Sciences

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Sciences

Moral Ethics and the Quantum Mind

The real utility of Moral ethics is for the times when one faces choices that are repugnant. In normal times, there is not much morality to exercise. Western moral constructs need crutches of theories and pre-determined ideas to make decisions when situations are not straight-forward. Morality, therefore, depends on edicts

Desh Kapoor

04 Jun 20 5 min read

Sciences

IIT researchers find an eco-friendly way to degrade plastics

Plastics are messing up the planet. Our seas, oceans, rivers, soil, animals – everyone is being harmed and killed slowly. Why? Because this substance does not degrade at all! Plastics are messing up the planet. Now, an IIT-Madras team has created a way to degrade the plastic in an eco-friendly way.

Desh Kapoor

16 Sep 19 3 min read

Health & Medicine

Opioid use disorder – Crisis, Addiction and Impact on the Brain

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is now a national crisis in the US. Actually, the way it is growing and the almost natural progression the process has from medical dependence to non-medical addiction, it is taking on the shape of an epidemic! Luckily, it is becoming easier for those suffering from

Desh Kapoor

12 Sep 19 6 min read

India

Why the lout, Pallava Bagla is the real face of Indian Press!

IN the aftermath of the broken communication with Vikram, the lander from Chandrayaan-2, one of the scientists, Deviprasad Karnik (Director of Public Relations) came out to inform everyone of the situation. Despite his sham apology and the closing of ranks by the other NDTV journalists, @pallavabagla is a lout and

Desh Kapoor

07 Sep 19 4 min read

Sciences

Bacteria may be transmitted over thousands of miles by air!

How do bacteria get transmitted? This is an important question for handling large ecological and epidemiological situations around the world. A team has found out that bacteria may be able to travel thousands of miles by air – across oceans even. A new study shows that bacteria at high temperature may

Desh Kapoor

27 Mar 19 2 min read

Sciences

Physicists Use Quantum Computer to Reverse Time

Time travel or going into past or future has been the dream of many. Russian and American scientists may have been able to do what was only in the realm of fiction. > Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and

Desh Kapoor

14 Mar 19 1 min read

India

Mission Mars: Short Thriller about India’s Mangalayaan (Video)

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan will go down in the history of space journeys as the most daring, innovative and mind-boggling undertaking. After Roscosmos [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos], NASA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA], and the European Space Agency [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Desh Kapoor

12 Jan 19 2 min read

India

Amazing Feat: India’s First Railway Station Inside a Tunnel will be in Keylong, Himachal

In 1989 I had gone to Keylong for a trek. We reached Manali, walked upto Rohtang and then descended on the other side to Keylong via Koksar. It was a memorable trip for me. Mobility in this highly sensitive and security wise critical region was very tough. India’s First

Desh Kapoor

18 Oct 18 2 min read

Daily Bytes

ISRO Opens Its first Space Tech Incubation Center for Startups

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) which has been doing some amazing work – from multiple satellites in space [https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/14/14601938/india-pslv-rocket-launch-satellites-planet-doves] to Mangalayan [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29341850] (Mars mission) to preparing for the Moon mission; is now opening up a Space Tech

Desh Kapoor

25 Sep 18 1 min read

Creative

50+ Absolutely Stunning Photos of the Milky Way Galaxy in the Sky

Spanning some 120,000–180,000 light-years in diameter, the Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. Our planet and the Solar system are on the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, which is roughly 27,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. During clear nights we can see a

Desh Kapoor

02 Feb 17 4 min read

Sciences

What the Heck is Our Universe Expanding Into?!

Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.332887,-76.622987&spn=0.01,0.01&q=39.332887,-76.622987 (Space%20Telescope%20Science%20Institute)&t=h] and Johns Hopkins University explained this year that our Universe was expanding at a

Desh Kapoor

03 Dec 16 5 min read

Health & Medicine

The New Chinese-American War of Designer Humans

Advances in science spark competition between powers that are rivals. At least that is how the community sees it broadly. Oncologist Lu You and his team at the Sichuan University in Chengdu introduced gene edited cells on October 28, 2016 into a patient from West China Hospital with aggressive lung

Desh Kapoor

17 Nov 16 3 min read

Geo-Political

Why India Desperately Needed its own GPS like Navigation System

The Indian space flight workhorse PSLV-C33 shot off on its 35th flight to launch India’s 7th navigational satellite – a 1425 kg IRNSS-1G satellite, part of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). The launch was into a sub geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigree (nearest point to earth) of

Desh Kapoor

29 Apr 16 3 min read

Sciences

Total Solar Eclipse 2016: How to Watch Online and Spiritual Significance

Total Solar Eclipse is occuring right now. It is visible in Asia for most part. It will go across 12 of 34 Indonesian provinces. It was first visible from Sumatra before being seen across Kalimantan and the islands of Sulawesi and northern Maluku. It will be total in Indonesia and

Desh Kapoor

08 Mar 16 3 min read

Business

Are CEOs and Entrepreneurs psychopaths? Multiple studies say “Yes”

Either it is the sign of our times, where success is almost akin to mental sickness, or our generation has a rather unfair share of mentally sick individuals. Because some of the findings on the world of business seem rather strange. A news research study by Australian School of Business

Desh Kapoor

02 Oct 13 3 min read

Hinduism

Near Death Experiences, Soul, Reincarnation, Consciousness and Quantum: Interesting Scientific work and new horizons

Near Death Experiences are a window. Why? Because reincarnation and after death has baffled many. Abrahamics have vehemently denied it for long, while Eastern Mystic traditions have woven it in their entire Spiritual tapestry. Now, as more and more scientific research into this topic of Near Death and subject comes

Desh Kapoor

26 Sep 13 8 min read

Sciences

How does it feel to be shot by a gun?

There are many crazy men and many interestingly crazy things that people do, but what this young man did to check out how it feels to be shot by a gun is the most amazing! Check it out. Read Mircea Goia [https://www.quora.com/Mircea-Goia]'s answer [https://www.

Desh Kapoor

19 Apr 13 1 min read

Sciences

Living Unplugged from the Digital Grid and Social World

World has grown exponentially for most of us. Today a person sitting in a remote village of Philippines for example can be in touch with someone from New York. And the digital technology is deeply embedded into our lives. Can we disentangle ourselves from it? Here is the story of

Desh Kapoor

19 Apr 13 2 min read

Sciences

Reason why Men struggle to understand Women Moods: Our Brain Systems dont work

Researchers at LWL-University Hospital in Bochum, Germany took 22 male volunteers – all single and all between the ages of 21 and 52 – to do an interesting study. They were asked to view photographs showing just the eyes of a person, while undergoing an MRI scan. Each photograph showed an emotion

Desh Kapoor

17 Apr 13 2 min read

Sciences

Now Print a 3D Skeleton: Cheaper models for Biology Students

Full scale Skeletons and other parts are very expensive for students. Now, a new technique, which is still in its infancy, promises to provide cheaper alternative easily. > “At Notre Dame, there are 100 kids in anatomy class and they have to share five skulls,” Matthew Leevy, the head of the

Desh Kapoor

16 Apr 13 2 min read

Religion

Sex and the Arab World: Intimate Life in the changing Arab World

With the new developments in the Arab world – the Arab spring and the new Islamization of the politics – how are the sexual mores and pressures bearing upon the women? Not well, avers Shereen El Feki, the author of the book – “Sex and the Citadel [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/

Desh Kapoor

16 Apr 13 2 min read

Sciences

Study says think again – 15 minutes fame can actually last decades

Does fame lacking any basis in accomplishments last only 15 minutes? Well, a new study now says no. It does last many years. Sometimes decades. Even in the world of entertainment, where fame is fleeting and transient. > Researchers studied the names mentioned in approximately 2,200 US daily newspapers, weeklies,

Desh Kapoor

01 Apr 13 1 min read

Sciences

Science of Winning and Losing: People are wired differently; an interesting discussion

People differ in how they approach competition. Men and women are different as well in their approaches. When the stakes are high, when it’s all on the line, some people rise to the occasion. They savor the challenge. The thrill of competition. They want, badly, to win. While others

Desh Kapoor

18 Mar 13 3 min read

Sciences

Orphaned Tiger makes friends with goat kept in his cage as food!!

