Jawaan!

While I was doing my Doctoral dissertation, I had some questions constantly in my mind. “How would I complete my dissertation paper?”; “Will I be able to write my PhD dissertation ?”; “Will Dissertation writing be easy for me or not?”, all these questions always lingered in my mind

Many students get stuck on the very first step of essay writing that is “topic selection”.

Scholarship opportunities abound for students who devote their time and energy to helping those around them.  One such opportunity is this week’s Scholarship of the Week . The Coca-Cola Scholars Program, one of the most generous and well-known community service scholarships , is awarded each year to high school students who have demonstrated academic achievement and community involvement. Current high school seniors can win up to $20,000 towards their college education through this scholarship program.  By demonstrating the ways they’ve served their communities and made a positive impact on the world, students can earn one of 250 four-year achievement-based scholarships from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation.  Finalists will also receive a trip to Atlanta for personal interviews and an awards ceremony

First things first: You’re a mutant.  But don’t waste your time trying to fly or look through people’s clothes, as your amazing mutant powers are “not having pseudopods” and “consisting of more than a single cell.”  All of evolution results from random changes in DNA, and now scientists have recorded the current rate of human mutation.

Mankind has always been driven by contradictory drives.  The relentless curiosity that pushes us forward and is directly responsible for our progress from caves to  cities.  The fear of change that tells us “hang on, these caves/cities are really nice, we don’t want to risk losing them.”  There isn’t any greater potential threat to the status quo than the discovery of extraterrestrial life, which is why some people would prefer we didn’t try. There has been some outrage recently over attempts to contact intelligent aliens, where instead of hiding in the corner and listening real hard some astronomers beamed intense directional messages up up and away.  Critics decried these actions as dangerous, though their fears reveal more about us than any eventual ETs.  They assume that they would be similar to humanity, so their first response to finding a more primitive culture would be to exploit the hell out of it.  While such a fate might be pleasingly ironic (for anyone who isn’t human, at least), others contend that any species that can make the journey here has advanced to a point where their goals are rather higher-minded than “Shoot us”. Dr Alexander Zaitzev, of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, doesn’t think much of these worries either way.  A proponent of METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), in a recent paper he shows that the odds of one of the METI messages being detected is a millionth of that due to powerful radar pulses regularly used in astronomical investigation.  Though whether writing a paper saying “This METI thing we’re doing has only a tiny chance of working” is overall a good idea remains to be seen.  An important point is that METI represents an intentional will to make contact, rather than the accidental alien interception of some random radiation from Earth – the difference between saying “Hello!” and just being a suspicious strange noise late at night.

Two tiny worms much smaller than a rice grain and a strange crustacean that has no eyes and poisonous fangs are among several new species of marine life discovered living in total darkness in in a mile-long underwater cave in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic off the coast of North Africa. The cave is believed to have been formed by a volcanic eruption about 20,000 years ago. Tom Iliffe, professor of marine biology and one of the world’s foremost cave researchers, was part of an international team that discovered the new species.

Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd don’t need to suit up for this one. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic “ghost,” and scientists think it is evidence of a huge eruption produced by a supermassive black hole equal in power to a billion supernovas

“Technology has overtaken nature in some domains but lags far behind in the cognitive processing of received sense impressions. My dream is to endow robots with multiple sensory modalities.

In further proof that the universe can kick our butt at just about anything, the double galaxies of NGC4676 are putting on a pyrotechnics display that Jerry Bruckheimer couldn’t imagine if he mainlined LSD and directly applied two thousand volts to his visual cortex.  They’re colliding in a process leading astrophysicists describe as “totally awesome”.  They’ve got a sense of cinema style to it too, drawing the stellar spectacular out in extreme slow-motion – a few hundred million years, now showing in a cosmos near you. We think astronomers could do a better name these fantastic objects.