The ocean is full of life. Even more than land. Unlike land, though, there are still huge parts of the ocean we’ve never seen. In fact, we know our moon better than we know our oceans. But we have learned a lot about this cradle of humanity.
The life giving ocean is full of amazing discoveries, so let me share some of them with you…
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The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy.
It’s also sometimes attributed to Lewis Carrol, although there’s no evidence that either of them actually wrote it.
Either way, it’s fiendishly clever and is popularly called “Einstein’s riddle”. It’s rumored that only 2% of the world can solve it.
See if you can figure it out:
There are five houses in five different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Other facts:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
The question is: who owns the fish?
There are no tricks, all it requires is simple logic. Those that haven’t the patience to work it out can watch PoETheeds’ video, which takes you through the process of solving it step by step.
Give up? Here’s a tutorial on YouTube about how to solve the riddle:
Source……www.businessinsider.com
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To every being born on earth, Truth is the visible manifestation of God. The entire cosmos composed of moving and immovable objects has emerged from Truth, is sustained by Truth and merges in Truth. Truth is Divine and eternal (Sathyam-Jnanam-Anantham Brahma). Hence everyone must revere Truth. Sathya and Dharma (truth and righteousness) will not submit to anyone. Every kind of strength, physical or otherwise, will have to come under their sway. Success follows Sathya and Dharma. Whatever be your scholarship or position, you have to cultivate respect for human values. ProtectSathya and Dharma always. What students and people must safeguard is not merely nations, but Sathya and Dharma. In turn these values will protect the Universe. Educated persons, who in the name of countries are giving up truth and right conduct, are actually undermining the human civilization. It is more vital to cultivate virtues than go after scholarship or other worldly riches and possessions of transient nature.
High above sea level – and far from light pollution – Tibet offers one of the most breathtaking night skies in the world. A collection of photos by Jeff Dai.
Riding the roof of the world. A lone motorcycle approaches Mount Everest’s Base Camp from the Chinese side. Above the snow- and ice-flanked Himalayas, the yellow-red star Antares at the Scorpion’s heart rises at left; to its right the stars of Centaurus shine their blue light over the top of the world. Photo by Jeff Dai. View larger and read more.
Jeff Dai wrote to EarthSky from Tibet:
When I first visited the Tibetan Himalayas last year, the stunning night sky and fantastic experience deeply attracted me. So I decide to live in Lhasa [Tibet’s capital city], and have a plan to capture all the Himalayas including Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan … at night.
Lake Manasarovar at night. Looking south across the lake, an unusual moon pillar that dominates the right part of the image. On the left is a flash of lighting appears over Mount Gurla Mandhata (7,694 meters, or 25,000 feet) in the far distance. Just above this pink lightning is the bright central bulge of the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius and Scorpius. Photo by Jeff Dai. View larger and read more.
Bottom line: High above sea level – and far from light pollution – Tibet offers one of the most breathtaking night skies in the world. A collection of photos by Jeff Dai.
Source….www.earhsky.org
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Lydia Sebastian is just 12, but she has already achieved something that hardly one percent of the people in the world can get. She has scored the highest possible points in the famous Mensa IQ test and has beaten the scores of geniuses like Einstein and Hawking.
When it comes to IQ and intelligence, we cannot skip talking about Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. But would you believe if we told you that a 12-year-old girl has beaten their IQ test scores?
Meet Lydia Sebastian, a 12-year-old Indian-origin girl from Langham, United Kingdom. She has attained a score of 162 points in the renowned mental agility test conducted by Mensa, the largest and oldest society for people with high IQs.
Hailing from Kerala in India, Lydia had an interest in reading since a very young age and has always been a quick learner. When she was just a few years old, she started reading books that were meant for children several years older than her. She also started talking when she was just six months old. Not only this, she started playing violin since a tender age of four.
Her incredible score has put her in the top one percent of people with such high IQs. She is now applying for the membership of Mensa which is restricted to only those people whose IQ test scores are within the top two percent of all the tests.
Source……Shreya Pareek…….www.thebetterindia.com
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The daughter of a daily wage labourer from Odisha, has secured the 13th rank in UPSC’s IES examination. Successful after fighting many financial constraints, Aparajita Priyadarshini Behera dedicates her success to her father. This is her story.