A Bengal tiger cub was rescued in 2009 from the Dhaba forest range in India. He had been left orphaned after the disappearance of its mother. The cub named Bhangaram, was then raised by the keepers of Bor Wildlife Sanctuary. Orphaned Tiger makes friends with goat kept in his cage

Desh Kapoor

11 Mar 13 2 min read

Sciences

Russian Satellite rendered useless after Chinese Space Debris hit it; Who will clean the Space Debris?

With so much satellite debris out there in the space, it is becoming a nuisance and this threat will keep growing! Now, the Chinese satellite debris has made Russian satellite unusable after its debris collided with the Russian satellite. > A piece of space debris left over from a 2007 Chinese

Desh Kapoor

11 Mar 13 2 min read

Sciences

Why do people say “Nope” when “No” is shorter?

A very interesting question and a great / interesting answer! Read Quote of Marc Ettlinger’s answer to English (language): Why do people use “Nope” even though “No” is easier to say and shorter to spell? [http://www.quora.com/English-language/Why-do-people-use-Nope-even-though-No-is-easier-to-say-and-shorter-to-spell/answer/Marc-Ettlinger/quote/336156] on Quora [http://www.quora.

Desh Kapoor

09 Mar 13 1 min read

Sciences

Relationship Games and Hidden Dark Characters: Why Jodie Arias’ trial disturbs me

There was a time some years back – in my own lifetime – that people were quite simple. Many people in some places, still are. No, I am not talking about being “Good”. Simplicity is living life with very limited mental distortion. A murder case trial going on in the US has

Desh Kapoor

07 Mar 13 4 min read

Sciences

Anandi Gopal Joshi: First Indian Lady to have become a US trained Doctor in late 19th century!

These two women are incredible, but I love the story of Anandi Gopal Joshi, a lady of meager means, married at 9, who went on to become the first Doctor from India to have been educated in US. Read Quote of Akshar Prabhu Desai’s answer to India: Who is

Desh Kapoor

27 Feb 13 1 min read

Sciences

Did you know: Can you cry in space?

Do you wonder about this? I was intrigued surely. Read Quote of Robert Frost’s answer to Can you cry in space? [http://www.quora.com/Can-you-cry-in-space/answer/Robert-Frost-1/quote/313829] on Quora [http://www.quora.com] [http://www.zemanta.com/?px]

Desh Kapoor

25 Feb 13 1 min read

Sciences

How your body language shapes who you are

Just as one’s mental state impacts the body postures, it is now being clearly pointed that even body postures can impact the body chemistry itself. But isn’t that what Yoga says but in a more detailed and sophisticated manner? It not just looks at the posture but also

Desh Kapoor

24 Feb 13 1 min read

Sciences

A peek into the mind of a serial killer

When one sees the news stories of serial killers, one is stuck what kind of a person could do such crimes? Here is a discussion by one person who spent time with one of the most dangerous serial killers in the history – Orville Lynn Majors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Desh Kapoor

18 Feb 13 1 min read

Sciences

Taking a rest leads to better Decision Making!

Remember those math problems, where when we couldn’t get the answer, we would go for a walk and come back… and immediately “get it”?! Well, it has scientific basis. A recent study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience [http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/11/scan.

Desh Kapoor

14 Feb 13 1 min read

Sciences

Type of praise predicts children’s attitude to handle challenges

In an interesting study on Parenting, researchers say the way modern parents praise their kids at the slightest chance may be harming them overall. It may be better to applaud their efforts and not them as individuals. > Parents who want to encourage their little ones to take the right attitude

Desh Kapoor

13 Feb 13 1 min read

Sciences

What would happen if Oxygen disappeared from the Earth and its atmosphere? (Interesting implications)

Many hypothetical questions bring out interesting implications. This is one question and answer that really intrigued me. I believe we take many things for granted. This list brings out those things: Read Quote of Andrew Cote’s answer to Hypothetical Questions: What would happen if oxygen were to disappear worldwide

Desh Kapoor

13 Feb 13 1 min read

Environment

Chito and Pocho: How a Costa Rican man has a Crocodile as his best friend

Amazing story of love and friendship across species. Deep in the Costa Rican jungle, a fisherman named Chito discovered a crocodile that had been shot in the eye by a cattle farmer and left for dead. Chito was able to drag the massive reptile into his boat and brought him

Desh Kapoor

10 Feb 13 2 min read

India

Mars, Saturn and Star shine over Gurudwara Bangla Sahib in India

A very beautiful picture of Mars, Saturn and the star Spica shining brightly over Gurudwara Bangla Sahib. > Astrophotographer Ajay Talwar [http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photographers_about.asp?photographer=Ajay%20Talwar] of the space photography group The World at Night [http://www.twanight.org/] took this photo in August 2012

Desh Kapoor

01 Feb 13 1 min read

Sciences

Scientists use man-made DNA speck to store digital data!

Scientists have now created a synthetic DNA and used it to store 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a photo, a PDF of a scientific paper, and a 26-second sound clip from US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I Have a Dream” speech on it. The speck of hardly even

Desh Kapoor

27 Jan 13 2 min read

Sciences

How should one handle Sexuality?

People think so much about Sex and the opposite gender, so how to deal with it; asks a seeker. Sadhguru discusses what sexual urges are and how they impact your well being or otherwise.

Desh Kapoor

19 Jan 13 1 min read

Health & Medicine

Universe is like a Giant Brain

A news study says that Universe is a giant brain. > According to a study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain – with the electrical firing between brain cells ‘mirrored’ by the shape of expanding galaxies. > The results of

Desh Kapoor

18 Jan 13 2 min read

India

Gandhi ALSO blamed Women for getting Raped; Do Misogyny and Obsession with Sexual Purity go Hand-in-Hand?

Mahatama Gandhi was, after all, the “Father of the Nation”. What’s wrong if the sons take after their father? A lot has been said about Rape and the Indian culture. Even Hinduism has been invoked to show linkages to the rape epidemic currently in place in India. But are

Desh Kapoor

16 Jan 13 3 min read

Sciences

Does Social Media Encourage Violent Teen Behavior?

Just as India is reeling in the aftermath of the mindless Gangrape of the Delhi Braveheart; US is too going through a similar heart-burn and contemplation of its own societal situation after the Steubenville gang rape incident. This is some of the information on the rape case. (Also read Lessons

Desh Kapoor

16 Jan 13 2 min read

Sciences

Why are UFOs haunting the International Space Station – sightings on the rise?

Are UFOs haunting the International Space Station (ISS)? If the UFO enthusiasts are to be believed, it seems that ISS has seen an increasing activities of the UFO flying around. > Videos have cropped up on YouTube showing images taken by NASA cameras of objects of different shapes, some moving very

Desh Kapoor

15 Jan 13 2 min read

Sciences

Judgments are mostly visual, no thought is even involved

When they say “Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder”, apparently they were dot on! Judgments – causal ones – are indeed made only in the eyes. Judgment, say about beauty, wouldn’t even involve the mind! So, do we even think while making a judgment about someone? This is not

Desh Kapoor

13 Jan 13 3 min read

Health & Medicine

“Medical Chest” from 2000 year old Roman Ship wreck shows an Eye Medicine

What happens when you find an over 2000 year old ship wreck under sea and rummage through its contents. Specially when you get access to the “Medical Chest” of that crew. Well, that is what the researchers got hold of from a Roman shipping vessel, Relitto del Pozzinosank that sank

Desh Kapoor

08 Jan 13 1 min read

Sciences

Meteor Stone bought from Morocco is from Mars; has evidence of water in Martian crust

Jay Piatek – a meteorite enthusiast – was in Morocco and he found a stone that was supposed to have been from a meteorite. He bought the – weighing less than a pound – stone and sent it to the researchers in University of New Mexico to analyze it. Their analysis came up with

Desh Kapoor

08 Jan 13 2 min read

Philosophy

The Future of Humanity: a dialog between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm

Here is an amazing discussion between Jiddu Krishnamurti, arguably one of the Greatest philosophers of the 20th century and David Bohm, the Nobel Laureate in Physics. The dialog is on “Future of Humanity”. Related articles from External Sources From an interview with David Bohm [http://jaredhallstrom.wordpress.com/2012/11/

Desh Kapoor

07 Jan 13 1 min read

Achievement and Leadership

Ancient India’s Engineering Skills shown in detail through Experiments

Here is a very interesting videos with details on the Ancient Scientific discoveries and achievements of India. The Engineering skills that Indian scientific discoveries manifested have been unraveled here in this documentary through experiments now. Image Credit: legends2k [http://www.flickr.com/photos/legends2k/]

Desh Kapoor

07 Jan 13 1 min read

Sciences

Babies start learning their Mother’s language while in her womb

In a very interesting study, the scientists have found that the babies can differentiate sounds between their native language and a foreign one right from birth. Their study suggests that they are hooking on to their mother tongue right in the womb itself. > Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are

Desh Kapoor

04 Jan 13 2 min read

Achievement and Leadership

Ramanujan’s formula proved correct, may help explain Black Holes

Ramanujan had made a conjecture on his death bed in a letter to Hardy discussing mock modular forms. > Ramanujan’s letter described several new functions that behaved differently from known theta functions, or modular forms, and yet closely mimicked them. Functions are equations that can be drawn as graphs on

Desh Kapoor

29 Dec 12 2 min read

Nature

One-celled “Slime” Organism which build networks as efficient as ones built by best human engineers!

We think we are the greatest thing on this planet. Which translates into most intelligent and most able. Actually, we humans may be the most aggressive and our intelligence for most part have been used for survival purposes.. even today! Here is a story of a ONE-CELLED organism, that is

Desh Kapoor

24 Dec 12 1 min read

Africa

Gravity Light: LED lamp powered by sand or rocks for the poor villages of Africa

Gravity Light: A generator powered by weight of gravity, which has been built for the developing and poor countries. It does not use any battery nor any expensive stuff. It would cost the people $5 to buy and there is no running cost. It comes with a durable bag, which

Desh Kapoor

22 Dec 12 1 min read

Creative

NASA’s Johnson Style outreach Gangnam parody

NASA Johnson Style is a volunteer outreach video project created by the students [http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/jsc_gangnam_style.html] of NASA [http://www.nasa.gov/]‘s Johnson Space Center [http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home].

Desh Kapoor

20 Dec 12 1 min read

Sciences

Now a Free Java App to get Time on Mars

NASA scientists have a need to monitor the time on Mars in order to manage Opportunity and Curiosity which are roaming on Mars right now. So, how does it do that? Well it has now created a Java App (link [http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/]), which gives the

Desh Kapoor

20 Dec 12 3 min read

Business

Women can close the Salary Gap if they don’t compete with men

The salary inequality between men and women is well known in the corporate world today. And there has been a lot of effort to reduce that gap, but it hasn’t really come down. Now, one research suggests that only when women work in sectors different from men, they are

Desh Kapoor

19 Dec 12 1 min read

Sciences

Are we characters of a virtual game being played on a “Master Computer”?

In a rather bizarre theoretical framework, some scientists are trying to ascertain if we are some kind of computer simulation characters being driven around by a computer game being played on a very large “Master Computer” by “someone”? > Scientists are conducting experiments to discover whether the universe exists within a

Desh Kapoor

16 Dec 12 2 min read

Relationships

Adam Lanza is a product of a society full of Emotional Prostitutes.

This is a very sensitive and a very brave account written by a mother with a 13 year old son (I am Adam Lanza’s mother [http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&key=32baf9faf91103bc2a7aa19ce37d8c0d&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F12%2F16%2Fi-am-adam-lanzas-mother-mental-illness-conversation_n_2311009.html%

Desh Kapoor

16 Dec 12 6 min read

Sciences

Now your Smartphone can become a High Resolution XRay machine!

This is absolutely amazing! If this new technology of microchip could be incorporated in a smart phone, then it could become a high resolution X-ray machine! > …thanks to tiny inexpensive silicon microchips developed by a pair of electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The chips generate and

Desh Kapoor

12 Dec 12 3 min read

Motivation and Personal Development

Curse of money when centrality of Life loses out to it

We recently saw the headlines in India that have focused on the dramatic demise of two ultra rich brothers, Ponty and Hardeep Chadha, who made a fortune from their liquor and real estate businesses. In a moment of anger, both the brothers died in a matter of few minutes. The

Desh Kapoor

12 Dec 12 3 min read

Environment

Even Chimps and Orangutans go through Mid-life crisis!

We all go through mid-life crisis everywhere. Sometimes, this issue takes a deadly form and could lead to depressions and suicide. Yet, in other cases, it could lead to some radical shifts in life which lead to new careers and new loves. We go through a U-shaped life. Happy in

Desh Kapoor

07 Dec 12 2 min read

Relationships

The End of Men… and Rise of Women: a discussion

Is the power dynamics changing towards the women? This writer says – that women and men equation is surely changing. Related articles How a feminist debate was derailed by asking all men to leave | Marta Owczarek [http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/03/

Desh Kapoor

07 Dec 12 1 min read

Sciences

Significance of the number 108 in Spirituality and Yoga

108 is a very important number. Hindus do everything as a count of 108. The beads, the mantras, the yantras [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantra].. Sadhguru explains the importance of 108 and why it is so significant to a Spiritual seeker and central to Yoga. Hindu deities [http://en.

Desh Kapoor

04 Dec 12 1 min read

India

India Today Sex Survey shows small towns aren’t so innocent after all

India Today [http://indiatoday.com]‘s sex survey has brought out some bizarre facts about small towns in India [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333 (India)&t=h]. The concept of small towns and villages as

Desh Kapoor

04 Dec 12 2 min read

Europe

Norwegian Princess cares for surrogate twins of gay staffer in Delhi incognito

While the Indian couple sits in jail and they work their way out of the mess due to difference in cultural norms, Norwegian princess was in India unannounced for a strange errand. Same sex marriage has been legalized in Norway since 2009, while same sex partnerships were registered since 1993.

Desh Kapoor

03 Dec 12 1 min read

Sciences

How Human Physiology mimics the structures of the Vedas

Here are some eminent scientists who are working at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi institute looking at the science theories and how the Vedas and other Hindu scriptures have come about. And then trying to understand the underlying structures in both. The results is pretty startling!

Desh Kapoor

02 Dec 12 1 min read

Sciences

Internet Trolls: Are they a reflection of society’s love for voyeurism and gore?

Anonymity gives people ability to do things that they wouldn’t do otherwise. Even say things that normal sane people don’t say. And Internet Trolls are people who use this anonymity to persistently, and many times with malafide intentions, promote and share stuff on some internet platforms, boards and

Desh Kapoor

01 Dec 12 2 min read

Sciences

How Big Data, Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence are converging

Here is an interesting discussion on the OnPoint Program on the new advances in Artifical Intelligence. Some concepts discussed are Deep Learning, Big Data, and Neural Networks. From the time when the AI scientists wanted to feed the “intelligence” to a time when the Big Data from Internet etc is

Desh Kapoor

29 Nov 12 1 min read

Food

Cadbury’s makes chocolate that doesn’t melt!

Non-melting chocolates are here. Cadbury’s has come out with a chocolate that doesn’t melt [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/cons-products/food/cadbury-develops-chocolates-that-dont-melt-even-in-scorching-heat/articleshow/17359456.cms] ! > New ‘temperature-tolerant chocolates’ that don’t melt even at 40 degree Celsius have been developed by confectionery giant Cadbury, which will soon

Desh Kapoor

28 Nov 12 1 min read

Africa

Nigerian School Girls power a generator from Pee

In a country of chronic shortage, Nigerian school girls have come up with an idea to harness the Urine to power a generator. It may not be commercial viable or useful, but it is still intriguing 🙂

Desh Kapoor

27 Nov 12 1 min read

Sciences

Future of computing devices where anything can become a touchscreen

This evening in the car, while on our way back from our friend’s place, my daughter and I were discussing how the coming times will see new ways of using technologies. I want her to be prepared to live in the world with no physical books and only handheld

Desh Kapoor

23 Nov 12 2 min read

Education

How Professors are using Pinterest to engage with students

Whether we like it or not, Social Media is here to stay. And the creative educationists and teachers are using it well. Here is an interesting infographic on how professors are using Pinterest to engage with the students. Pinterest now has over 10 million users. Courtesy: Worldwide Learn [http://www.

