tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62994408956692367312024-03-19T04:46:26.196-07:00Palai Palo... A weekly Knowledge Diet for Everyone!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-65218425258070911772011-07-23T07:31:00.001-07:002011-07-23T07:32:17.840-07:00The making of Smart Bird
We bring interesting and educational videos for our readers.
In this video we present the making of smart bird.
http://www.festo.com/smartbird_en
SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds - one of the oldest dreams of humankind.
This bionic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-19245914264434858432010-07-02T15:10:00.000-07:002010-07-02T15:10:00.552-07:00Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (AUGV)The advances in autonomous motion of the vehicles in air, ground or water has come to some new front.
In the video presented below, autonomous unmanned ground vehicle is shown.
It has been claimed that given point A (starting point) and point B (ending point), AUGV is able to travel autonomously.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-37643551441054947272010-06-18T07:55:00.000-07:002011-03-23T15:37:14.929-07:00How mirrors are madeChemicals!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-37695609104239878752010-06-04T06:28:00.000-07:002010-06-04T06:28:00.810-07:00Automated Motion PlanningAutomation is fun.
The presentation is very clear and concise. No explanation necessary!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-31666940275143872692010-05-29T11:51:00.000-07:002010-05-29T23:25:40.520-07:00Astronauts Talk About Life in Space with MediaAstronauts talk with different media persons from International Space Station. There are four astronauts STS-132 Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli, Mission Specialist Piers Sellers and Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson of Expedition 23. They chat about their work and life in space with journalists from the Associated Press, Fox News Radio and CBS News. It is always a matter of Basant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-65610560853594285922010-05-21T07:18:00.000-07:002010-05-21T07:18:00.426-07:00Parallel Universe: BBCHave fun!!!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-81884616009603180902010-05-16T14:02:00.000-07:002010-05-16T14:29:03.523-07:00Plants & Chemistry
People from chemistry field believe-chemistry is involve everywhere from everyday life to industry. You wake up in the morning and brush your teeth using tooth brush and paste. Both of these involve chemistry. Such list goes and goes until you sleep. Chemistry has made people's life easy and comfortable as well. It also helps to understand the things around you. One of the questions we have is: Basant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-88564819191896866732010-05-05T04:45:00.000-07:002010-05-05T04:45:39.033-07:00Frustrated Wind says storyFrustrated for bot being useful, wind shares his personal story.
It has a message in funny way.
:)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-45707317357084995312010-04-23T18:03:00.000-07:002010-04-23T18:03:03.449-07:00CybersensesReplacement synthetic senses for people are now a reality.
Basant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-8660304760165950602010-04-17T05:21:00.000-07:002010-04-17T05:21:36.716-07:00LHC News: Public OutreachOn 30 March 2010, the first planned collisions took place between two 3.5 TeV beams, which set a new world record for the highest-energy man-made particle collisions.
Here is one of the cern news video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CERNTV
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-7168737392185624882010-04-02T15:56:00.000-07:002010-04-03T16:17:44.120-07:00Black Holes: The Other Side of InfinityThere are places where gravity is so powerful nothing can escape, where time and space literally crash into the abyss. Can you feel the pull? This video is taken from Hulu.com and is narrated by Liam Neeson.I hope you will enjoy watching it.
One comment from Hulu is as follows:
"It is short. It is colourful and pretty. It has Liam Neeson speaking in soft tones. I think it might be a goodBasant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-42755647581615012092010-03-19T11:41:00.000-07:002010-03-19T11:41:00.341-07:00Carl Sagan's last InterviewAlways a source of inspiration!
Carl Sagan gave his last interview with Charlie rose on May 27th 1996. He discussed pseudo-science, religion, unfounded claims, his personal love affair with science and his struggle with myelodysplasia as well as other elements of his last book: The Demon-Haunted World.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jod7v-m573k&feature=player_embedded
http://Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-55507739761752601292010-03-13T10:25:00.000-08:002010-03-14T10:27:57.585-07:00A Vision of K-12 Students Today: Challenge to TeachersBasant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-40937197804182722472010-02-26T04:15:00.000-08:002010-02-26T04:15:00.201-08:00Learning GuitarThis one is dedicated to our friend AmitD. He has been learning Guitar in free time.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-74537633342477371422010-02-19T13:33:00.000-08:002010-02-20T04:28:29.139-08:00Shoot the Female MosquitoesFemale mosquitoes bite humans and transmit diseases like malaria. Every year thousands or more people because of mosquito transmitted diseases. This problem is prevalent in Africa and other developing countries.
