This blog has become a sort of personal-cum-public diary. As for its contents, some are meant for me and my friends and relatives; others are for the public. This blog will have only positive, ennobling, elevating, encouraging and uplifting thoughts/ideas/materials. Whoever visits should feel happy and should be able to pick up some good ideas/thoughts/links. In short, "NOTHING NEGATIVE" is my motto.(Grateful thanks to Jon Sullivan and Public-Domain-Photos.com for the background photo)
Happy New Year 2021
WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY, HEALTHY,
PROSPEROUS AND PURPOSEFUL
NEW YEAR 2020
The
Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the highest railway in the world, crossing the
Tanggula Pass at 5,068 meters (16,627 ft). Book your Lhasa Tibet train journey
from Beijing with Tibet Vista, the largest Tibetan local travel agency
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During
a road trip on my motorcycle in central Europe, I spent a few hours in
Salzburg. In a short period of time, I will guide you to the city center and
give you a good taste of this touristic city.
PROFESSOR
JIM AL-KHALILI traces the story of arguably the most important, accurate and
yet perplexing scientific theory ever: quantum physics.
The
story of quantum physics starts at the beginning of the 20th century with
scientists trying to better understand how light bulbs work. This simple
question soon led scientists deep into the hidden workings of matter, into the
sub-atomic building blocks of the world around us.Here they discovered phenomena unlike any
encountered before - a realm where things can be in many places at once, where
chance and probability call the shots and where reality appears to only truly
exist when we observe it.
Albert
Einstein hated the idea that nature, at its most fundamental level, is governed
by chance. Jim reveals how in the 1930's, Einstein thought he'd found a fatal
flaw in quantum physics. This was not taken seriously until it was tested in
the 1960s. Professor Al-Khalili repeats this critical experiment, posing the
question does reality really exist, or do we conjure it into existence by the
act of observation?
Elsewhere,
we explore how the most famous law of quantum physics – The Uncertainty
Principle – is obeyed by plants and trees as they capture sunlight during the
vital process of photosynthesis. Could quantum mechanics explain the greatest
mystery in biology - evolution?
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Grateful
thanks to SPARK, TVF INTERNATIONAL, PROFESSOR JIM AL-KHALILI and YouTube.
Permaculture
instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani
Foundation’s Water Cup Competition. We tour the village of Garavadi, in
Maharashtra, who competed in the 2019 competition to install the most amount of
water harvesting structures in a 45 day period. Guided by Paani Foundation’s
chief advisor, Dr. Avinash Pol, we visit the work and see the effects of a
watershed-scale groundwater restoration project that has dramatically improved
the lives, economy, ecology and stability of this village, all in 45 days!
This
video, which describes a trip taken in August 2016 to Greenland, differs from
my usual videos in that it was taken on a Russian icebreaker instead of in
Venture. But even an icebreaker has much in common with smaller vessels which
take to the high seas and there are features on Flemings which owe their
origins to features spotted on larger ships.
In
September 1977, NASA launched Voyager I from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The craft
carried a golden record that contained a message to aliens from the people of
Earth. Here's what it said.
You
can now own your own version of the golden record by contributing to a
Kickstarter campaign by Ozma Records.
How
many planets are in the solar system? How did it form in the Milky Way galaxy?
Learn facts about the solar system’s genesis, plus its planets, moons, and
asteroids.
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adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists,
and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the
edge of what's possible.
Grateful
thanks to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and YouTube.
Outlines
forest expert Dr. Akira Miyawaki's disaster prevention plan to create
authentic, self-sustaining tide embankment forests that will survive even
stronger tsunamis and protect lives. Through interviews with Dr. Miyawaki and
simple animations, the video demonstrates the problems with current man-made
forests and shows how truly native trees are the best protection. The video
also shows how many people have been moved to action through clips of dozens of
volunteers planting seedlings, including the Venerable Hioki from Rinnoji
Temple, who shares how he feels the principles of natural vegetation are in
line with Buddhist teachings.
Hioki
Doryu, the 44th Abbot of the Rinnoji Soto Zen Temple, is the Association
Chairman. Deeply moved by Dr. Miyawaki's proposal to build protective forests
from trees native to the area, he and local residents have planted over 33,000
trees from over 50 species around Rinnoji Temple, based on the principles of
potential natural vegetation. Through Planting Tree Man shows, newspaper
columns, and other media outlets, the Venerable Hioki is committed to teaching
everyone, from children to adults, all across the world, about the importance
of forests.
Grateful
thanks to Prof Dr Akira Miyawaki, UNSINKABLEJAPAN and YouTube.
THE
NINE CHILDREN OF QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT.
Since
many of you are commenting on the children not smiling, I thought I would tell
you the reason here. During this era it was custom for people not to smile in
photographs (kind of like how we are not supposed to smile in our passport
photos today). Photography also worked
differently back then. The exposure time was long which meant that the people
had to hold the same expression and sit still for a long period of time. If
they didn't they would turn out blurry in the photo. Two examples of this are
little Beatrice's left arm in the photo shown at 2:45 , and also, if you look
closely to the right of Vicky at 4:41 there is sort of an outline of her which
could indicate that she might have moved a little during the exposure time. So
it's not just the children of Queen Victoria that looked sad, stiff and gloomy
in their pictures. The majority of all the photos taken in the 19th centry will
show people not smiling. Smiling in photos became more common in the early 20th
century.
Because
of this "no-smiling-in-photos-thing" I, personally, find it precious
when they have slipped a little smile. If you're looking closely you can see
some of the children smiling in some of the photos shown in the video (with or
without showing their teeth).
Victoria
"Vicky" 1840 - 1901
Albert
Edward "Bertie" 1841 - 1910
Alice 1843 - 1878
Alfred
"Affie" 1844 - 1900
Helena
"Lenchen" 1846 - 1923
Louise
1848 - 1939
Arthur 1850
- 1942
Leopold 1853 - 1884
Beatrice
"Baby" 1857 - 1944
Grateful
thanks to HOPESWE, THE PHOTOGRAPHERS, TJE COMPOSERS and YouTube.
Fancy
taking a cruise over the holidays? Well, if you're a millionaire, or if you
want to feel like one, here's how to do it in style! Join me as we take a
journey inside the most luxurious and expensive cruise on the planet!
