tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799964246358375032024-03-14T02:31:37.742+06:00Razibul's Dream WorldSk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-54664109202868795982011-04-06T10:42:00.000+06:002011-04-06T10:42:27.681+06:00What's best for my computer: Hibernate, sleep, or shut down?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We’ve all heard stories about what's best for a computer’s battery.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here are the expert tips[Fred Peters, president of <a href="http://www.hbitservices.com/" rel="nofollow">Huntington Beach IT Services</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">] on how to keep your new laptop running smoothly.</span></div><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Sleep mode vs. shutting down</strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Peters notes that your work process will determine whether it’s more efficient to use “Sleep” mode or simply shut down the computer. “It is never fun to have to consistently wait any amount of time if the shut downs are too frequent,” he says. "‘Sleep’ requires more power, but it boots up faster, while ‘Hibernate’ uses less power, but takes longer to come online.” That same logic applies to shutting off your computer completely.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Your computer will become obsolete before you wear out your computer by turning it on and off a lot,” he adds. “It also doesn't take more energy to start a computer than to keep it running.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sleep mode requires a constant, though reduced use of power (0-6 watts). Peters also notes that colorful screen-savers do nothing to conserve energy. Accessing your computer remotely with the <a href="http://lifehacker.com/#%21348197/access-your-computer-anytime-and-save-energy-with-wake+on+lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wake on LAN</a> feature also can drain the power.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To get the most for your money, Peters advises adjusting power settings so that it automatically goes into Sleep/Standby mode after about 15 minutes of inactivity, and then shut it down at the end of your day.</span></div><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Bionic battery life</strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To get the most out of your computer battery, Peters says to you have to give it a workout. Don’t keep your machine plugged in to an outlet. Instead, discharge the battery daily.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Size does matter</strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By purchasing a laptop, Peters says that you are ahead in the energy-saving game. Laptops use about 15-60 watts, while desktops use 65-250 watts — plus another 15-80 watts for a monitor.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">He also adds that you can further conserve energy by using an LCD monitor and ditching the high-end video card unless it’s absolutely necessary. Also, turn off printers and other peripherals when they are not in use.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To kill “vampire power,” <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/how-to-go-green-home-electronics.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TreeHugger.com</a> suggests purchasing a power strip. With all peripherals connected to one source, it’s easy to simply flip the switch on power hogs any time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Establish a backup process</strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In addition to Peters’ great advice about conserving energy, I discovered the hard way that it also pays to save backup versions of your work. Invest in an external hard drive to hold your digital music library, special photos, and other key documents. Frequent backups ensure that your data doesn’t die with your laptop.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">While you are in the process of backing things up, create an emergency file (on good old-fashioned paper) that contains your computer’s serial number along with other key data such as your credit card numbers and phone numbers to reach each company, along with contact info to your insurance company. Access to that information is vital, particularly in the event of an accident, fire, computer theft, or other catastrophe.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Peters warns that those key pieces of information are not safe on your computer. If you are like me and absolutely need a digital holding space for those nuggets of information, he suggests sites like <a href="http://lastpass.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LastPass</a> as your online vault.</span></div><br />
</div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-3453765810846290112010-09-29T11:09:00.000+06:002010-09-29T11:09:53.865+06:00Spring on Titan Brings Sunshine and Patchy Clouds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TKLJnOGELdI/AAAAAAAABDk/sAoISFhH0bI/s1600/pia13400-640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TKLJnOGELdI/AAAAAAAABDk/sAoISFhH0bI/s400/pia13400-640.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="photo_caption"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">False-color image of cloud cover dissolving over Titan's north pole and clouds appearing in the southern mid latitudes.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Though Titan's surface is far colder and lacks liquid water, this moon is a kind of "sister world" to Earth because it has a surface covered with organic material and an atmosphere whose chemical composition harkens back to an early Earth. Titan has a hydrological cycle similar to Earth's, though Titan's cycle depends on methane and ethane rather than water. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A season on Titan lasts about seven Earth years. Rodriguez and colleagues observed significant atmospheric changes between July 2004 (early summer in Titan's southern hemisphere) and April 2010 (the very start of northern spring). The images showed that cloud activity has recently decreased near both of Titan's poles. These regions had been heavily overcast during the late southern summer until 2008, a few months before the equinox.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Over the past six years, the scientists found that clouds clustered in three distinct latitude regions of Titan: large clouds at the north pole, patchy clouds at the south pole and a narrow belt around 40 degrees south. "However, we are now seeing evidence of a seasonal circulation turnover on Titan – the clouds at the south pole completely disappeared just before the equinox and the clouds in the north are thinning out," Rodriguez said. "This agrees with predictions from models and we are expecting to see cloud activity reverse from one hemisphere to another in the coming decade as southern winter approaches."</span></span><br />
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<span class="photo_caption"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-44647619087156492332010-09-29T11:05:00.000+06:002010-09-29T11:05:05.229+06:00Mars Rover Opportunity Approaching Possible Meteorite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TKLIkS7fatI/AAAAAAAABDg/Q2x-HnqWHpA/s1600/pia13395-640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TKLIkS7fatI/AAAAAAAABDg/Q2x-HnqWHpA/s400/pia13395-640.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="justify"><span class="photo_caption"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera to capture this view of a dark rock that may be an iron meteorite. Part of the rim of Endurance Crater is on the horizon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University</span></span></span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"></div><div class="bold"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>September 21, 2010</strong></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> PASADENA, Calif. -- Images that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took at the end of an 81-meter (266-foot) drive on Sept. 16 reveal a dark rock about 31 meters (102 feet) away. The rover's science team has decided to go get a closer look at the toaster-sized rock and determine whether it is an iron meteorite. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> "The dark color, rounded texture and the way it is perched on the surface all make it look like an iron meteorite," said science-team member Matt Golombek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Opportunity has found four iron meteorites during the rover's exploration of the Meridiani Planum region of Mars since early 2004. Examination of these rocks has provided information about the Martian atmosphere, as well as the meteorites themselves. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The newfound rock has been given the informal name "Oileán Ruaidh" (pronounced ay-lan ruah), which is the Gaelic name for an island off the coast of northwestern Ireland. The rock is about 45 centimeters (18 inches) wide from the angle at which it was first seen. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Opportunity has driven 23.3 kilometers (14.5 miles) on Mars. The drive to this rock will take the total combined distance driven by Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, to more than 31 kilometers (19.26 miles). </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The small car-sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the sun's atmosphere approximately 6.4 million kilometers (four million miles) from our star's surface. It will explore a region no other spacecraft ever has encountered. NASA has selected five science investigations that will unlock the sun's biggest mysteries, including one led by a scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"The experiments selected for Solar Probe Plus are specifically designed to solve two key questions of solar physics -- why is the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than the sun's visible surface and what propels the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> system? " said Dick Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division in Washington. "We've been struggling with these questions for decades and this mission should finally provide those answers." </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As the spacecraft approaches the sun, its revolutionary carbon-composite heat shield must withstand temperatures exceeding about 1,400 degrees Celsius (2,550 degrees Fahrenheit) and blasts of intense radiation. The spacecraft will have an up-close and personal view of the sun, enabling scientists to better understand, characterize and forecast the radiation environment for future space explorers. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">NASA invited researchers in 2009 to submit science proposals. Thirteen were reviewed by a panel of NASA and outside scientists. The total dollar amount for the five selected investigations is approximately $180 million for preliminary analysis, design, development and tests. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The selected proposals are: </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons Investigation: principal investigator, Justin C. Kasper, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This investigation will specifically count the most abundant particles in the solar wind -- electrons, protons and helium ions -- and measure their properties. The investigation also is designed to catch some of the particles in a special cup for direct analysis. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Wide-field Imager: principal investigator, Russell Howard, Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. This telescope will make 3-D images of the sun's corona, or atmosphere. The experiment actually will see the solar wind and provide 3-D images of clouds and shocks as they approach and pass the spacecraft. This investigation complements instruments on the spacecraft, providing direct measurements by imaging the plasma the other instruments sample. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Fields Experiment: principal investigator, Stuart Bale, University of California Space Sciences Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. This investigation will make direct measurements of electric and magnetic fields, radio emissions, and shock waves that course through the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> sun's atmospheric plasma. The experiment also serves as a giant dust detector, registering voltage signatures when specks of space dust hit the spacecraft's antenna. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun: principal investigator, David McComas of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. This investigation consists of two instruments that will take an inventory of elements in the sun's atmosphere using a mass </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Heliospheric Origins with Solar Probe Plus: principal investigator, Marco Velli of JPL. Velli is the mission's observatory scientist, responsible for serving as a senior scientist on the science working group. He will provide an independent assessment of scientific performance and act as a community advocate for the mission. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"This project allows humanity's ingenuity to go where no spacecraft has ever gone before," said Lika Guhathakurta, Solar Probe Plus program scientist at NASA Headquarters, in Washington. "For the very first time, we'll be able to touch, taste and smell our sun." </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Solar Probe Plus mission is part of NASA's Living with a Star Program. The program is designed to understand aspects of the sun and Earth's space environment that affect life and society. The program is managed by NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., with oversight from NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Division. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Laurel, Md., is the prime contractor for the spacecraft.</span></span> </div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-64378926329683567502010-09-29T10:36:00.002+06:002010-09-29T10:58:51.565+06:00Amateur Astronomers are First to Detect Objects Impacting Jupiter<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caught in the Act: Fireballs Light up Jupiter</span></span> </b><br />
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</div><div align="justify"></div><div class="bold"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>September 09, 2010</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Amateur astronomers working with professional astronomers have spotted two fireballs lighting up Jupiter's atmosphere this summer, marking the first time Earth-based telescopes have captured relatively small objects burning up in the atmosphere of the giant planet. The two fireballs - which produced bright freckles on Jupiter that were visible through backyard telescopes - occurred on June 3, 2010, and August 20, 2010, respectively. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A new paper that includes both pros and amateurs, led by Ricardo Hueso of the Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, appears today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. In the paper, astronomers estimate the object that caused the June 3 fireball was 8 to 13 meters (30 to 40 feet) in diameter. The object is comparable in size to the asteroid 2010 RF12 that flew by Earth on Wednesday, Sept. 8, and slightly larger than the asteroid 2008 TC3, which burned up above Sudan two years ago.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An impact of this kind on Earth would not be expected to cause damage on the ground. The energy released by the June 3 fireball as it collided with Jupiter's atmosphere was five to 10 times less than the 1908 Tunguska event on Earth, which knocked over tens of millions of trees in a remote part of Russia. Analysis is continuing on the Aug. 20 fireball, but scientists said it was comparable to the June 3 object.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Jupiter is a big gravitational vacuum cleaner," said Glenn Orton, a co-author on the paper and an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "It is clear now that relatively small objects, remnants of the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago, still hit Jupiter frequently. Scientists are trying to figure out just how frequently."</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Orton and colleagues said this kind of discovery couldn't have been made without amateur astronomers around the world, whose observations of Jupiter provide a near round-the-clock surveillance that would be impossible to do with the long lines of scientists waiting to use the large telescopes. Amateur astronomers, for example, were the first to see the dark spot that appeared on Jupiter in July 2009 as the result of an impact. Professional astronomers are still analyzing that impact.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer from Murrumbateman, Australia, who was also the first to take a picture of that dark spot on Jupiter in July 2009, was the first to see the tiny flash on June 3. Amateur astronomers had their telescopes trained on Jupiter that day because they were in the middle of "Jupiter season," when the planet is high in the sky and at its largest size, as seen by backyard telescopes. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wesley was visiting an amateur astronomer friend about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) away in Broken Hill, and he set a digital video camera to record images from his telescope at about 60 frames per second. He was watching the live video on a computer screen at his friend's house when he saw a two-and-a-half-second-long flash of light near the limb of the planet.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"It was clear to me straight away it had to be an event on Jupiter," he said. "I'm used to seeing other momentary flashes in the camera from cosmic ray impacts, but this was different. Cosmic ray strikes last only for one frame of video, whereas this flash gradually brightened and then faded over 133 frames."</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wesley sent a message out on his e-mail list of amateur and professional astronomers, which included Orton. After receiving Wesley's e-mail, Christopher Go of Cebu, Philippines -- who like Wesley, is an amateur astronomer -- checked his own recordings and confirmed that he had seen a flash, too.