By faiqg on April 30, 2009
On a camping trip, the campers wake up before sunrise to cleanse their digestive system. This involves digging a hole, posting your stuff and putting soil back, thus, making the bio-degradable stuff degrade while neither attracting microbe-carrying-flies nor emitting stench. But what if there is not enough unused, un-dug ground left as the camping spot [...]
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By Nihit on April 21, 2009
I got off the bus, and looked at my watch. It was half past five in the morning. What an achievement it was, to be awake at that hour! The foremost thought on my mind was to find a way of going back to Bangalore. I walked over to the Ticket Counter at the Pondicherry Bus [...]
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By devadutta on April 13, 2009
If you ever walk down a busy street in the US, you will invariably find coins lying around. People generally do not pick them up. If you go into an average house in the US, you will find a “coin jar” where all the coins got from occasional cash transactions are stored. A cent or [...]
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By Nihit on April 8, 2009
Touch-screen technology will now be available to the visually challenged thanks to an invention by Jussi Rantala of the University of Tampere in Finland and her colleagues. They have created have created a vibrating touch screen phone that can simulate Braille.
This was done by using a cellphone which has a piezoelectric material built into the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Blind, Finland, Phone, Science & Technology, Touch-screen |
By devadutta on April 6, 2009
Many people (including me) firmly believe that rural education is the key to India’s success in the coming years. But unfortunately, UNESCO puts India’s adult literacy rate at a dismal 61%. Numerous organizations are working tirelessly to fill this void. OSAAT is one of them.
OSAAT – “One school at a time” is a California based [...]
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By Nihit on April 4, 2009
The Boxing Day Tsunami, which killed over two hundred thousand people, prompted a research team, led by Newcastle University Mathematics professor Robin Johnson, to devise a formula that can forecast the occurrence and the magnitude of a tsunami.
“What we found was that the number and height of the tsunami waves hitting the shoreline depends critically on the [...]
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By faiqg on April 1, 2009
It doesn’t rain enough anywhere anymore. Every year I read stories about how it hasn’t rained enough this year. Looks like Bangalore’s natural air conditioners have gone dry. The clouds have forgotten the route may be. When I was living in the Malwa plateau, where water woes have been even before I understood what water [...]
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