sábado, 19 de abril de 2008
miércoles, 16 de abril de 2008
Kalpana Chawla : Astronaut
Kalpana Chawla (Hindi: कल्पना चावला) (Punjabi: ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (1 July 1961 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of seven crewmembers killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Kalpana Chawla was born in a Hindu family in Karnal, Haryana, India.[1] Kalpana in Sanskrit means "imagination of the mind" and thus also "creation." Her interest in flying was inspired by J. R. D. Tata, a pioneering Indian pilot and industrialist
Kalpana Chawla studied at Tagore Public School, Karnal for her earlier schooling and she pursued further studies aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, India, in 1982 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree. She was one of the three women in the college at the time. She moved to the United States in 1982 and obtained a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (1984). Chawla earned a second Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1986 and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Later that year she began working for NASA Ames Research Center.[2] Chawla held a Certificated Flight Instructor rating for airplanes, gliders and Commercial Pilot licenses for single and multiengine airplanes, seaplanes and gliders. She held an FCC issued Technician Class Amateur Radio license with the call sign KD5ESI. She met and married Jean-Pierre Harrison, a flying instructor and aviation writer, in 1983 and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1990.
TAKED FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was born in a Hindu family in Karnal, Haryana, India.[1] Kalpana in Sanskrit means "imagination of the mind" and thus also "creation." Her interest in flying was inspired by J. R. D. Tata, a pioneering Indian pilot and industrialist
Kalpana Chawla studied at Tagore Public School, Karnal for her earlier schooling and she pursued further studies aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, India, in 1982 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree. She was one of the three women in the college at the time. She moved to the United States in 1982 and obtained a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (1984). Chawla earned a second Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1986 and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Later that year she began working for NASA Ames Research Center.[2] Chawla held a Certificated Flight Instructor rating for airplanes, gliders and Commercial Pilot licenses for single and multiengine airplanes, seaplanes and gliders. She held an FCC issued Technician Class Amateur Radio license with the call sign KD5ESI. She met and married Jean-Pierre Harrison, a flying instructor and aviation writer, in 1983 and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1990.
TAKED FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla
martes, 8 de abril de 2008
Pollution in India
Ranipet, India is the thirth city with more pollution in the world, because the dyes used in hides and skins contain hexavalent chromium and other highly toxic substances. For many years ithey have accumulated 1.5 million tons of waste in the open air, which has contaminated the subsoil. Farmers say only one in five crop is good. The irrigation water emits a strong odor and direct contact with it produces ulcers on the skin.
jueves, 3 de abril de 2008
How are the kids growing up?
The last generation that grew up playing i the park grew up in the 90 `s , at that time you could still see children playing in the park and in fact they knew how it was to play in the neigborhood.
These days children grow up with computers, ipods, and an infinite variety of video games, but no longer skates, bicycles or a simple balloon, now everything is on the internet. Children acquire unnecessary information, although they are very small, it deprives them of innocence with forming time passes.
However, we could not ignore the education that their parents provide them, in the twenty-first century, as the parents have no time, they are getting money to fill their children with machines that keep them occupied, bearing in mind that the children are developed only in this environment, we can also find parents who had to resign themselves against the "technology" demands for their children.
First of all this "easy way" to raise children should change, we are creating timid young, which can only establish relationships over the Internet, they are removing the capacity to express their feelings, now everything can be done for them through a machine, providing them all aspects their lives need, these days no child knows wthat an encyclopedia is, it`s so sad that the books have to pay for their "updates" too.
Time progresses, but this new move is doing upbringing of children in excessive quantities, they no longer have space to live stages and pass them on.
On the other hand the Internet quenches the curiosity of those who really give it a good use. It allows them to know the world in minutes if it wanted too.
The infinitive amount of information that it providies should a wake an interest in them, but it doesn´t, unfortunately this medium is never used adequately.
Taking into account the two perspectives of this issue, children should not have a full and uncontrolled access to this type of technology, since it might give them misinformation or simply information that they dont even have to know.
Parents should make good use of these tools, like for educational purposes and didactic issues, that could create some good and healthy curiosities in children.
These days children grow up with computers, ipods, and an infinite variety of video games, but no longer skates, bicycles or a simple balloon, now everything is on the internet. Children acquire unnecessary information, although they are very small, it deprives them of innocence with forming time passes.
However, we could not ignore the education that their parents provide them, in the twenty-first century, as the parents have no time, they are getting money to fill their children with machines that keep them occupied, bearing in mind that the children are developed only in this environment, we can also find parents who had to resign themselves against the "technology" demands for their children.
First of all this "easy way" to raise children should change, we are creating timid young, which can only establish relationships over the Internet, they are removing the capacity to express their feelings, now everything can be done for them through a machine, providing them all aspects their lives need, these days no child knows wthat an encyclopedia is, it`s so sad that the books have to pay for their "updates" too.
Time progresses, but this new move is doing upbringing of children in excessive quantities, they no longer have space to live stages and pass them on.
On the other hand the Internet quenches the curiosity of those who really give it a good use. It allows them to know the world in minutes if it wanted too.
The infinitive amount of information that it providies should a wake an interest in them, but it doesn´t, unfortunately this medium is never used adequately.
Taking into account the two perspectives of this issue, children should not have a full and uncontrolled access to this type of technology, since it might give them misinformation or simply information that they dont even have to know.
Parents should make good use of these tools, like for educational purposes and didactic issues, that could create some good and healthy curiosities in children.
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