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Before Wesley's work, scientists didn't know these small-size impacts could be observed, Hueso explained. "The discovery of optical flashes produced by objects of this size helps scientists understand how many of these objects are out there and the role they played in the formation of our solar system," Hueso said.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For three days afterward, Hueso and colleagues looked for signs of the impact in high-resolution images from larger telescopes: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini Observatory telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, the Keck telescope in Hawaii, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. Scientists analyzed the images for thermal disruptions and chemical signatures seen in previous images of Jupiter impacts. In this case, they saw no signs of debris, which allowed them to limit the size of the impactor.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Based on all these images, and particularly those obtained by Wesley and Go, the astronomers were able to confirm the flash came from some kind of object – probably a small comet or asteroid – that burned up in Jupiter's atmosphere. The impactor likely had a mass of about 500 to 2,000 metric tons (1 million to 4 million pounds), probably about 100,000 times less massive than the object in July 2009. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Calculations also estimated this June 3 impact released about 1 to 4 quadrillion joules (300 million to 1 billion kilowatt-hours) of energy. The second fireball, on Aug. 20, was detected by the amateur Japanese astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa and later confirmed by Aoki Kazuo and Masayuki Ishimaru. It flashed for about 1.5 seconds. The Keck telescope, observing less than a day later, also found no subsequent debris remnants. Scientists are still analyzing this second flash.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Although collisions of this size had never before been detected on Jupiter, some previous models predicted around one collision of this kind a year. Another predicted up to 100 such collisions. Scientists now believe the frequency must be closer to the high end of the scale.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"It is interesting to note that whereas Earth gets smacked by a 10-meter-sized object about every 10 years on average, it looks as though Jupiter gets hit with the same-sized object a few times each month," said Don Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL, who was not involved in the paper. "The Jupiter impact rate is still being refined and studies like this one help to do just that."</span></span><span class="photo_caption"> </span><br />
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</div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-52895478556256534902010-08-17T09:29:00.000+06:002010-08-17T09:29:30.678+06:00Restore 'Show Desktop' Icon in your Quick Launch Taskbar<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If the 'Show </span></span><nobr id="itxt_nobr_1_0" style="color: #2b65b0; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Desktop'</span></span></span></nobr><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> icon is deleted from Quick Launch, using any of these procedure below will recreate the file.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;"><h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Method 1: Manually re-create the Show Desktop icon</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click Start, Run, and type </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notepad.exe</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Copy the following contents to Notepad.</span><br />
<blockquote> <div class="registry"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Shell]<br />
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Command=ToggleDesktop</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Save the file as </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Show Desktop.scf" </span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(with quotes, in order to prevent Notepad from appending </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.txt</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> extension). Now, drag the file to the Quick Launch Toolbar.</span><br />
<h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Method 2: Using the Regsvr32 command</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click Start, Run and type the following command:</span><br />
<blockquote> <div class="registry"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32.dll</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Show Desktop</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> icon file should be available now.</span><br />
<h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Method 3: Copy the file from another user account</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every user account will have a copy of </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Show Desktop.scf</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> file. Search for the file named </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Show Desktop.scf</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in your computer by logging in as administrator. Copy it to your user profile path here: </span><br />
<blockquote> <div class="registry"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">%Appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Type the above path in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Start</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Run</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> dialog)</span><br />
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</span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-90673132553407361152010-08-10T14:44:00.001+06:002010-08-10T14:46:06.609+06:00Albert Einstein Quotes --4<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.”—Albert Einstein ---From a Conversation with Rabindrath Tagore, </span><st1:date day="14" month="7" year="1930"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">July 14,1930</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Published in </span><st1:place><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Asia</span></em></st1:place><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> 31</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (1931)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“What really interests me is whether God could have created the world any differently; in other words, whether the demand for logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Ernst Straus in Seelig, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Helle Zeit, dunkle Zeit, </span></em>72</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.”—Albert Einstein--- To Marcel Grossmann, </span><st1:date day="12" month="9" year="1920"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">September 12, 1920</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. AEA 11-500</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.”—Albert Einstein-To Michele Besso, </span><st1:date day="12" month="2" year="1915"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">February 12, 1915</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, CPAE, Vol.8, Doc 56</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact—Albert Einstein --- In <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jüdische Rundschau</span></em>, </span><st1:date day="21" month="6" year="1921"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">June 21, 1921</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. CPAE Vol. 7, Doc. 57 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.”—Albert Einstein --- To L. Manners, </span><st1:date day="19" month="3" year="1954"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">March 19,1954</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. AEA 60-401</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Portraits & Self-Portraits, by George Schreiber 1935-1936. </span></em>AEA 28-332<em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.</span></em> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in an interview, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New York Times,</span></em> </span><st1:date day="12" month="8" year="1945"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">August 12, 1945</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“. . . I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Tower</span></em>, </span><st1:date day="13" month="4" year="1935"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">April 13, 1935</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.”—Albert Einstein --- To Max and Hedwig Born, </span><st1:date day="29" month="4" year="1924"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">April 29, 1924</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. AEA 8-176</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.”—Albert Einstein ---To Max Brod, </span><st1:date day="22" month="2" year="1949"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">February 22, 1949</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. AEA 34-066.1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“</span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Berlin</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.”—Albert Einstein --- To K. Haenisch, </span><st1:date day="8" month="9" year="1920"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">September 8, 1920</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. AEA 36-022</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. . . .”—Albert Einstein --- From “Why Socialism?” (1949). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 153</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.”—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism 1923. AEA 36-591</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Hoffmann, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel</span></em>, 20</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems....I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by James Franck in Seelig, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Albert Einstein, </span></em>(1954), 84 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.”—Albert Einstein --- To Tyfanny Williams, </span><st1:date day="25" month="8" year="1946"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">August 25, 1946</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. AEA 42-612</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.”—Albert Einstein --- From “Some Notes on My American Impressions”. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 6 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.”--Albert Einstein ---To a Japanese scholar (1923). Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ideas and Opinions</span></em>, 262</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one’s work so devilishly seriously. . . .”—Albert Einstein ---To Joseph Scharl, </span><st1:date day="27" month="12" year="1949"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">December 27, 1949</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. AEA 34-207</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?”—Albert Einstein ---To I Stern, 1932. Reprinted in Dukas and Hoffmann ed. , <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Albert Einstein: The Human Side</span></em>, (1979) 30. AEA 51-870</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-26908768331996613002010-08-10T14:40:00.001+06:002010-08-10T14:46:06.620+06:00Albert Einstein Quotes --3<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth . . . and a pen in pocket or hand. . . .”—Albert Einstein --- To Elisabeth Ney, </span><st1:date day="30" month="9" year="1920"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">September 30, 1920</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 42-545</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“My mother has died. . . . We are all completely exhausted. One feels in one’s bones the significance of blood ties.”—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, March 1920, AEA 39-732</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn’t notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn’t notice.”—Albert Einstein --- From a letter to his son Eduard, 1922</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I am an artist’s model”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by H. Samuel , October 1930. AEA 21-006</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”—Albert Einstein --- From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ideas and Opinions, </span></em>8<em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></em>.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I have not eaten enough of the Tree of Knowledge, though in my profession I am obliged to feed on it regularly.”—Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, </span><st1:date day="9" month="11" year="1919"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">November 9,1919</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 8-142</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Daily Express</span></em> ( </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">London</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">), </span><st1:date day="11" month="9" year="1933"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">September 11,1933</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“That little word ‘WE’ I mistrust and here’s why:No man of another can say “He is I”.Behind all agreement lies something amissAll seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">AE: The Human Side, </span></em>100</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Personally, I experience the greatest <u>degree</u> of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot <u>derive</u> from other sources.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Moszkowski in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Conversations with Einstein, </span></em>184</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.”—Albert Einstein ---From address, </span><st1:date day="19" month="9" year="1954"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">September 19,1954</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 28-1054</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.”—Albert Einstein --- From <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Why I remain a Negro, </span></em>October 1947. AEA 59-009</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Now to the term ‘relativity theory.’ I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.”—Albert Einstein --- To </span><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">E. Zschimmer</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">, </span><st1:date day="30" month="9" year="1921"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">September 30,1921</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.”Quoted by Helen Dukas in Sayen, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Einstein in </span></em></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">America</span></em></st1:place></st1:country-region><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">,</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 130.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.”—Albert Einstein --- From </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Physics and Reality” (1936). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 290</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”—Albert Einstein --- From “My Credo” 1932. AEA 28-218</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.”—Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, </span><st1:date day="7" month="9" year="1944"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">September 7,1944</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 8-207</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.”—Albert Einstein --- To </span><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">E. Mulder</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">, April 1954. AEA 60-609</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone—the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.”—Albert Einstein-To Anna Meyer-Schmid,May12, 1909.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.”—Albert Einstein --- From “At a gathering for freedom of opinion” (1936). Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Einstein: Essays in Humanism</span></em>, 50</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“We must . . . dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.”—Albert Einstein --- Published in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pictoral Review</span></em>, February 1933. Quoted in R.W. Clark, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Einstein: The Life and Times</span></em></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.”—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, AEA 28-388</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.”—Albert Einstein --- To Beatrice Frohlich, </span><st1:date day="17" month="12" year="1952"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">December 17, 1952</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA59-797</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.”—Albert Einstein --- From “My Credo”, 1932. AEA 28-218</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.”—Albert Einstein --- From <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Die Friedensbewegung</span></em>, ed., Kurt Lenz and Walter Fabian (1922)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I do not play games. . . . There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don’t want anything that requires the working of the mind.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in New York Times, </span><st1:date day="28" month="3" year="1936"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">March 28, 1936</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">, 34:2</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.”—Albert Einstein --- To Elsa Löwenthal, </span><st1:date day="30" month="4" year="1912"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">April 30,1912</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">, CPAE, Vol.5, Doc. 389</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.”