TINY LONG LOST PRIMATE REDISCOVERED

Photo courtsey: Reuters

For the first time in more than eight decades, scientists have observed a living pygmy tarsier, which is one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates. It was discovered on a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

The scientists were successful in trapping three furry, mouse-sized pygmy tarsiers -- two males and one female -- on Mt. Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in central Sulawesi, the researchers said on Tuesday. They spotted a fourth one which was successful in getting away.

Some scientists believed the tarsiers to have become extinct. They may not have been overly thrilled by this redicovery.

The tarsirer is a nocturnal primate found in an area with lower vegetative species diversity. Its found in central Sulawesi, Indonesia.The Pygmy Tarsiers were believed by some to be extinct until 2000, when Indonesian scientists accidentally killed one while trapping rats. Tarsiers, in general, are insectivorous. They are the only primates that are completely carnivorous as well.

Chandrayaan was necessary

India's maiden Moon mission blasted off on October 22, 2008. It is going to map the moon(which is considered as the book that contains all the records about the emergence of the Solar system) for the next two years to help the scientific community to understand the Moon and our Universe better.
Critics of the mission find it as waste of money. Some comics are going to the extent of poking fun by saying, Chandrayaan is only going to probe estabhlished facts. This was not what the Indian scientists were expecting from a nation (even though the number of the cricts are few) which has gained freedom barely more than over 60 years ago. One of the crucial reasons why we lost the battle agianst the British and became a victim of imperialism was that we chose to ignore a scientific attitude, an attidude to look forward. Are we going to repeat the same mistakes, just because of some critics?
Probably not. The community of scientists and our leadership won't let that happen. They will probably be able to make the critics understand the significance of the mission. For that, some clear talking needs to be done .
All geo-political significances needs to be made clear--India cann't ignore the fact that most of the powerful nations in Asia are making their move into space technology. Why should our scientists remain dependent on the researches of other nations, they too should get the opportunity to do it on their own which will attract more young minds towards this field and may curb the brain drain.
The critics need to understand that if as a nation we are dreaming of becoming a superpower, we will have to make suitable efforts to become one and keep up with the times. It will require money, but it is for the development of the country. Somebody definitely made the payments for Copernicus to let his discovery of route to India possible.

Track changes

Many of our serials have relied on this trusted plot- our dear character’s rival screwing up the office presentation just before the all important meeting, which could make or mar the hardworking character’s career. But gone are the days when such a thing could happen. Technology has taken that popular plot away from our serial makers. Reason for that is the computer.

Everyone now in the family now knows how to work on the computer, which has now become as indispensable as a refrigerator or TV. Not just the kids but the housewives are also learning to run this device. And while learning the MS OFFICE WORD, every learner comes across the special program (I hope that’s the technical word to describe ‘track changes’) in the tools menu, ‘protect document’. If you mark your document so, no one can mess with your document. Not just this, the maker of the document can also see what kind of changes has been made by the other user, in his/her absence, if the document has been marked 'protected'. one can also give a password to the file while saving, but that won't be fun at all.

Someone must in appreciation of the Microsoft show this plot happening in some serial. Imagine the villain opens the document to destroy the toil of our 'honest fellow' and instead of that sees the computer showing the changes made, though changes are also simultaneously being made. The evil fellow is busted on the spot. What a situation it would be:
A dramatic plot with loud background scores and zooming-in & out camera turned into a comic plot.