Here comes the sun watcher,
India’s Aditya-L1
Shubashree Desikan
Made in India probe prepares
to study solar phenomena
Sometime in 2019 or 2020 India
will send ISRO’s solar mission Aditya-L1 to a vantage point in space, known as
the L1 Lagrange point, to do imaging and study of the sun. This launch will
happen in the early part of the next solar cycle - an occurrence in which
sunspots form on the face of the sun, growing in size and number and eventually
diminishing, all over a period of eleven years. It will be a mission of many
firsts.
For the full article:
Grateful thanks to The Hindu.
663
million people don’t have access to safe drinkable water - that’s 1 in every 9
people.
Courtesy: Plan International
Grateful thanks to Plan International.
Shampooing is an Indian
concept
Shampoo was invented in India,
not the commercial liquid ones but the method by use of herbs. The word
'shampoo' itself has been derived from the Sanskrit word champu, which means to
massage.
Time
is free,
But
it is priceless.
You
can’t own it,
But
you can use it.
You
can’t keep it,
But
you can spend it.
Once
you have lost it,
You
can never get it back.
Courtesy: Brightside
You
don’t always need a logical reason for doing everything in your life. Do it
because you want to, because it is fun, because it makes your happy.
Courtesy: Quantum World: Awaken Your
Mind
HowStuffWorks
One of the most amazing websites explaining how everything works
along with videos and illustrations. Useful especially for kids of all ages
Ancient
Technique That Could Stimulate Your Superhuman Powers And Boost Your Health
This
ancient technique does wonders for the human body, and it is not a myth.
Looking
directly into the Sun, or Sungazing was a very common part of many religious
and spiritual practices in the past.
Many
past societies, among which the ancient Egyptians, Mayans, Indians believed in
the power of the Sun. They strongly believed that the Sun and health are
interrelated and that the Sun has the ability to heal many diseases, to fill
you with energy and make your hunger disappear. They even believed that it enables
people to develop telepathic abilities.
This
sounds like extreme science fiction, but the most spiritually advanced actually
possess these abilities as they practiced them.
As
already mentioned, this is a practice that involves looking at the sun at sunrise
or sunset. At first sungazers look directly at the sun for 10 seconds, and
every day, 10 seconds are added in this practice.
Sungazers
are supposed to stand barefoot on the earth during this practice and although
many consider it a myth, it have been acknowledged and recommended as
beneficial practice by the scientists.
More...
Grateful
thanks to Facts You Did Not Know.com and YouTube.
Charles de Gaulle was known for his regal bearing and fastidious nature, so much so that his imperiousness became a kind of running joke for the citizens of France.
A popular gag imagined de Gaulle’s wife, Yvonne, returning from shopping and exclaiming, “God, I am tired.”
Her husband is purported to have replied, “I have often told you, my dear, it was sufficient in private if you addressed me as ‘Monsieur le President.’”
A is the father of B. But B is not the son of A. How’s that possible?
B is the daughter of A.
Teen's sore eyes refuse to
heal, docs find it's drug-resistant TB
TNN | Updated: Sep 24, 2017,
05:36 IST
MUMBAI: When Nerul teenager
Rani's (name changed) `sore eyes' didn't heal for over 15 days, little did her
parents imagine that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) could be the
cause. Rani didn't have any of the symptoms associated with TB--coughing,
breathlessness or loss of weight--except for some dark red lesions in both her
eyes, said her parents.
...
TB has re-emerged as one of
the biggest public health challenges in India, claiming 3 lakh lives every year
or one life every two minutes. Mumbai is referred to as the epicentre of the
deadly drug-resistant TB in which patients show resistance to two or more known
anti-TB drugs; treatment involves newer antibiotics that are expensive.
For the full article:
Grateful thanks to The Times of India
Bandra Worli Sealink has steel
wires equal to the earth's circumference
It took a total of 2,57,00,000
man hours for completion and also weighs as much as 50,000 African elephants. A
true engineering and architectural marvel.
The wettest inhabited place in
the world
Mawsynram, a village on the
Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the
world. Cherrapunji, also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most
rainfall in the calendar year of 1861.
I always feel happy.
You know why?
Because I don’t expect
Anything from anyone.
Expectations always hurt.
Life is short.
So love your life.
Be happy.
And keep smiling.
That is life.
Courtesy: This and That
Worry is a total waste of
time. It does not change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keeps you
very busy doing nothing.
Courtesy: Jampoopsie.com
A Wise Lesson In Empathy
A wise lesson in Empathy: With billions of us humans on earth it's incredible to see how we are all connected and similar in many ways. At the same time we are all individuals with our own opinions, thoughts and values. At times, we can feel so strongly about something that it could blind us from seeing the bigger picture or taking into account that there's more than one way to approach the situation. Perhaps if we took a moment to step into the other person's shoes we will see where that person is coming from and by doing so it will make all the difference.
Grateful thanks to Meir Kay and
YouTube.
New Survey Report: Divorce Rate down
in India
Divorce rate in India is reduced to
almost half.
Reason: Husband and wife busy on
WhatsApp.
Not getting enough time for fighting.
Posted as received in WhatsApp.
The Butterfly Effect is a concept invented by the the American meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008) to highlight the possibility that small causes may have momentous effects. Initially enunciated in connection with the problematics of weather prediction it became eventually a metaphor used in very diverse contexts, many of them outside the strict realm of science.
For more detailed information:
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Butterfly_effect
Grateful thanks to Scholarpedia.
Eyecatchers
Here comes the sun watcher,
India’s Aditya-L1
Shubashree Desikan
Made in India probe prepares
to study solar phenomena
Sometime in 2019 or 2020 India
will send ISRO’s solar mission Aditya-L1 to a vantage point in space, known as
the L1 Lagrange point, to do imaging and study of the sun. This launch will
happen in the early part of the next solar cycle - an occurrence in which
sunspots form on the face of the sun, growing in size and number and eventually
diminishing, all over a period of eleven years. It will be a mission of many
firsts.
For the interesting full article:
The
mathematics that makes Wi-Fi possible was developed by a team of physicists
looking for tiny black holes.
World's 5 largest
car companies are procuring their spare parts from India. In 2002, the export
was Rs.1700 crores and it quadrupled in 2003 to Rs.7000 crores. In the next 5 years this will cross Rs.70,000
crores.