24-year-old Aparajita Priyadarshini Behera has set a perfect example to show that financial difficulties, daily hardships and a person’s background can never come in the way of achieving whatever we want to achieve in life.
A resident of Mahanangala village in Kendrapara district, Aparajita completed her schooling from Mohanangala Primary and Kapileswar High School in the village. She then moved on to Marshaghai college near Kendrapara for plus two, and degree courses. With an urge for learning more and to progress towards her dream, she completed her Post Graduation in Economics from Utkal University. As of now, she is pursuing a PHD from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Aparajita gives the credit for her success to her father, who has been her inspiration and guide. “He sweated it out to financially support me in my studies. He never made me feel the pangs of poverty. Whatever I achieved today is only because of my father. I dedicate my all India job to him,” she was reported saying to PTI.
Her father, Amulya Kumar Behera is a 50-year-old labourer at a fertiliser plant of Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO). He works on a daily pay roll basis with an assignment which is completely contractual in nature. His monthly remuneration comes to less than Rs. 10,000. But in spite of financial difficulties, he never neglected the education of his children – a son and two daughters.
Aparajita, who believes that there are no shortcuts to success, read all the required material extensively as her preparation for UPSC’s IES examination. It is her motto to serve for the country with honesty. She was nervous about the final interview, but says that the panel was very supportive and gave her the confidence to reply to all their questions.
Her family, along with the entire village including her school teachers and friends, are overjoyed with the news of her success. “We all are on cloud nine,” said her mother Jemamani to The Indian Express.
Source…….Tanaya Singh…..www.thebetterindia.com
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Wheeler Island, which is considered the most advanced missile testing site in India, will be renamed after Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. For the man who was fondly called the “Missile Man”, this seems like a fitting tribute.
It has been over a month since we lost our beloved Missile Man, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. And every now and then, we keep finding different ways to pay tribute to him and to keep him alive in our memories.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik made an announcement about the decision on Monday. He said that the move will inspire youngsters to work passionately and dedicatedly in the field of science. The 2km long and 390 acres big island will now be known as Abdul Kalam Island. The island is located off the coast of Odisha and is approximately 150km from Bhubaneswar.
Wheeler Island was named after an English commandant, Lieutenant Wheeler and has been used to test many successful missiles of India including Akash Missiles, Agni Missiles, Astra Missile, BrahMos, Nirbhay, Prahaar Missile, Prithvi Missiles, Shaurya Missile, Advanced Air Defence (AAD), and Prithvi Air Defence.
Here are a few of them:
Advanced Air Defence Launch
Shaurya Missile Launch
Source….Shreya Pareek…..www.thebetterindia.com
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This Teachers’ Day, we are honouring some of the most unique teachers from all over the country. They inspire, amaze, enlighten and motivate. In these pictures, have a look at them doing their brilliant jobs.
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.”
– Plato
It’s September again, and bringing back this famous quote by Plato is kind of necessary for an added dose of inspiration. Because it’s that time of the year when we celebrate some of the most important people of our lives. The day on which we remember all our teachers; those wonderful people who shape our lives and help us be all the things we want to be.
So here’s wishing a very happy teachers’ day to every person who has ever been a guiding light in someone’s life.
While Facebook walls and Twitter feeds have been flooding with messages of remembrance and gratefulness since midnight, here is another shout out for some of the most inspiring teachers from all over the country. These are people who have conquered extremely difficult odds, have innovated unique teaching methods and have unfailingly amazed the nation with their selflessness.
21-year-old Babar Ali has been teaching since he was 9. At 15, he became the headmaster of his makeshift school which teaches about 300 students today and has 6 full time teachers.
“I believe that if you are passionate about something then you can achieve anything. Age, finances, other hurdles, they just don’t matter and eventually everything works out.”
– Babar Ali
Aditya Kumar – taking education to places where schools can’t reach –
Aditya Kumar, better known as ‘Cycle guruji’, rides about 60 to 65 km on a bicycle every day, and provides free education to children living in the slums of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. This inspiring man has been doing this since 1995.
“Where ever I got students, I would sit and teach — by the roadside, in parks, near slums. I had a board on the cycle, and students would just read it and stop me. I was one of them, I understood what it meant to be poor and without support.”