Desh Kapoor

21 Nov 12 1 min read

Finance

Who are better investors – men or women? (Infographic)

Men and Women are very different types of investors. Because their attitudes and the things that impact them are totally different. Based on these differences, they make very different decisions. Here is a very interesting Infographic to show the differences and in the end, who tends to be a “better

Desh Kapoor

21 Nov 12 1 min read

Sciences

Is Facebook addiction impacting our minds? (Infographic)

Even Internet can be an addiction. And it has its repercussions [http://collective-thoughts.com/2012/11/02/facebook-psychology-infographic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollectiveThoughts+%28Collective+Thoughts%29] . > Some people think that internet addiction (IAD) is not a real issue, but in China, Taiwan, and Korea

Desh Kapoor

20 Nov 12 1 min read

Sciences

Gene that predicts time of day you will die

Scientists have for the first time discovered a common gene variant that influences when you will wake up each day and the time of the day you are most likely to die, a new study has claimed. Researchers identified the gene variant that affects virtually the entire population responsible for

Desh Kapoor

18 Nov 12 1 min read

Religion

Javed Akhtar – Muslim, Atheist, Rationalist, Writer, Brain and Mind Scientist – discusses Mind and Spirituality with Sadhguru

We had covered Javed Akhtar’s earlier rendezvous with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev ( Intellectual Nonsense, Javed Akhtar and the India Today conclave [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/intellectual-nonsense-javed-akhtar-and-india-today-conclave/] ), and how – ideologically inclined as Akhtar was, he just seemed to be arguing on things that (1) Sadhguru didn’t say and

Desh Kapoor

16 Nov 12 10 min read

Sciences

Don’t predict future; it aint as easy even for experts

We all look at our past experiences and try to plan and predict the future. A lot of people act very smart and think they can control the future and what happens in it. But is that true? Just look at the following facts [http://www.fool.com/investing/general/

Desh Kapoor

06 Nov 12 1 min read

Sciences

Is Science now coming to Hindu view of Atma and Parmatama?

Dr Stuart Hameroff, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Centre of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose have come up with a new and interesting theory Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR). It can also be called

Desh Kapoor

31 Oct 12 1 min read

India

Loss of Groundwater linked to Earthquake in Spain, lessons for India?

Rescue Operations in Spain’s EarthquakeThe analysis of the 5.1 richter earthquake in historic Murcia town of Lorca in southeast Spain last year has brought up an interesting finding, that could prove disastrous to India as well. Scientists now believe [http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/earthquake-that-killed-nine-people-in-southern-spain-was-man-made-1-2591367] that it

Desh Kapoor

22 Oct 12 1 min read

Motivation and Personal Development

Surveys: Happy or Depressed? – Is India a Schizophrenic nation?

Earlier this year in February, a global research company (God Bless them!) Ipsos said in a survey that Indians were the Second Most Happiest people in the world along with the Mexicans. 43% of the citizens of these two countries were sure that they were “Very Happy”. The survey also

Desh Kapoor

10 Oct 12 2 min read

Personal

Do Dogs Dream? What do they Dream About?

Every day I interact with my pet dog Bella, I learn something new. I have shared here, how she loves to come and sit/lie near me when I am doing my morning meditation and also how she likes to sleep in the area where the meditation is done. She

Desh Kapoor

17 Sep 12 2 min read

Education

Do Teachers destroy many students’ careers by subtle behavioral cues?

This morning, NPR carried a very interesting story [http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/17/161159263/teachers-expectations-can-influence-how-students-perform] . One that related Expectations the teachers have with students, Behavior of the Teachers towards the students, the subtle messaging that happens, and the results of the kids. In one study, Harvard

Desh Kapoor

17 Sep 12 2 min read

Sciences

Neil Armstrong, Once in a Blue Moon Adventurer

Neil Armstrong, First man to set foot on MoonAt 20:17:39 UTC on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, stepped on the Moon. With his feet on the moon surface, he said – “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” First human feet had touched the surface of moon. Last

Desh Kapoor

01 Sep 12 1 min read

India

The Big Fight (NDTV) on Higgs Boson: Some Reflections

There is a lot of interest in the “God Particle” and the debates on TV are happening on the subject as well. The debate on NDTV under the title “The Big Fight” was one such discussion / debate. My interest of entry in this debate was that my Guru, Sadhguru was

Desh Kapoor

08 Jul 12 5 min read

Achievement and Leadership

Higgs Boson or God Particle: What is it and Why is it Important?

Bose and Einstein togetherHiggs Boson – or the “God’s particle” is in news these days. Some have come to know that the Boson is a word that is based on the name of the Indian Science great Satyendranath Bose. Bosons are elementary sub-atomic particles which were named after Bose, because

Desh Kapoor

05 Jul 12 2 min read

India

Gujarati Food will be in Space soon, courtesy Sunita Williams

Gujarati food will finally make its way up into the space now. As they say, you can find a Gujarati anywhere you go. Well, as Sunita Williams – from a Gujarati Dad and Slovenian Mom – goes to the space the second time, she will carry her food along. Isn’t that

Desh Kapoor

28 Jun 12 1 min read

Achievement and Leadership

UPenn Prof Vijay Kumar unveils “Self Guided Agile Flying Robots” which Swoop and Swarm together

Vijay Kumar at TEDUniversity of Pennsylvania professor Vijay Kumar showcased a set of autonomous, agile and decentralized flying robots which can not only do maneuvers that are difficult for any machine but also communicate between themselves to not only fly in formations but also do complex tasks of lifting stuff

Desh Kapoor

04 Mar 12 1 min read

Creative

Why the Deepika negative image works on your eyes that way?

Have you looked at the latest Image negative of Deepika Padukone doing rounds on Facebook? Why does it work like that? Here is what you need to do – Stare at the red dot on the lady’s nose for 30 second or so. Then look at a white space – white

Desh Kapoor

02 Feb 12 1 min read

Health & Medicine

Chennai Couple wants IITian Sperms for a Designer Baby: A Debate

Designer Baby Templates?Recently, a couple in Chennai came out with an advertisement [http://news.oneindia.in/2012/01/18/chennai-couple-demand-iitans-sperm-shocks-all.html] looking for sperms of an ex-IITian for a baby. The advertisement went: > “Ideal candidate(s) should be IIT students, healthy, no bad habits, tall and fair if possible,

Desh Kapoor

19 Jan 12 5 min read

Sciences

Preparing for The Super Convergence: Rise of The Bio-Info-Nano Singularity

In 1900, Lord Kelvin famously stated, “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.” Five years later, Albert Einstein published his paper on special relativity, which challenged the very simple set of rules laid down by Newtonian mechanics, which

Desh Kapoor

28 Apr 11 7 min read

Sciences

Noosphere: Are The Cloud, Collective Consciousness and The Singularity Intertwined?

The small and beautiful humbling forces for tranquility and peace include love, laughter, being grateful, showing respect and forgiveness. Tranquility and peace are important because they remind us of our connectivity with the Supra Universal Consciousness and with each other as One collective entity. If we look closely, the collective

Desh Kapoor

28 Apr 11 8 min read

Sciences

The God Particle, Quantum Entanglement, And The Holographic Universe

A leaked internal memo at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, contains unconfirmed reports that one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has picked up signals that could be the long sought after Higgs boson or God particle. If so, that would be an enormous coincidence at Easter. One

Desh Kapoor

28 Apr 11 8 min read

India

Oxygen powered Bike from students in Palwal Haryana

Indian students from a small town called Palwal in Haryana have created a unique bike. It isn’t fast as it runs 6 to 12 miles an hour for upto 370 miles but it does that without any petrol, diesel or natural gas. It runs on Oxygen – 100 liters of

Desh Kapoor

24 Apr 11 1 min read

Sciences

Can you have Perception without the Sensation of Seeing?

