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Artistic Streets of Belgium

Belgium street artist ROA puts animals back in the urban jungle. He draws black and white bunnies, rats, birds on walls of many European cities (Paris, Warsaw, London...).

New England's Dark Day

1780: In the midst of the Revolutionary War, darkness descends on New England at midday. Many people think Judgment Day is at hand. It will be remembered as New England’s Dark Day.

Diaries of the preceding days mention smoky air and a red sun at morning and evening. Around noon this day, an early darkness fell: Birds sang their evening songs, farm animals returned to their roosts and barns, and humans were bewildered.

Some went to church, many sought the solace of the tavern, and more than a few nearer the edges of the darkened area commented on the strange beauty of the preternatural half-light. One person noted that clean silver had the color of brass.

It was darkest in northeastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine, but it got dusky through most of New England and as far away as New York. At Morristown, New Jersey, Gen. George Washington noted it in his diary.

In the darkest area, people had to take their midday meals by candlelight. A Massachusetts resident noted, In some places, the darkness was so great that persons could not see to read common print in the open air. In New Hampshire, wrote one person, A sheet of white paper held within a few inches of the eyes was equally invisible with the blackest velvet.

At Hartford, Col. Abraham Davenport opposed adjourning the Connecticut legislature, thus: The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty.

When it was time for night to fall, the full moon failed to bring light. Even areas that had seen a pale sun in the day could see no moon at all. No moon, no stars: It was the darkest night anyone had seen. Some people could not sleep and waited through the long hours to see if the sun would ever rise again. They witnessed its return the morning of May 20. Many observed the anniversary a year later as a day of fasting and prayer.

Professor Samuel Williams of Harvard gathered reports from throughout the affected areas to seek an explanation. A town farther north had reported a black scum like ashes on rainwater collected in tubs. A Boston observer noted the air smelled like a malt-house or coal-kiln. Williams noted that rain in Cambridge fell thick and dark and sooty and tasted and smelled like the black ash of burnt leaves.

As if from a forest fire to the north? Without railroad or telegraph, people would not know: No news could come sooner than delivered on horseback, assuming the wildfire was even near any European settlements in the vast wilderness.

But we know today that the darkness had moved southwest at about 25 mph. And we know that forest fires in Canada in 1881, 1950 and 2002 each cast a pall of smoke over the northeastern United States.

A definitive answer came in 2007. In the International Journal of Wildland Fire, Erin R. McMurry of the University of Missouri forestry department and co-authors combined written accounts with fire-scar evidence from Algonquin Provincial Park in eastern Ontario to document a massive wildfire in the spring of 1780 as the likely source of the infamous Dark Day of 1780.

Source : Wired.com

Origin of Life Chicken-and-Egg Problem Solved

A chicken-and-egg paradox at the foundations of life may finally be solved.

Scientists have wondered how the first simple, self-replicating chemicals could have formed complex, information-rich genetic structures, when replication was originally such an error-prone process. Every advance would soon be lost to copying errors.

According to a new study, the answer may lie in the fundamental nature of those chemicals. The errors may have triggered an automatic shutdown of replication. Such stalling would allow only error-free sequences to be completed, giving them a chance at evolving.

“A chemical system with this property would be able to propagate sequences long enough to have function,” wrote researchers led by Harvard University systems biologist Irene Chen. The study was published April 1 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.


Scientists think life’s first spark came in the form of ribonucleic acid, or RNA. The single-stranded molecular forerunner of the DNA in every animal’s genes, RNA is the basis of the simplest self-replicating structures.

Estimates of error rates in early RNA replication run around 20 percent. For every pair of basic chemical units in a molecule of RNA, there was a one in five chance of getting the match wrong when a copy was made.

Strands of RNA longer than five units would be rare — and even simple RNA structures responsible for improving copy fidelity are 30 units long. Getting to that point would be practically impossible, and error-ridden copies would steal chemical resources from successful molecules.

But researchers have observed that DNA sometimes stalls when an error occurs during self-replication. If that could happen to RNA, then only accurate copies would continue to replicate, reasoned Chen’s team. The paradox would be solved.

RNA proved too unstable to work with, so Chen’s team used simple, short strands of DNA as a proxy. They put the strands in a mixture of organic compounds known to have existed on early Earth, and tagged them with fluorescent proteins that allowed reactions to be tracked.

As the researchers watched, errors caused DNA self-replication to slow. The model system was only an approximation of early Earth chemistry, but if such pauses existed for RNA, they would have allowed RNA to evolve into complicated forms.

“They’ve gone beyond the paradox,” said Bodo Stern, a Harvard University systems biologist who wasn’t involved in the study. “Whether that’s what happened, we don’t know, but it’s a conceptual leap forward.”

Stalling appears to be a natural function of DNA’s geometry. “Imagine that DNA is a zipper. The next piece is the incoming nucleotide. If the next piece is not exactly aligned with the remainder of the zipper, it will have a hard time getting into position,” Chen said.

According to Hans-Joachim Ziock, a protocellular researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, “anything that can help make correct copies would help, so base mismatches slowing the replication process would be beneficial.” But he said that even without an error-stalling function, nucleic acids may eventually have taken higher forms.

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Chennai Lions are hungry for success

Chennai Super Kings - The Lions den, this team with no iconic player from the city, did an unthinkable job by being the highest bidder in the competition outplaying RIL’s Mumbai for M.S.Dhoni. With a good expertise of knowledge about the game in the city, it will surely be a crowd-puller in this part of the country. Even if they had chosen some other player as its icon, the Chennai team would still have the full support of its crowd.

A team with top class batsmen and bowlers of variant talents around the globe, holding the trophy should not be a big challenge. This team is the one with perfect balance of experience and fresh minds. With big names such as Dhoni, Hayden, Murali and Hussey the team remains to be the favorite of all. Fan following is one great advantage of Chennai Super Kings. Chennai is the place where people worship the game. Varying from small kids to old aged people everyone has the same craze for the game since years.

For a team that was a finalist in 2008 and semi-finalist in 2009, these are hard days with the task of making it to the top four, much less winning the tournament, getting increasingly difficult. What is going wrong for the team, the bowling combination that has turned out to be playing the see-saw, not knowing which bowler would let the team down with one bad over. To top it, the batting, considered to be their strength, has not been firing consistently.

It is time for the Chennai Lions to unsheathe their claws and go for the kill. After all, they seem to be hungry for success.

Create Awareness

Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.

According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS.¹Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.²

The vast majority of people with HIV and AIDSlive in lower- and middle-income countries. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.

Another Year !

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!


The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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Life is how you see it

This was a mail i recieved from a friend of mine, felt this one to be worth sharing among people so posting it on my page.

"A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for each of you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups. Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.

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