How many of us know this guy?

Well before you go on to find who he is, first thank him. Thank him for what? for saving your life. Well he is Dr. Jonas Salk the Inventor of Polio Vaccine. His invention may or may not be a great thing, but whats great about him is he did not patent the vaccine and make personal profit. If he had patented the vaccine, he would have been a very rich man but millions of poor children would have been deprived of the life saving vaccine. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?". The world celebrates bill gates, steve jobs, etc for giving us high tech gadgets, but here is a man who has saved many of our lives but we don’t even remember him now, How sad...:(

R.I.P... R.D. SHARMA ...RIP

I Salute this Great Personality... He was Truly an Indian.

Legendary Mathematician, Science writer and the former president of Indian Science Writers Association Dr R D Sharma passed away here in Delhi on 7 Feb. He was 73.

An expert in scientific and agricultural communication, Sharma had about 40 years of experience in the field, during which he scripted more than 1,000 features on science and technology and agriculture.

He was recipient of a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Prize for 2006 for popularisation of science and Dr Atma Ram Puruskar for lifetime contribution to scientific literature in Hindi, his son Anurag Sharma said.

The body has been donated to the Army Medical College and no cremation will take place, he said.

In 1995, Sharma received the national award for best coverage of science and technology in mass media from National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC) under the Department of Science and Technology.

He got the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) award for excellence in agricultural journalism in 2004.

A Salute to the Great Soul...

A small luv story... ♥ ♥

A boy and a girl Loved each other

very much.

Unfortunately the Girl Died..:(

... ...

Boy was Upset so much;

and he couldn't Stop his Tears.

...

He kept on Crying Day and

Night..:'(

Many People gave Sympathy,

but no Argument could Stop His

Tears.

One Night He Slept and had a

Dream;

He saw the Girl in Heaven with so

many Girls of Her age.

He felt Relax..

But He Noticed that every Girl was

in Fairy Dress;

and had a Lightened Candle in

their Hands,

but his GF had a Candle which

was not Lightened..!

He asked Her:

"Y Ur Candle is not Lightened?"

She said:

"Whenever I enlighten My Candle;

Ur Tears fall on it..!

Please Stop Crying.."

♥ ♥ 

♥ 

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.
This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.


2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.


3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.


4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.


5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.


6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.


7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.


8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.


9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.


10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.


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First in India

 India

Following are first in India happenings

Male

The first President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize	Rabindranath Tagore
The first President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayyabji
The first Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first British Governor General of India	Lord William Bentinck
The first British Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
The first Governor General of free India	Lord Mountbatten
The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India	C. Rajgopalachari
The first man who introduced printing press in India	James Hicky
The first Indian to join the I.C.S	Satyendra Nath Tagore
India’s first man in Space	Rakesh Sharma
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term	Morarji Desai
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	General Cariappa
The first Chief of Army Staff	Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council	S.P.Sinha
The first President of India who died while in office	Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first Muslim President of Indian Republic	Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament	Charan Singh
The first Field Marshal of India	S.H.F. Manekshaw
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics	C.V.Raman
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Indian to cross English Channel	Mihir Sen
The first Person to receive Jnanpith award	Sri Shankar Kurup
The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
The first Vice-President of India	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Education Minister	Abdul Kalam Azad
The first Home minister of India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal	S. Mukherjee
The first Indian Naval Chief	Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
The first Judge of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen	Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
The first Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
The first person to receive Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine	Hargovind Khurana
The first Chinese traveller to visit India	Fahein
The first person to receive Stalin Prize	Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court	Justice Hirala J. Kania
The first Indian Pilot	J.R.D. Tata (1929)

