Saturday, 29 June 2013

Guys ! Look at the Prize !

Shrishti Asthana, a Class 11 student from Millenium School, Mohali would be competing with 14 other finalists from around the world who would be taken to the Google headquarters in the US Sep 23. The winner will receive a 10-day trip to Galapagos Islands with National Geographic expeditions, $50,000 in scholarship funding and other prizes.
The Google Science Fair is an online science competition started in 2011. It is open to students of 13-18 years of age, who formulate hypothesis, perform experiments, and present results to a panel of experts.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Punjab-girl-to-represent-India-at-Google-Science-Fair/articleshow/20831677.cms

Saturday, 15 June 2013

Lost city of Mahendraparvata discovered in Cambodian jungles

A lost city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using airborne laser technology, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday in a world exclusive.
Over two dozen temple sites have been discovered on the site, which is thought to have been built around 802 AD when the Angor Empire was founded.
It is believed to be the lost city of Mahendraparvata, located on a misty mountain called Phnom Kulen deep in the hinterland of Cambodia. It was thought to be built 350 years before the famed Angor Wat. A journalist and photographer from the newspaper accompanied the expedition, led by a French-born archaeologist, through the landmine-strewn jungle in the Siem Reap region where Angkor Wat is located.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Lost-city-of-Mahendraparvata-discovered-in-Cambodian-jungles/articleshow/20603681.cms

Friday, 31 May 2013

Asteroid approaching Earth tonight carries a baby moon: Scientists

The asteroid that is going to zip past the Earth at nearly 6 million kilometers away tonight is not travelling alone. Nasa scientists tracking the asteroid with the giant Deep Space Network antenna in California have discovered that the asteroid has a small satellite or moon.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Asteroid-approaching-Earth-tonight-carries-a-baby-moon-Scientists/articleshow/20368989.cms

Saturday, 18 May 2013

The Age of Industrialisation

Do you not see rapid industrialization  as a time of progress and modernity ? D you think that the spread of railways and factories, and construction of high-rise building and bridges is a sign of society's development ? Is industrialization always based on rapid technological development ? Can we today continue to glorify continuous mechanization of all work ? What has industrialization meant to people's lives ? To answer such questions we need to tun to the history of Industrialization. In this chapter we will look at this history by focusing first on Britain, the first industrial nation, and then India, where the pattern of industrial change was conditioned by colonial rule.
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/vinodkumar712714-1819305-age-industrialisation/