K. R. Sridhar founder and CEO of Bloom Energy 

Sridhar was awarded a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, India in 1982.[3] He moved to the United States in the 1980s and gained a M.S. innuclear engineering and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1] 

Recently a man in the name of K.R. Sridhar had shown to the world his Bloom Box which is the most talked about fuel cell-based energy source of 2010. The project was started about eight years ago with a capital of about $400 million. The media was taken aback by the press conference in Silicon Valley with people like California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of the crowd. The little boxes that is believed to change the world in the future were first used by big companies like FedEx, Google, and others. The whole concept of the boxes are that they are like tiny power plants set in your own backyard. They are mainly run by any fuel source like natural gas, solar energy and others as they are used minimally to create a reaction with oxygen to convert it into electrical energy. Basically the power of the Bloom Box come from the ceramic plates that are piled on top of each other and they produced very clean electricity for your consumption.

K.R. Sidhar, who's originally from India, is the face of Bloom Energy, the company that invented the Bloom Box. He was formerly a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona. At the helm of STL, K.R. Sidhar led the group to gather almost $20 million in nationally competed R&D contracts. As an advisor for NASA, K.R. Sidhar also led a team of scientists to develop an equipment so that human could live in Mars. It is through that mission that K.R. was able to conceptualize the now known device he calls Bloom Box.

It is quite amazing that this scientist can actually make a unit as large as bread loaf, which can produce electricity that can power an American home. Although this device now is overly hyped, many people are supporting him in his endeavor to promote clean energy that's simple to use, safe and uses common materials. The business of manufacturing these fuel cells that can earn about trillion dollars did come unfazed by skeptics. Their reason is that these fuel cells are so expensive until they can be produced in mass scale. Although Google are already using them in their headquarters, they are not confident enough to try using it in their servers where their investments are holed up. There are also experts that believe that if this company would unveil that their equipment produces much cheaper alternative source, then it can survive the market race.

Dr. K.R. Sridhar got his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors at the University of Madras in India, as well as his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. His Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering was finished in University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Apart from being a businessman, Dr. Sridhar is doing work with K-12 children by inspiring them to enjoy math and science. He is currently residing in Los Gatos, California with his wife and two children.

                              

HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

The largest organ of the body - Skin.

Skin is the largest or biggest human body organ. The average weight of skin in human body is about 10,886 grams which varies according to the size and weight of human being. Human skin is made up of different ectodermal tissues and it protects all the inner body organs like liver, glands, stomach, heart etc. Other functions are heat regulation, interaction with atmosphere, protection from diseases, absorption and sensation. 

The total number of bones in an adult - 206

The adult skeleton consists of 206 bones . . . 

28 skull bones (8 cranial, 14 facial, and 6 ear bones);

 
The horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone of the neck;

26 vertebrae (7 cervical or neck, 12 thorax, 5 lumbar or loins, the sacrum which is five fused vertebrae, and the coccyx, our vestigial tail, which is four fused vertebrae);

24 ribs plus the sternum or breastbone; the shoulder girdle (2 clavicles, the most frequently fractured bone in the body, and 2 scapulae);

 the pelvic girdle (2 fused bones); 

 30 bones in our arms and legs (a total of 120);

 There are also a few partial bones, ranging from 8-18 in number, which are related to joints. 

The smallest bone of the body - Stapes 

The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone, the stapes, one of the 3 bones that make up your middle ear; measuring 2-3 millimeters. It shaped like a “U” and is the innermost bone that receives sound vibrations and passes them along to the cochlea to eventually be interpreted by the brain.

Coming it at a close second and third, the other 2 bones in your ear, the anvil (incus) and the hammer (malleus). The malleus is situated right after the tympanic membrane (eardrum); the incus is next, which is connected to the stapes. The stapes is the last portion of the middle that terminates in the oval window, the opening to the cochlea. These bones function to concentrate and intensify the sound vibrations heard from the outer ear, so that when the vibrations reach the cochlea, the fine hairs that line its long tunnel can trigger neurons (brain cells) that send the sound signals to the brain for interpretation.

