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Think or blink!!!

It is not just the globe that is warming up!:flame:

All the people in it are also becoming hotter and short tempered! :mad2:

Th Mother Earth is in tears all over once again! :(

Science
We just entered an alarming 'new era' of global warming

The Earth permanently passed a global warming threshold last year that alarms climate scientists and has profound consequences for everyone alive today - particularly young people looking forward to the future. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), observatories around the world found that in 2015 and 2016, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere crossed the symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million (ppm), and that this is likely to remain the case for the foreseeable future. SEE ALSO: The Great Barrier Reef isn't dead, despite its viral obituary This is the highest level ever seen in all of human history and is 144 percent higher than the pre-industrial average. Such a high level is also very likely the highest on record going back to between 800,000 and 15 million years ago, based on various studies. For perspective, scientists have found that previous periods with similar carbon dioxide levels - all of which occurred before modern humans evolved - had far higher global average temperatures and sea levels than today. In some cases, such periods had global average sea levels of 100 feet higher than today. 800,000-year history of carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere, showing the recent spike. Image: Scripps institution of oceanography/mashable Many scientists think that avoiding dangerous climate change will require getting carbon dioxide concentrations down to 350 parts per million, which will require massive emissions cuts and new technologies to push annual emissions into negative numbers. While the planet was flirting with the 400 ppm mark on a month-to-month basis at some observatories, it had not yet breached the line worldwide for an entire year until 2015, the WMO found in a report released Monday. The rate at which greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are accumulating in the air guarantees that growing impacts from climate change, ranging from rising sea levels to hotter heat waves and ocean acidification, will continue to occur and in fact worsen in coming decades. Carbon dioxide levels in 2016, with various emissions scenarios projected through 2100. Image: Climate Central This is in part because carbon dioxide can last in the air for thousands of years, which is why environmental advocates and policymakers say we only have one to two decades at most to act before an unsafe amount of climate change is essentially baked into the climate system. The WMO report found there was a nearly 40 percent increase in the warming effect on our climate (technically known as "radiative forcing") between 1990 and 2015, due to the increase in greenhouse gases in the air. Scientists at the greenhouse gas monitoring station high atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii have said that carbon dioxide levels will not dip below 400 ppm for many generations, according to a WMO press release on Monday. “The year 2015 ushered in a new era of optimism and climate action with the Paris climate change agreement. But it will also make history as marking a new era of climate change reality with record high greenhouse gas concentrations,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas in a statement. In fact, last year saw the largest annual spike in greenhouse gas concentrations on record. Part of this sharp annual uptick is due to the strong 2015-16 El Niño event, which caused droughts in tropical areas that normally absorb carbon as so-called "sinks." Drier than average weather in such areas, including Indonesia, reduced the ability of tropical forests to suck up as much carbon dioxide as they usually do, and increased the occurrence of forest fires that release carbon dioxide into the air. “The El Niño event has disappeared," Taalas said. "Climate change has not."
Mashable

Greenhouse gas emissions reach new height
UPI
 Humanity Has Entered New Climate Reality Era
EcoWatch
 
Do we need more trouble on earth by getting in touch with the aliens???

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Scientists say signals from certain stars are “probably aliens”

Scientists writing in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific have found unusual signals emanating from a group of stars that are “signals probably from extraterrestrial intelligence.” The signals “have exactly the shape of a signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this [extraterrestrial intelligence] hypothesis.” Their paper, “Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars,” details their hypothesis that these signals indicate some sort of alien intelligence. “The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type
TechCrunch

Astronomers: Strange Messages Coming From Stars Are Probably From Aliens
Newsmax
 'Alien Megastructure' Star Targeted by $100 Million SETI Search
SPACE.com

 
Do standing on balcony of a hotel TOPLESS and

walking on a windy day wearing a thin frock

(with no undergarments!!!) fall under the privilege of privacy??? :shocked:
Privacy ENDS when and where the door STARTS to open !!! :moony:
 
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Wealth from Waste is a new concept catching on!!!! :clap2:

[h=3]How a 17-Year-Old School Dropout is Making Computers More Affordable by Building Them from E-Waste[/h] This article on using computers for change is a part of the India Digital series powered by Intel India. Six years ago, when Ravindra Parab decided to become an e-waste scrap dealer, he could not have imagined that this job would help his son, Jayant, achieve a breakthrough in affordable technology. Seventeen-year-old Jayant, a resident of Ghatkopar, Mumbai, was in Class 3 when he used a PC for the first time: “We had computer classes as a part of the school curriculum and that was the first time I actually used a PC. Till then, the box-shaped machines had always intrigued me because I saw them everywhere I went – in offices, banks and shops. But getting the opportunity to actually work on one was nothing short of thrilling!” he remembered. Like most beginner computer classes, his school classes too focused on teaching the basics – different parts of a PC and, with time, an introduction to MS Office. For Jayant, every class helped peel back yet another layer of the mystery the machines held for him. When Jayant reached Class 5, his thirst to learn more pushed him to ask his father’s permission to enrol for a course at the local computer centre. “It was a month-long introductory course for beginners. While the computer classes in school introduced me to PCs, it was this course that made me confident about operating the machine,” he said. The course also marked the beginning of many other classes Jayant would go on to take in the years to come, helping him gain mastery over the ubiquitous technology. Between school and his courses, Jayant also took to tinkering around with the e-waste his father brought home: “I picked up a lot from watching my father and my brother work and, before long, I was able to assess on my own whether some pieces could be salvaged or not. My father and brother then taught me how to take the pieces apart, how to determine what was wrong with them, fix the problems, and put them back together again,” Jayant remembered. “The courses I attended taught me a lot about different software, but it is the hours I spent working with e-waste that helped me understand the minutest details about the functioning of PCs.” Jayant’s growing interest also encouraged his father to set up a second-hand PC at home for his tech-savvy son. “This gave me the opportunity to practise everything I learnt, at my own pace and on my own time. I also used the internet to learn new things, every day,” he said. Jayant used his PC to introduce children in his neighbourhood to the life-changing technology: “I realised that many of these children had limited exposure to PCs and came from families that could not afford to buy their own machines. Given how all-pervasive this technology is, I thought it was extremely important that they be well-versed in it too. I believe that people’s socio-economic status should not hold them back in life or deprive them of opportunities,” explained Jayant. With this in mind, Jayant began holding informal classes for the children in his neighbourhood. “We’d meet up twice or thrice a week, for a couple of hours, and I’d teach them about the basics of operating a PC,” he said. You may also like: Senior Citizens Up Their Professional Skills, Thanks to This PC-Training Programme When, in Class 9, Jayant was asked to present an exhibit at a school exhibition themed ‘Best Out of Waste,’ the years he spent tinkering with e-waste, and the hours he spent teaching other children, inspired him to set a fairly ambitious goal: to build a computer made entirely from e-waste. MAKING THE BEST OUT OF WASTE “I had seen how the exposure to PCs I provided to the children in my neighbourhood was helping them. They were able to work on PCs more confidently now and were even using them for school projects. And I couldn’t help but wonder how much more they would