Are you able to see something, without knowing that you can see? If “Perception” was the ability to see an object, and sensation was the knowledge that you can see (sensation of seeing, if you will), then can you have the Perception without the Sensation? Taking it further, if Perception

Desh Kapoor

20 Apr 11 2 min read

Environment

Japan Nuclear Situation: Does Human Mind lend itself to Sustained Existence?

Tragedy facing the Japanese today with the Nuclear Reactor is a tragedy that is common to us all. This is just one reactor and we have such a huge tragedy staring at us. All because something that one of most developed nation thought it had taken care of, didn’t

Desh Kapoor

20 Mar 11 6 min read

Sciences

Man who built Steel Structures and died listening to Beethoven

Article first published as The Interesting Life of Eiffel [http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/the-interesting-life-of-eiffel/] on Blogcritics. Some men are born contradictions in every way they live. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was one such person. Born a French, but took on a last name from a German mountain, Eifel; Gustave graduated

Desh Kapoor

25 Feb 11 2 min read

India

India’s Place in Space: It’s GSLV or Bust

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand why India’s heavy lift GSLV (or Geo-Stationary Launch Vehicle) blew up a minute after liftoff last Christmas. There are two explanations – one, obvious and the other, rather disturbing. The obvious reason is that experimental rockets are known to

Desh Kapoor

15 Feb 11 4 min read

Sciences

When Practice Babies were Raised by Practice Mothers – Domecons, Norths, and Souths

“By the time Henry House was four months old, a copy of his picture was being carried in the pocketbooks of seven different women, each of whom called him her son. . .” starts a very recent novel – “The Irresistible Henry House” written by Lisa Grunwald There was a time in US,

Desh Kapoor

08 Jan 11 2 min read

China

China is the largest Space polluter

China has just started its action in the space not very long ago, but it is already topping in rather ignominious ways. In the short time, the countries that sent rockets in space, they have already created a lot of pollution up there. What are these Space Debris? > the collection

Desh Kapoor

16 Oct 10 2 min read

Health & Medicine

Strange connections – Body Magnetism, Electric Currents and our World

At the moment, you’re the current astrological equivalent of a magnet, so there’ll be no refusing you and no way for them to win an argument. So announced my horoscope on the My Yahoo Portal for my stars today. If this was all just mumbo jumbo I would

Desh Kapoor

07 Oct 10 4 min read

Sciences

Sarda Sahney "challenges" Darwin theory

Sarda Sahney [http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~glxss/] – a PhD student and her colleagues at University of Bristol have come out with research published in Biology letters [http://bristol.academia.edu/documents/0094/1038/2010-SahneyBentonFerry-BiologyLetters.pdf] (read/download research paper in pdf), which the media is claiming points to Charles

Desh Kapoor

31 Aug 10 2 min read

Sciences

Planting Seeds

My words are whispers on the wind Rootless wanderers Blown like seeds on an autumn breeze Until the wind grows still… And here, and there They find the just right place to land, To sink and germinate and sprout and grow into the light… They find A Consciousness Receptive, ready,

Desh Kapoor

18 Aug 10 1 min read

India

Lack of Gravity in India!

One needn’t go to India to know that something is seriously different about that country and its people. We are constantly trying to ignore the “gravity” of any situation. Life is tough?! But what is life anyways.. lets levitate and live without attachments! Om Shanti.. or on the other

Desh Kapoor

03 Aug 10 2 min read

Sciences

Cost of Progress and Hallucination of Nirvana

I was having a long debate about Science and Spirituality on Facebook. Till it came to a point of looking at the benefits of Science and if what modern Science offer is really progress after all. Yes, Science has helped the humanity, but was the way Science – from its genesis

Desh Kapoor

27 Jul 10 4 min read

Sciences

There is a hole in your bucket, Dear God!

Ooops.. our scientists just discovered that we have a defective Universe. It has a hole! A BIG one! One billion light years across. I KNEW IT! I knew from the day I could think straight that we had a second hand, hastily put together “Made in China” Universe bought from

Desh Kapoor

08 Jul 10 1 min read

Sciences

Ancient Hindu Science and the effect on the world – II

(continued from Ancient Hindu Science and the effect on the world – I [https://www.drishtikone.com/ancient-hindu-science-and-effect-world-i]) Vedantic philosophy or Hindu Scientific ways experienced and found millennia back and document many centuries ago, also became the basis of the greatest modern scientific discoveries. How Ancient Hindu science impacted greatest modern

Desh Kapoor

21 Jun 10 9 min read

Humour

"A la Carte" Science of Existence-less Creation!

Modern science works on current knowledge. Knowledge that is prevalent at any point in time. We pick and choose the tools that the current knowledge provides and fit them in the already existing ones and come up with a model. Theories of Existence and subsequent enunciation of what the scientific

Desh Kapoor

21 May 10 4 min read

Sciences

Are Aliens "Good" or "Bad" for Earthlings? : An Intriguing Debate

I thought I was reading views of some UFO enthusiast and controversy lover… but as I read along it turned out to be [http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/We_should_thank_aliens_for_our_computer_screens_Expert_-nid-67631.html?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Subscriber] the Canadian

Desh Kapoor

03 May 10 1 min read

Indian Culture

Lost Civilization before us

There is a small possibility that the current civilization can face a complete destruction or annihilation either from a great deluge due to global warming or earth quake, or a nuclear war or even by an appointment with some asteroid. It is possible that everything we created, everything we invented

Desh Kapoor

29 Jan 10 4 min read

Sciences

Moon is wet.

The moon has changed for ever! Now there is water there. Chandrayaan-I finally did the unthinkable a month after its untimely death – gave the entire humanity hope that if it totally screws up its own planet, it could make do with the satellite! Maybe when the ultra rich have nicely

Desh Kapoor

24 Sep 09 1 min read

Sciences

Creation is a Vibration

In 1687, Newton published Principia where he laid the foundations of Gravity, which explained how the planets stayed in their orbits and large bodies work. Five years later, a Cambridge philospher Richard Bentley asked him a very innocuous question that hit at the root of Newton’s discovery. Bentley wrote

Desh Kapoor

14 Sep 09 6 min read

Sciences

Galileo to Giuliani: Italy's fight against Science

Muzzling scientists which make the Government or the Church “uneasy” comes naturally to Americans. Back in the 17th century it was Galileo Galilei and in today’s world Italy has Giampaolo Giuliani. Galileo had forwarded the Heliocentric view of the “known Solar System” in face of geocentric view of the

Desh Kapoor

07 Apr 09 1 min read

Sciences

Nano Satellite from IIT Kanpur Students

Jugnu is getting ready. It is a nano satellite that students from IIT-Kanpur are building for a launch end of this year. In a special program now, ISRO (The Indian Space and Research Organisation) is working with IIT-K to bring in talent to bear upon the space program. Do you

Desh Kapoor

27 Feb 09 1 min read

Sciences

"Eye of God" is staring at us from Space!

This is the “Eye of God”. It is a cloud of stellar dust and gases of the Helix Nebula. This picture was posted on NASA’s Website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003. It shows a dying star and the gases around it. One day our

Desh Kapoor

26 Feb 09 2 min read

Sciences

Spectacular meteor caught on video

It is not everyday that you can see a real meteor… and the spectacular fireworks that accompany it. Here is a video taken from a police car dash camera and it shows the spectacular view of a meteor:

Desh Kapoor

21 Nov 08 1 min read

India

Video of moon from Chandrayaan-I

Here is avideo of the moon from the Indian moon mission – Chandrayaan – I. Check it out.. its quite an achievement and an exclusive video:

Desh Kapoor

18 Nov 08 1 min read

India

Moon turns tricolor as ISRO looks at Sun and wants to compete with Google

Only four nations have landed on the moon in the recorded human history – US, Russia, China and India. As the probe from Chandrayaan-I touched the surface of the Moon, India touched the lunar surface. The probe, painted with the Indian flag, touched down at 2034 (1504 GMT), the Indian Space

Desh Kapoor

14 Nov 08 2 min read

Sciences

Infinite Universes or One Universe?

