NASA praises ISRO, offers training for Indian astronauts
The world’s largest space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) now seeks to partner with the Indian Space Research Organisation for future space endeavours and has offered that India could use its top class facilities [...]
The New Science of Building Great Teams
Artwork: Andy Gilmore, Chromatic, 2010, digital drawing
Featuring Alex “Sandy” Pentland
If you were looking for teams to rig for success, a call center would be a good place to start. The skills required for call center work are easy to [...]
Pinki Pramanik’s privacy violated
If of late you have been sickened by the way the West Bengal Police have treated Pinki Pramanik, then think again. The extreme voyeurism exhibited in the leak of her video (that is how she identifies herself) medical ‘screening’ [...]
Did the human speech evolve from monkeys pulling faces?
X-ray survey finds that primates use complex ‘language’ of lip smacking expressions
Gist:
Lip smacking gestures work at same speed as human speech
Vowels and consonants work in same way as smacking lips
The noises made by monkeys [...]
The great sexual continuum: What Pinki teaches us all
These issues speak of the sexuality ignorance prevailing in the world, and the need of the hour to accept the other forms off sexuality other than female or male.
Hermaphroditism is a sex development disorder in which a person birthed can have [...]
Medical report claims Pinki is a ‘male pseudohermaphrodite’
Medical report claims Pinki is a ‘male pseudohermaphrodite’. Pinki Pramanik ‘incapable of rape’, gets bail
The medical report of Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik hints that she is a rare case of “male pseudohermaphroditism”, [...]
How ancients prevented river water seepage
Workers excavating a holy pond in a village at the periphery of Mathura have discovered what is claimed as the first iron sheet used to prevent seepage of river water. Should the right moves be made, the area could well be a potential UNESCO [...]
Boson boffin ‘a forgotten hero’
SCIENTIST Satyendranath Bose, after whom the Higgs-Boson is named, has not been given his due, India has said
While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week’s breakthrough in identifying the [...]
God Particle’ Detected?: Higgs Boson Experiment Bearing Fruit
Creating new particles by smashing light speed traveling protons together in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is producing breakthroughs in physics. CERN spokesman Guido Tonelli explains the experiment and why it’s important.
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CERN scientists find the ‘God particle’
The five-decade-long hunt for the elusive Higgs boson or the ‘God particle’ has reached a milestone, with scientists at the CERN claiming on Wednesday that they have discovered a new subatomic particle that looks like the one believed [...]
