Harnessing The Sun- I

The Sun (our Sun), the only known celestial body in entire universe which is nurturing life and not only nurturing it but also help to sustain it. Our Sun is the reason behind our existence without it the life couldn’t exist in the first place. What are we witnessing now, water, plants, animals, oxygen, land …

The Inevitable Paradigm Shift

Until now we have witnessed the incredible journey of our home planet Earth. We had seen how Earth was formed, origins of life, the evolution of humans, the basic but important inventions that shaped our human world and in my last few blogs we had witnessed the problems that are created by humans and are …

Where Is Our Home?

We all know the dinosaurs and the reason behind their extinction (K-T mass extinction) and we probably think that it’s the only significant extinction that had occurred in our planet history. You’re wrong! Each year one in million species should go into extinction naturally, but this rate of extinction is increasing in very rapidly and …

The Three Degree Rise

Global warming is real and happening now. Our planet's temperature is rising and it had risen by about 1 degree since the industrial revolution. But you may think what will be the implications of mere 1-degree rise if you’re thinking this then, unfortunately, you’re wrong. When UN climate negotiators meet for summit talks this month, …

A Brief History of Electricity

Imagine the world without electricity. If electricity hadn’t existed in the first place, the development of light bulb, television, computers, mobile phones, air conditioner and electric cars wouldn’t be possible at all. Without electricity you will find that we would be completely lost, without it, we will still be living a life which is similar …

The Crude World

John D. Rockefeller, the king of the crude industry, revolutionised oil industry like no other person did. Before the revolution of oil, steel industry and railroads were shaping the American economy. When Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, few had any idea of how petroleum would change …

The Wheel

The wheel: where would we be without this rotating wonder? The wheel allows us to perform a huge number of tasks, everything from using shopping carts to rumbling your sports car around the race course, from children’s toys to huge aeroplanes everything employs wheels. Wheels have made it easier for all of us to travel. …

The Inventions That Shaped Our World: Metals

Metals: The majority of the elements in the periodic table are metals. Normally metal follows following properties: They are good conductors of heat and electricity. They have a high melting point. They have a shiny appearance. They can be formed easily. Most metals are solid at room temperature. Metals exhibit these properties due to its …

The Inventions That Shaped Our World: Fire

Although ‘Rapid Oxidation’ or ‘Fire’ is a discovery, not an invention it is one of the few things that really shaped the world. Humans are the only species on earth that can control fire. So even if we hadn’t invented the fire we surely reinvented it. Fire is the one the most important stepping stone …

Human Evolution- I

The dinosaurs are long dead and the planet is peaceful. In this new world, our mammal ancestors are evolving. There is an entirely new generation of mammals which are developed. One of them is  Darwinius Masillae or Ida. She looks nothing like us but fossil evidence from our own time tells us these creatures could …