Category: Blog
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Ticketless Travel
How to travel in train with no hard copy of eticket It happened that we have to travel from a small town by train to the nearest airport. While we booked the tickets online (thanks to wireless internet services) it was not possible to get a print out of the ticket due to power outage…
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The Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin issue
As the name implies, this refers to the area broadly enclosed by the deltaic basins of the two major rivers in Andhra Pradesh Krishna and Godavari. It includes part of the Bay of Bengal into which these rivers drain. The area has been identified as one of India’s biggest oil and gas fields, several times…
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Information at the speed of thought
I wonder how information availability has improved over the years. Flying on a plane I imagine why is the world always shown as north pole up and south pole down while it really doesn’t matter which side is up. It is not only in maps but also outer space images where the world is always…
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Blog Theme Update
I felt it was time to update my blog theme. Mandigo was indeed a good one and styled this blog for more than a year. Mandigo has many features that are customizable and has a lot of skins which auto updates. The only disadvantage is its sporty look which now is not that attractive. Core…
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Time Dilation
The non linearity of time as mentioned in my blog dated 10 Sep 2008 https://shankarananth.com/?p=83 is indeed a explained phenomena with a different approach. Time dilation is that phenomena and is explained by Einstein with his Twin paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox Curved time as mentioned in my earlier blog is something not to do with this.
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How far is our knowledge up to date?
I guess most of our generation would have this feeling. The feeling that we are working on the frontiers of science and working on cutting edge technology. But how far are we really? If you think the science and technology you learnt in the textbooks during schooling were latest, you’ve got to rethink. It might…
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The Perfectionist
Perfectionism, is a belief that perfection can and should be attained. In its pathological form, perfectionism is a belief that work or output that is anything less than perfect is unacceptable. At such levels, this is considered an unhealthy belief, and psychologists typically refer to such individuals as maladaptive perfectionists. Positive aspects Perfectionism can drive…
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Dell Hell
Few weeks back my sisters Dell Notebook (Inspiron 1525) did not keep up system time and hence approached Dell Support. As per instructions given by their engineer she had downloaded BIOS 16 Upgrade and have run it. After this the system was not even able to boot. It gave the message “Time-of-day clock has stopped”.…
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The Atheist
I am confused if Atheists exist. If by definition an atheist is someone who do not believe existence of GOD then the majority of those who claim themselves as Atheists are not so. Most atheists tend to exhibit their hatred towards GOD due to distasteful instances in life. These people see god as a devil…
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Ask Questions
My boss keeps telling that the current young generation (I am no more young so exclude me 🙂 ) do not ask questions and show no eagerness to seek answers. While not all bosses expect such attitude from employees our nature of work demands so. I try to analyze if this complaint on the younger…