be able to do if they had their own PCs at home,” Jayant explained. “The main aim was to create something that all sections of society would find affordable.” “Admittedly, it was a bit of a daunting task; I had not heard of such a computer being made before, so I had no blueprint that I could follow, no tutorials I could refer to,” he confessed. Yet, that did not deter the 17-year-old. For a month, Jayant worked hard, rushing home from school and completing his homework in record time, in order to devote at least four hours every day to his project. You may also like: This Indore-Based Startup Is Introducing India to the Internet “I began by sorting through the e-waste, picking working components from the different pieces I could find, repairing the components that were broken, replacing some others… it was a tedious process,” he remembered. But, sometimes, he would get lucky, as he did with his monitor: “My father also collects e-waste from hospitals and he came across a broken ECG machine. When he brought it home, I picked it apart, saw that the problem with it was only minor, fixed it and upgraded it, and decided to use it as a monitor,” he explained enthusiastically. Bit by painstaking bit, Jayant put together his e-waste computer, under the watchful guidance of his father and brother. “I was given strict instructions to not do any heavy-duty electrical work unless my father or brother were present. They were always around to help and their support was unwavering, but they also let me figure things out on my own and didn’t push me,” he said. The end result was a compact PC, with a 9-inch monitor, 2GB RAM and 1GB hard disk. “It runs on LINUX and has inbuilt speakers, Bluetooth and Wifi. The PC can be used for work or personal use and is equipped with word processing and spreadsheet software too,” he listed. THE WAY FORWARD The unique PC got Jayant appreciation from all quarters, including a certificate from the organisers of the exhibition. “The exhibition draws school children from across the city and, for me, the fact that I was able to show them that building something like this was possible, that was the real win,” he said. Jayant also believes that making PCs from e-waste can prove to be an additional source of income for rag-pickers and scrap dealers. “Imagine if we train them to properly collect e-waste, to assess the quality of the e-waste, and to repair different pieces to put them together as PCs... They could sell these machines and have an alternative source of income. What’s more, they would also be helping deal with the huge e-waste problem while making PCs affordable to a large section of society,” he explained. Jayant has since built a second PC from e-waste: “I am constantly tinkering with it and trying to improve and upgrade it.” You may also like: How Children from India’s Largest Slum Are Turning App Developers to Solve Community Problems Jayant, who was forced to drop-out of school after he failed his Class 9 examination, is now studying for Class 10 through correspondence. He also continues to attend computer courses and, recently, completed a course in hardware networking. “Knowledge of computers is essential for surviving in today’s world. The first question in any job interview is whether the applicant knows how to operate a PC or not. Every single person needs to know how to use a PC,” he said. “I want to continue doing more courses and further hone my skills so that I am able to make a successful career in computers,” he concluded. This story is part of our series with Intel India’s initiative Ek Kadam Unnati Ki Aur, in collaboration with national and regional governments to empower non-urban citizens through technology, in 10 states of India. Like this story? Or have something to share? Write to us: contact@thebetterindia.com, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. NEW: Click here to get positive news on Whatsapp!