—Albert Einstein --- To Romain Rolland, </span><st1:date day="22" month="3" year="1915"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">March 22, 1915</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 33-002</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.”—Albert Einstein --- To E. Schaerer-Meyer, </span><st1:date day="27" month="7" year="1951"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">July 27,1951</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 60-525</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.”—Albert Einstein ---From “Autobiographical Notes” in Schilpp, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist </span></em>(1949),<em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></em>3</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”—Albert Einstein --- From an interview </span><st1:date day="23" month="6" year="1946"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">June 23, 1946</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Einstein on Peace, </span></em>385</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.”—Albert Einstein --- To V.T. Aaltonen, May 7, 1952. AEA 59-059</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.”—Albert Einstein --- To Paul Ehrenfest, </span><st1:date day="12" month="7" year="1924"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">July 12, 1924</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 10-089</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”—Albert Einstein --- From “ Education for Independent Thought” (1952). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 67. AEA 60-723 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow <u>your</u> instincts without too much reflection.”—Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, </span><st1:date day="3" month="3" year="1920"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">March 3,1920</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 8-146</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical fats by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Life</span></em> Magazine, </span><st1:date day="9" month="1" year="1950"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">January 9,1950</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This <u>nature</u> makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual’s way.”—Albert Einstein --- To Dr. Eugenie Anderman, </span><st1:date day="2" month="6" year="1953"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">June 2, 1953</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 59-097</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in P. Frank, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Einstein: His Life and Times</span></em>, 185 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I am very happy with my new home in friendly </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> and in the liberal atmosphere of </span><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Princeton</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in “Survey Graphic”, 24 (August 1935) 384,413</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I know what it’s like to see one’s mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.”—Albert Einstein --- To Hedwig Born, </span><st1:date day="18" month="6" year="1920"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">June 18, 1920</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 8-257</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Hoffmann, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel</span></em>, 4</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is . . . the criterion of true pacifism.”—Albert Einstein --- To A. Morrisett, </span><st1:date day="21" month="3" year="1952"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">March 21,1952</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">. AEA 60-595</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“The <u>trite objects of human efforts</u>—possessions, superficial success, luxury—have always seemed contemptible to me.”—Albert Einstein --- From, “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ideas and Opinions, </span></em>9.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, 1918. CPAE Vol 8, Doc. 597</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-7828747432576151722010-08-10T13:04:00.001+06:002010-08-10T14:46:06.627+06:00Albert Einstein Quotes --2<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. . . . Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?”—Albert Einstein --- From an interview 1931. Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein on Peace</span></em>, 125</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The heart says yes, but the mind says no.”—Albert Einstein --- From the Travel Diary, </span><st1:date day="13" month="2" year="1923"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">February 13,1923</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 29-129</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever…”. It is clear from the original that it is definitely not “I”.To Hans Muehsam, </span><st1:date day="30" month="3" year="1954"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">March 30,1954</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 38-434.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Ehlers<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, Liebes Hertz!</span></em> 45</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Die Friedensbewegung</span></em>, ed. Kurt Lenz and Walter Fabian (1922) 17. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“There is nothing divine about <u>[the scientist’s]</u> morality; it is a purely human affair.” – —Albert Einstein --- From <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Mein Weltbild </span></em>(1934. Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions</span></em>, 40</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Frank, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein: His Life and Times</span></em>, 190.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.”—Albert Einstein --- To Dr. Eugenie Anderman, </span><st1:date day="2" month="6" year="1953"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">June 2, 1953</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 59-097</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in P.A. Bucky, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Der Private Albert Einstein, </span></em>276</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.”—Albert Einstein --- To Barbara Wilson, </span><st1:date day="7" month="1" year="1943"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">January 7, 1943</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 42-606.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The value of achievement lies <u>in the achieving</u>.”—Albert Einstein --- To D. Liberson, </span><st1:date day="28" month="10" year="1950"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 28, 1950</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 60-297</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.”—Albert Einstein --- From <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Goal of Human Existence, </span></em></span><st1:date day="11" month="4" year="1943"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">April 11, 1943</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 28-587</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Lincoln Barnett, Smithsonian, February 1979, 74</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“If only I could give you some of my happiness so you would never be sad and depressed again.”—Albert Einstein ---To Mileva Marić, May 9, 1901. CPAE, Vol.1, Doc.106.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Tower, </span></em></span><st1:date day="13" month="4" year="1935"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">April 13, 1935</span></st1:date><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.”—Albert Einstein --- To Betty Neumann, 1924. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by </span><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">W. Hermanns</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A Talk with Einstein</span></em>, October 1943. AEA 55-285.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.”—Albert Einstein ---<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></strong>Quoted by R. W.Clark in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein :The Life and Times,</span></em> 268</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”—Albert Einstein --- To Jeremiah McGuire, </span><st1:date day="24" month="10" year="1953"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 24,1953</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 60-483</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.”—Albert Einstein --- To Max Kariel, </span><st1:date day="3" month="8" year="1953"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">August 3,1953</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 60-058.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.”—Albert Einstein --- To T. Lee, </span><st1:date day="16" month="1" year="1954"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">January 16,1954</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 60-235.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.”—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, </span><st1:date day="18" month="9" year="1930"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">September 18,1930</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 36-598</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Ernst Straus in French, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein: A Centenary Volume</span></em>, 32 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Truly novel ideas emerge only in one’s youth. Later on one becomes more experienced, famous—and foolish.”—Albert Einstein ---To Heinrich Zangger, </span><st1:date day="6" month="12" year="1917"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">December 6, 1917</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 39-689</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“With fame I become more and more stupid, which of <u>course </u>is a very common <u>phenomenon</u>.”—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, </span><st1:date day="24" month="12" year="1919"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">December 24, 1919</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 39-726</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">(“Violence may at times have quickly cleared away an obstruction, but it has never proved itself to be creative.” ) Should read: <u>“Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative”</u>--- —Albert Einstein---From “Was Europe a Success?” (1934). Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein: Essays in Humanism, </span></em>49</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.” Should read: “ …<u> the essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">what</span></em> he thinks and <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">how</span></em> he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.”</u>—Albert Einstein ---From “Autobiographical Notes” in P. Schilpp ed., <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Albert Einstein : Philosopher – Scientist</span></em>,(1949) 33<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">.</span></em></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“. . . My scientific goals and my personal vanity will not prevent me from accepting even the most subordinate <u>position</u>.” Should read: “My scientific goals and my personal vanity will not prevent me from accepting even the most subordinate role”.—Albert Einstein --- To Mileva Marić, </span><st1:date day="7" month="7" year="1901"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">July 7,1901</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. CPAE, Vol.1. Doc. 114.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.”—Albert Einstein --- From “On the Method of Theoretical Physics” (1933). Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions, </span></em>274<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">.</span></em></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in interview with A. Aram, </span><st1:date day="3" month="1" year="1953"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">January 3, 1953</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 59-109</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Whoever is careless with truth in small matters can not be trusted in important affairs.”—Albert Einstein. --- From draft of address on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">’s independence, April 1955 AEA 60-003</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Without ‘ethical culture,’ there is no salvation for humanity.”—Albert Einstein---From “The Need for Ethical Culture”, </span><st1:date day="5" month="1" year="1951"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">January 5,1951</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 28-904</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The economists will have to revise their theories of value.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in J. Sayen, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein in America, </span></em>150</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spiritual things only when they are not tied in with earning one’s livelihood.”—Albert Einstein --- To L. Manners, </span><st1:date day="19" month="3" year="1954"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">March 19,1954</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“<u>Morality</u> is the highest importance—but for us, not for God.”—Albert Einstein --- To M.M. Schayer, August 1927. AEA 48-380</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”—Albert Einstein --- To son Hans Albert, </span><st1:date day="4" month="1" year="1937"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">January 4,1937</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I have, for the first time, seen a happy and healthy society whose members are fully absorbed in it.”—Albert Einstein --- To Michele Besso, May 24, 1924. AEA 7-349</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by K. Wachsmann in M. Grüning<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, Ein Haus für Albert Einstein</span></em>, 159</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.”—Albert Einstein --- To H. Freund, January 1927. AEA 46-304</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by K. Wachsmann in Grüning, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ein Haus für Albert Einstein</span></em>, 240</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in P. Michelmore, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein: Profile of the Man</span></em>, 251 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“God gave me the <u>stubbornness</u> of a mule and a fairly keen scent.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in G.J. Whitrow, Einstein: the man and his achievement, 91</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.”—Albert Einstein --- To Marie Winteler, </span><st1:date day="21" month="4" year="1896"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">April 21,1896</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">, CPAE Vol.1, Doc. 18</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility. . . .”—Albert Einstein --- Should read: <u>“What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can comprehend only imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility…”</u> Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, “AE: The Human Side”, 39</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.”—Albert Einstein – From “Science and God: A Dialogue”. In <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Forum and Century</span></em> 83 (1930), 373</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.”—Albert Einstein --- To Abba Eban, </span><st1:date day="18" month="11" year="1952"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">November 18,1952</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 28-943 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I wouldn’t want to live if I did not have my work. . . . In any case, it’s good that I’m already old and personally don’t have to count on a prolonged future.”—Albert Einstein ---To Michele Besso, </span><st1:date day="10" month="10" year="1938"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 10,1938</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 7-376</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.”—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, </span><st1:date day="10" month="3" year="1917"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">March 10, 1917</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 39-680</span><br />
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</span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-8150351808158731702010-08-10T12:55:00.001+06:002010-08-10T14:46:06.633+06:00Albert Einstein Quotes --1<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Quoted in interview by G.S. Viereck , </span><st1:date day="26" month="10" year="1929"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 26,1929</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. Reprinted in “Glimpses of the Great”(1930).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in an interview with <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">New York Times</span></em>, </span><st1:date day="12" month="3" year="1944"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">March 12,1944</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by E. Salaman in “ A Talk with Einstein”, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Listener 54</span></em> (1955) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”—Albert Einstein --- To Fred Wall, 1933.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” —Albert Einstein --- To Carl Seelig – </span><st1:date day="11" month="3" year="1952"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">March 11,1952</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.” —Albert Einstein --- From a letter to Gustav Bucky, 1945.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”<br />
