Environment

Gardens and lakes can have same effect as medicines

If you are sad and anxious go to a lake and watch the water coming to shore and going back to lake again in flutters. Water is coming to the shore in the hope that shore will keep it with itself. Shores cant keep the water so it has to go back to where it ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 27 2010 - 9:36pm

Nature makes the boundaries

People may say that some countries are rich because nature has gifted them with good weather. It is not true. Germany practices water harvesting systems though it had enough rains. When floods come to tropical countries all the water flows down the sea The ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 28 2010 - 10:32am

Nature makes the boundaries

People may say that some countries are rich because nature has gifted them with good weather. It is not true. Germany practices water harvesting systems though it had enough rains. When floods come to tropical countries all the water flows down the sea The ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 28 2010 - 10:32am

How good are traditional medicines in modern world

Time and again people doubt about the traditional medicines and their useful news in modern world. Traditions can we wrong but if they are right they have whole lot of science behind it. However three things are very important. 1. Idendtify that drug (it c ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 29 2010 - 5:18am

Future of biofuel resources

Worldwide energy consumption is projected to grow by 59 % over the next two decades, according to International Energy Outlook 2001 (IEO 2001), released by theUS Energy 2Information Administration (EIA). One half of the projected growth is expected to occu ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 29 2010 - 1:49pm

Biofuel vs Nuclear fuel.

There is debate going on under the carpet why not we go ahead with nuclear fuel energy instead of biofuel energy. Its obvious that our energy needs are growing and one of the option is nuclear energy. I am not proponant of nuclear energy. However all thing ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 29 2010 - 2:20pm

Why plants are taken for granted

Great efforts are made to protect the Tiger wild cat and a large number of animals. There are several groups like prevention of cruelty to animals etc. There are no groups on preventing cruelty to plants. People cut trees and uproot them. Nobody says dont ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 29 2010 - 11:04pm

Plants going extinct is serious matter

Out of 2.5 millions to 3.5 million plnats and microbe species ihabiting our earth all life depends hardly on 250 plants out of which only 40 are important. Out of this list only 10 plants make staple food including wheat rice, maize, soybean and some more. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 30 2010 - 5:19am

Taxonomy and botanical gardens make people healthy

Taxonomical studies have been undertaken in British India by famous botanists Duthies (Duthies flora of Upper Gangetic plains in several volumes), Flora of Punjab etc. Royal botanical garden of Calcutta (now named Kolkatta) and the adjoining Botanical Surv ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 31 2010 - 10:56am

Hello Everybody!

Okay, today's the big day I dive into the world of blogging alongside a bunch of other science type bloggers, most of whom I would probably nod at blankly if we were involved in a deep conversation at a cocktail party. Perhaps it's a function of ...

Blog Post - Christopher Brown - Sep 1 2010 - 11:30am