The Better India
 
What about the eco-unfriendly and dangerous waste products created???

[h=3]IITians Build Low-Cost Machine to Produce Sanitary Napkins & Help Keep Menstruating Girls in School[/h] A report from 2011, claims that only 12 % of India’s 335 million women use sanitary napkins while menstruating because of lack of access to good quality and affordable menstrual care products . A major reason for this is the fact that pads are generally manufactured using expensive machinery, which makes them unaffordable for many women living in rural India. In an attempt to address this issue, a product driven startup called Saral Designs developed machines, which they designed in-house so that they can start manufacturing good quality sanitary napkins at the decentralised level. The machines are easily replicable and can be set up within Rs. 10 lakh. This means that such units can be set up across India without middlemen. IITians Suhani Mohan and Kartik Mehta founded Saral Designs in June 2015. Suhani says, “While conducting some research in this field, we found out that 23 % of girls in India dropout from schools once they start menstruating due to the lack of proper facilities. They resort to using unhygienic material, which leads them to contracting reproductive tract infections. A lot of government schools and NGOs are creating awareness about hygienic menstrual practices, but the challenge is finding good quality products. Small-scale manufactures produce inexpensive pads but the material they use isn’t very good. And the number of pads that they make isn’t enough to sustain the costs borne by the company for electricity, manpower etc,.” The Saral team is made up of nine young engineers from IITs, NITs and BITS Pilani and has around 15 people working on production and local sales. Suhani thinks of that their background in learning technology has been very useful in developing an easy to replicate, low-cost machine for producing sanitary napkins. She says, “We managed to make a machine that produces high-quality pads 30 times faster than the average. Our product is called Aisha Ultra XL, which are “ultra-thin pads with wings” and they are sold at Rs. 30 for a pack seven. The price is pretty low compared to other rival brands. We’ve been producing these pads for nine months and have managed to sell more than 2 Lakh pieces so far.” But aside from selling their products at pharmacies, the Saral team has reached out to women in living in villages in Maharashtra as well. Suhani says, “We have a team of 20 women, who go door-to-door and make girls aware of safe menstrual practises. They also let the girls try our products and sell it to them on a monthly basis if they like it. Additionally, we have distributed vending machines in schools and colleges across Mumbai.” The Saral team has also started partnering with NGOs in Karnataka and Chhattisgarh to make pads accessible to young women in remote villages. One such organisation is Shiksharth, an NGO working in the tribal dominated area called Sukma, Chattisgarh. With this partnership, they hope to educate 1000 girls about menstrual hygiene practices and provide them with one year’s worth supply of sanitary napkins. So, how this partnership happen? Suhani says, “In 2015, I met Ashish Shrivastava, the founder of Shiksharth while doing my Acumen fellowship. The Acumen fellowship is run by a US-based organisation that conducts fellowship programmes for leadership development. When Ashish did his Teach for India fellowship, he realised that girls in India, don’t drop out of school as much in urban areas as they do in tribal areas after they start menstruating. So he decided to move to Chattisgarh where this situation is very critical and set up a school. He’s fighting to convince families to let their daughters finish their education. We know that education is a way out of poverty and violence. Also, there is a need to remove the taboo around menstruation around such areas. So, we decided what better way to help these girls than by teaching them good practices and providing them with sanitary napkins.” The Saral team will train volunteers in Shiksharth to teach the girls in two batches -- the first would be made up of students between 6th-10th standard and the other will have students between 8th-9th standard. The curriculum for hygienic menstrual practices includes modules on reproductive biology and other relevant information about keeping their bodies clean while they are menstruating. Suhani says, “We’ve included information from UNICEF and Menstrupedia in the curriculum. But we also try and remove local superstitions/taboos surrounding the topic through playful intervention in the form of games and questionnaires. If we manage to successfully train the volunteers at Shiksharth, it would mean that our project would be sustainable over a long period of time as well.” You can help 1,000 girls in Sukma continue their higher education despite having their periods, by donating here. Like this story? Or have something to share? Write to us: contact@thebetterindia.com, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. NEW: Click here to get positive news on Whatsapp!
The Better India
 
A product of a nightmare perhaps???

'Frankenstein' predicted concept key to modern biology - study

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" foreshadowed a key concept in evolutionary biology formally defined by scientists a century after the man-made monster shambled across the pages of the 19th century novel, an academic study published on Friday found. The study, titled "Frankenstein and the Horrors of Competitive Exclusion" and published in BioScience, takes its inspiration from a pivotal scene in the 1816 gothic story when the monster identified only as the "Creature" asks its creator, Victor Frankenstein, to create him a mate and allow the two to go live in "the vast wilds of South America." Unlike in the 1933 movie "Bride of Frankenstein," the book's Victor Frankenstein ultimately decides against repeating his experiment, fearing the two could breed a new race of creatures that would ultimately drive humanity extinct.

Reuters
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
A bright young man burned to death due to hate crime! :flame:

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[h=3]Indian origin bus driver killed in Australia[/h] Sydney, Oct 28 (IANS) A 29-year-old bus driver of Indian origin was charred to death on Friday while sitting behind the wheel in a shocking attack in Australia's Queensland state. A 48-year-old man at the scene was arrested after he allegedly boarded the bus in Brisbane before "throwing some type of incendiary device at the driver", Manmeet Alisher, Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying. The attack took place when Alisher, who was driving a Brisbane City Council bus, pulled into Moorvale Shopping Centre on Beaudesert Road to pick up more passengers.