—Albert Einstein- From an address at the commencement exercise of </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Swarthmore</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">College</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">, 1938 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The most beautiful experience we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. . . ” From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions, </span></em>11.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Regarding sex education: no secrets!”—Albert Einstein --- To the World League for Sexual Reform, </span><st1:date day="6" month="9" year="1929"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">September 6,1929</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 48-304</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”—Albert Einstein --- To J. Dispentiere – </span><st1:date day="24" month="3" year="1954"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">March 24, 1954</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 59-495</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.”—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger – May 20,1912. AEA 39-655</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self. . . .”—Albert Einstein --- To Elsa Löwenthal, ca. </span><st1:date day="2" month="12" year="1913"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">December 2, 1913</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">CPAE</span></em>, Vol 5, Doc.489.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.”—Albert Einstein --- To Otto Juliusburger – </span><st1:date day="11" month="4" year="1946"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">April 11,1946</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 38-228</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust—we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in interview by G.S. Viereck , </span><st1:date day="26" month="10" year="1929"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 26,1929</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. Reprinted in “Glimpses of the Great”,1930.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Portraits & Self-Portraits </span></em>by George Schreiber 1935-1936. AEA 28-332</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.” —Albert Einstein -- To Elsa Löwenthal, after </span><st1:date day="3" month="8" year="1914"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">August 3, 1914</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. CPAE, Vol. 8, Doc.32.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God’s Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.”—Albert Einstein --- To Pauline Winteler – </span><st1:date day="3" month="7" year="1897"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">July 3,1897</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 29-453</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.”—Albert Einstein --- From Address, </span><st1:date day="15" month="10" year="1936"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 15, 1936</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> – Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions, </span></em>60<u>.</u></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these are the best guides for man.”—Albert Einstein --- To V. Bulgakow, </span><st1:date day="4" month="11" year="1931"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">November 4, 1931</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 45-702.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“People like you and I, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.”—Albert Einstein --- To Otto Juliusburger, September 29,1942.AEA 38-238</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally.” —Albert Einstein --- From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions, </span></em>8.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></u></div><div><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The true value of a human being</span></em> is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">---Albert Einstein ---From Mein Weltbild (1934). Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions</span></em>, 12 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”—Albert Einstein --- To F.S. Wada, </span><st1:date day="30" month="7" year="1947"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">July 30, 1947</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 58-934.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality. . . .”—Albert Einstein --- From address to the Disarmament Conference of 1932 (1931). Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions</span></em>, 95.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.”—Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, </span><st1:date day="9" month="9" year="1920"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">September 9, 1920</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 8-151.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. In the face of all this, I have never lost a sense of distance and the need for solitude.”—Albert Einstein --- From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions, </span></em>99.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Music does not influence research work, but both are nourished by the same sort of longing, and they complement each other in the release they offer.”—Albert Einstein --- To Paul Plaut, </span><st1:date day="23" month="10" year="1928"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 23, 1928</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 28-065</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”—Albert Einstein ---. From “My Future Plans”, </span><st1:date day="18" month="9" year="1896"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">September 18,1896</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. CPAE Vol.1, Doc. 22.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Where there is love, there is no imposition.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Sayen, <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Einstein in </span></em></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">America</span></em></st1:place></st1:country-region><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">, </span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">294.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”—Albert Einstein --- From <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Civilization and Science, </span></em></span><st1:date day="3" month="10" year="1933"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 3, 1933</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. Quoted in The Times (</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">London</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">), </span><st1:date day="4" month="10" year="1933"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 4, 1933</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Moszkowski in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Conversations with Einstein</span></em> (1920) 65. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.”—Albert Einstein --- Statement to Abba Eban, </span><st1:date day="18" month="11" year="1952"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">November 18,1952</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 28-943.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in M. Wertheimer, “Productive Thinking” (1959).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.” —Albert Einstein --- To P. Moos, </span><st1:date day="30" month="3" year="1950"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">March 30,1950</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 60-587.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.”—Albert Einstein --- To Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, </span><st1:date day="16" month="2" year="1935"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">February 16,1935</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 32-385.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.”—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, </span><st1:date day="27" month="6" year="1920"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">June 27,1920</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 36-582.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in the New York Times, </span><st1:date day="20" month="6" year="1932"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">June 20,1932</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> AEA 29-041</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.”—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, 1945-1946. AEA 36-570</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by William Miller in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Life</span></em> Magazine, </span><st1:date day="2" month="5" year="1955"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">May 2, 1955</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by William Miller in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Life</span></em> Magazine, </span><st1:date day="2" month="5" year="1955"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">May 2,1955</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be <u>discharged</u>. . . .”—Albert Einstein --- To Gertrude Warschauer, </span><st1:date day="5" month="2" year="1955"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">February 5, 1955</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 39-532</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The most important endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity for life.”—Albert Einstein --- To Reverend C. Greenway, </span><st1:date day="20" month="11" year="1950"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">November 20,1950</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. AEA 28-894.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.” —Albert Einstein --- From Address, </span><st1:date day="15" month="10" year="1936"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October 15, 1936</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">. Reprinted in <em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ideas and Opinions,</span></em> 62</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span></div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-42567445331722251362010-08-05T10:24:00.000+06:002010-08-05T10:24:07.547+06:00Two moons on 27 August - Greatest Event on Earth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TFo8g5-kLBI/AAAAAAAABCI/tfbF7m9ApqA/s1600/two_moon_august_2007.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TFo8g5-kLBI/AAAAAAAABCI/tfbF7m9ApqA/s320/two_moon_august_2007.png" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You may be interested. Show two moons to children. Mark the date on your calendar. Let us hope the sky is not cloudy. This time translates to 11 pm CST (12 pm EST) in USA.Please pass it on. Let’s not miss this spectacle!!**Two moon on 27 August*</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*27th August the Whole World is waiting for.............* Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am IST. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.</span></span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-30756955422478363572010-07-27T13:00:00.000+06:002010-07-27T13:00:48.918+06:00NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TE6CZEtEgZI/AAAAAAAABCA/oUr6H5_zqx4/s1600/odyssey20100723-a-browse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TE6CZEtEgZI/AAAAAAAABCA/oUr6H5_zqx4/s320/odyssey20100723-a-browse.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="photo_caption"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Valles Marineris, the "Grand Canyon of Mars," sprawls wide enough to reach from Los Angeles to nearly New York City, if it were located on Earth. The red outline box shows the location of a second, full-resolution image. Credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">PASADENA, Calif. -- A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The map was constructed using nearly 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS, a multi-band infrared camera on Odyssey. Researchers at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility in Tempe, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have been compiling the map since THEMIS observations began eight years ago. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The pictures have been smoothed, matched, blended and cartographically controlled to make a giant mosaic. Users can pan around images and zoom into them. At full zoom, the smallest surface details are 100 meters (330 feet) wide. While portions of Mars have been mapped at higher resolution, this map provides the most accurate view so far of the entire planet.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The new map is available at: </span></span><a href="http://www.mars.asu.edu/maps/?layer=thm_dayir_100m_v11" linkindex="80"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.mars.asu.edu/maps/?layer=thm_dayir_100m_v11</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> . </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Advanced users with large bandwidth, powerful computers and software capable of handling images in the gigabyte range can download the full-resolution map in sections at: </span></span><a href="http://www.mars.asu.edu/data/thm_dir_100m" linkindex="81"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.mars.asu.edu/data/thm_dir_100m</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"We've tied the images to the cartographic control grid provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, which also modeled the THEMIS camera's optics," said Philip Christensen, principal investigator for THEMIS and director of the Mars Space Flight Facility. "This approach lets us remove all instrument distortion, so features on the ground are correctly located to within a few pixels and provide the best global map of Mars to date."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Working with THEMIS images from the new map, the public can contribute to Mars exploration by aligning the images to within a pixel's accuracy at NASA's "Be a Martian" website, which was developed in cooperation with Microsoft Corp. Users can visit the site at: </span></span><a href="http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/maproom#/MapMars" linkindex="82"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/maproom#/MapMars</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> . </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The Mars Odyssey THEMIS team has assembled a spectacular product that will be the base map for Mars researchers for many years to come," said Jeffrey Plaut, Odyssey project scientist at JPL. "The map lays the framework for global studies of properties such as the mineral composition and physical nature of the surface materials."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Other sites build upon the base map. At Mars Image Explorer, which includes images from every Mars orbital mission since the mid-1970s, users can search for images using a map of Mars at: </span></span><a href="http://themis.asu.edu/maps" linkindex="83"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://themis.asu.edu/maps</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The broad purpose underlying all these sites is to make Mars exploration easy and engaging for everyone," Christensen said. "We are trying to create a user-friendly interface between the public and NASA's Planetary Data System, which does a terrific job of collecting, validating and archiving data." </span></span><br />
<span class="photo_caption"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mars Odyssey was launched in April 2001 and reached the Red Planet in October 2001. Science operations began in February 2002. The mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft. NASA's Planetary Data System, sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate, archives and distributes scientific data from the agency's planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements.</span></span> </span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-54622394608027739182010-07-27T12:58:00.000+06:002010-07-27T12:58:14.816+06:00NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TE6BTlQNq1I/AAAAAAAABB4/FMnQX9UwPZw/s1600/pia13288-640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TE6BTlQNq1I/AAAAAAAABB4/FMnQX9UwPZw/s320/pia13288-640.jpg" /></a></div><span class="photo_caption"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has at last found buckyballs in space, as illustrated by this artist's conception. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech</span></span></span><br />
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They are named for their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, which have interlocking circles on the surface of a partial sphere. Buckyballs were thought to float around in space, but had escaped detection until now. <br />
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"We found what are now the largest molecules known to exist in space," said astronomer Jan Cami of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. "We are particularly excited because they have unique properties that make them important players for all sorts of physical and chemical processes going on in space." Cami has authored a paper about the discovery that will appear online Thursday in the journal Science. <br />
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Buckyballs are made of 60 carbon atoms arranged in three-dimensional, spherical structures. Their alternating patterns of hexagons and pentagons match a typical black-and-white soccer ball. The research team also found the more elongated relative of buckyballs, known as C</span></span><sub><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">70</span></span></sub><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, for the first time in space. These molecules consist of 70 carbon atoms and are shaped more like an oval rugby ball. Both types of molecules belong to a class known officially as buckminsterfullerenes, or fullerenes. <br />
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The Cami team unexpectedly found the carbon balls in a planetary nebula named Tc 1. Planetary nebulas are the remains of stars, like the sun, that shed their outer layers of gas and dust as they age. A compact, hot star, or white dwarf, at the center of the nebula illuminates and heats these clouds of material that has been shed. <br />