Arvind Gupta is famous for creating toys from trash. What’s special is that he explains many different concepts of science in the process of making these toys. He also generously uploads videos of his techniques on YouTube, explaining the scientific stuff behind each one of them for students all across the world to learn.
“I work with children. Whatever I see that children can do, whatever I see that brings a gleam into the child’s eye, that’s the work I do.”
– Arvind Gupta.
Rajesh Kumar Sharma runs a school under a Delhi metro bridge, where he teaches students from the nearby slums. He calls it ‘Under the Bridge School’ and about 200 students attend it every day. Started in 2005, the school also hosts some exemplary personalities from different walks of life, who come in on various occasions as volunteer teachers.
“Knowledge increases when it is shared.”
A primary school teacher in Malappuram district of Kerala, Abdul Mallik swims to work every day. Why? Because that is the shortest route to reach his school.
“If I go by bus, it takes me three hours to cover the 12-kilometer (7.5 miles) distance. But swimming through the river is easier, faster and I reach school on time.”
– Abdul Mallik.
Well known for his Super 30 programme, Anand Kumar of Patna has been coaching students for IIT-JEE entrance exams since the last 14 years. By 2014, 308 of his 360 students had made it to the IITs.
“To crack the target, one should have thirst for achieving it, next come positive thoughts and passion.”
– Anand Kumar.
Roshni Mukherjee has an online education platform called ExamFear.com where she teaches students with the help of videos which she uploads on YouTube.
“I receive messages from so many people. Recently, a student messaged me that he has been following my videos for three years now, and they have helped him score well in his exams without having to join tuition classes. He has now got admission in NIT. Such examples keep me motivated.”
– Roshni Mukherjee
Professor Desai boards local trains in Mumbai every single day asking people to donate money for his charitable organisation Shloka which develops and runs schools in rural Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
“Good Afternoon to everybody, donating for education is the ultimate form of charity.”
– Sandeep Desai is heard saying every day on the trains.
This 80-year-old teacher has been teaching children of a village called Madanpur Khadar in Delhi, since the past 20 years. Because of the lack of teachers in the village, she brought the students to the nearby area of Sarita Vihar. And since there was no proper building to teach, she used to move from one park to another to conduct classes for them in the city. She finally has a building where she teaches students up till class two now.
“These children are very talented. They just need support and guidance. If they are given the same opportunities and facilities like mainstream kids, they too can do wonders.”
– Vimla Kaul
Kamlesh Zapadiya travels 20km each day from his village to a nearby cybercafé with the aim of making education a lot more interesting for students. He has developed a website called Edusafar, where he uploads the entire school syllabus from class 1 to 10, in the form of a quiz.
“It is like Kaun banega Crorepati.”
– Kamlesh Zapadiya
Picture Credit: ILO / Mondal Nitai (Flickr)
Source…….Tanaya Singh….www.the betterindia.com
Natarajan
The Bhagvad Gita offers ample lessons in life about handling crises situations, managing people and paving the path to success.
We often run a Google search on the top industrial honchos to learn from their words of wisdom.
However, we seem to have lost touch with our own rich intellectual heritage.
Why not go back to our own roots, and learn from words of wisdom that are truly eternal?
Our great epics (religious or not), surely have quotes that stand true to the modern times, even better than ever before.
I am sure many of us must have explored or heard some great treasures hidden in ancient scripture Bhagvad Gita.
Below are a few shlokas which I tried to decode.
I hope it will help entrepreneurs take away something from them.
#1. Do your karma
“KarmanyeVadhikaraste Ma PhaleshuKadachana,
Ma Karma PhalaHeturBhurmaTeySangostvaAkarmani”
Translation: Do your duty and be detached from its outcome, do not be driven by the end product, enjoy the process of getting there.
A lot has been said and heard about ‘karma’, but the true essence lies in these two simple lines.
Every entrepreneur should focus on their work i.e. karma without anticipating the result or outcome.
You should not concentrate so much on the final product and just enjoy the process of reaching there.
We get swayed by our vision and rely on its success too much.
We forget it is pivotal to enjoy the whole process rather than just hoping for something that you know is anyway uncertain.
Remember, having hopes or being optimistic is not wrong, but without actions, your path will be dreadful.
The art lies in walking the tightrope and enjoy doing it.
