Thursday, April 30, 2015

About Crab Walking

It's easy for people to move their legs forward or backward. That's because of the way they're attached to the body. People's knees bend towards the front, and that also makes it easy to walk forward. But a crab's legs are attached to the sides of its body. And its joints, unlike our knees, bend so that the crab can walk sideways. That's why crabs walk the way they do. an we do it? Crabs have five legs on each side of their shell. The front pair are for grasping, and remaining four pairs are walking or swimming. Each leg has seven joints, arranged so that the crab walks sideways. Frog crabs and spider crabs however, have legs designed to enable them to walk forward.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Predicting likelihood

In predicting your likelihood of promotion, you may be better off focusing on the trends that are apparent in your job performance over time, rather than obsessing over minor, passing fluctuations. People around you are likely to need some help from you to take notice of fine-granted details in your life behaviors. "While we live our own lives under a microscope and we are present all the time when we do things, other people are not there with us," notes Ragu. "That's a problem for intuiting other people's thoughts because we tend to evaluate ourselves in much finer detail. We look at ourselves from the street view, whereas other people are looking at us from space." A two idiot explodes a sphere.

Edison's basement lab

Thomas Alva Edison, the famous inventor, built his first science laboratory in the basement of his home , at the age of 10! He would spend hours on end in his laboratory. Fed up of seeing him cooped up thus, his father would bribe him with a penny to go out. But he would use the penny to buy more chemicals for his experiments. Edison filed 1,093 patents, including those for the lights bulb, electric railways and the movie camera. When he died in 1931, he held 34 patents for the telephone, 141 for batteries, 150 for the telegraph and 389 patents for electric light and power.

My experince

Well, I would like to say something from my past experience. I have studied for my graduation in engineering from a technical institute. All the subjects taught were of a technical kind. Even a single paper we had on English, emphasized on technical writing and official document writing. There was no subject at all that would cultivate a finer side of the human mind. Those who did their majors in chemical or mechanical engineering, say, had to take up three to four additional papers. But the only options to choose from were either more complicated master's level subjects of their own specialized stream or some other subject taught at some other specialization courses like IT/Bio tech etc. Despite all these, we had a student community who actively participated in creating literary wall magazines and annual magazines. Maybe none of us had the knowledge about English Literature in details still that did not deter us from putting up small contributions for a little library comprising of classics and contemporary literature. And numerous students avidly read these books. So I believe, by not encouraging literature too, the inherent flow of creativity can never be stopped. Evolution would have to be reversed if we have to become barbarians again. However, people may say that as long as wars are there, we are not that developed than a vicious animal. But, I believe, like the new Nicole Kidman movie, Invasion, war is a proof that human beings have advanced emotional development, since they can differentiate between right and wrong and can fight for their cause.