10-year-old's RTI on 'Father of the Nation' title for Gandhi

It is not every day that a 10-year-old catches the office of the Prime Minister of India off-guard and without answers. But then, Aishwarya Parashar, a class six student, is no ordinary girl. She has stumped the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with her Right to Information (RTI) query on when and by what orders was the title of 'Father of the Nation' conferred on Mahatma Gandhi.


Sitting in her small but neatly kept house in Rajajipuram F Block, the backdrop of teddy bears and toys makes her just any other Barbie doll loving girl next door.

But this is only till she starts to speak. Aishwarya, a student of the City Montessori School, Rajajipuram branch, chuckles throughout the conversation on how her mother has "groomed her into the RTI mode", adding that she finds the act so helpful that she has filed two RTIs against garbage dumps outside her school, in the past.

Asked what prompted her to file the RTI application on Gandhi and send it to the PMO, Aishwarya told IANS how the term 'Father of the Nation' had always "somehow excited and interested" her after she read it in her social studies text book.

"I would keep asking my mom 'why is Gandhi referred to as the Father of the Nation', to which my mother mostly had no answers till one fine day she thought of the RTI route". Her mother Urvashi Sharma is happy that the PMO has "at least taken cognizance of the letter", even if the response has not been to their satisfaction.

Aishwarya, the eldest of three siblings, had written to the PMO on Feb 13, seeking a photocopy of the government order (GO) that conferred the famous title of Father of Nation on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The PMO replied that they had no such record whatsoever and directed the query to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which then referred the case to the National Archives of India (NAI).

The NAI's Assistant Director and Central Public Information Officer Jayprabha Ravindran also had no answers to the poser by the Lucknow girl, and responded with an invite to Aishwarya asking her to visit the Archives to find for herself if there were any such relevant papers. Daughter of Sanjay Parashar, a lecturer at GB Pant Polytechnic College, Aishwarya's mother is an RTI activist as well.

History however holds that the title of Father of the Nation was given to the Mahatma by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who in his address on Singapore Radio on July 6, 1944 has addressed Mahatma Gandhi as Father of the Nation. Thereafter on April 28, 1947 Gandhi was referred with the same title by Sarojini Naidu at a conference.


http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Lucknow/Who-named-Mahatma-Gandhi-father-of-nation-Govt-foxed/Article1-834824.aspx

 The First Family throw open the doors of the White House for a virtual tour

 

Google announced a significant expansion of it Google Art Project on Tuesday, adding artwork from the White House and other museums around the globe. Google's Art Project now includes the aforementioned White House galleries, but also notable international museums like the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi, India, or the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

"Since we introduced the Art Project last year, curators, artists and viewers from all over the globe have offered exciting ideas about how to enhance the experience of collecting, sharing and discovering art. Institutions worldwide asked to join the project, urging us to increase the diversity of artworks displayed," Google said in a blog post. "We listened."

The Art Project is part of our efforts to bringing culture online and making it accessible the widest possible audience," Google said, with digital archives of Nelson Mandela, for example.
Google's digitization projects have been integrated with Hangouts and Google+ sharing, the company said. New tools include Explore and Discover, by which users can find artworks by period, artist, or type of artwork.

Google also has a "museum view," which allows viewers to walk the virtual halls of museums like the Palace of Versailles in France. The collections were shot using a special "Street View" camera, which stitched together more than 385 rooms across the various museums. The approach seems similar to the "Trail View" project launched by Nature Valley across several national parks. The interior views are also accessible via Google Maps. Google has also taken Street View to the Amazon and to Russia, among other locations.

Finally, and most impressively, Google also now has 46 "gigapixel" images available in its collection, shot with a special high-resolution camera that allows viewers to see individual brushstrokes and other fine details. Examples include Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son." While the former is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the latter is kept at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia - quite a journey for American art lovers.

Who want 3d view inside the white house click this link..

http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-white-house/museumview/