Environmentally Friendly BOMB!

To make safer, more environmentally friendly explosives, scientists in Germany turned to a recently explored class of materials called tetrazoles. These derive most of their explosive energy from nitrogen instead of carbon as TNT and others do… (source)
Here is a video of an experiment of this new “Environmentally Friendly BOMB”.
Lets say that again – “Environmentally [...]

Amatuer Golf Part 2

Oscar Pistorius – The Fastest Man on No LEGS!

I blogged about Porter Ellett, the one arm basketball player not too long ago. And here is another extraordinary story of a man living his dreams despite disability.
Known as the “Blade Runner” and “the fastest man on no legs”, Oscar Pistorius is the double amputee world record holder in the 100, [...]

Re-visiting Forest Gump

The classic – “Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you gonna get!”

Even though I have watched this movie a few times, I cant help but to watch it again on TV today. There is something very captivating of this movie. The story of a “mentally disabled” man – how he [...]

What is Superdelegates!

With regards to the US Elections, some of the common questions are:
“You mean The US Primary Election is still going on? What is taking them so long?”
“Superdelegates? What is that?” There is a cartoon here which explains:

Are we like this?

comic taken from http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php 
 

Elizaberth Warren – The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class

This is a pretty long video. But it did give me a perspective on whats going on to the American Society today. A video that I would recommend to spend an hour of your time watching.
The lecture compares two families – Parents with 2 kids in the 1970s vs Parents with 2 [...]

Cloning Erich von Manstein’s Hardworking Idiots

 

The German World War II general Erich von Manstein is said to have categorized his officers into four types. The first type, he said, is lazy and stupid. His advice was to leave them alone because they don’t do any harm. The second type is hard-working and clever. He said that they make great officers [...]