Know about Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21,1833, in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.Born into a relatively well-heeled family.Nobel had informal education having been tutored at home until the age of 16.In 1866 to 1867,Nobel invented dynamite and won a patent for it.Nobel created a controllable combustible that made blasting rock and the construction of canals and tunnels a relatively safe process.Other than the patent for dynamite,Nobel,a prolific inventor, held a little over 350 patents to his credit.Nobel was fluent in Swedish,Russian,English and French, which shows that his interests were not limited to science alone.After the invention of dynamite, Nobel set up a large number of companies and labs in over 20 countries and amassed a fortune.On November 27,1895,Nobel signed his final will at the Swedish-Norwegian club in Paris.Prior to this, in 1888,when Nobel's brother Ludwig died, a French newspaper erroneously ran a obituary for Nobel,which called him "a merchant of death".This epitaph hurt Nobel deeply as he was a commited pacifist.He created a will, which bequeathed a large part of his estate to a trust.He specified that the trust would use the money to establish the Nobel Prize.He died of cerebral haemorrahage in the Italian town of San Remo on December 10, 1896.

My Review about Alastair Reynolds

Reynolds has excellent ideas and his writing skills have improved over time (Example: characterization), but his plots are somewhat haphazard and the pacing is inconsistent. Chasm City remains his finest book in my opinion. All of the threads work well together, and the gradual revelation of Tanner Mirabel's secrets is brilliantly realized. Revelation Space was a good debut but fatally flawed due to its paper-thin characters and that mind-numbing physics info-dump at the end. Redemption Ark was good up until the overly long ship chase (which took up about half of the book) and the skipped-over relativistic space battle. Absolution Gap took too long to get going and then took the absolute piss by doing a Hamilton at the end. I keep hearing good things about his short stories, and I'm hoping that they are more consistent than his novels. Nightshade Books should be churning out a collection of these stories sometime this year.

Foolishness to send signals to universe

Chromosomes and genes are the basic constituents of living body. We know that genes are basically amino acids. They have self dividing capability. These are the primitive forms of life. For their existence, some factors are essential. These factors are water, air and light. Temperature is also an essential factor. The first life originated from these factors. In the primitive earth, there existed all the favorable factors essential for the origin of life. But high temperature made the life impossible. (New indentations make some contradictions to my concept)Gradually, the earth cooled down and the temperature decreased. It believes that, these phenomena first took place in Pluto, which lies far away from the sun. So, the first planet (?) which showed the favorable conditions for the life may be Pluto. As time passed, the temperature fell down. Then the possibility of existing life was in Neptune, the next planet.

Kngfisher Calendar 2009

It’s that time of the year when beauty is all set to adorn your walls. Shot in exotic locales, the kingfisher calendar 2009 promises to scorch and soothe the senses for the next 12 months. This edition has been shot in the six senses hideaway resort at Koi Samui and Yao Noi.Six models from across the globe are featured in the calendar. The models sport swimwear from some of the highest brands in the world such as Alberta Ferretti, Jean Paul and Diane von Furstenberg, with accessories from Lanvin, watches by Hamilton, eyewear by Fendi, and photographic equipment by Canon. Only a select few in the 56+’kingfisher countries’ across the world‘ll receive a copy of this much sought after calendar from the desk of the chairman of the UB group, Vijay Mallya. This year the accent was on simplicity and working with natural elements and that the images be sensual yet understated. The images this year have been photographed for a layout that has two images per page. The globally acclaimed multi-award winning limited edition Kingfisher Calendar 2009 has been shot by ace photographer Atul Kasbekar