Good work, seems like Indians will become English grammarians soon.
Umesh
Prasenjit Chetia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Prasenjit Chetia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anurag Kashyap won the 78th spelling Bee contest at Downtown
Washington DC today. Samir sudhir Patel stood second. From round 15
onwards there were 4 contestants and three of them were Indians. There
were 270 + contestants from all over USA and even from Jamaica. This
was the first time since 1962 that 3 contestants were there from round
15 onwards.
That was a great performance by Anurag who just managed past the
flamboyant Sameer, the crowd favorite.
prasenjit
On 6/2/05, umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In retrospect about Delhi students car/moped I think they did a good job in
> improving the mileage to 150kms/litre . I do not think even the best moped
> in India gives more than 100kms/litre. And the students did not have access
> to top tools unlike companies.
>
> ! But I think my knee-jerk reaction was due to seeing Junk-Yard wars on
> Discovery Channel, while in India (here I haven't seen a TV program for
> months -can't buy one.) In that program - the students from MIT, Texas-A7M ,
> CalTech etc competed to produce running cars or rocket launchers within a
> few 100 minutes --and they did it --all from the junk lying around!!! So in
> comparison to that --the Delhi guys effort seemed less glamorous.
> Here, today's issue of Harvard Gazette shows a card-shark(p) chemistry
> professor Liu -banned from Casinos of Las Vegas -for winning to much
> money--has made a plane which travels slower than a butterfly/bee:
>
> Umesh
>
> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.02/03-liu.html
> Chemist, card shark Liu takes off
> In lab, Liu uses DNA to guide synthesis of chemical compounds
> By Steve Bradt
> FAS Communications
> In some corners ! of Las Vegas, Harvard chemist David Liu is viewed as a
> dangerous man.
>
> Liu, 31, is a skilled blackjack player - too skilled, in the eyes of the MGM
> Grand family of casinos. Two years ago, he was barred from all MGM Grand
> facilities after winning too much money playing thousands of hands at the
> blackjack table.
>
> "I was just trying to earn enough to buy my wife a certain pair of
> earrings," explains the recently tenured professor of chemistry and chemical
> biology.
>
> The card-shark chemist took up blackjack with a passion as a Harvard College
> undergraduate, delving into the mathematics of blackjack, writing computer
> programs, and even teaching a course in Currier House on the game.
>
> "You need to play blackjack, essentially, like a robot, with an attention to
> quick but simple math," Liu says. "You can never win more hands than you
> lose in th! e long run, but you win money by betting more when you are more
> likely to win."
>
> Outside the lab, where his research uses DNA to guide synthesis of chemical
> compounds, Liu says he's always maintained - and avidly pursued - one or two
> hobbies in his spare time. After MGM clamped down on his blackjack fun, he
> turned his attention to radio-controlled airplanes.
>
> "I remember reading, when I was a kid, about this goal among hobbyists to
> design a plane that would fly so slowly that you could pilot it around
> inside a living room," Liu says. "I was surprised to learn, years later,
> that this goal remained largely unmet."
>
> Liu focused his energies on the task, working the lift equations for a
> vessel in flight and determining how exceptionally light a plane would have
> to be to remain aloft at superslow speeds. The result was The Wisp, a plane
> whose carbon fiber t! echnology and lithium batteries weigh in at just 6
> grams, the equivalent of six paper clips. Liu has since built a small fleet
> of the small aircraft, ranging in size from 6 to 15 inches, which can
> maneuver around a small room at a pokey 1 to 2 mph.
>
> "At that speed and mass, even if the plane crashes into your forehead -
> which has happened to me numerous times - it doesn't hurt," says Liu, whose
> work for a time was featured in more aviation magazines than chemistry
> journals.
>
> Liu's off-the-job tinkering has revived his childhood interest not only in
> model airplanes, but also in LEGOs. By combining the plastic bricks with a
> heat sensor from a burglar alarm, Liu recently cobbled together a device
> that launches toy mice at his two Birman cats. Dubbed a "mouseapult" (as
> opposed to a catapult) by Liu and his wife Julie, the device sits on the
> floor in the middle of a ro! om, rotating around in search of a warm body.
> When it spots a moving heat source, the mouseapult hurls a fur mouse toy
> from its magazine in the direction of the heat source.
>
> A native of southern California, Liu's interest in science took root as a
> child, when he foraged among the bugs and weeds of his suburban back yard.
> He later moved from amateur botany and entomology to chemistry, mixing
> household compounds in an attempt "to blow stuff up." The combination of
> baking soda and vinegar was always a volatile favorite, he recalls.
>
> "I believe most kids are intrinsically interested in science, driven by
> curiosity about the world around us," Liu says. "I was doing experiments
> without realizing I was doing experiments. I was interested in chemistry
> before I knew what chemistry was."
>
> Although he grew up in a household steeped in science - his father is an
&g! t; aerospace engineer and his mother is a retired physics professor - Liu says
> his parents never pushed him or his sister, now a physician, to pursue
> careers in science. However, Liu's interest in science continued to
> percolate during his teen years, culminating in a second-place finish in the
> 1990 Westinghouse National Science Talent Search.
>
> Later that year, as a Harvard freshman, Liu thought he'd pursue a degree in
> physics - a hope that was rather quickly dashed, he notes, by the
> realization that he was "not very good in physics." His passion for
> chemistry was soon kindled in organic chemistry courses taught by Stuart
> Schreiber and Gregory Verdine, still on the Harvard faculty, and Joseph
> Grabowski, now at the University of Pittsburgh. Grabowski helped Liu secure
> a research position in the laboratory of E.J. Corey, now professor emeritus
> of chemistry and chemical biology! , where Liu studied 2,3-oxidosqualene
> cyclase, a key enzyme in steroid biosynthesis. (Coincidentally, Liu had seen
> Corey receive the Nobel Prize as one of five American students selected to
> attend the 1990 Nobel ceremony in Stockholm.)
>
> "My undergraduate work was a mixture of synthetic chemistry and
> biochemistry," Liu says. "While I wasn't sure then what flavor of chemistry
> I would end up pursuing long term, I was intrigued by this combination, and
> still find it fascinating today."
>
> After graduating ranked first in Harvard College's 1,641-member Class of
> 1994, Liu left for the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue a Ph.D.
> in organic chemistry. It was at Berkeley that he met his wife, Julie, now a
> medicinal chemist working for a pharmaceutical firm. The couple moved back
> east in 1999, when Liu completed his Ph.D. and was appointed assistant
> professor at H! arvard.
>
> Recognizing that evolution has created far more efficient ways of
> synthesizing and identifying active molecules than has been accomplished in
> laboratories, Liu's current research is guided by the belief that scientists
> can gain important insights into chemistry and biology through nature's
> synthetic ingenuity. His work, recently recognized by his being named a
> Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, uses biomolecules such as DNA,
> and the natural tendency of DNA's component nucleotides to selectively
> attach to one another, to guide the chemical synthesis of organic compounds.
> He has found this DNA-templated organic synthesis to be surprisingly
> general, capable of directing a range of chemistries, and a promising window
> into chemical reactions and the machinery of life.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I ! don't know how a 60cc vehicle can be called a car--which is equal in power
> to the "lowest" level of mopeds -even a small motorbike is of 100cc.Maybe it
> travels at sub-zero speeds!!
> http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/01car.htm
>
> Umesh
>
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