Tweet We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. The world runs on it. Yet ask physicists what time actually is, and the answer might shock you: They have no idea. Even more surprising, the deep sense we have of time passing from present to past may be nothing more than an illusion. How can our understanding of something [...]
Tweet Lyrics: [Michael Shermer] Science is the best tool ever devised For understanding how the world works [Jacob Bronowski] Science is a very human form of knowledge We are always at the brink of the known [Carl Sagan] Science is a collaborative enterprise Spanning the generations We remember those who prepared the way Seeing for them also [Neil deGrasse Tyson] [...]
Tweet Crime is a social and economic phenomenon and is as old as the human society. Crime is a legal concept and has the sanction of the law. Crime or an offence is “a legal wrong that can be followed by criminal proceedings which may result into punishment.” Cyber crime is the latest and perhaps the most complicated problem in [...]
Tweet Matlab is a High Level Programming Langauge. It is an interactive technical computing environment. It is also known as the language of technical computing. Its implementation are wide enough to cover many aspects of engineering domain. It is used for Algorithm Development, Data Analysis and Visualization and Numerical Computation. It is faster and easy to learn as compare to [...]
Tweet We live on the most fragile little soap bubble you can imagine — a very sacred soap bubble, but one that is very, very easy to affect. (Carl Safina) Transcript: This is the ocean as I used to know it. And I find that since I’ve been in the Gulf a couple of times, I really kind of am [...]
Tweet I highly recommend that you get a chance to see crude oil burn someday, because you will never need to hear another poli sci lecture on the geopolitics of oil again. It’ll just bake your retinas. (Lisa Margonelli) Transcript: So I’m going to talk to you about you about the political chemistry of oil spills and why this is [...]
Tweet Transcript: I’m sure that, throughout the hundred-thousand-odd years of our species’ existence, and even before, our ancestors looked up at the night sky, and wondered what stars are. Wondering, therefore, how to explain what they saw in terms of things unseen. Okay, so, most people only wondered that occasionally, like today, in breaks from whatever normally preoccupied them. But [...]
Tweet Transcript: So I want to talk today about an idea. It’s a big idea. Actually, I think it’ll eventually be seen as probably the single biggest idea that’s emerged in the past century. It’s the idea of computation. Now, of course, that idea has brought us all of the computer technology we have today and so on. But there’s [...]
Tweet For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space. -Brian Cox Transcript: We live in difficult and challenging economic times, of course. And one of the first victims of difficult economic times, I think, is public spending [...]
Tweet People who don’t know physics, they always treat this subject as a difficult subject. But believe me it is one of the easiest subject I have ever studied, because if it didn’t I have never chosen this as my interest. So to understand the what physics is? and what it is not. What are the capabilities of this subject, [...]
Tweet People have different ways of thinking, Few people needs perfect silence, but few needs some music, even few writers can write while playing high volume opera. Here I am presenting the 10 albums that i listen while writing, while thinking and believe it or not they didn’t disturb me. They helped me a lot. People have different taste in [...]
Tweet Transcript: This is the Large Hadron Collider. It’s 27 kilometers in circumference. It’s the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted. Over 10,000 physicists and engineers from 85 countries around the world have come together over several decades to build this machine. What we do is we accelerate protons — so, hydrogen nuclei — around 99.999999 percent the speed of light. [...]