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Preserve Ozone !!

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Today is International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. Since 1995, September 16 of each year is celebrated as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. This date has been designed as such by the United Nations General Assembly  in order to commemorate the signing of the Montreal Protocol on [...]

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Jupiter is getting back its lost belt

jupiter stripes

One of Jupiter’s stripes went missing Earlier this year. The Southern Equatorial Band (SEB) started to get lighter and paler, and eventually disappeared. Now, follow-up images from both professional and amateur astronomers are showing some activity in the area of the SEB, and scientists now believe the vanished dark stripe is making a comeback. The [...]

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Avicenna

avicenna

He was one of the greatest Polymath. Avicenna, aka Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, was a Persian physician, philosopher, and scientist who was born in 980 in Kharmaithen near Bukhara, now in Uzbekistan (then Persia), and died June 1037 in Hamadan, Persia (Iran). He had authored about 450 of works on a wide [...]

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Polymath

polymath

A polymath is  a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable. Most ancient scientists were polymaths. Not just scientists but many others including philosophers and many others we are not known of were polymaths. [...]

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A city of slums

Children, A slum in Delhi

Recently i visited Delhi as a part of my  final year tour. It was 2 weeks before the CWG and whole city was working a lot to make it the best host. It was looking beautiful mostly near the CWG games village and other stadiums. But the roads deeper in the city was still under [...]

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