Things in our universe are just perfect. Everything seems to neatly “tie-in” and work well. It has this structure that is conducive to life. If things were different, no life could have been possible. For example [http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/10-sciences-alternative-to-an-intelligent-creator] : > Consider just two possible changes. Atoms consist of

Desh Kapoor

12 Nov 08 1 min read

India

Moon mission at a shoe string

Chandrayaan-1 – the Indian moon mission is now orbiting the moon. It is as shoe string as it possibly gets! Here is some perspective: Total cost: Rs 380 crores (USD 76 million) Airbus 380 developmental cost: USD 15 billion One Boeing 737-600 (the cheapest one) costs: USD 50 million Cost for

Desh Kapoor

10 Nov 08 1 min read

Sciences

Mars moons and Gulliver's Travels

The fourth planet out from the Sun, Mars, has two moons. The are named Phobos (meaning “fear”) and Deimos (meaning “panic”); appropriate companions for Mars, the God of War. But here is the funny thing… Over a hundred years before the moons’ discovery, in 1877, British writer and satirist Jonathan

Desh Kapoor

09 Nov 08 1 min read

Sciences

Mexican Tequila into Diamonds!

This is as heady as it possibly gets!! A team of Mexican scientists [http://www.physorg.com/news145255770.html] found that the heated vapor from 80-proof (40% alcohol) tequila blanco, when deposited on a silicon or stainless steel substrate, can form diamond films. The main reason for this to happen

Desh Kapoor

07 Nov 08 1 min read

Sciences

Universe is being pulled!

Something unknown is pulling the Universe to it. And the speed is more than 2 million miles per hour. It is as if the “thing” [Dark Matter – uncreatively characterising the unknown as “Dark” by the scientists] is outside the Universe and is relentless pulling stuff from our Universe. Maybe our

Desh Kapoor

07 Nov 08 1 min read

India

India's moon mission brings resumes from NASA and ESA

Amidst the chest beating by the nationalists in the Republican party in the US, they have no idea where US is going wrong. Why the tomorrow of US kids is fraught with difficulties. The major reason why US was the premier place for innovation was that its leaders inspired the

Desh Kapoor

26 Oct 08 1 min read

India

India goes for the Moon!

Today India shot for the moon! (India’s Evolution [http://img261.echo.cx/img261/1061/slvs6nt.jpg]) It has been a lot of years that India has been growing in stature in the space community.. but ultimately it was the aim for the moon! China is also in that race

Desh Kapoor

22 Oct 08 1 min read

Religion

Higg's Boson: will it be the end of religion and God?

At the heart of all science and even spirituality is a simple question: How does the Infinite become Finite? or, how does energy become mass. The building block of the entire universe and creation is the same energy wave that manifests as different subatomic particles. Somewhere and somehow, the energy

Desh Kapoor

10 Sep 08 1 min read

Sciences

Large Haldron Collider goes live; suicide, doomsday-blues, and happiness

The Large Haldron Collider has been fired. And the world survives as of this instant. Its an indeed a great step forward for mankind. Let us hope something interesting comes out of this experiment and it just doesn’t turn out to be a white elephant! Well the doomsday predictions

Desh Kapoor

10 Sep 08 1 min read

Sciences

Large Haldron Collider ready to be fired: End of the world?

On Wednesday, September 10, the Large Haldron Collider [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider] will be fired [http://blogs.indystar.com/geek/2008/09/large_hadron_co.html]. It has costed $7.75 billion. But that is not the most important thing about it. The more important is

Desh Kapoor

09 Sep 08 2 min read

Sciences

Women date their Dad lookalikes and Men date their Mom lookalikes

The reason why certain groups and people in certain geographies have different type of features for a long time and continue to be known for beautiful women or handsome men is because there is an underlying super selection going on. The evolution is hidden in every dating process that a

Desh Kapoor

04 Sep 08 1 min read

India

India's moon and space ambitions

Just a sidenote: Any country that has a real space program and can send satellites in space – is also the one which has an “indigenous” missile program, because both the technologies are the same! And any country which has missiles – like North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran and cannot even send

Desh Kapoor

16 Aug 08 1 min read

Sciences

Calculus of Nirvana

A young man once went to a blind Saint’s hut and knocked. The Saint from inside enquired – “Who is it?”. The young man – who had come looking for a Guru, replied “That is what I have come to know, Sir”. The Guru beckoned him. That is probably the only

Desh Kapoor

12 Aug 08 3 min read

Sciences

Quantum collapse can be undone

Our Observation collapses the wave [https://drishtikone.com/?q=content/eternal-illusion-and-how-observer-creates-his-own-reality] and we can have a particle instead. At least that much is a certainty for scientists. Of course, the question that has always remained is how does the quantum world and the physical world so different in its appearance.

Desh Kapoor

11 Aug 08 1 min read

Religion

Men give in to sexual temptation easier than women

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mcgill-logo.png] Image via Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mcgill-logo.png] A research study [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2303955/Men-give-into-sexual-temptation-easier-than-women%2C-scientists-say.html] from Montreal, Canada’s McGill University [http://www.mcgill.ca/] claims that men give into sexual [http:

Desh Kapoor

19 Jul 08 1 min read

Sciences

Was there a Universe before ours?

Was Big Bang the beginning of the existence? What was there before that? Was time still there? If time was there, so must have been space since both go together. > A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time

Desh Kapoor

08 Jun 08 1 min read

Sciences

Flying Fish sets a record

Did you know that fish can fly? YES! There is a special species among the fishes that have wings and can fly. The Exocoetidae or flying fish are a marine fish family comprising about 50 species grouped in 7 to 9 genera. Flying fish are found in all the major

Desh Kapoor

24 May 08 1 min read

Sciences

Many Universes (Multi-verses) and Assymetric Time

The problem with understanding of creation is that it is just an interplay between Space and Time. These two are inextricably linked to our creation – past and future. Despite what we think the scientists claim, the truth is that we are nowhere close to understanding to the absolute micro and

Desh Kapoor

23 May 08 2 min read

Sciences

Path has no meaning

With the formulation of Planck’s constant, our limits of observation were set. Beyond this limit, our observation lacked any meaning. The confidence of what we saw beyond this was imaginary and superstition. Try as we might to define the route that an electron took to reach the other side

Desh Kapoor

20 May 08 3 min read

Sciences

Einstein on religion

For the most brilliant scientist of our times, Einstein made this strange assertion: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind”. In the ordinary sense of how we understand religion, as organized institution, this was nonsense! This has fueled a lot of debate. Thankfully, now comes out of

Desh Kapoor

13 May 08 1 min read

Sciences

New Dimensions: Will the new Hadron accelerator change our world?

Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider – cost between $5-10 billion – will be ready this year and the world may never be same again. The believers in the many dimension explanation for Quantum Physics are increasing. And there is some belief – if not acceptance – for the String theory. There are are many

Desh Kapoor

10 May 08 1 min read

India

Space History Created by India

India has placed itself into space history. In one launch, India launched 10 satellites into orbits that are 600 km away from earth. The combined payload was 820 kg. The last time this was attempted was by the Russians who launched 13 satellites that weighed 295 kg. Of course, NASA

Desh Kapoor

29 Apr 08 1 min read

Sciences

Quantum Collapse and the Non-local DNA

Here is an interesting paragraph from “The Spiritual Brain” > In the interpretation of quantum physics created by physicist John Von Neumann (1903-1957), a particle only probably exists in one position or another; these probable positions are said to be “superposed” on each other. Measurement causes a “quantum collapse”, meaning that

Desh Kapoor

28 Apr 08 2 min read

Sciences

Earth is Humming!

