented on it saying Death can be avoided.. if ppl stop reading ur bullshit

Richard Feynman once said about quantum mechanics If you say that you understand quantum mechanics, and if you are NOT surprised, then you really did not understand quantum mechanics ! The reason being there are so many mysteries and puzzles in the field of quantum mechanics that otherwise would be considered super natural, unscientific, etc by a common man. Feynman

With the successful launch of the India’s multistage GSLV rocket carrying the indigenous communication satellite Insat-4CR on September 2, India has now become capable of launching satellites into Geo Synchronous Orbits with the only other countries in the world with this capability being US, Russia, European Union, China and Japan. India with this launch has now not only lifted its

Brahmaputra + Moscow = Brahmos This is how the name Brahmos was arrived at, using the names of two great rivers of India and Russia, for the world’s fastest cruise missile which travels at a supersonic speed of Mach 2.8!! In fact as of today it is the world’s only supersonic cruise missile! Brahmos is a joint venture between India

We are aware of the search functionality in the internet and on our local desktops We can search for specific information in the internet using search engines like Google.. We can search for specific documents, email messages etc in our local desktop Now what about searching ourselves? Today morning I had forgotten about where I had placed my bike keys..

When I was in the school once I had read that Jupiter just missed from becoming a star! In other words it was a failed star and became a planet! Jupiter as we know is the largest planet in the solar system, about 2.5 times larger than all other planets put together.. If it had been about 75 times more

Its 2050 AD Scenario I India refuses to vote in favor of a resolution brought by America in the UN. The resolution is about carrying out a military action on some country X for allegedly proliferating Nuclear technology. India argues that there is not enough evidence to support the American claims. America gets angry and imposes sanctions on India! The

‘yamātārājabhānasalagam’ Pronounced as yamaataaraajabhaanasalagam and written in sanskrit as यमाताराजभानसलगं This is a word used extensively throughout the ancient Sanskrit grammar works. The greatness of this word lies in the fact that This is the world’s oldest Combinatoric formula This is the world’s oldest known de Bruijn Sequence This is the world’s oldest known ‘Shift Register’ This is one of

Stem cells as we know are those cells in the body that can grow into any other cells as and when required. Unfortunately adult humans have a very limited set of these cells in specific locations like liver and bone marrow. In animals like salamander for instance stem cells grow back an entire limb that has been cut off! The

As we all know, most of the continental land lies in the northern hemisphere of our planet. Northern hemisphere of earth has been undergoing periodic glacial ice ages. In every 100,000 years 90,000 years have been a glacial ice age followed by a intermediate shorter 10,000 years of moderate temperature. The reasons for these repeated ice ages are not known.

Asimov, the well known science fiction writer long ago framed that man will one day be able to build robots which are as intelligent as or much more intelligent than humans. He also foresaw the need to maintain the superiority of the humans amongst the robots and to make sure that the robots never take over the humans with their

Never allow your mind to get prejudiced about an idea or a thought. The key to really understand things is to have an open mind. If what you have been believeing ever since your birth is found to be false, enquire into it with an open mind and if all evidences point towards it being false, immediately give up your