If the guy who walks the literal tightrope is scared or too excited, he will certainly fall.
The trick to his success is that he enjoys it while he walks in order to reach the other end successfully.
#2. Master the art of adaptation
“vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya
navani grhnati naro ’parani
tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany
anyani samyati navani dehi”
Translation: As a man shedding worn out garments, takes other new ones, likewise, the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others that are new.
It is easy to say versatility and adaptation are the keys to success. But the biggest lesson for any entrepreneur is learning to adapt to changes quickly.
Do not get stuck with your initial vision.
Learn to adapt, innovate and implore new opportunities.
Pave your journey like a traveller, who is not attached to the city he visits or the hotel he stays in but enjoys the experience of it all.
Do not be adamant; be innovative, open minded and ready to absorb experiences like a sponge.
The faster you adapt to a change, the better it is.
Remember, change is the only constant.
#3. Manage your anger
“krodhaadbhavatisammohahsammohaatsmritivibhramah ‘
smritibhramshaadbuddhinaashobuddhinaashaatpranashyati ””
Translation: From anger comes delusion; from delusion, confused memory; from confused memory the ruin of reason; from ruin of reason, man finally perishes.
It is imperative for all entrepreneurs to have control over their anger.
With anger goes away our ability to reason and we tend to become delusional.
The confusion and chaos generated by anger leads to memory loss.
The individual is moved away from his purpose and goals.
Anybody who seems to have forgotten their goals or lost their clarity of thought cannot succeed. Therefore, it is important for people to free themselves from anger.
A simple solution to this problem is focus.
Never lose your focus and never underestimate the virtue of patience.
#4. Detach yourselves
“tasmad asaktah satatam karyam karma samacara
asakto hy acaran karma param apnoti purushah”
Translation: Go on efficiently doing your duty at all times without attachment. Doing work without attachment man attains the supreme.
Inculcate the habit of being open to everything and being attached to nothing.
Attachment does give strength to work and love beyond ourselves, but it also limits us and makes our journey and growth difficult, especially if the object of our desire is taken away from us.
Too much desire can be bad, as it turns into greed.
Greed takes you away from your true calling and dream, be it to achieve, create or innovate.
Do not be super attached to your work, as it makes your journey as an entrepreneur difficult and closed.
You cannot wear binoculars and run the rat race.
You have to keep an open mind about the ever-evolving market changes, adapt to them.
Keep a close eye on your goals but do not get obsessive.
#5. Do not be misled
“dhumenavriyate vahnir yathadarso malena ca
yatholbenavrto garbhas tatha tenedam avrtam”
Translation: As fire is covered by smoke, mirror by dust and embryo by the amnion, so is knowledge covered by desire.
This simple shloka has the deepest meaning.
It is like a dissuading curse — as everything pure has a covering that can often be misleading.
For example, fire is covered with smoke, which prevents us from nearing it and if a mirror is covered in sheen, we cannot see what it is reflecting before removing the sheen.
Similarly knowledge is covered with desire that we must ignore or get rid of.
We must ignore the curtain of desire in order to imbibe knowledge that will help us grow.
This isn’t as easy as it looks but wise man is one who knows what to avoid and what to select.
Source….Atul Pratap Singh…..www.thebetterindia.com
Natarajan
“என்னால் எந்த வகையில் நாட்டுக்கு சேவை செய்ய முடியும்? என்பதை சொல்லுங்கள்!” என கலந்துரையாடலின்போது பிரதமர் மோடியிடம் நெல்லை மாணவி விசாலினி கேள்வி எழுப்பினார்.
நாடு முழுவதும் ஆசிரியர் தினம் நாளை கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது. இதையொட்டி, நாட்டின் பல்வேறு பகுதிகளைச் சேர்ந்த 10 மாணவ, மாணவிகளுடன் இன்று பிரதமர் நரேந்திர மோடி, வீடியோ கான்பரன்சிங் மூலமாக நேரடியாக உரையாடும் சிறப்பு நிகழ்ச்சிக்கு ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டு இருந்தது.
இதற்காக தமிழகத்தில் இருந்து நெல்லை மாணவி விசாலினி தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்டு இருந்தார்.
