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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
…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 [...]
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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