Our understanding of the Universe is about to change…

After a quarter of a century of dreaming and planning, designing and building, at last we are about to see the world’s largest and the highest-energy particle accelerator (LHC) in action – on 10th September 2008. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic (27-kilometre) scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle acceleratorused by physicists to study the smallest known pa... (read post)

Save the planet!

And the best way to do that is for humans to be eliminated completely, according to the following graphic from a report on TimesOnline, which shows the estimated time required for the disappearance of man’s traces and the recovery of the planet.     The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report on their study of the causes and effects of global warming and the news is not good for the... (read post)

Commute Easy – We 4 ours 1!

  I came across this new initiative called Commute Easy to encourage car/bike pooling in Bangalore and I must say I’m impressed. It provides a forum for us to find car/bike pools that we can be a part of and where we can offer our car/bike for people to join. They have a simple registration process where we enter our details and our routes. We can also search for other car pools along our routes and contact members in that pool to join i... (read post)