Throughout ages women in India have faced gruesome atrocities. One side of history shows the faith among the Indians about “Shakti” or the “Women Power” to be the strongest energy. The other side of history is colored in black, grey shades of dowry, child marriage, sati and other related mal practices. Hinduism defines woman to […]
Obama’s Weekly YouTube Address: We Must Lead in Science
To the relief of many in the scientific and research community, President-Elect Barack Obama today stated his commitment to re-establishing the United States as a leader in science and technology. He also announced members of his science and technology team. He emphasized the importance of research into global climate change, medicine and 21st century technological […]
Look forward…..what are we gaining…loosing…?
Gurudev Tagore had rightly said, “It is easy to train an army of violence; even a year’s drill may be good enough for that. But it takes a lot more time to train and prepare men to attain enough maturity and strength for a non-violent struggle.” While Mahatma Gandhi had opined “The world will live […]
On Threespine Sticklebacks and Other Reversals
The threespine stickleback, a tiny freshwater fish native to Lake Washington, has gone retro. In what researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are labeling a case of “reverse evolution,” the species has reinstated a bony plated armor it once utilized to survive attacks from predators – and it has accomplished this reversal in an […]
What is a Dissolved Oxygen Meter
Antoine Lavoisier coined the term ‘Oxygen’ in 1777. He coined the word using the Greek words ‘oxys’ meaning acid and ‘genes’ meaning ‘producer’ as he thought that oxygen was a part of all acids. While, today we know that this is not true, what we do know is that all living organisms need oxygen to […]
Carbon Offsetting
<div> </div> <p> </p> <div> </div> <p> </p> <p>“Be a hero! Save the world from global warming!” reads a Google ad on a webpage about carbon offsetting. As much as we might all like to think of it that simply, the reality is it’s just a little more complex. Carbon offsetting is basically the process of reducing the net […]
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