India’s Ratna CNR Rao missed the Nobel Prize and how!
India’s Ratna CNR Rao missed the Nobel Prize and how!
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Welcome to the T10kT project of NMEICT at IIT Bombay-
T10kT project of NMEICT at IIT Bombay Every Indian learner deserves to be given a chance to have the highest quality education. Scarcity of trained teachers critically hinders this national desire. This project envisions empowerment of teachers, through workshops conducted for thousands of teachers at one go, using...
How a Dreamer Changed the World-(Profile of Steve Jobs)
This is a profile on late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a technological visionary who overcame numerous setbacks on his path to success. This short documentary features interviews with several of Jobs’ colleagues and business associates who recount the adversities faced, and his ultimate triumph as a computer...
10 Times Scientists Blew Our Minds Part Two (Re-posted from scienceNet)
Amazing thoughts from Stephen Hawking , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Michio Kaku & Lawrence Krauss , Brian Cox , Sam Harris , Richard Dawkins and Richard Feynman .
Modern Marvel-History of computers
History of the Computer is a really well narrated documentary which traces through the evolution of computers to what they are today. It starts with how Charles Babbage conceived the idea of a programmable machine in 1822, then how Herman Hollerth made the first tabulating machine which he...
A morality based on rational belief not on blind faith(Re-posted from ScienceNet)
10 Times Scientists Blew Our Minds
Those 6 Times Neil deGrasse Tyson Nailed Everything (Re-posted from scienceNet)
Six more informative and inspirational moments with your favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
58 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names
This is a Scrabble GOLDMINE Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names
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English daily-week end special-Stay hungry,stay foolish- Stev Jobs
Stay hungry…Stay foolish. Steve Jobs Speech in 2005 at Stanford University “”Iam honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college...
