Our Feverish Planet

I found this very interesting and excellent article on Time.com by JEFFREY KLUGER.
“It was probably always too much to believe that human beings would be  responsible stewards of the planet. We may be the smartest of all the animals, endowed with exponentially greater powers of insight and abstraction, but we’re animals all the same. That means that [...]

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Muree Trip

We went to Muree this weekend on office trip.It was real fun there and also real Cold.Though there was no snow but still it was extremely chilly.here are some pics from the trip

 

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Al Gore Returns to Congress

“Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress Wednesday to plead with lawmakers to fight global warming with moral courage, while Gore revealed nothing about whether he’ll join the 2008 presidential race.
The former vice president is a Democratic favorite for the presidential nomination even though he says he’s not running.
Fresh off a triumphant Hollywood [...]

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World’s Rivers In Danger

Pollution, global warming and rampant development could destroy some of the world’s most iconic rivers in the coming decades, threatening to wipe out thousands of fish species and cause severe water shortages, the World Wide Fund for Nature said in a report Tuesday.
Only 21 of the planet’s 177 longest rivers run freely from source to [...]

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Ice Deposits Found on Mars

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has scanned huge deposits of water ice at its south pole so plentiful they would blanket the planet in 36 feet of water if they were liquid, scientists said on Thursday.
The scientists used a joint NASA-Italian Space Agency radar instrument on the European Space Agency Mars Express spacecraft to gauge the [...]

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300

Last night I saw 300 movie and it was really a very good war movie. It depicts battle of Thermopylae and heroics of Spartans and there king leonaidas against the persian army lead by king Xerxes.The movie is  quite close to the real event .This one stands in the same class as Gladiator, Troy and [...]

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Age Of Warriors

From the time when man came into existence there have been man who do extraordinary works and get legendry fame and acknowledgements upon there heroic achievements and triumphs. But one difference we have seen in the past 150 years is the decline of warrior class in this area. When we look back over past 2-3 [...]

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Lake Vostok

Lake Vostok (the name comes from the Russian word for “east”) is the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Earth’s southern-most continent— Antarctica. It is located at 77° S 105° E, beneath Russia’s Vostok Station, 4000 metres (13,000 feet) under the surface of the central Antarctic ice sheet. [...]

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Microsoft Confronts Google on Copyright

Microsoft is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google Tuesday for what the software giant argues is the Web-search leader’s “cavalier” approach to copyright protection. 
In prepared remarks to be delivered to the Association of American Publishers, Microsoft Associate General Counsel Thomas Rubin argues that Google’s move into new-media markets has come at [...]

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NEW POLAR CLIMATE STUDY LAUNCHED

More than 60 nations launch the broadest scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global warming.
About 3,000 children will build snowmen in Oslo, top scientists will meet in Paris and researchers will gather on a polar research vessel in Cape Town h arbor [...]

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