“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx.
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The Hunger Games A must read series…
“The Hunger Games” A must read series of 3 books ! Highly captivating..Beautifully written by Suzanne Collins !Check out the movie too !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/mar/25/the-hunger-games-review
Everest book wins Samuel Johnson non-fiction award
Wade Davis, explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society, on Monday won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for his account of George Mallory’s ill-fated attempt to scale the heights of Everest.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-books-everest-award-idINBRE8AB1CW20121112
Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak Real?
Harry Potter’s Cloak of Invisibility that hid him from Muggles and wizards alike may one day be a real thing.
Engineers at Duke University have developed the first functional ‘cloaking’ device, which is able to guide the electromagnetic waves around an object and then re-emerge on the other side, effectively hiding the object.
Clothes that render the wearer invisible have existed in mythology long before J K Rowling wrote Harry Potter. Greek god of the underworld Hades was given an invisibility helmet by Cyclopes to help him in the battle against the Titans.
The electrical engineers first created a functional cloaking device in 2006 but it was not perfected. The new design fixes the problems from the original device.
The goal of this type of research involves “taming light”, with the team creating meta-materials, which are man-made objects that have properties absent in natural ones.
Source:http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/403971/20121112/harry-potter-invisibility-cloak-j-k-rowling.htm
Cannot stop myself from reading HP no matter…
Cannot stop myself from reading HP no matter how hard I try…reading Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban,,,,
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch inspiring…
“The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, inspiring and gripping. A must read.
