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Presenting a frugal, efficient, and an environmentally friendly answer to all our energy problems: generation of energy from crap . Sounds funny, but this interesting approach to efficient energy production and waste management has been put to practical use in many countries.
Heard about biogas before? If you haven’t, this will serve as a primer […]
More than a month ago, I posted this article on human spending addiction “There Should Be A Pill To Make People Stop Spending” and tried to relate gambling and shopping with conditions of the brain. I am happy to note that more people are making that connection as this article from BBC suggests. […]
Add to: del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo MyWeb | Google | Netscape | StumbleUpon People familiar with the word ‘vulcanization’ will instantly attribute it to Charles Goodyear (in whose honor the Goodyear Tire Company named itself).
It is common knowledge that vulcanization involves heating rubber to a high temperature with certain desirable additives, most notably sulphur, to improve its mechanical and chemical properties and make it more usable.
It is […]
The discovery of ‘potential’ liquid water on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, by the Cassini spacecraft, is one of the most important discoveries in the history of space exploration. To read more about it, visit: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=639
For the techno-nerdy, more on Cassini can be found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini-Huygens
I think, the term ‘potential’ will linger around […]
I just landed my eyes on an MSNBC article about NASA : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11712516/
Especially, the last part of it which says
“After a ceiling lamp broke, showering glass onto the shuttle, workers used a boom-mounted platform to position themselves for cleaning up the debris. However, while moving into position, the edge of the work platform made […]
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