A Peom by Nikhil Gurg ----- कुछ "अच्छा" ..

कुछ "अच्छा" ..

कुछ अच्छा हो जाने दो ,
मेरे ख्वाब सज जाने दो ,
इन आंसुओं को यूँ अंदर ही न घुट जाने दो ,
बस जरा सा ....
कुछ अच्छा हो जाने दो .

वो दिन न कटे ,
वो रात न कटी ,
तेरे होतो पे आई ,
वो बात न बीती
मुझे वो बात सुन लेने दो ,
वो रात जी लेने दो ,
बस जरा सा ....
कुछ अच्छा हो जाने दो .

साहिल को दूर , कश्ती से देख
देखो कितना मुस्कुराता हूँ मैं ,
कभी आगे बढता हूँ , तो
कभी शंका से लौट जाता हूँ मैं .
मुझे तुम में समां जाने दो
मेरा साहिल मुझे पा जाने दो ,
बस जरा सा ....
कुछ अच्छा हो जाने दो .

Google Presents Vote India via Internet

Internet giant Google has created an online tool to track the 2009 elections
in India via the web in detail.

The website is filled with valuable information, and features topics such as the latest election news, quotes from candidates, locations of polling booths, statisctics, profiles and more. What's more is that all of this information can be personalised to a specific location.

Using the "Personalise election page" tool on the homepage, a user can search for detailed information on a specific location such as a city or a region.

According to Wikipedia, a total of 1,368,430 Electronic voting machines will be used in 828,804 polling stations around the country.

Users will be able to track India election news at
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/loksabha2009/

Hydrogen Cars

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new fuel storage system for hydrogen cars of the future. This new system will allow the car to take on enough hydrogen in only 5 minutes to be able to drive 300 miles.

The system uses a fine powder called metal hydride to absorb hydrogen gas. Researchers have created a heat exchanger to remove heat generated as the hydrogen is absorbed by the powder. It works by circluating coolant through tubes and also utilizes fins to remove generated heat.

Leading the research, Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering, said that the heat exchanger is critical because the system stops absorbing hydrogen effectively if it overheats.

"The hydride produces an enormous amount of heat," Mudawar said. "It would take a minimum of 40 minutes to fill the tank without cooling, and that would be entirely impractical."

Artificial IntelliGence

Artificial Intelligence - the word is synonymous with science fiction movies and books, and the whole concept was probably born in the mind of a writer at some point in time.

It's a subject that has - since around the 20th century - enjoyed more and more attention - even if most of it was in the minds of those who dreamed it up, and those who had fairly active imaginations.

That is for the most part - however - where it remained. It was a concept, a far flung idea that bordered on the edge of imagination and possibility. Personally, I believe Artificial Intelligence will largely remain that - artificial - no matter how advanced it may become.

What separates human beings from computers - from machines - is the human spirit. Having said that, one cannot help but wonder how far A.I. will develop, and what will be it's limitations? Will it even have limitations?

Glaciers effect on Deers Evolution...

A 10-year study of mule and black-tailed deer has found unique subspecies created by the animals' responses to climate change thousands of years ago.

Gene Rhodes, Purdue University professor of forestry and natural resources, said DNA analysis of more than 1,700 deer throughout North America shows how the movement of glaciers segregated certain groups of deer and how that affected their genetic makeup.

Glacial movement about 18,000 years ago isolated mule deer and black-tailed deer to areas that were suitable for their survival, sometimes cutting them off from each other. Those groups -- located in Alaska and Canada, and south along the U.S. West Coast to Mexico -- evolved genetically to deal with those conditions, creating several subspecies.

Quantum paradox directly observed

In quantum mechanics, a vanguard of physics where science often merges into philosophy, much of our understanding is based on conjecture and probabilities, but a group of researchers in Japan has moved one of the fundamental paradoxes in quantum mechanics into the lab for experimentation and observed some of the ‘spooky action of quantum mechanics’ directly.

Hardy’s Paradox, the axiom that we cannot make inferences about past events that haven’t been directly observed while also acknowledging that the very act of observation affects the reality we seek to unearth, poses a conundrum that quantum physicists have sought to overcome for decades.

Enery Saviour, Electric trycycle

An electricity expert at Purdue University has taken an average tricycle and made it into an electrically powered, energy-testing machine that could help develop new technologies for greener vehicles.

Athula Kulatunga, associate professor of electrical engineering technology, received support from General Motors to build a plug-in electric bicycle as a learning platform for power electronics and applied research on controllers, charging devices, battery configurations and motor drives. The result is a tricycle that features a reclining seat, pedals in the front and handlebars on the side for steering.

"The purpose of the tricycle is to conduct research, not to produce or design these for commercial use," said Kulatunga, who directs research in the International Rectifier Power Electronics Development and Applications Laboratory in the College of Technology.