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 visible DNA Scientists in Britain have announced a breakthrough in the quest to turn DNA into a revolutionary form of data storage that could fit the world’s entire three billion terabytes... Read more
Partition between India and Pakistan was a very gory and painful chapter of history. This movie shows that time and the events. Featured Image shows: Old Sikh Man carrying his wife on his shoulder during the migration from Pakistan to India Read more
Lal Bihari “Mritak” is a native of Amilo, in Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, who was born in 1955. In 1975, Lal Bihari went to Revenue office in district headquarters, Azamgarh to get an Identity Proof. He was in for a rather rude shock! Officially he was dead in the Government records. Apparently, his Uncle had bribed the officials to have him declared dead officially, so he could get the ownership of just less an acre of Bihari’s ancestral land at... Read more
Procrastination hits all of us sometime or the other. Doing the project or assignment at the last moment, doing taxes just as it is due, paying the bills on the due date etc. Here is a very interesting take on how to beat procrastination. Read Quote of Oliver Emberton’s answer to Life Advice: How do I get over my bad habit of procrastinating? on Quora Featured Image Credit: Asja Related articles from External Sources Are you aware of... Read more
Went to watch Vishwaroopam today. The Tamil version with English subtitles. In a hall full of Tamilians. Kamal Haasan (probably Rajnikanth as well) movies should ONLY be watched in Tamil and in a hall full of Tamilians. Otherwise, you can only appreciate the genius of Kamal Haasan, not the passion he invokes. The titles opened to whistles, and shouts in the entire hall. Suddenly I see confetti being thrown at the screen. Probably were flower petals or currency notes. Every... Read more
Some stories make your day! This is one such. San Francisco is trying to become the first city with zero waste. By requiring residents and businesses to separate compostable items such as food scraps, as well as recyclable items. Here is a report on how the city has already reduced a huge amount of garbage from ending up in landfills. This is a very laudable goal indeed! Featured Image Credit: kevincole Related articles from External Sources Brush: Zero... Read more
Ideological Subversion is a method of cultural warfare – is a slow method – to change the perception of reality, where despite the availability of abundance of information, citizens of a country cannot make out the reality. Yuri Bezmenov was trained in Russia by the KGB and served as a “journalist” in India during the 60s. In this video he discusses how this process of Ideological Subversion occurs. The whole process follows 4-steps: Demoralize a nation (15-20 years): Expose your... Read more
At the Jaipur Literary Fest, a tiff happened between Kancha Illiah and Javed Akhtar. Here is a description of what happened: The tiff erupted after Akhtar, who was in the audience at a packed venue, interjected during the session on ‘God as a political philosopher: Dalit Perspectives on Buddhism’, saying he was an atheist and no religion gave equality to women and weaker sections. “Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to... Read more
Krishna is said to have played Raas and danced with the Gopis – or cow-herd girls – in Vrindavan. Radha was also amongst them. His magic is said to have been such that even older women couldn’t resist his attraction. This story and ethos has proliferated a lot of poems, writings and paintings… even dances and sequences in the movies. These depictions were left to the mindset of the artists. Given how Hinduism is in terms of free interpretation, if... Read more
Will the Chinese economy continue its torrid pace of growth and overtake the U.S.’s top status? Or is it a bubble destined to burst, taking the world economy down with it? Paul Solman interviews a highly-respected China “bull” and a prominent China “bear” as part of his ongoing Making Sen$e project. Read more
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