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The buckyballs were found in these clouds, perhaps reflecting a short stage in the star's life, when it sloughs off a puff of material rich in carbon. The astronomers used Spitzer's spectroscopy instrument to analyze infrared light from the planetary nebula and see the spectral signatures of the buckyballs. These molecules are approximately room temperature -- the ideal temperature to give off distinct patterns of infrared light that Spitzer can detect. According to Cami, Spitzer looked at the right place at the right time. A century from now, the buckyballs might be too cool to be detected. <br />
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The data from Spitzer were compared with data from laboratory measurements of the same molecules and showed a perfect match. <br />
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"We did not plan for this discovery," Cami said. "But when we saw these whopping spectral signatures, we knew immediately that we were looking at one of the most sought-after molecules." <br />
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In 1970, Japanese professor Eiji Osawa predicted the existence of buckyballs, but they were not observed until lab experiments in 1985. Researchers simulated conditions in the atmospheres of aging, carbon-rich giant stars, in which chains of carbon had been detected. Surprisingly, these experiments resulted in the formation of large quantities of buckminsterfullerenes. The molecules have since been found on Earth in candle soot, layers of rock and meteorites. <br />
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The study of fullerenes and their relatives has grown into a busy field of research because of the molecules' unique strength and exceptional chemical and physical properties. Among the potential applications are armor, drug delivery and superconducting technologies. <br />
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Sir Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Bob Curl and Rick Smalley for the discovery of buckyballs, said, "This most exciting breakthrough provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has, as I long suspected, existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy." <br />
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Previous searches for buckyballs in space, in particular around carbon-rich stars, proved unsuccessful. A promising case for their presence in the tenuous clouds between the stars was presented 15 years ago, using observations at optical wavelengths. That finding is awaiting confirmation from laboratory data. More recently, another Spitzer team reported evidence for buckyballs in a different type of object, but the spectral signatures they observed were partly contaminated by other chemical substances.</span></span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-54705242624366930722010-07-21T09:56:00.002+06:002010-07-21T09:58:05.394+06:00Cassini Sees Moon Building Giant Snowballs in Saturn Ring<div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEZudlUE8XI/AAAAAAAABBo/T7s1K21l6yk/s1600/pia12784-browse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEZudlUE8XI/AAAAAAAABBo/T7s1K21l6yk/s320/pia12784-browse.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEZumoZN5bI/AAAAAAAABBw/2lqTHFGB4_I/s1600/pia12788-226.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEZumoZN5bI/AAAAAAAABBw/2lqTHFGB4_I/s200/pia12788-226.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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New images from Cassini show icy particles in Saturn's F ring clumping into giant snowballs as the moon Prometheus makes multiple swings by the ring. The gravitational pull of the moon sloshes ring material around, creating wake channels that trigger the formation of objects as large as 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter. <br />
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"Scientists have never seen objects actually form before," said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team member based at Queen Mary, University of London. "We now have direct evidence of that process and the rowdy dance between the moons and bits of space debris." <br />
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Murray discussed the findings today (July 20, 2010) at the Committee on Space Research meeting in Bremen, Germany, and they are published online by the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters on July 14, 2010. A new animation based on imaging data shows how one of the moons interacts with the F ring and creates dense, sticky areas of ring material. <br />
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Saturn's thin, kinky F ring was discovered by NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1979. Prometheus and Pandora, the small "shepherding" moons on either side of the F ring, were discovered a year later by NASA's Voyager 1. In the years since, the F ring has rarely looked the same twice, and scientists have been watching the impish behavior of the two shepherding moons for clues. <br />
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Prometheus, the larger and closer to Saturn of the two moons, appears to be the primary source of the disturbances. At its longest, the potato-shaped moon is 148 kilometers (92 miles) across. It cruises around Saturn at a speed slightly greater than the speed of the much smaller F ring particles, but in an orbit that is just offset. As a result of its faster motion, Prometheus laps the F ring particles and stirs up particles in the same segment once in about every 68 days. <br />
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"Some of these objects will get ripped apart the next time Prometheus whips around," Murray said. "But some escape. Every time they survive an encounter, they can grow and become more and more stable." <br />
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Cassini scientists using the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph previously detected thickened blobs near the F ring by noting when starlight was partially blocked. These objects may be related to the clumps seen by Murray and colleagues. <br />
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The newly-found F ring objects appear dense enough to have what scientists call "self-gravity." That means they can attract more particles to themselves and snowball in size as ring particles bounce around in Prometheus's wake, Murray said. The objects could be about as dense as Prometheus, though only about one-fourteenth as dense as Earth. <br />
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What gives the F ring snowballs a particularly good chance of survival is their special location in the Saturn system. The F ring resides at a balancing point between the tidal force of Saturn trying to break objects apart and self-gravity pulling objects together. One current theory suggests that the F ring may be only a million years old, but gets replenished every few million years by moonlets drifting outward from the main rings. However, the giant snowballs that form and break up probably have lifetimes of only a few months. <br />
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The new findings could also help explain the origin of a mysterious object about 5 to 10 kilometers (3 to 6 miles) in diameter that Cassini scientists spotted in 2004 and have provisionally dubbed S/2004 S 6. This object occasionally bumps into the F ring and produces jets of debris. <br />
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"The new analysis fills in some blanks in our solar system's history, giving us clues about how it transformed from floating bits of dust to dense bodies," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The F ring peels back some of the mystery and continues to surprise us." <br />
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The late Kevin Beurle was made the honorary first author on this paper because of his contributions in developing software and designing observation sequences for this research. He died in 2009. <br />
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The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</span> <br />
</span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-17854931859882516532010-07-21T09:47:00.001+06:002010-07-21T09:55:33.245+06:00NASA Goes Deep in Search of Extreme Environments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEZt8rdDn8I/AAAAAAAABBg/B5fbP7Ny4uo/s1600/hydro20100720-640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEZt8rdDn8I/AAAAAAAABBg/B5fbP7Ny4uo/s320/hydro20100720-640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="photo_caption"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A team recovers the hybrid robotic vehicle Nereus aboard the research vessel Cape Hatteras during a partially NASA-funded expedition to the Mid-Cayman Rise in October 2009. A search for new hydrothermal vent sites along the 110-kilometer-long ridge, the expedition featured the first use of Nereus in "autonomous," or free-swimming, mode. Image credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span></span></span><br />
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</span> --> An expedition partially funded by NASA, part of a program to search extreme environments for geological, biological and chemical clues to the origins and evolution of life, has discovered the deepest known hydrothermal vent in the world, nearly 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) below the surface of the western Caribbean Sea. The research will help extend our understanding of the limits to which life can exist on Earth and help prepare for future efforts to search for life on other planets. <br />
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An interdisciplinary team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass., and including research scientist Max Coleman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., sailed to the western Caribbean in October 2009 aboard the research vessel Cape Hatteras. Using sensors mounted on equipment and robotic vehicles, they searched for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the 110-kilometer-long (68-mile-long) Mid-Cayman Rise, an ultra-slow spreading ridge located in the Cayman Trough -- the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea. Results of their research are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <br />
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While high-temperature submarine vents were first discovered more than 30 years ago, the majority of the global Mid-Ocean Ridge, an underwater mountain range that snakes its way for more than 56,000 kilometers (35,000 miles) between Earth's continents, remains unexplored for hydrothermal activity. While such activity occurs on spreading centers all around the world, scientists are particularly interested in Earth's ultra-slow spreading ridges, like the Mid-Cayman Rise, which may host systems that are particularly relevant to pre-biotic chemistry and the origins of life. The Mid-Cayman Rise is part of the tectonic boundary between the North American and Caribbean Plates. At the boundary where the plates are being pulled apart, new material wells up from Earth's interior to form new crust on the seafloor. <br />
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The researchers found that the Mid-Cayman Rise hosts at least three discrete hydrothermal sites, each representing a different type of water-rock interaction. The diversity of the newly discovered vent types, their geologic settings and their relative geographic isolation make the Mid-Cayman Rise a unique environment in the world's ocean. <br />
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"This was probably the highest-risk expedition I have ever undertaken," said chief scientist Chris German, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution geochemist who has pioneered the use of autonomous underwater vehicles to search for hydrothermal vent sites. "We know hydrothermal vents appear along ridges approximately every 100 kilometers [62 miles]. But this ridge crest is only 100 kilometers long, so we should only have expected to find evidence for one site at most. So finding evidence for three sites was quite unexpected - but then finding out that our data indicated that each site represents a different style of venting - one of every kind known, all in pretty much the same place - was extraordinarily cool." <br />
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The team identified the deepest known hydrothermal vent site and two additional distinct types of vents, one of which is believed to be a shallow, low-temperature vent of a kind that has been reported only once previously - at the "Lost City" site in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. <br />
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"Being the deepest, these hydrothermal vents support communities of organisms that are the furthest from the ocean surface and sources of energy like sunlight," said JPL co-author Coleman. "Most life on Earth is sustained by food chains that begin with sunlight as their energy source. That's not an option for possible life deep in the ocean of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, prioritized by NASA for future exploration. However, organisms around the deep vents get energy from the chemicals in hydrothermal fluid, a scenario we think is similar to the seafloor of Europa, and this work will help us understand what we might find when we search for life there." <br />
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"We were particularly excited to find compelling evidence for high-temperature venting at almost 5,000 meters depth," said Julie Huber, a scientist in the Josephine Bay Paul Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. "We have absolutely zero microbial data from high-temperature vents at this depth." Huber and Marine Biological Laboratory postdoctoral scientist Julie Smith participated in this cruise to collect samples, and all of the microbiology work for this paper was carried out in Huber's laboratory. "With the combination of extreme pressure, temperature and chemistry, we are sure to discover novel microbes in this environment," Huber added. "We look forward to returning to the Cayman and sampling these vents in the near future. We are sure to expand the known growth parameters and limits for life on our planet by exploring these new sites." </span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-30303953727983731312010-07-20T09:40:00.005+06:002010-07-20T09:45:43.397+06:00Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover's Touchdown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEUZ7g3wjgI/AAAAAAAABBY/M-GIMGcSxIo/s1600/pia13283-640.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="16" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEUZ7g3wjgI/AAAAAAAABBY/M-GIMGcSxIo/s320/pia13283-640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="photo_caption" style="font-size: x-small;">This Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera will fly on the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="photo_caption" style="font-size: x-small;">Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems</span></div><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">July 19, 2010</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, will start recording high-resolution video about two minutes before landing in August 2012. Initial frames will glimpse the heat shield falling away from beneath the rover, revealing a swath of Martian terrain below illuminated in afternoon sunlight. The first scenes will cover ground several kilometers (a few miles) across. Successive images will close in and cover a smaller area each second. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The full-color video will likely spin, then shake, as the Mars Science Laboratory mission's parachute, then its rocket-powered backpack, slow the rover's descent. The left-front wheel will pop into view when Curiosity extends its mobility and landing gear. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The spacecraft's own shadow, unnoticeable at first, will grow in size and slide westward across the ground. The shadow and rover will meet at a place that, in the final moments, becomes the only patch of ground visible, about the size of a bath towel and underneath the rover. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Dust kicked up by the rocket engines during landing may swirl as the video ends and Curiosity's surface mission can begin. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All of this, recorded at about four frames per second and close to 1,600 by 1,200 pixels per frame, will be stored safely into the Mars Descent Imager's own flash memory during the landing. But the camera's principal investigator, Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, and everyone else will need to be patient. Curiosity will be about 250 million kilometers (about 150 million miles) from Earth at that point. It will send images and other data to Earth via relay by one or two Mars orbiters, so the daily data volume will be limited by the amount of time the orbiters are overhead each day. <br />
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"We will get it down in stages," said Malin. "First we'll have thumbnails of the descent images, with only a few frames at full scale." <br />
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Subsequent downlinks will deliver additional frames, selected based on what the thumbnail versions show. The early images will begin to fulfill this instrument's scientific functions. "I am really looking forward to seeing this movie. We have been preparing for it a long time," Malin said. The lower-resolution version from thumbnail images will be comparable to a YouTube video in image quality. The high-definition version will not be available until the full set of images can be transmitted to Earth, which could take weeks, or even months, sharing priority with data from other instruments." <br />
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The Mars Descent Imager will provide the Mars Science Laboratory team with information about the landing site and its surroundings. This will aid interpretation of the rover's ground-level views and planning of initial drives. Hundreds of the images taken by the camera will show features smaller than what can be discerned in images taken from orbit. <br />
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"Each of the 10 science instruments on the rover has a role in making the mission successful," said John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, chief scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory. "This one will give us a sense of the terrain around the landing site and may show us things we want to study. Information from these images will go into our initial decisions about where the rover will go." <br />
