http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/reptiles-animals/snakes/cobra_eatsratsnake.html?source=email_inside
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Amazing predator videos from Nat Geo
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/reptiles-animals/snakes/cobra_eatsratsnake.html?source=email_inside
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Want to know about the History of Indian mathematics?
Go here http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Indexes/Indians.html .
This sums it all:
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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated. Its simplicity lies in the way it facilitated calculation and placed arithmetic foremost amongst useful inventions. the importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the two greatest men of Antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
See the anagram of your name
Did you know New York Times can be reconfigured as "monkeys write" ? Check out what your name can be reconfigured as at http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html . This is an internet anagram server maintained by Anu Garg.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Got a spoiled kid? Take her to Indian slums
An American mom took her spoiled shopaholic teen to Indian slums to change her perspective about life. See part of "lucky ducks", the documentary here (her mom made this) through yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/curing-a-spoiled-rotten-teen-18988491