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- The biggest Census to cover India |
The biggest census ever to be attempted in human history to cover India's 1.2 billion population have begun with President Pratibha Patil being the first to be enumerated in the decennial exercise. The 15th national census exercise, which will see over 25 lakh officials capturing the socio-economic-cultural profile of its citizens, will also seek information for the creation of the National Population Register. Here is all that you need to know about the census... |
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- How the Numbers got their Names? |
Have you ever thought Why?........ 1 means "one", and 2 means "two"? The Roman Numerals are easy to understand but what was ‘the logic’ behind the Phoenician numbers? It's the number of angles. If one writes the numbers down on a piece of paper in their older forms, one quickly sees why... |
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- Dictionary mistake goes unnoticed for 99 years |
The error may be slight, but it's an error nonetheless, said Stephen Hughes, a physicist with Queensland University of Technology, who spotted a 99-year-old mistake in the Oxford English Dictionary... |
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- A dozen ways to stretch out a rubberband |
For stubborn tops, wrap a rubber band around the perimeter of the lid a couple times before attempting to open it—the band acts as a grip and makes it about a thousand times easier to undo. This got me thinking about and researching other uses for rubber bands. Here are some tips... |
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- Ocean's Depth and Volume Revealed |
The Earth's oceans are among the most mysterious places on the planet, but scientists now have at least figured out how deep the oceans are and just how much water they hold. A group of scientists used satellite measurements to get new estimates of these values, which turned out to be 0.3 billion cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers) for the volume of the oceans and 12,080.7 feet (3,682.2 meters) for the average ocean depth. Both of these numbers are less than many previous estimates of the ocean's volume and depth. Read more... |
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- Why We Exist : Matter Vs Anti-matter |
The seemingly inescapable fact that matter and antimatter particles destroy each other on contact has long puzzled physicists wondering how life, the universe or anything else can exist at all. But new results from a particle accelerator experiment suggest that matter does seem to win in the end... |
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