நெல்லை மாவட்டம், பாளையங்கோட்டை சங்கர் காலனியைச் சேர்ந்த மாணவி விசாலினி, 15 வயது நிரம்பியவர். தற்போது ஐ.ஐ.பி. லஷ்மிராமன் மெட்ரிக் மேல்நிலைப் பள்ளியில் 9-ம் வகுப்பு படித்துவரும் விசாலினியின் நுண்ணறிவுத் திறன் (ஐ.க்யூ) 225.
இது மிகவும் அதிகம் என்பதால், சர்வதேச சாதனைப் புத்தகத்தில் அவரது பெயர் இடம் பெற்று உள்ளது. என்ஜீனியரிங் முடித்த மாணவர்கள் எழுதும் கணினி தேர்வை, தனது 10வது வயதிலேயே எழுதி தேர்ச்சி பெற்று சாதனை படைத்துள்ளார். 10வது சர்வ தேச கணினி மாநாட்டினை துவக்கி வைக்கும் பேச்சாளராக அண்மையில் அழைக்கப்பட்டு, அதில் பங்கேற்று உரையாற்றினார்.
அத்துடன், கூகுள் நிறுவனம் நடத்திய சர்வதேச உச்சி மாநாட்டிலும் பங்கேற்கும் வாய்ப்பு அளிக்கப்பட்ட விசாலினி, அதில் ஒரு மணி நேரம் பேசினார். அவரது திறமையின் மூலம் தற்போது ஸ்ரீவில்லிபுத்தூர், கிருஷ்ணன் கோவிலில் உள்ள கலசலிங்கம் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் பி.டெக் (கம்ப்யூட்டர் சயின்ஸ்) நேரடியாகப் படிக்க தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார்
இந்த நிலையில் பிரதமருடன் உரையாட, மத்திய மனித வள மேம்பாட்டு துறை ஏற்பாடு செய்த நிகழ்ச்சியில் பங்கேற்று, பிரதமரிடம் கேள்வி கேட்கும் 10 பேர் கொண்ட மாணவர்கள் பட்டியலில் விசாலினி பெயர் இடம் பெற்று இருந்தது.
இதற்கான நிகழ்ச்சி இன்று காலை 11 மணிக்கு தொடங்கியது. டெல்லி, மணிப்பூர் உள்ளிட்ட நாட்டின் பல்வேறு பகுதிகளை சேர்ந்த மாணவர்கள் இதில் பங்கேற்றனர்.
இதில் கலந்து கொண்ட விசாலினி, ”எனக்கு நாட்டுக்கு சேவை செய்ய வேண்டும் என்கிற ஆசையும், ஆர்வமும் அதிகமாக உள்ளது. மாணவியாகிய நான் எந்த வகையில் நாட்டுக்கு சேவை செய்ய முடியும்? என்பதை சொல்லுங்கள் சார்” என ஆங்கிலத்தில் கேட்டார்.
அவரது கேள்வியை கேட்டதும் வியப்படைந்த பிரதமர் மோடி, ஆங்கிலத்துக்கு பதிலாக இந்தியில் பதில் அளித்தார். ”இந்த வயதிலேயே நாட்டுக்கு சேவை செய்ய ஆர்வமா? நாட்டுக்கு சேவையாற்ற அரசு ஊழியராகவோ, அரசியல்வாதியாகவோ, ராணுவத்தில் சேர்ந்தோ சேவை செய்ய வேண்டும் என்கிற அவசியமில்லை.
ஒவ்வொருவரும் அவரவர்க்கு முடிந்த வகையில் நாட்டுக்கு சேவை செய்யலாம். நீங்கள் உங்கள் வீட்டில் தேவை இல்லாமல் மின்சாரம் இயங்குவதை நிறுத்தினாலே நாட்டுக்கு ஆற்றும் சேவைதான். ஸ்கூட்டரில் செல்லும்போது போன் வந்தால் வாகனத்தை நிறுத்தி விட்டு பேசினால் எரிபொருள் மிச்சமாகும். கல்வி அறிவு இல்லாத மக்களுக்கு கற்றுக் கொடுப்பது மிகப்பெரிய சேவை. இது போன்ற சிறிய செயல்களை செய்வதன் மூலமாகவே கூட நாட்டுக்கு சேவை ஆற்ற முடியும்” என்றார்.
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