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This always happens in college!! If you buy some laptop, as a student, especially a college going one, you expect others to feel envy about the laptop you use. And that is not wrong. Naturally what happens is, friends easily kill your argument about the best things in your laptop, by quoting that they have seen all those in the past. So, its really important for a student to select a laptop which would host technologies that are not so common.  As an Acer user, I am not so proud of my laptop as it has nothing special. Although it has a brilliant 1360X780 HD display with a stunning 732 MB video graphics memory, that would only help enhancing your movie experience. It does not appeal much for a geek as it has less appreciable computing power and storage capabilities.  Acer has released recently, ICONIA series which features 15.4" HD touch screens. I said 'screens' because there are 2 such touch screens and they name it as manipulation area and display area. Hosting ...

Anna Hazare Firstly, I would like to express my full support to the formulation of Jan Lokpal bill, with norms as suggested by Mr.Anna hazare, a former army man. While it is becoming increasingly popular to threaten or black mail the government by non-violence and violence methods, we cannot quote this sort of action badly!! He grabbed the attention of public and media so quickly because he is in no way connected to any political party or any organization that involves in political activities. This sort of protests have been made before on the issue of corruption and none of them were taken so seriously as this. This might be because, all those protests are concentrated on a single segment of corruption and seeks to get justice in that issue. A single issue that's brought into front light is always vulnerable to criticism as a lot of loop holes can be found to get out of it. But, Hazare's protest is very different. He is not asking for justice in a segment, he is asking to a...

Honestly, no one in their teens can experience true love. At least, that's what I believe. And to believe in something, you have to have a strong point with you. I got mine, after watching a few movies about love in two ways, teen and adult. When we are in our teens, we tend to attract towards girls ( assuming you are a boy!!) or boys (assuming you are a girl) and it is also very natural to get these sexual feelings at times. Suppose, you met someone special in the first day of your college, without a second thought you want to walk all the steps for a relationship that you don't even know you wanted. Its all about getting noticed and being popular among friends or peers. Once you stepped in a relation, now see, that will be a roller coaster ride for you as you don't have serious views on the relation to stand up. It starts with SMS and a few calls a day. Goes up to like a few less in the coming days, and you suddenly start thinking that you were wrong about the other per...

SAGA OF COLORS             Speaking of colors is not as simple as it seems! It intertwines physics of light , the physiology of vision and our psychological perceptions . Colors have been used in psychology for mental and physical healing. They have been used across almost all cultures and countries to represent certain beliefs and ideas. For example: Indians consider white as the color representing peace, saffron for sacrifice, green for happiness and likewise red has been considered as the color for danger all over the world and hence it is used in painting danger boards, important instructions that are not supposed to be missed etc., Although many such things are formulated based on aesthetic appeal made by the color, some have scientific explanations too, which I will be covering in this article. Similarly, we will also discuss the role of colors in science, entertainment, psychology, pho...

Study of STARS             How do you measure the size of a star? How do you estimate it’s mass? How do you know hoe distant it is? When you are asked how distant is place-A from place-B (assuming these two places are on Earth), you same some x km. When you are asked, how do you know that, you try to say that I measured it when I traveled by bike or you can say any measuring technique including Geo-mapping. But, you have never been to a star, nor did any machine, nor anything that we know. Still, how are we so certain about the parameters of a star? Read on to find out... DISTANCE AND LUMINOSITY:             When you look at a star, what you see is the apparent brightness of a star rather than its absolute brightness. This apparent brightness is measured in terms of magnitude. The scale is same as that of old catalogs which assigned 1 st...

While it is very commonly held notion that earthquakes are random and natural disasters, it is also possible that they can be triggered in an artificial way. I will explain you how, although in a trivial manner. Let us assume there is an event 'A' which generates an output variable say 'x', twice during the entire process. Once before the event has occurred and once after the event. And now, the possibility that the variable 'x' can somehow along with a few other variables could create the event 'A',should not be overlooked. People who are taking 'Physics of Earthquakes' as their elective very well know that, a lot of cases have been documented showing the anomalous appearance of radio waves ranging from ELF to VHF, in the area of earthquake prone region, both before and after the earthquake has occurred. Now as I said earlier, we should not rule out the possibility of radio waves triggering an earthquake. Although, it is unknown, how a radio wa...

Hi friends! The purpose of this blog is to share with you guys, the events and situations that lead to the failure of my event hosted in Daksh 2010, a quiz on astronomy, by the name "Cosmic Panorama". I am an astronomy freak. Night skies have always fascinated me. That crush has even led me to make a visit to ISRO, SriHarikota which only enhanced my interest. So, when I returned to the college, I had a thought of organizing some event that shows how interesting and fascinating astronomy is.. After a long pause, me and two of my friends, came up with an idea of conducting astronomy quiz. This may not be very interesting, but that is all we could think of!! May be this is the FIRST thing you should not do. i.e., don't contain yourself with the thought you got first, keep thinking, you could get a better one , like, some Jeopardy style, creative solutions type, like that. Appeals more than a quiz,right?? Alright, then we shared our thoughts in the meetings. They liked ...