HHHHHMMMMMM…… What’s that humming sound? Does that sound very similar? Well, its all over the place. And you can’t get over with it as well. Because you and I are SITTING, sleeping, walking, jumping on the machine making the sound! Its the Earth silly! And its not when

Desh Kapoor

19 Apr 08 1 min read

Sciences

Stockholm Central Station harnesses the Human Body for Energy

Stockholm Central Station has a new way to change the world. With energy becoming such an issue in the world, everyone is looking for renewable energy which is consistent with nature. With the population rising so much any source of energy seems small. But what if the people itself are

Desh Kapoor

13 Apr 08 3 min read

Health & Medicine

Fusion of Animals and Humans and our "Morality"

Humanity has always been curious about mixing breeds and species. First it was the horses and dogs and just some species of plants like roses etc. Then people got adventurous and brought in creatures like Liger [http://www.liger.org/] – a mix between Lion and a Tiger, which some people

Desh Kapoor

25 Mar 08 4 min read

India

History of Mathematics in India

In all early civilizations, the first expression of mathematical understanding appears in the form of counting systems. Numbers in very early societies were typically represented by groups of lines, though later different numbers came to be assigned specific numeral names and symbols (as in India) or were designated by alphabetic

Desh Kapoor

12 Mar 08 18 min read

Religion

Is US of today where Persia was yesterday?

Like I said earlier in the post, Religion colors everyone’s logic and rationale. Whatever one could see through easily, is lost to him when the extra layer of religion comes through. I had discussed in this post (Two Millenia of India’s Economic Journey [https://drishtikone.com/?q=content/

Desh Kapoor

19 Feb 08 2 min read

Health & Medicine

Is Science doing a Makardhwaj?

There is an incredible and unbelieveable tale in the life of Hanuman – the Hindu deity. Ram and Lakshman have been captured by Mahiravan and are being held captive in Patal – lok or under the seas. When Hanuman goes to free them he is faced by a part-monket and part-fish (kind

Desh Kapoor

13 Feb 08 2 min read

Sciences

How does the space smell?

Had never thought about this one point ever, but what the heck – everything smells.. something is good and somethings real bad. But what about space? Space is vacuum. Does vacuum has any smell? Ostensibly no.. but what about space? Space is not just vacuum, it has lots of “stuff” floating

Desh Kapoor

11 Feb 08 1 min read

Religion

God and the Mathematicians

Mathematicians are more religious than their scientist brethren. A survey [http://www.thestar.com/News/article/297564] by National Academy of Science shows Mathematicians are 2.5 times more likely to believe in God than Biologists (14.6% Mathematicians vs 5.5% biologists). Well, that is a lot of people

Desh Kapoor

28 Jan 08 1 min read

Sciences

What can a bright kid do with a pressure washer?

Sometimes its better for kids to skip the school. LIke this one. He has created a “climactic event”. Check it out.

Desh Kapoor

27 Jan 08 1 min read

Sciences

Shiva's Cosmic Dance: Traces of past Universe in the present ones found in "Strings"

There is this phenomenon called “Cosmic Strings”. These “fabric of space” called snags or strings are very heavy and great gravitational pull (one kilometer long string can have the mass of entire earth!). A new study says that these are actually remnants from the past universe!? Hmmm… are we saying

Desh Kapoor

24 Jan 08 1 min read

Sciences

He stretches time

Mystics talk about moving beyond space and time. Scientists and skeptics laugh at that. Here is a guy who says he actually feels like he has stepped out of “linear time” as he is playing squash. He kinda goes faster by going slower! Can you stretch time? > MIKE HALL has

Desh Kapoor

24 Jan 08 1 min read

Sciences

Indian launched Israeli Spy Satellite aimed at Iran

One of the world’s most advanced spy satellite with a camera that has capabilities to see through any weather conditions was launched into orbit for Israel by ISRO – Indian Space research Organization. It is the most advanced satellite in its class and Israel had asked for Indian help to

Desh Kapoor

21 Jan 08 1 min read

Sciences

Source of anti-matter found now

Scientists have been talking of antimatter for a long time. All elementary particles, such as protons and electrons, have antimatter counterparts with the same mass but the opposite charge. For instance, the antimatter opposite of an electron, known as a positron, is positively charged. When Antimatter comes in contact with

Desh Kapoor

17 Jan 08 1 min read

Sciences

FINALLY! The Aliens have contacted!

The Aliens are finally coming! I mean we have been looking for them, waiting for them, making movies about them, befriending them in our soaps and fighting them… and also collecting their left overs from the crashed UFOs. Now, they have decided to send a signal [http://www.ktvu.com/

Desh Kapoor

16 Jan 08 1 min read

Health & Medicine

A beating heart created in a lab

Scientists have taken the next step in biological science! They have created a beating heart [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/01/14/rebuilt.heart/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail] “from scratch” so to say. As the video below says, the researcher here gave nature its tools and let it do

Desh Kapoor

15 Jan 08 1 min read

Sciences

Bhavnagar Scientists' achievement in Nano-science

Well scientists in the Bhavnagar University of Gujarat have done something very interesting… well it sounds interesting to a non-scientists anyways 🙂 They have trapped light in a “soup” of nano and micro particles! > Physicists at the Bhavnagar University in Gujarat, India, have demonstrated how to trap and retrieve light using

Desh Kapoor

13 Dec 07 1 min read

Sciences

Bhavnagar Scientists' achievement in Nano-science

Desh Kapoor

13 Dec 07 1 min read

Sciences

A simple Toothpick and its innovation!

Sometimes the most harmless and simple things take a lot of innovation from people to create. Who would have thought that a simple toothpick requires a lot of effort on design and technique from best minds to make it work and improve. From the medieval times to the modern times,

Desh Kapoor

11 Dec 07 1 min read

Sciences

A simple Toothpick and its innovation!

Desh Kapoor

11 Dec 07 1 min read

Environment

UFO in Kolkatta and Scientist's double-speak

Scientists these days have issues with things beyond their minds and knowledge. First they claim it is natural.. then it is unnatural and a trickery and media reports it as if the scientist has proved the “mysterious phenomenon” wrong! Kolkatta, apparently was visited by the friendly neighborhood UFO. A guy

Desh Kapoor

30 Oct 07 1 min read

Environment

UFO in Kolkatta and Scientist's double-speak

Desh Kapoor

30 Oct 07 1 min read

History

Myths of Islamic "Sciences" and its history

A very interesting blog from Global Politician, Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 1, [http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3559&cid=3&sid=9] by Norwegian blogger Fjordman. Here he argues that Islam and the Arabs may have transferred knowledge, but they didn’t contribute much of

Desh Kapoor

08 Oct 07 3 min read

Health & Medicine

US gene pioneer creating Artificial life form

This is incredible progress. Synthesizing a few proteins will create a new life form. Now, this will also tell us how important consciousness is in the life of an organism. It will not be determined by the creation of the life form – but the life it takes on.even if

Desh Kapoor

06 Oct 07 2 min read

Sciences

Mysteries of Water: the Strange Water Bridge

Water is the most abundant of substances on earth and the most vital. it can form and destroy life. Yet it has puzzled the scientists! Beyond its basic form of H2O, scientists have not been able to decipher why it would behave in various ways that it does. Here is

Desh Kapoor

30 Sep 07 1 min read

Humour

Space, Women, WMDs, and Mission Accomplished!

Ok, this is the first time we humans from Earth have sent a space-ship [http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/first-interplanetary-spaceship-blasts/20070927131609990001] that will go to one cosmic body…. circle it.. stare it.. and then go for another one. True Interplanetary journey! We men have had been practicing this

Desh Kapoor

28 Sep 07 2 min read

Sciences

Locality and Causality and EPR

There are few parallels in human endeavor than the very deep and profound argumentative disagreement between Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein on the very nature of Quantum Mechanics. While Bohr was in the Copenhagen Interpretation gang, Einstein was looking for the hidden variables. Einstein wrote a paper with Podolsky and

Desh Kapoor

28 Sep 07 2 min read

Sciences

Don't sit next to a Salmonella on a Space flight!