Important step to get rid of malaria is stay away from such mosquitoes. Destroy the habitat of mosquitoes, use nets while sleeping in the night etc. In Nepal I used to have the Basant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-71958319911900974322010-02-13T11:20:00.000-08:002010-02-13T11:27:52.011-08:00Simple rule - Complicated resultNew Kind of Science by Stephen WolframThe presentation shows how the simple rule (cellular automaton) can have a complicated result and it is not always necessary to have complicated model to explain the complicated phenomenon. It is all in nature with simple rule with no constraints can have a very interesting thing around us like snow flakes.ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031921540559322297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-4547227109683453482010-02-06T12:06:00.000-08:002010-02-06T12:06:23.099-08:00Six Leged LEGO robot
Follow the blog:
http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/
to get NXT lego Mindstroms updates and development ideas.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-61699135467868383882010-01-31T00:09:00.000-08:002010-01-31T00:09:15.145-08:00Tweet! Tweet!! Tweet!!! from SpaceSocial networks like facebook and tweeter are very strong means of expressing your views and to be in contact with friends. Tweeter is considered as micro-blogger. I also have tweeter account but I am not big user of tweeter. Till now I have 408 tweets so far, following 59 and 21 followers. Most of my tweets are my blog posts info.
In the video below, not me but some astronauts in Basant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-37148318979455392752010-01-22T16:45:00.000-08:002010-01-22T16:45:52.153-08:00Engineer's Guide to Cat and DrinkEngineers are weird people, well same goes true for Physicists or dedicated Chemists or any other scientists :P. To prove the point here is Engineer's Guide to Cat.
Here is Engineer's guide to drink:
http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Engineers-Guide-to-Drinks11.pdf
Warning: It is useful to anyone out there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-22749171463579735702010-01-15T19:57:00.000-08:002010-01-15T19:59:33.445-08:00The Science of bubbles, and learn the laws of bubbles.ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031921540559322297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-15164335444157166182010-01-10T12:25:00.000-08:002010-01-10T12:26:22.973-08:00Evolution: From Molecules to Human
Evolution is very interesting and on the same time very complicated topic. There is an widely accepted theory on evolution. It took millions of years for Human to be in today's shape and size. This video presents a short form of the evolution process starting from molecules to humans through different stages with sketches.
Basant Girihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255267977621132303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-31331931993439236012010-01-01T05:37:00.000-08:002010-01-01T05:37:00.374-08:00The Fine art of not knowing...Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discusses science, human knowledge and the unknown.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-69036607197536420492009-12-10T08:12:00.000-08:002009-12-10T08:12:07.618-08:00Tracking a Ball with Compressed Air SystemThis is fun experiment done by graduate students of Urban Champaign.
They point out a 1989 paper [E. H. Brandt, “Levitation in physics,” Science, vol. 243, no. 4889, pp. 349–355] to illustrate how such system was long known to scientific community. However, getting ball into complex trajectory is a tricky business. I agree. The control strategy being implemented is a feedback mechanism with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-46225003564627220682009-11-27T08:13:00.000-08:002009-11-27T08:13:00.276-08:00Schrodinger's Cat walks into Bar and it does not...The fun in class room gives student a different point view to the subject matter.
In the following video, collection of science jokes has been thrown into the floor and students seem to enjoy it.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299440895669236731.post-44478765914367170512009-10-24T14:32:00.000-07:002009-10-24T14:32:13.802-07:00Glimpse of Big BangFollowing short video shows how scientists are studying on the question of big bang and hence towards solving the yet unsolved questions such as what happened immediately after big bang!
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is believed to be the key to understand why the universe went through rapid expansion after the big bang.
The project as shown here has successfully covered 5% of the sky andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2