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The nested set of images from higher altitude to ground level will enable pinpointing Curiosity's location even before an orbiter can photograph the rover on the surface. <br />
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Malin said, "Within the first day or so, we'll know where we are and what's near us. MARDI doesn't do much for six-month planning -- we'll use orbital data for that -- but it will be important for six-day and 16-day planning." <br />
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In addition, combining information from the descent images with information from the spacecraft's motion sensors will enable calculating wind speeds affecting the spacecraft on its way down, an important atmospheric science measurement. The descent data will later serve in designing and testing future landing systems for Mars that could add more control for hazard avoidance. <br />
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After landing, the Mars Descent Imager will offer the capability to obtain detailed images of ground beneath the rover, for precise tracking of its movements or for geologic mapping. The science team will decide whether or not to use that capability. Each day of operations on Mars will require choices about how to budget power, data and time. <br />
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Last month, spacecraft engineers and technicians re-installed the Mars Descent Imager onto Curiosity for what is expected to be the final time, as part of assembly and testing of the rover and other parts of the Mars Science Laboratory flight system at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Besides the rover itself, the flight system includes the cruise stage for operations between Earth and Mars, and the descent stage for getting the rover from the top of the Martian atmosphere safely to the ground. <br />
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Malin Space Science Systems delivered the Mars Descent Imager in 2008, when NASA was planning a 2009 launch for the mission. This camera shares many design features, including identical electronic detectors, with two other science instruments the same company is providing for Curiosity: the Mast Camera and the Mars Hand Lens Imager. The company also provided descent imagers for NASA's Mars Polar Lander, launched in 1999, and Phoenix Mars Lander, launched in 2007. However, the former craft was lost just before landing and the latter did not use its descent imager due to concern about the spacecraft's data-handling capabilities during crucial moments just before landing. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="photo_caption"><br />
</span></span></div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-86987710730929605152010-07-19T09:39:00.001+06:002010-07-19T09:41:49.530+06:00French scientists crack secrets of Mona Lisa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEPId3_IeoI/AAAAAAAABBM/_lpGZS3joFU/s1600/monalisa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/TEPId3_IeoI/AAAAAAAABBM/_lpGZS3joFU/s320/monalisa.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">PARIS – The enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the "Mona Lisa." French researchers studied seven of the Louvre Museum's Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the "Mona Lisa," to analyze the master's use of <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_france_da_vinci#" id="KonaLink0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">successive </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">ultrathin </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">layers</span></span></a> of paint and glaze - a technique that gave his works their dreamy quality.<br />
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Specialists from the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France found that da Vinci painted up to 30 layers of paint on his works to meet his standards of subtlety. Added up, all the layers are less than 40 micrometers, or about half the thickness of a human hair, <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_france_da_vinci#" id="KonaLink1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">researcher </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Philippe </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Walter</span></span></a> said Friday.<br />
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The technique, called "sfumato," allowed da Vinci to give outlines and contours a hazy quality and create an illusion of depth and shadow. His use of the technique is well-known, but scientific study on it has been limited because tests often required samples from the paintings.<br />
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The French researchers used a noninvasive technique called <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_france_da_vinci#" id="KonaLink2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">X-ray </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">fluorescence </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">spectroscopy</span></span></a> to study the paint layers and their chemical composition.<br />
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They brought their specially developed high-tech tool into the museum when it was closed and studied the portraits' faces, which are emblematic of sfumato. The project was developed in collaboration with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble.<br />
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The tool is so precise that "now we can find out the mix of pigments used by the artist for each coat of paint," Walter told The Associated Press. "And that's very, very important for understanding the technique."<br />
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The analysis of the various paintings also shows da Vinci was constantly trying out new methods, Walter said. In the "Mona Lisa," da Vinci used manganese oxide in his shadings. In others, he used copper. Often he used glazes, but not always.<br />
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The results were published Wednesday in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a chemistry journal.<br />
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Tradition holds that the "Mona Lisa" is a painting of <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_france_da_vinci#" id="KonaLink3" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Lisa </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Gherardini</span></span></a>, wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo, and that da Vinci started painting it in 1503. Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century painter and biographer of da Vinci and other artists, wrote that the <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_france_da_vinci#" id="KonaLink4" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">perfectionist </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">da </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Vinci</span></span></a> worked on it for four years.<br />
</span></span>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-67095201954920757682010-01-11T12:24:00.002+06:002010-01-11T12:28:48.472+06:00I got a jobAfter 5 months continuous viva-voce at last i got a job at BEXTEX Limited as a Senior Executive in Information System Department. Its a member company of Beximco Group located at Beximco Industrial Park, Kashimpur, Gazipur.<br /><br />Very flexible environment of work. lets see......Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-15492825613517852152009-07-01T14:34:00.005+07:002009-07-01T14:42:14.067+07:00What 'Honest' MeansWorldwide survey was conducted by the! UN.<br /><br />The only question asked was:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"<br /></div>The survey was a huge failure,<br />In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant,<br />In India they didn't know what 'honest' meant,<br />In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant,<br />In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant,<br />In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant,<br />In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant,<br />And in the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant!Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-12844941630426359342009-06-30T16:25:00.013+07:002009-06-30T17:02:06.754+07:00Top 10 Transparent Animals!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Here are the most interesting transparent animals, from icefish to jellyfish to frogs to butterflies! Nature sure is very interesting!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Sknbr2cVdtI/AAAAAAAAA-g/VZ0zub5a1j8/s1600-h/transparent-animals.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Sknbr2cVdtI/AAAAAAAAA-g/VZ0zub5a1j8/s400/transparent-animals.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353051178501764818" border="0" /></a><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Transparent Frog</span><br /><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaohFAO6I/AAAAAAAAA-Y/Cada23MGtno/s1600-h/a357_frog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaohFAO6I/AAAAAAAAA-Y/Cada23MGtno/s400/a357_frog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353050021715524514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Native to Venezuela, the Glass Frogs belong to the amphibian family Centrolenidae (order Anura). While the general background coloration of most glass frogs is primarily lime green, the abdominal skin of some members of this family is transparent, so that the heart, liver, and digestive tract are visible through their translucent skin. (Photo by Heidi and Hans-Jurgen Koch)</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Transparent Head Fish</span></span></strong><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaoRDDGQI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/-3hlFk6sTP8/s1600-h/a357_fishhead.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaoRDDGQI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/-3hlFk6sTP8/s400/a357_fishhead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353050017412356354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">This bizarre deep-water fish called the Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has a transparent head and tubular eyes. It has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within his transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head, while the fish's tubular eyes, well inside the head, are capped by bright green lenses. The eyes point upward (as shown here) when the fish is looking for food overhead. They point forward when the fish is feeding. The two spots above the fish's mouth are not eyes: those are olfactory organs called nares, which are analogous to human nostrils. (Photo by MBARI)</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>3. Transparent Butterfly</strong></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaoDx8YcI/AAAAAAAAA-I/_FwBYd4Ot1Q/s1600-h/a357_Butterfly.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaoDx8YcI/AAAAAAAAA-I/_FwBYd4Ot1Q/s400/a357_Butterfly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353050013850952130" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Found in Central America, from Mexico to Panama, the Glasswing Butterfly (Greta Oto) is a brush-footed butterfly where its wings are transparent. The tissue between the veins of its wings looks like glass. (Photo by Hemmy)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>4. Transparent Squid</strong></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Sknan_Lvd6I/AAAAAAAAA-A/Hpp0GGylt5I/s1600-h/a357_squid.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Sknan_Lvd6I/AAAAAAAAA-A/Hpp0GGylt5I/s400/a357_squid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353050012616980386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Found on the southern hemisphere's oceans, the Glass Squid (Teuthowenia pellucida) has light organs on its eyes and possesses the ability to roll into a ball, like an aquatic hedgehog. It is prey of many deep-sea fish (eg goblin sharks) as well as whales and oceanic seabirds. (Photo by Peter Batson)<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>5. Transparent Zebrafish created by scientists<br /><br /></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Sknanj011uI/AAAAAAAAA94/LG_X7kl-mkM/s1600-h/a357_zebrafish.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Sknanj011uI/AAAAAAAAA94/LG_X7kl-mkM/s400/a357_zebrafish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353050005273171682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">This see-through zebrafish was created in 2008 by scientists so they can study disease processes, including the spread of cancer. The transparent fish are allowing researchers at Children's Hospital Boston to directly view fish's internal organs and observe processes such as tumor growth in real-time in living organisms. (Photo by LS)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>6. Transparent Icefish</strong></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaUXXntlI/AAAAAAAAA9w/HQ3_ZxwTE1c/s1600-h/a357_Icefish.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaUXXntlI/AAAAAAAAA9w/HQ3_ZxwTE1c/s400/a357_Icefish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353049675511871058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Found in the cold waters around Antarctica and southern South America, the crocodile icefish (Channichthyidae) feed on krill, copepods, and other fish. Their blood is transparent because they have no hemoglobin and/or only defunct erythrocytes. Their metabolism relies only on the oxygen dissolved in the liquid blood, which is believed to be absorbed directly through the skin from the water. This works because water can dissolve the most oxygen when it is coldest. In five species, the gene for myoglobin in the muscles has also vanished, leaving them with white instead of pink hearts. (Photo by uwe kils)<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>7. Transparent Amphipod<br /><br /></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaUO15GVI/AAAAAAAAA9o/kJa-g_M7eIk/s1600-h/a357_Phronima.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaUO15GVI/AAAAAAAAA9o/kJa-g_M7eIk/s400/a357_Phronima.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353049673222920530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Called Phronima, this unusual animal is one of the many strange species recently found on an expedition to a deep-sea mountain range in the North Atlantic. In an ironic strategy for survival, this tiny shrimplike creature shows everything it has, inside and out, in an attempt to disappear. Many other small deep-sea creatures are transparent as well, or nearly so, to better camouflage themselves in their murky surroundings, scientists say. (Photo by David Shale)<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>8. Tr</strong><strong>ansparent Larval Shrimp</strong></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaUIV2VwI/AAAAAAAAA9g/WKjiy8H6XGw/s1600-h/a357_larval.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaUIV2VwI/AAAAAAAAA9g/WKjiy8H6XGw/s400/a357_larval.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353049671477909250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Found in the in the waters around Hawaii, this transparent larval shrimp piggybacks on an equally see-through jellyfish. (Photo by Chris Newbert/Minden Pictures)<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>9. Transparent Salp<br /><br /></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaT2P1siI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/xgRzmG5P0tc/s1600-h/a357_salp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaT2P1siI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/xgRzmG5P0tc/s400/a357_salp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353049666620863010" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">This jellyfish-like animals known as Salps feed on small plants in the water called phytoplankton (marine algae). They are transparent, barrel-shaped animals that can range from one to 10cm in length. (Photo by DM)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>10. Transparent Jellyfish<br /><br /></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaTml6ArI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/sQYR8-HMFWU/s1600-h/a357_jellyfish.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknaTml6ArI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/sQYR8-HMFWU/s400/a357_jellyfish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353049662418453170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. They are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea. Many jellies are so transparent that they are almost impossible to see. The one above is from the Arctapodema genus, with a size of an inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long). (Photo by Bill Curtsinger) </span><br /></div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-1102985481194019492009-06-30T14:46:00.007+07:002009-06-30T17:02:06.754+07:00World's Most Flexible Women<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Here are some photos of extremely flexible and limber women. One wonders if they have any bones at all! </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDqkueUlI/AAAAAAAAA9I/R3V8XJ2oIJw/s1600-h/flexible-women.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDqkueUlI/AAAAAAAAA9I/R3V8XJ2oIJw/s400/flexible-women.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024768287068754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Some ways to improve flexibility are through Yoga, Pilates, Ballet, Tai Chi, martial arts and swimming. The people in the following pictures seem to be naturally gifted though!