July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining.
1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1811 - Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
1946 - The bikini is introduced in Paris, France.
1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
1970 - Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108 people.
1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by WHO.
2004 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
2006 - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
Word of the day : phantasmagoria \fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh\, noun:
1. A shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined, as in a dream.2. Any constantly changing scene.
. . .all combined to form a picture, like the illusory semblance of a phantasmagoria, almost leaving me in doubt whether that on which I looked were indeed reality, or the mere creation of a distempered brain.-- Julia Pardoe, quoted in "Here's the Rub," by David Streitfeld, Washington Post, July 6, 1997
The new writings more and more take the form of apocalypses -- that is, of supernatural visions which reveal past, present and future under the guise of a phantasmagoria of symbolic persons and animals, divine and diabolical beings, celestial and infernal phenomena.-- Edmund Wilson, The Dead Sea Scrolls: 1947-1969
Thought of the day : " Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy Bithday To : 1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
Bye - Bye To : 1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Tip of the week
Never use calculator
While solving problems in mathematics, physics and chemistry always avoid using calculator. Try to solve 75% of the problem in your mind and then start writing. In chemistry very often we try to use calculator since it involves cumbersome calculations and large numbers like Avogadro's number, value of "R" etc, and similar is the case in physics with planks constant, Stephen's constant etc. Using calculator would hamper your progress with natural approximation techniques that we develop very slowly through years of calculation. Most of the competitive examinations also do not allow the use of calculators.
Ergo, how ever old you are, whichever class you are in, and which ever subject you like, if you are a student then DO NOT USE CALCULATOR unless its specified or theres a way too clumsy problem to be solved.
While solving problems in mathematics, physics and chemistry always avoid using calculator. Try to solve 75% of the problem in your mind and then start writing. In chemistry very often we try to use calculator since it involves cumbersome calculations and large numbers like Avogadro's number, value of "R" etc, and similar is the case in physics with planks constant, Stephen's constant etc. Using calculator would hamper your progress with natural approximation techniques that we develop very slowly through years of calculation. Most of the competitive examinations also do not allow the use of calculators.
Ergo, how ever old you are, whichever class you are in, and which ever subject you like, if you are a student then DO NOT USE CALCULATOR unless its specified or theres a way too clumsy problem to be solved.
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