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  1. Who can predict an earthquake?

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    / September 23, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Bala   After last week’s earthquake in Sikkim, Nepal’s acting PM Bijay Kumar Gachhedar in a rather  controversial and tasteless remark said since nobody can stop earthquakes, let them happen in developed countries like US and not in poor countries like Nepal.   Even though no one can stop...

  2. The gadget gyration

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    / July 22, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan   Have you ever felt the need to purchase a variety of electronic equipment, often under no stimulus other than the reason that it is there on a shop shelf in front of you? I confess to owning an electronic violin tuner. It isn’t a very...
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    Tagged electronic, gadget, old, taperecorder

  3. Tablet for MPs, no relief for aam aadmi

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    / June 27, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir Dear civil society fellow Indians, may be, just may be, our politicians need not be summarily condemned as a bad lot after all. They may have their heart in the right place. And it apparently beats for our environment. Now say kudos ! I say this...

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    / June 26, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By G Mohan   Today’s newspapers carried a depressing news : `Techie dies in accident on wedding eve’. IBN live reports that :   The victim, Ch Lenin (32), was a resident of BN Reddy Colony near Vanasthalipuram and was working with the TCS. Lenin’s marriage was scheduled for Saturday...

  5. A very Big machine

    Posted by Archana Anandakrishnan
    / June 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Archana Anandakrishnan   The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a machine located at the border (underground) of France and Switzerland that physicists around the world have been patiently waiting for. The machine took years and a budget of a few billion dollars to build. That makes it the world’s...

  6. From carbon copy to soft copy

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / May 28, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Navin Chandra Joshi   I have always been fascinated by old things, antiques and articles which have outlived their utility. Though I cannot boast of a reputation of owning a Salar Jung Museum but friends calling on me can’t leave unless they get a feel of my collection of...

  7. The demise of an invention

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    / March 21, 2011 / 3 Comments
                                                The incandescent bulb born 130 years ago is on now its deathbed.            Very soon it will disappear from shops across the world. It has almost disappeared from Australia and Brazil, and in the very near future will make its final bow in Britain as well....
    Posted in Technology
    Tagged bulb, invention, light

  8. Why I made `Dongala Mutha’

    Posted by Ram Gopal Varma
    / March 16, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Ram Gopal Varma   My primary intention of doing the Telugu film `Dongala Mutha’ in just five days was to first learn for myself how it is actually practically possible to use present day technology with a crew of just 8 people including me and then through that, to...

  9. 87 and tweeting !

    Posted by Akkineni Nageswara Rao
    / February 21, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Akkineni Nageswara Rao On February 18, when I and my wife completed 62 years of matrimony, my grandsons Akhil and Sumanth suggested that I get on to twitter. I agreed and soon I was told that my `handle’ is A_NageswaraRao ! To be honest, I don’t know how to...

  10. Programmed !

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    / February 7, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By V Desikan   `Law of diminishing utility’ is generally applicable to Economics. Now I wonder if it is applicable to science also. I am a retired Defence scientist and so I shall speak no ill about science and technology or doubt their great utility to humanity. The only debate...

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