I haven’t been on one recently, but I am assuming that a space flight is a tough experience! Heck, the microbes – those with small robes.. naah… the small guys who only show up under a microscope – have it really tough out there!! So tough they become tougher…. and meaner!

Desh Kapoor

27 Sep 07 1 min read

Religion

Fallacies of God, Force, Matter, Space and Time

God is a matter of faith. Faith that things "work" even though in a manner not always according to our wishes and "equitably" (as we define the word). Yet, it seems to be so. Random world would leave no room for any hope. No reason to do anything or make

Desh Kapoor

25 Sep 07 3 min read

Sciences

Multiple Universes (Multi-verses?) exist in Parallel – new study

A new study says that multiple universes exist, as has been postulated by the "Many Worlds theory" of Quantum Mechanics. So, every time a physical possibility is explored – the Universe "splits" – thus creating many alternative outcomes. As if once a move is made on a chess board – then all the

Desh Kapoor

25 Sep 07 2 min read

Sciences

Voyager 1 – Farthest Man-made object was launched 30 years ago today!

Voyager 1 was launched on September 5 in 1977. It is the farthest man-made object to Earth. > The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 733-kilogram robotic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_spacecraft] space probe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_probe] of the outer solar system [http://en.wikipedia.org/

Desh Kapoor

05 Sep 07 2 min read

Sciences

Biblical External God and Galileo's still continuing "inquisition"!

Deepak Chopra writes in his blog on Science and Einstein’s God. How, Einstein’s religio-spiritual belief evolved and could happily live with his high Science! It was not an easy journey.. but was a very sure footed one.Dr. Chopra [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_

Desh Kapoor

05 Sep 07 3 min read

Corruption

Calculus was Created 250 years before Newton… in India!!

Remember in our school we were told that Marconi discovered wireless? Well, it turns out that was nonsense! It was really Jagdish Chandra Bose. Marconi usurped the credit to himself.. and the Western world complied because Bose was a citizen of colonized people! (MIT paper [http://web.mit.edu/varun_

Desh Kapoor

17 Aug 07 1 min read

Sciences

Bridge collapse: Structural issue or plain old resonance?

The Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed yesterday evening, It was built in 1967 and was undergoing some repairs. And it just collapsed like a house of cars. So, 7 people died. Now, what could lead to the collapse of a very "healthy" bridge – as it was given a "clean bill of

Desh Kapoor

02 Aug 07 2 min read

Sciences

Science and Exploration

This is an interesting video of Ken Wilber explaining the 3 strands of science – or any body of knowledge.1. Injunction (if you want to see that, you need to do this); 2. Experience/Datum (Seeing/experiencing the act); and finally, 3. Confirmation (someone else confirms the same experience). I

Desh Kapoor

02 Aug 07 1 min read

Sciences

Cat who detects Death and the question – What is Death?

A cat at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/6917113.stm] knows when a patient in the center is about to die and curls up near him/her. The cat has been right in 25 cases so far. The cat is the best predictor

Desh Kapoor

26 Jul 07 2 min read

Sciences

What happened before Big Bang?

What happened before creation. Or how was creation "created" is an interesting question that scientists and spiritualists have tried to tackle their entire lives. Here is another attempt at that. This one says that it is extremely difficult to pin point the properties of the "pre-universe" because of COSMIC FORGETFULNESS!

Desh Kapoor

05 Jul 07 2 min read

Sciences

Soon you will be beamed to your work – Star Trek style!

The stocks of auto industry and airlines is going to fall.. and fall heavily! Captain Kirk’s "transport" mechanism of making a guy stand on a circle and teleport him/her to another ship is just around the corner.Australian scientists [http://www.physorg.com/news102681027.html] are at it.

Desh Kapoor

05 Jul 07 2 min read

Sciences

We were Acquired!!

Our Sun, Moon and our Earth was acquired from our parent Galaxy called Sagittarius Dwarf [http://viewzone.com/milkyway.html] by the Milky Way! So, we came into our new home. And Milky Way is in the habit of devouring numerous smaller galaxies. So even in the cosmos… it is

Desh Kapoor

26 Jun 07 1 min read

Sciences

Is the Universe Two-Timing us?

Itzhak Bars, a physicist at USC College is recommending two dimensions of time and space. He is saying that adding another dimension of time can help relate the Theory of Relativity to Quantum Theory.. and also help do away with the issues with String Theory. > Einstein’s theory of gravity

Desh Kapoor

24 May 07 2 min read

Sciences

Saturn's Rings

Nature is just stunning!

Desh Kapoor

23 May 07 1 min read

Health & Medicine

Self Compassion helps one tide over tough times.

What is the secret to getting over the tough times? I have believed it is to face life squarely and make some decisions. But it was best told to me by an astrologer. He said "When a storm comes, the only trees left standing after it are the ones which

Desh Kapoor

16 May 07 2 min read

Sciences

A Labyrinth of Creational Caves

In my last article [https://www.drishtikone.com/eternal-illusion-and-how-observer-creates-his-own-reality/] I had presented how the conclusions from Quantum Physics seem to dovetail into what has been the pursuit of the mystics. The argument and the tack taken there was that no matter which road you take, the final steps to “Truth”

Desh Kapoor

26 Feb 07 3 min read

Sciences

Eternal Illusion and How Observer Creates His Own Reality

In October of 1927, Born, Dirac, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Bohr came together and expounded as well as accepted “an” interpretation of the new quantum world that was reeling in the aftermath of Schrodinger’s Wave Collapse experiments. They called it the Copenhagen Interpretation. With the collapse of the wave wherein

Desh Kapoor

30 Nov 06 10 min read

Sciences

Cosmic Dance of Shiva: New Evidence

Here is some new evidence [http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9114-cyclic-universe-can-explain-cosmological-constant.html] that Universe may be cyclical in the way it expands and contracts! The “Dance of Shiva” as Fritjof Capra talks of this phenomenon in “Tao of Physics”. > A cyclic universe, which bounces through a series of big bangs

Desh Kapoor

01 Jun 06 2 min read

Global Warming

We'll be Wet after we Heat up!

Congratulations! We are right on track to heat things up a little bit.. in fact as hot as it hasn’t been in .. well.. 130,000 years! If we keep going at the rate we are going we could take the temperature of the Earth to rise 4 degrees F

Desh Kapoor

23 Mar 06 2 min read

Achievement and Leadership

Ramanujam: The Man who Knew Infinity

Ramanujam was a mathematical genius of the last century. One of the greatest if not THE greatest! Recently, it was announced [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4811920.stm] that a movie would be made on him. > British director Stephen Fry and India’s Dev Benegal are

Desh Kapoor

20 Mar 06 3 min read

Sciences

Men-Women Equality: Another Perspective!

My earlier post [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/?q=node/1026]on differences between men and women. Men and Women have often been equated to Shiv and Parvati (Shakti). In most mythology, Shiv, the Hindu deity, in his virile spendour represents the quintessential wild male, while Shakti represents the

Desh Kapoor

18 Feb 06 1 min read

Politics

Are men and women INHERENTLY DIFFERENT?

There is a fair bit of controversy on the differences between genders. Do men and women think and behave differently? A year ago, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Summers], sparked an uproar at an academic conference when he said that innate

Desh Kapoor

16 Feb 06 2 min read

Sciences

How Swami Vivekananda Masterfully Handled the ‘Evolution Vs Intelligence’ Debate!

Evolution vs Intelligence debate is as ridiculous as it is because there is an assumption about Intelligence which is inherently flawed. West and most of the world impacted by the Abrahamic belief systems has looked at intelligence only when it is active. Manifest Intelligence and its immensity has eluded this

Desh Kapoor

16 Dec 05 5 min read

Sciences

Metaphysics and Quantum Physics on Space, Time and Causation!

Metaphysics and Quantum Physics are explorations of reality. Laws are merely different events that have been linked in a causation paradigm – because they have happened – or apparently happened – as we know them in a certain sequence! The structure and serial linkages of the prevalent laws and “principles” therefore are limited

Desh Kapoor

10 Oct 05 5 min read

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