</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDZEqG3jI/AAAAAAAAA9A/XWCKLNftY1w/s1600-h/a96706_flex1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDZEqG3jI/AAAAAAAAA9A/XWCKLNftY1w/s400/a96706_flex1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024467621043762" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDY6RfLYI/AAAAAAAAA84/v3fPv-NdOc8/s1600-h/a96706_flex2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDY6RfLYI/AAAAAAAAA84/v3fPv-NdOc8/s400/a96706_flex2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024464833424770" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDYvl8taI/AAAAAAAAA8w/NEhDVS6ihE0/s1600-h/a96706_flex3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDYvl8taI/AAAAAAAAA8w/NEhDVS6ihE0/s400/a96706_flex3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024461966456226" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDYoK5ASI/AAAAAAAAA8o/rVDKagJ_ILQ/s1600-h/a96706_flex4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDYoK5ASI/AAAAAAAAA8o/rVDKagJ_ILQ/s400/a96706_flex4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024459973919010" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDYJvwWqI/AAAAAAAAA8g/sTuI3u_bA98/s1600-h/a96706_flex5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDYJvwWqI/AAAAAAAAA8g/sTuI3u_bA98/s400/a96706_flex5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024451807042210" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDOeZLwHI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/lVX0wtT2Z0Q/s1600-h/a96706_flex6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDOeZLwHI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/lVX0wtT2Z0Q/s400/a96706_flex6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024285550821490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDOKL9CRI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/lLEg8mNnzjE/s1600-h/a96706_flex7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDOKL9CRI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/lLEg8mNnzjE/s400/a96706_flex7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024280126621970" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDNxK89CI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ASeGBzbuoHM/s1600-h/a96706_flex8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 212px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDNxK89CI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ASeGBzbuoHM/s400/a96706_flex8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024273411535906" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDNZyeZZI/AAAAAAAAA8A/DeyxkVTai5s/s1600-h/a96706_flex9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDNZyeZZI/AAAAAAAAA8A/DeyxkVTai5s/s400/a96706_flex9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024267134854546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDNdL9xcI/AAAAAAAAA74/1UlA76emPKU/s1600-h/a96706_flex10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDNdL9xcI/AAAAAAAAA74/1UlA76emPKU/s400/a96706_flex10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024268047074754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDDNsOK0I/AAAAAAAAA7w/03UvKEq866Y/s1600-h/a96706_flex11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDDNsOK0I/AAAAAAAAA7w/03UvKEq866Y/s400/a96706_flex11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024092088707906" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDCwcDbpI/AAAAAAAAA7o/Qfxe_rJ9tTQ/s1600-h/a96706_flex12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDCwcDbpI/AAAAAAAAA7o/Qfxe_rJ9tTQ/s400/a96706_flex12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024084236267154" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDCkAmjYI/AAAAAAAAA7g/hzfU6zsf2kw/s1600-h/a96706_flex13.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDCkAmjYI/AAAAAAAAA7g/hzfU6zsf2kw/s400/a96706_flex13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024080899902850" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDCLY3wdI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/KOd5wrg2yvo/s1600-h/a96706_flex14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDCLY3wdI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/KOd5wrg2yvo/s400/a96706_flex14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024074290807250" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDByEP17I/AAAAAAAAA7Q/-I-4ggycjC0/s1600-h/a96706_flex15.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknDByEP17I/AAAAAAAAA7Q/-I-4ggycjC0/s400/a96706_flex15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353024067493418930" border="0" /></a>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-16365227115339684762009-06-30T14:34:00.007+07:002009-06-30T17:02:06.754+07:00The World’s Most Unusual Plants<p><b>These are the top 4 of the most Unusual plants & flowers, enjoy!</b> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>1. Rafflesia arnoldii</strong></em>: <span style="font-size:85%;">this parasitic plant develops the world's largest bloom that can grow over three feet across. The flower is a fleshy color, with spots that make it look like a teenager's acne-ridden skin. It smells bad and has a hole in the center that holds six or seven quarts of water. The plant has no leaves, stems, or roots.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAmlFspeI/AAAAAAAAA7I/NGnEkzN-2fs/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 274px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAmlFspeI/AAAAAAAAA7I/NGnEkzN-2fs/s320/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021401130116578" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAmVh3n2I/AAAAAAAAA7A/zHU4SH86f6I/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAmVh3n2I/AAAAAAAAA7A/zHU4SH86f6I/s320/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021396953309026" border="0" /></a><br /><hr /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>2. Hydnora africana</strong></em>,<span style="font-size:85%;"> an unusual flesh-colored, parasitic flower that attacks the nearby roots of shrubby in arid deserts of South Africa. The putrid-smelling blossom attracts herds of carrion beetles.</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAmElVX1I/AAAAAAAAA64/oCuu-BIX3Wo/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 310px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAmElVX1I/AAAAAAAAA64/oCuu-BIX3Wo/s320/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021392404438866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAl3jN3XI/AAAAAAAAA6w/XUz7-aY9l8g/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAl3jN3XI/AAAAAAAAA6w/XUz7-aY9l8g/s320/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021388905897330" border="0" /></a><br /><hr /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>3. Dracunculus vulgaris</strong></em>:<span style="font-size:85%;"> smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAl1mQB8I/AAAAAAAAA6o/HeBYK-eng9k/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAl1mQB8I/AAAAAAAAA6o/HeBYK-eng9k/s320/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021388381751234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAUJzLzII/AAAAAAAAA6g/RQom3Z-qYB0/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAUJzLzII/AAAAAAAAA6g/RQom3Z-qYB0/s320/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021084567063682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAT67lLTI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/49yU5Zb9sQw/s1600-h/7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknAT67lLTI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/49yU5Zb9sQw/s320/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021080575749426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><hr /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>4. Amorphophallus</strong></em>: <span style="font-size:85%;">means, literally, "shapeless penis." The name comes from the shape of the erect black spadix.</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknATnN29KI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/6HBehZl5IDk/s1600-h/8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknATnN29KI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/6HBehZl5IDk/s320/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021075283702946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknATXhqXvI/AAAAAAAAA6I/EuEeMeEt8F0/s1600-h/9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknATXhqXvI/AAAAAAAAA6I/EuEeMeEt8F0/s320/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021071071796978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknATd6_1MI/AAAAAAAAA6A/krL9QmF6x9A/s1600-h/10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SknATd6_1MI/AAAAAAAAA6A/krL9QmF6x9A/s320/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353021072788673730" border="0" /></a><br />** Don't gift any of these to your Valentine ...Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-23309363000144091022009-06-30T14:06:00.020+07:002009-06-30T17:02:06.755+07:00Some of the Beautiful Temples of the World!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Here is a listing of some of the beautiful temples of the World! Includes the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Taktshang in Bhutan, Wat Rong Khun in Thailand, Prambanan in Indonesia, Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma, Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Chion-in in Japan, Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Tamil Nadu & the Angkor Wat in Cambodia.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6fP1J-UI/AAAAAAAAA54/dy8xcg7z84g/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 106px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6fP1J-UI/AAAAAAAAA54/dy8xcg7z84g/s320/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014678094739778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Taktshang</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6e9kldjI/AAAAAAAAA5w/TIKjqHLtcaA/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6e9kldjI/AAAAAAAAA5w/TIKjqHLtcaA/s320/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014673193399858" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6etrYYVI/AAAAAAAAA5o/XBVbFBENPg0/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6etrYYVI/AAAAAAAAA5o/XBVbFBENPg0/s320/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014668926935378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Taktshang is the most famous of monasteries in Bhutan. It hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet), some 700 meters (2,300 feet) above the bottom of Paro valley, some 10 km from the district town of Paro. Famous visitors include Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century and Milarepa.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> The name means "Tiger's nest", the legend being that Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) flew there on the back of a tiger. The monastery includes seven temples which can all be visited. The monastery suffered several blazes and is a recent restoration. Climbing to the monastery is on foot or mule.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wat Rong Khun</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6eSFaZWI/AAAAAAAAA5g/_WKuHoi5szE/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6eSFaZWI/AAAAAAAAA5g/_WKuHoi5szE/s320/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014661519926626" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6R6oAjAI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/RVVDJ0kIDJc/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6R6oAjAI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/RVVDJ0kIDJc/s320/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014449064152066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Wat Rong Khun is a contemporary unconventional buddhist temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand. It was designed by Chalermchai Kositpipat. Construction began in 1998 and is expected to end in 2008.</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> Wat Rong Khun is different from any other temple in Thailand, as its ubosot (Pali: uposatha; consecrated assembly hall) is designed in white color with some use of white glass. The white color stands for Lord Buddha’s purity; the white glass stands for Lord Buddha’s wisdom that "shines brightly all over the Earth and the Universe."</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" >Prambanan</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6RiTbqcI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/EPvDx5K8R7o/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6RiTbqcI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/EPvDx5K8R7o/s320/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014442535397826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6RfyOKBI/AAAAAAAAA5I/aNsphQyyFiA/s1600-h/7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6RfyOKBI/AAAAAAAAA5I/aNsphQyyFiA/s320/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014441859229714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple compound in Central Java in Indonesia, located approximately 18 km east of Yogyakarta. The temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the largest Hindu temples in south-east Asia. It is characterised by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and by the 47m high central building inside a large complex of individual temples.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shwedagon Pagoda</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6RCobXsI/AAAAAAAAA5A/MAxoAkJf94M/s1600-h/8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6RCobXsI/AAAAAAAAA5A/MAxoAkJf94M/s320/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014434033524418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">The Shwedagon Pagoda also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a 98-metre (approx. 321.5 feet) gilded stupa located in Yangon, Burma. The pagoda lies to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, on Singuttara Hill, thus dominating the skyline of the city. It is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese with relics of the past four Buddhas enshrined within, namely the staff of Kakusandha, the water filter of Konagamana, a piece of the robe of Kassapa and eight hairs of Gautama, the historical Buddha.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Temple of Heaven</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6Qws_f5I/AAAAAAAAA44/UmiiLlpWTgg/s1600-h/9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6Qws_f5I/AAAAAAAAA44/UmiiLlpWTgg/s320/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014429220831122" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6Eu2f6TI/AAAAAAAAA4w/8-oKCowU9-I/s1600-h/10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6Eu2f6TI/AAAAAAAAA4w/8-oKCowU9-I/s320/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014222565402930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven is a complex of Taoist buildings situated in southeastern urban Beijing, in Xuanwu District. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest. It is regarded as a Taoist temple, although Chinese Heaven worship, especially by the reigning monarch of the day, pre-dates Taoism.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chion-in</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6EbjyktI/AAAAAAAAA4o/o8yKGUrDtnQ/s1600-h/11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6EbjyktI/AAAAAAAAA4o/o8yKGUrDtnQ/s320/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014217386660562" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6ECzPFhI/AAAAAAAAA4g/vaA4NVX8TPs/s1600-h/12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6ECzPFhI/AAAAAAAAA4g/vaA4NVX8TPs/s320/12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014210740557330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Chion'in Temple in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan is the headquarters of the Jodo Shu (Pure Land Sect) founded by Honen (1133-1212), who proclaimed that sentient beings are reborn in Amida Buddha's Western Paradise (Pure Land) by reciting the nembutsu, Amida Buddha's name.</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> The vast compounds of Chion-in include the site where Honen settled to disseminate his teachings and the site where he died.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Harmandir Sahib</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6DxgQYdI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/84zzQffVlO4/s1600-h/13.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6DxgQYdI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/84zzQffVlO4/s320/13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014206097547730" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6DxRNZ6I/AAAAAAAAA4Q/NbNuMcyNm1M/s1600-h/14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 157px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm6DxRNZ6I/AAAAAAAAA4Q/NbNuMcyNm1M/s320/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353014206034438050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Sri Harmandir Sahib or Darbar Sahib, informally referred to as The Golden Temple or Temple of God, is culturally the most significant place of worship of the Sikhs and one of the oldest Sikh gurdwaras. It is located in the city of Amritsar, which was established by Guru Ram Das, the fourth guru of the Sikhs and the city that it was built in, is also due to the shrine, known as "Guru Di Nagri" meaning city of the Sikh Guru.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:130%;" >Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple(Srirangam)</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5wYXudQI/AAAAAAAAA4I/DJNr0vvq2y8/s1600-h/15.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5wYXudQI/AAAAAAAAA4I/DJNr0vvq2y8/s320/15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353013872933369090" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5wOCSWII/AAAAAAAAA4A/vcbB1oX7EG0/s1600-h/16.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5wOCSWII/AAAAAAAAA4A/vcbB1oX7EG0/s320/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353013870159091842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">The temple occupies an area of 156 acres (6,31,000 m²) with a perimeter of 1,116m (10,710 feet) making it the largest temple in India and one of the largest religious complexes in the world. In fact, Srirangam temple can be easily termed as the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world (Angkor Wat being the largest non-functioning temple). The temple is enclosed by 7 concentric walls with a total length of 32,592 feet or over six miles. These walls are enclosed by 21 Gopurams (Towers). Among the marvels of the temple is a "hall of 1000 pillars" (actually 953).</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;">Angkor Wat</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5v62qLgI/AAAAAAAAA34/gw1S_vanJoY/s1600-h/17.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5v62qLgI/AAAAAAAAA34/gw1S_vanJoY/s320/17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353013865010048514" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5vmAdIJI/AAAAAAAAA3w/gfCGYLXZp5U/s1600-h/18.