International Year of Chemistry 2011

The International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011) is a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind. Under the unifying theme “Chemistry—our life, our future,” IYC 2011 will offer a range of interactive, entertaining, and educational activities for all ages. The Year of Chemistry is intended to reach across the globe, with opportunities for public participation at the local, regional, and national level.
The IYC 2011 is an initiative of IUPAC, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. It involves chemical societies, academies, and institutions worldwide, and relies on individual initiatives to organize local and regional activities.

The official website at:
http://www.chemistry2011.org/
The theme:

Chemistry – our life, our future

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First the demo...



and how it works here...

Discovery Shuttle : Time Lapse

Here is a nice time lapse video of NASA shuttle launch. Who would not love to play with such big gadget! (There goes gadget contradiction!)

It has irritating ad in the beginning... I removed the embedded video for the same reason.

Please see the video located here...

http://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/videos/Go-For-Launch.html



Source:
http://blog.planet5d.com/7sl

Who said science is hard and boring?

Study the science of art and the art of science.
--Leonardo da Vinci

Princeton University is hosting fourth Art of Science competition. The exhibit includes work by undergraduates, faculty, research staff, graduate students, and alumni.  The theme for the 2010 Art of Science exhibition was “energy”.

If you have experience of working (hard) in a lab, you know the instant pleasure of seeing something beautiful and artistic. I wonder how much influence that has onto creativity. I have few such experiences of non convergent bubble graphs during my Monte Carlo runs. I will certainly post few of them in future... to me they looked beautiful.

Credit: http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/
The pictures presented there were produced during the course of scientific research. 
Here is the video from Vimeo:



URL: http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2010/
While you are there do not forget the previous year's archives.

OK OK... It may be hard; but it is not boring :P

Google Voice for Students ... faster invitation

Google has a fast lane for students.

To those who wants google voice and has student email address with .edu, get it faster.

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/students.html

I got one by not using .edu. It took more than two weeks. 24 hrs is fast, super duper fast.

Posting on Facebook? Think once

Just found out how securely your data is handled...
 All the post having "nepal" as key word.
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=nepal&type=post
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few of them...

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  "message": "Nepal's newspaper actually publishes the phone numbers of people who send death threats via telephone... Who feels like crank calling Somanth Bastola? I got his digits!", 

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  "message": "Hi All my friend k6 ta nepal tirako halkhabar ma ta mumbai ma ho. ke garne ta petko lagi bhaye pani ghar 6odera aaunu parne rahe6a",

• "message": "Less than 9 hours left to order curry this week!  We are about half of our goal so far this week. 

  
  

  Help make the difference!  Order curry!  Call: 733-4568 or go to www.gracefornepal.org  If you are not sure what this is about, please call me.  There is a great need here that we are trying to fill.  You can be an integral part in this ministry!",

  NY times on facebook privacy:

  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html