Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

iPad cannot be a perfect bridge between a smartphone and a laptop !!

iPad finally arrived !!.. I personally feel its the first Apple product which doesn’t deserve all that hype and much attention.
How much ever people use smart phones today, I am sure they won’t throw their conventional laptop computers into the gutter. That’s because, there are lot of things a smartphone cannot do and similarly [...]

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Mile Sur Mera Tumhara v2.0

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara v2.0 finally arrived with the very same ethnicity, little more charm and national integration. It was produced by Zoom Television Network.
The song was aired exclusively on Zoom TV on 60th Republic Day of India and thus made this Republic Day even more special. The song features many of the current day [...]

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Listen to the Music Composed using Bird Postions on Electric Wires

Listen to this awesome music composition. You will be surprised to know that this was composed by taking bird positions on electric wires as musical notes.

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Jarbas Agnelli from Brazil, 46, spotted a picture of the birds in a newspaper and noticed they were arranged like notes on [...]

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Baby born with heart outside her body!!

Below is the image of a 10-day-old baby in India who was born with heart outside the body.

The baby had incredibly rare defect ectopia cordis that affects only eight in every million births and ninety percent of these are stillborn or die within three days. Dr. Yogendra Gupta said they had to create [...]

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The Actual Meaning of Dowry System in India!!

Today, I was reading some article related to Indian culture and traditions where I was disappointed to see that some anonymous user had made a comment saying.. “In India people buy their wives.” So, I felt responsible to write here the actual meaning of dowry and why was it introduced and why some families still [...]

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Microsoft says “an enemy’s enemy is my friend!”

The ruler of the Desktop kingdom seems to have unfilled appetite and hence has made a stride to feed on internet zone. The much hyped alliance has finally come true. Microsoft and Yahoo signed a ten-year deal on Wednesday (July 29th) which allows Microsoft to use its search engine Bing on Yahoo’s website. This is [...]

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Sometimes, survival means deception!

These are not just twigs but a deep look may discover twig-like insects. They are the perfect example for camouflage.

Image Courtesy: National Geographic Society
They are called stick insects and during the day they are nearly invisible to distinguish from the sylvan backdrop they imitate to escape from predators. During night, however, sticks and leaf [...]

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We are 10 years away from Artificial Human Brain!!

Henry Markham, the director of Blue Brain project told at a TED conference in Oxford that building human brain is possible. His research team proposed that the project can be successful in a decade.

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105 famous people in one painting!

 
This is a painting titled “Discussing the divine comedy with dante” by Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An in the year 2006 and it depicts 105 famous political and cultural iconic personalities of the world.
Click the image to see its high resolution version.

 

Special Attraction: There is even world’s first cloned animal – Dolly. [...]

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A Victim for Atavism

Atavisms are the genetic traits of distant ancestors that reappear in the modern day. In order for the trait to be an atavism, an organism’s parents can’t have the trait, and neither can the recent ancestors.
In the image below is Jiaxue (from China) who is an example for Atavism. She inherited the genes from chimpanzee. [...]

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