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I visited IIT madras during their Open House 2008 and saw a whole new world. I got to touch an army tank, photograph the Renault F1, heard about wind energy generation, rocket launching, saw how tidal waves are simulated and how a power steering works. I got to travel in the GPS enabled IIT bus and was also lucky to see a black buck. The students of the CS department fascinated me and my brother with their Robots. They taught us how to make Robots from broken toys and cars. I bought a T-shirt, designed by the CS students, as more…  more »

From this Einstein proved that space and time are two aspects of the same thing and that matter and energy are also two aspects of the same thing. From the second of these concepts we get the most famous equation in physics E = mc2 Now since time and space are aspects of space-time and we wish to travel through time and not build atom bombs we will leave E=mc^2 for the moment. To illustrate this, look at the extension of Pythagorean theorem for the distance, d, between two points in space: d2 = x2 + y2 + z2 more…  more »

Modern critics suggest that Scientists should take moral responsibility for their own advances in science. This corresponds with a perceived inability for moral values to keep pace with scientific progress, cloning being a prime example. For discussion: 1) At what point is a scientist responsible for his discoveries. In theory the first major step towards the nuclear bomb was Rutherford’s nuclear theory, is he responsible for the ensuing arms race? in a science based on incremental steps, who, if anyone is responsible for scientific progress. 2)  more...

The most intelligent story I have heard so far is as follows. An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation. Dear Son, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I’m just getting too old to be digging more…  more »

No time to hit the gym? Try at least to revamp your diet and lifestyle which can improve your fitness levels. When you do that over sustained period, say two years, even people with heart disease have recorded a 0.03-mm drop in valve block. A 5-foot-10-inch man can reduce such a block by 0.03mm a year by losing 7 pounds of body fat. If you smoke five cigarettes a day, stop that and you will reduce the same amount of block.  more »