Category: General

Converting Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin and Rankine

There are many temperature scales: fahrenheit, celsius, kelvin, rankine, newton, romer, reaumor, delisle. Why the scientist want to mess up with all of them ? The answer is: math. Math is the thing that make all laws working, and when the math is simple, everyone understands.
Different temperature scales has different advantages. For [...]

Friday March 12th, 2010 in General | No Comments »

How Can We Stop Global Warming

Global warming is an environmental hazard, typically characterized by rising average temperature of planet Earth, owing to natural as well as anthropogenic causes. The issue of global warming seems to be quite intricate, and as two groups of scientists – one stressing on the fact that global warming is occurring and [...]

Friday March 5th, 2010 in General | No Comments »

Nuclear safety:When positive is negative

WHEN news spread in December 2007 that an ageing nuclear reactor in Canada might shut down for much longer than its scheduled two weeks, the world caught its breath. The reactor, at Chalk River in Ontario, is the world’s biggest supplier of radioactive isotopes for medical use, and diagnostic tests for cancer and heart disease [...]

Wednesday January 13th, 2010 in General | No Comments »

The sinister powers of crowdsourcing

When an ad hoc team of 5000 people who assembled in just two hours found 10 weather balloons hidden across the US by the Pentagon’s research agency earlier this month, it was just another demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing – solving a task by appealing to a large undefined group of web users to [...]

Monday January 11th, 2010 in General | No Comments »

Interesting Facts About Earth

Stop by here if you are looking for some interesting facts about Earth. Some of these are quite interesting while others border the thin line between strange and bizarre. Read on to know more.
Our planet is truly very interesting, indeed. While 70% of the planet is covered with water, the most advanced life form on [...]

Saturday January 9th, 2010 in General | No Comments »

Ares I is ’safest choice’ to replace shuttle

It has been a whipping boy for its critics, but NASA’s Ares I rocket has received a rare boost.
Despite budget and technical concerns, NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) believes Ares I is the best bet for flying astronauts to the International Space Station after the space shuttle retires, because it has been designed from [...]

Tuesday January 5th, 2010 in General | No Comments »

Is Bermuda Triangle Real

Bermuda triangle, also referred to as the Devil’s triangle, is a region in the Atlantic Ocean, renowned as a mysterious place owing to the disappearances of a number of aircraft’s and vessels traveling through this part. The demarcated triangle is located off the Bermuda coast, from which it derives the name ‘Bermuda triangle’. Although, there [...]

Tuesday January 5th, 2010 in General | No Comments »

What is the Sun Made Of

Initially thought to be hydrogen and helium, it took researchers many years to find out what is the Sun made of. The efforts on the part of researchers yielded results, when it came to light that besides, hydrogen and helium, the mass of the Sun also, consists of elements, such as neon and iron.

Everybody knows [...]

Saturday January 2nd, 2010 in General | No Comments »

Why we need to eat technology

Can an understanding of science improve our cooking?
There will never be science in the home. Science takes place in the lab. That produces knowledge, and if you use that knowledge when you cook then it becomes technique and technology.
How did you get into the science of cooking?
I was making a Roquefort soufflé for friends on [...]

Tuesday December 29th, 2009 in General | No Comments »

Tips for Comparing Projector Prices

Buying a projector is an investment that you want to be sure you make wisely. So taking the time to do some comparison [...]

Monday December 14th, 2009 in General | No Comments »