Saturday, 14 March 2015

The Mysterious Dwarf Planet Ceres

“The successful launch of Mission Mars has enhanced the interest of common people in space mysteries. There are many unsolved, unknown stories asteroids in the space. I have gone through many such true findings using NASA and other sources. The present story covers presence of a new asteroid near...

The next “play” of technology

Technology. What is it? I like one of the definitions that Alan Kay has for technology. He says “Technology is anything that was invented after you were born”. Yeah, give it a thought. Sounds just about right. Also it sums up a lot of what we're talking about these days. Danny Hillis actually has...

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Smart healthcare

A long time ago, a revolution took place in the field of healthcare. Human anatomy was recognized as a science, and doctors operating on people were started to be held in high esteem. Healthy living habits were generated and spread through the masses, but unfortunately were never fully realized. Living in India, we know that even though our country is one of the leading nations in healthcare research,...

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Build Green

“Anybody can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.” Charles F. Lummis, United States journalist and Indian rights and historic preservation activist. But then again, our ancestors, blinded by the glare of industrialization and modernization,...

Green Energy

Google co-founder Larry Page is fond of saying, that if you choose a harder problem to tackle, you’ll have less competition. This philosophy has taken a plentitude of their conceptions to the moon: a translation engine that knows 80 languages, the world’s greatest search engine, self-driving cars,...

Sunday, 1 March 2015

On an epic journey of Science: Interstellar 2

In the last part, we got to know about the astounding science behind the wormhole. But that’s not all, Interstellar’s greatest spectacle is its blackhole and the accretion disk surrounding it. A major plot point of the movie is the time dilation effect experienced near the blackhole. Kip Thorne,...

Sunday, 22 February 2015

Why we need self driving cars

After being enlightened about Google’s new self-driving electric car, I spent my whole afternoon cheating on FIFA whilst reading about this god-sent technology. Instead of a steering wheel and pedals this battery-powered electric vehicle has...