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THIS is enough to ensure the runaway success of this movie! :thumb:

 Scoop: Mumbai based lawyer files complaint against Ajay Devgan's Shivaay for 'Bol Har Har' song

A lawyer from Mumbai Vijendra Kumar Rai has written a strongly-worded letter to the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, the President Of India and the Chairperson of the Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC) asking that strong action be taken against Ajay Devgn the producer, director and actor of Shivaay, for insulting Lord Shiva in the song ‘Bol Har Har’. The impassioned letter, a copy of which is in this writer’s possession, claims that the Shiva PanchaksharaStrotram has been used in a provocative and offensive manner. “I hereby strongly complaint (sic.) that Mr Ajay Devgn….is hurting (sic) and insulting my religious feelings and beliefs and that the film Shivaay is showing and promoting

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I WILL NOT be surprised if she says she is the victim and not the seducer of the boy!

[h=3]Kerala shocker: Sunday school teacher arrested for molesting teen boy[/h] Ernakulam [India], Oct. 29 (ANI): The Kothamangalam Police in Ernakulam district, Kerala has arrested a 36-year-old Sunday school teacher for allegedly molesting a 16-year-old boy. Earlier this year in July, the data from the state crime records bureau showed the disturbing facts that four children, on an average, are sexually abused in Kerala every day, while the number of sexual offences against children has doubled in the past three years. More than 96 cases have been registered under the POCSO Act in the Ernakulam Rural Police limit till July.

ANI
 
Strike the Stroke before the Stroke Strikes you! :boxing:

[h=3]World Stroke Day: Prevent brain stroke[/h] New Delhi [India], Oct. 29 (ANI): A 'brain stroke' or a 'brain attack' is an event and condition that many of us know little about, but each one of us has the capacity to prevent and detect. Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia says that when the bra
 
Really gratifying that the young people have learned to respect public property!

[h=3]Students in Kerala Clean Govt Buses to Discourage Citizens from Vandalising Public Property[/h] During a seven-day camp organised at Aluva, Kerala, a bunch of 27 zealous students from St. Xavier’s college came up with a plan to clean Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) buses. The students, who are enrolled under the National Service Scheme, arrived at the bus stop closest to their college, guided by two teachers. Resmi Varghese, who was heading the clean-up, said that the students had earlier been involved in cleaning up railway stations and public spaces. She told The Times of India, “The motive behind this was to send a strong message to the people so that they can derive inspiration from the act.” They started cleaning on October 27, with the prior permission of the stationmaster. The Regional Transport Officer provided them with the cleaning equipment. Source: Facebook Liandra Pius, one of the students, told The Times of India, “We were all in full spirits. There was so much enthusiasm that each one of us were actively involved in the clean-up act. We were least bothered about our clothes getting soiled." The students washed and scrubbed one luxury bus and one ordinary bus, and it took them three hours to finish the job. They hope this exercise will make citizens think twice before vandalising public property. Like this story? Or have something to share? Write to us: contact@thebetterindia.com, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. NEW: Click here to get positive news on Whatsapp!

The Better India
 
Yaanaip pasikkuch choLap pori??? :rolleyes:

[h=3]Delhi Govt. to set up air purifier to curb air pollution[/h] New Delhi [India], Oct. 28 (ANI): The Delhi Government on Friday announced to set up air purifier at five major traffic congestion points in its first phase of the blue print in order to curb air pollution in the national capital. This move has been taken on the recommendations of the task force headed by Health Minister Satyendra Jain. The Delhi Government and National Environment and Energy Research Institute (NEERI) is at the final stage of discussion to set up this mega air purifier in 15 days at five major traffic congestion points, which include Anand Vihar, Kashmiri Gate, ITO, AIIMS/IIT Delhi and Sarai Kale Khan, on a pilot basis.

ANI
 
Who on earth would refuse a Nobel prize???


  • Bob Dylan now says will accept Nobel prize for literature

    (Reuters) - American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, has now told the Swedish Academy that he will accept the prize. The notoriously media-shy Dylan had not made any comment on the 8 million crown ($900,000) prize, despite repeated attempts by award-givers the Swedish Academy to contact him since it named him as the winner on Oct. 13. The Nobel Foundation said in a statement that Dylan this week told Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, that he now accepts the prize.


 

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