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5vmAdIJI/AAAAAAAAA3w/gfCGYLXZp5U/s320/18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353013859413991570" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat), is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation—first Hindu, dedicated to Vishnu, then Buddhist. The temple is the epitome of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5vlsslEI/AAAAAAAAA3o/yV4x0pBmriI/s1600-h/19.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skm5vlsslEI/AAAAAAAAA3o/yV4x0pBmriI/s320/19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353013859331118146" border="0" /></a>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-42369631110427550742009-06-30T13:13:00.016+07:002009-06-30T17:00:29.730+07:00Ten Longest Bridges In World<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a list of the ten longest bridges in the world with pictures and descriptions. Those beautiful photos are showing to us that there are no borders and everything is reachable.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>10. Seven Mile Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv4nt3p3I/AAAAAAAAA3g/nSuYbrV4b8I/s1600-h/seven-mile-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 176px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv4nt3p3I/AAAAAAAAA3g/nSuYbrV4b8I/s320/seven-mile-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353003019375454066" border="0" /></a>The Seven Mile Bridge, in the Florida Keys, runs over a channel between the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Strait, connecting Key Vaca (the location of the city of Marathon, Florida) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges in existence when it was built, it is one of the many bridges on US 1 in the Keys, where the road is called the Overseas Highway.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>9. San Mateo-Hayward Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv4YBvQiI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/iNIw5OVwTNc/s1600-h/san-mateo-hayward-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv4YBvQiI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/iNIw5OVwTNc/s320/san-mateo-hayward-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353003015163822626" border="0" /></a>The San Mateo-Hayward Bridge (commonly called San Mateo Bridge) is a bridge crossing California’s San Francisco Bay in the United States, linking the San Francisco Peninsula with the East Bay. More specifically, the bridge’s western end is in Foster City, the most recent urban addition to the eastern edge of San Mateo. The eastern end of the bridge is in Hayward. The bridge is owned by the state of California, and is maintained by Caltrans, the state highway agency.<br /></div><strong><br /><br /></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>8. Confederation Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong></strong><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv3xDVKYI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/x0wmRl3-zh4/s1600-h/confederation-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv3xDVKYI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/x0wmRl3-zh4/s320/confederation-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353003004701518210" border="0" /></a>The Confederation Bridge (French: Pont de la Confédération) is a bridge spanning the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick, Canada. It was commonly referred to as the “Fixed Link” by residents of Prince Edward Island prior to its official naming. Construction took place from the fall of 1993 to the spring of 1997, costing $1.3 billion. The 12.9-kilometre (8 mi) long bridge opened on 31 May 1997.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>7. Rio-Niteroi Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv34tKO2I/AAAAAAAAA3I/zhCFzrgPWXQ/s1600-h/rio-niteroi-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv34tKO2I/AAAAAAAAA3I/zhCFzrgPWXQ/s320/rio-niteroi-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353003006756010850" border="0" /></a>The Rio-Niteroi Bridge is a reinforced concrete structure that connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi in Brazil.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Construction began symbolically on August 23, 1968, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in their first and thus far only visit to Brazil. Actual work begun in January, 1969, and it opened on March 4, 1974.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Its official name is “President Costa e Silva Bridge”, in honor of the Brazilian president who ordered its construction. “Rio-Niteroi” started as a descriptive nickname that soon became better known than the official name. Today, hardly anyone refers to it by its official name.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>6. Penang Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv3v1jwJI/AAAAAAAAA3A/EdytLK4lWDw/s1600-h/penang-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmv3v1jwJI/AAAAAAAAA3A/EdytLK4lWDw/s320/penang-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353003004375318674" border="0" /></a>The Penang Bridge (Jambatan Pulau Pinang in Malay) E 36 is a dual-carriageway toll bridge that connects Gelugor on the island of Penang and Seberang Prai on the mainland of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula. The bridge is also linked to the North-South Expressway in Prai and Jelutong Expressway in Penang. It was officially opened to traffic on September 14, 1985. The total length of the bridge is 13.5 km (8.4 miles), making it among the longest bridges in the world, the longest bridge in the country as well as a national landmark. PLUS Expressway Berhad is the concession holder which manages it.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>5. Vasco da Gama Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SkmvqUk_ZpI/AAAAAAAAA24/hzFE7TyHgWU/s1600-h/vasco-da-gama-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SkmvqUk_ZpI/AAAAAAAAA24/hzFE7TyHgWU/s320/vasco-da-gama-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353002773719770770" border="0" /></a>The Vasco da Gama Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte Vasco da Gama, pron. ) is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts and roads that spans the Tagus River near Lisbon, capital of Portugal. It is the longest bridge in Europe (including viaducts), with a total length of 17.2 km (10.7 mi), including 0.829 km (0.5 mi) for the main bridge, 11.5 km (7.1 mi) in viaducts, and 4.8 km (3.0 mi) in dedicated access roads. Its purpose is to alleviate the congestion on Lisbon’s other bridge (25 de Abril Bridge), and to join previously unconnected motorways radiating from Lisbon.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>4. Chesapeake Bay Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SkmvqQiIdrI/AAAAAAAAA2w/VdO1fxPbYzk/s1600-h/chesapeake-bay-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SkmvqQiIdrI/AAAAAAAAA2w/VdO1fxPbYzk/s320/chesapeake-bay-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353002772634039986" border="0" /></a>The Chesapeake Bay Bridge (commonly known as the Bay Bridge) is a major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland; spanning the Chesapeake Bay, it connects the state’s Eastern and Western Shore regions. At 4.3 miles (7 km) in length, the original span was the world’s longest continuous over-water steel structure when it opened in 1952. The bridge is officially named the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge after William Preston Lane, Jr. who, as governor of Maryland, implemented its construction.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>3. King Fahd Causeway</strong><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The King Fahd Causeway is multiple dike - bridge combination connecting Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and the island nation of Bahrain.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SkmvqOGjTBI/AAAAAAAAA2o/R1V4A86OJpY/s1600-h/king-fahd-causeway-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/SkmvqOGjTBI/AAAAAAAAA2o/R1V4A86OJpY/s320/king-fahd-causeway-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353002771981487122" border="0" /></a>A construction agreement signed on July 8, 1981 led to construction beginning the next year. The cornerstone was laid on November 11, 1982 by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain; construction continued until 1986, when the combination of several bridges and dams were completed. The causeway officially opened for use on November 25, 1986.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>2. Donghai Bridge</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmvp677qiI/AAAAAAAAA2g/E-sjBdWYFhQ/s1600-h/donghai-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmvp677qiI/AAAAAAAAA2g/E-sjBdWYFhQ/s320/donghai-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353002766836673058" border="0" /></a>Donghai Bridge (literally “East Sea Grand Bridge”) is the longest cross-sea bridge in the world and the longest bridge in Asia. It was completed on December 10, 2005. It has a total length of 32.5 kilometres (20.2 miles) and connects Shanghai and the offshore Yangshan deep-water port in China. Most of the bridge is a low-level viaduct. There are also cable-stayed sections to allow for the passage of large ships, largest with span of 420 m.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>1. Lake Pontchartrain Causeway</strong><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmvp75WIcI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/cBHRiSlg2sc/s1600-h/lake-pontchartrain-causeway-bridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_amx9H54GRKQ/Skmvp75WIcI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/cBHRiSlg2sc/s320/lake-pontchartrain-causeway-bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353002767094260162" border="0" /></a>The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, or the Causeway, consists of two parallel bridges that are the longest bridges in the world by total length.[2] These parallel bridges cross Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana. The longer of the two bridges is 23.87 miles (38.42 km) long. The bridges are supported by over 9,000 concrete pilings. The two bridges feature bascule spans over the navigation channel 8 miles (13 km) south of the north shore. The southern terminus of the Causeway is in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. The northern terminus is at Mandeville, Louisiana.<strong></strong><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Razibul/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /></div>Sk. Razibul Islamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471618821900646272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79996424635837503.post-68203564495039812482009-06-09T10:07:00.001+06:002009-06-09T10:07:40.179+06:00Guide to Cultivating Fabulous Friendships!<blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><p>A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. <strong>- Lois Wys</strong></p></blockquote> <p>Few people would dispute the benefits of friendship. Friendship cannot be created once. It must be created over and over again. People and priorities change. What worked yesterday may not work today. We must nurture our friendships so they may flourish with us through our changing lives, and that’s where this guide comes in. The problem seems to be how to fit our friends into an already overcrowded life.</p> <p><span id="more-15"></span></p> <p><strong>Choose friends wisely. Focus your energy on people who make you feel good.</strong><br />We all know the saying, “you can’t choose your family”. So, make sure you’re smart and choose friends who are worthy of your valuable time and attention. It sounds harsh, but you cannot keep every friend you have ever made. No one has the time and energy for that. If you don’t consciously choose which relationships to focus on, you’ll spread yourself too thin and you’ll have less to give to those who deserve it most.</p> <p>Do not be fooled by glamour and street cred. A person’s behavior is much more important than their words or how they represent themselves. Surround yourself with people who reflect the person you want to be. Choose friends you are proud to know, people you admire, who love and respect you. People who make your day a little sunnier, simply by being in it.</p> <p><strong>Make time. Prioritize Relationships.</strong><br />If you have to really think about the last time you were in contact with a friend, then it was too long ago. Life can run at a crazy pace. We may think of people, then something comes up and we never call them. The month ends, another comes along, and again that call is never made. This is how relationships peter out. It starts to feel easier to walk away than struggle back through the neglect.</p> <p>Don’t fall into the habit of thinking I’ll “try and find the time”. It’s a cop-out. You cannot find time. You make time. Every day you decide where to put your attention, and those activities will in turn create your day, your week and eventually your life. Be mindful of where you focus your time and energy. Does this match your values and how you want your life to be? There’s no use saying “my family and friends are the most important thing” if you work 80 hours a week and never see them. Be conscious of how you spend your time and choose to prioritize the people in your life.</p> <p>The easiest way to make time for friends is to organize future gatherings while you are all together. Make time for that first meeting, and then work out the timing of the next one. That way you’ll manage to regularly see each other and there is less stress all round. The reality is most of our relationships need work. Make the time to send an email or give a quick phone call to show your friends they matter. Otherwise how will they know?</p> <p><strong>Treat others how you want to be treated.</strong><br />This is one of the first lessons my mother taught me, and it is probably the most important. You may have heard of the law of attraction, which states that what we project to the world will be sent right back to us. This means you must decide what qualities are important to you, because you cannot receive what you do not give.</p> <p>Personally, I don’t think you can go past honesty, loyalty and integrity as a foundation for choosing friends. Be considerate. Don’t make plans you won’t keep. Be a safe haven for your friends, someone they can rely on. What qualities rank highly for you? Do you just want some laughs every now and then, or people who will be there for you when life throws you a curve ball?</p> <p><strong>Have fun. Share rituals. Laugh Often.</strong><br />Any long term relationship, friendships included, can fall into a rut. Take the time to have fun, maybe do the activities you loved when you were young. If life isn’t fun, then what’s the point? Misery shared is still… well, misery. Focus on joy and laughter and your friendships will stay a positive presence in your life.</p> <p>Hold onto rituals. They connect you with your friends and your youth. Shared memories help define our life and how we see ourselves. Don’t throw them away just because they’re getting harder to manage. The key is to negotiate. Maybe you used to have weekly poker games, but now you have three kids, so what do you do? Have the poker games once a month, and let your partner also have a night out to re-connect with their friends. You’ll both benefit.</p> <p><strong>Accept people the way they are. Suspend judgment.</strong><br />Some people are good with phone calls, others are not. Some people always know the right thing to say, others seem to have a knack for getting it all wrong. The key with managing friendships and reducing conflict is to accept people the way they are. We all have different strengths and weaknesses. Fighting your friends’ natural personality is a losing battle. We cannot control other people, and frankly, we have no right to try. The sooner we accept this, the easier all our relationships become.</p> <p><strong>Respect boundaries.</strong><br />Don’t criticize your friend’s partner, children, parenting style or family. This is always a no, no. We may all like to rant about our loved ones, but we do not want to hear anyone else do it. This is a golden rule. Stencil it on your forehead if you must.</p> <p><strong>There will be disagreements. Stay calm. Don’t make mountains out of molehills.</strong><br />Drama is a part of life, but we don’t have to wallow in it. Things happen, ugly words can be exchanged. This is the nature of human relationships. Before you react to a hurtful situation with a friend, always stop and breathe. Try not to react in anger. Express your feelings honestly, but calmly. I’m not saying that it’s easy, but it is the best way to minimize conflict and angst in life. And bottling up feelings doesn’t help either. They just fester and we stay angry and are unable to move on.</p> <p><strong>Accept that friendships change and sometimes end.</strong><br />Although I’ve had the majority of my friendships since I was a teenager, there are times in life when people change enough as to have nothing in common anymore. Sometimes this is temporary, other times it’s not. Either way, the best thing you can do when a relationship falters is to let it go. That doesn’t mean immediately deciding not to see each other anymore. Letting go means choosing to see the friendship as it is now, and releasing the need for it to be something else. Relationships have an energy of their own. They can ebb and flow. Sometimes you’re not quite clicking, other times you are. Petering out friendships can be very stressful, but change is a part of life and relationships which do end can still be treasured for what they brought before. They don’t have to be a mistake. And every time a gap appears, life will usually move in to fill it. Maybe this will be in the form of a new friend, or a even better relationship with yourself. Keep an open mind and an open heart, and wait and see</p> <p><strong>Treat yourself with kindness and respect, and others will do the same.</strong><br />This is probably the most important point. You cannot be a friend to others, if you are not a friend to yourself. Have you ever noticed that some people are taken advantage of by everyone. They attract users and frauds like honey. This is not a coincidence. If you want other people to treat you with respect, then you need to be the first person in line to respect yourself. Being a good friend does not mean being a doormat. The kinder you are to yourself the happier you will be. The happier you are, the more you have to give to others. It is one big merry-go-round of happiness. Join the ride.</p>Sk. 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