Indian Rail

Few days back there was news about the inauguration of India’s longest rail bridge in Kerala. The bridge is 4.62 KMS long. The previous record was held by Dehri-on-Sone Bridge. The bridge is on Howrah-Delhi Grand Chord Line and is 3.65 KMS in length. The interesting fact about Sone Bridge is not its length, by [...]

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Mayan revisited

The Blood thirst Have you watched Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto? This is how IMDB describes the movie: “As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.” The movie Apocalypto [...]

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The ‘Face’ on Mars – Nartural or Artificial?

On 25 July, 1976, Viking-1 while acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars, photographed a region relatively crater-free, lowland plains to the north. Among the hills was one that resembled a human face (frame 35A72 shown above). This discovery was made by Tobias Owen from Jet Propulsion laboratory (JPL), a subsidiary of NASA. Few [...]

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Our National Anthem

When I was in high school, I was part of a team which participated in the national anthem competition on Independence Day. Team of 3 boys & 2 girls. We practiced for many weeks, just to achieve the perfect timings of 52 seconds. Needless to say that we won the competition, primarily because we had [...]

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At the end of ice age…

…part 2 – the meltdown (movie) whole area is flooded with water after a very large ice dam breaks. This is precisely what must have happened from 15000 BC to 7000 BC, only at a much larger scale. So what precisely is a ice dam? 20000 years ago large parts of North America and northern [...]

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Males don’t have Bloodline & Lineage?

Recently my wife was reading Kathy Reichs novel where she has described about mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Kathy Reichs is also producer & writer of the popular TV series Bones. Before hearing about mtDNA, I had very little idea about any types of DNAs, except  Y & X chromosomes. My DNA knowledge is/was limited to doing paternity [...]

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