Female

The first lady to become Miss World	Rita Faria
The first woman judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The first woman Ambassador	Miss C.B. Muthamma
The first woman Governor of a state in free India	Mrs Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly	Shanno Devi
The first woman Prime Minister	Mrs Indira Gandhi
The first woman Minister in a Government	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
The first woman President of Indian National Congress	Mrs Annie Besant
The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force	Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman Graduates	Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
The first woman Airline Pilot	Durga Banerjee
The first woman Honours Graduate	Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman Olympic medal Winner	Karnam Malleswari, 2000
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner	Kamlijit Sandhu
The first woman Lawyer	Cornelia Sorabjee
The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly	Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State	Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission	Roze Millian Bethew
The first woman Director General of Police	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Judge	Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court	Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India	Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman Lieutenant General	Puneeta Arora
The first woman Air Vice Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushma Chawla
The first woman IPS officer	Mrs. Kiran Bedi
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India	Razia Sultan
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra	Nirja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
The first woman to cross English Channel	Aarti Saha
The first woman to receive Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna	Mrs Indira Gandhi
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashpurna Devi

First Indian to receive Nobel prize since Indian Independence - Dr Har Gobind Khorana

Dr Har Gobind Khorana, who died November 9,2011 in Massachusetts, was the first person of Indian origin since Independence to receive the Nobel Prize. If you have crammed the contents of a high school science textbook, Dr Khorana’s name might fleet in and out of memory, along with the acronym RNA.

RNA stands for Ribonucleic Acid, one of three macromolecules (apart from DNA – Deoxyribonucleic Acid – and proteins) that are the essence of all known forms of life. The components of nucleic acids are nucleotides, and their precise sequence enables RNA to encode genetic information. The microbiology we take for granted today was the subject of intense debate and speculation in 1968. Dr Khorana’s distinction shines bright in that climate.

In the late 1960s Dr Khorana demonstrated how nucleotides in nucleic acids, which bear the cell’s genetic code, control how the cell synthesizes proteins. RNA is composed of four chemical bases –adenine, cytosine, uracil and guanine – represented by A, C, U and G. Khorana and two other biochemists, Marshall W Nirenberg and Robert W Folley, who worked independently on RNA, showed that these chemical bases combine to form three-letter "words" that represent amino-acids, the components from which proteins are constructed. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1968. It was the first Nobel honor for a person of Indian origin since Independence. Although Dr Khorana became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, the land of his birth celebrated his achievement. 

In 1972, Dr Khorana constructed the first artificial gene and followed that achievement by getting one to function inside the cell of a bacterium. These discoveries were central to the rapid advances genetic engineering to follow. His lab has since turned out several distinguished scientists, among them Nobel laureates Michael Smith, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Khorana was born in Raipur in Punjab (now in Pakistan) in 1922 to what, in the great scientist’s own words, was “practically the only literate family in the village.” Home-schooled by his father, a taxation official, he got a master’s degree in science from Punjab University in Lahore. In 1945 he moved to the University of Liverpool where he earned a doctoral degree, then to Zurich for postdoctoral studies, and thereon to Cambridge. After a stint in Vancouver, Canada he moved to the United States, beginning with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and eventually to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1970, where he was Alfred P Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry until his retirement in 2007. Esther Elizabeth Sibler, the Swiss national he married in 1952, brought stability and purpose to his life. She died in 2001. Of their three children, the eldest Julia Elizabeth, 58, and Dave Roy, 53, survive them. Daughter Emily Anne died in 1979. 

Shy and unassuming, Khorana was known to be uncomfortable speaking on the phone. The story goes that he had to be tracked down after several calls and messages from the White House went unattended. That was 1987, and Khorana was being approached by the highest office in the United States to be informed that he had won the prestigious National Medal of Science. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Colour...

This poem, written by an African child was
nominated for the Best Poem of 2005.
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Colour...
When I born, I black;
When I grow up I black;
When I go in sun I black; When I scared, I black;
When I sick, I black;
And when I die, I still black;

And Ü White fellows;
When U born, U pink;
When U grow up, U white; When U go in sun, U red;
When U cold, U blue;
When U scared, U yellow;
When U sick, U green;
When U die, U grey;
And U call me coloured :p