Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Going Green While Staying Sane And Smart

Sunday, April 18, 2010 11:01 No Comments

Proponents of Green, watch this video. If you believe in 80:20 rule, go and hit the 80% part of it with just 20% of your decisions. And leave the rest of 20% of going green, that essentially need and demand 80% changes in life styles for future study. In a short, funny, data-packed talk at [...]

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Google Living Stories : Online News, The Way It Should Have been

Monday, December 14, 2009 11:01 1 Comment

Google unveiled a labs feature called ‘Living Stories’ that organizes news related to a topic in a format that best fits the online reader and present all relevant information at one place. I love this new format. Online news should have been this way in the first place, but I am glad it is headed [...]

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Reverse Brain Drain To India : Its Not What It Seems

Friday, December 11, 2009 19:29 No Comments

Few days back I read an article breaking the news that lots of Indians are going back to India, causing what is called as ‘reverse brain drain’. Its not the first time I heard this, and certainly it won’t be the last time. Every time going gets tougher in US, I hear this story. This [...]

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Global Warming : Who is Right? What is the Truth?

Monday, December 7, 2009 9:20 No Comments

The debate at Copenhagen just begun. Hopefully, we will have some clarity and Truth about the whole gamut of Global Warming and whether we the humans are guilty of it. So far, Scientists on both sides of the argument defend themselves. But one must note that both sides are making a political statement as Scientific [...]

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SOLAR IMPULSE : Around The World In A SOLAR Plane

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 20:24 No Comments

  In a world depending on fossil energies, the Solar Impulse project is a paradox, almost a provocation: it aims to have an airplane take off and fly autonomously, day and night, propelled uniquely by solar energy, right round the world without fuel or pollution. An unachievable goal without pushing back the current technological limits [...]

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