Quick notes: Desi Smithsonian | Geothermal power...

• Desi version of Smithsonian planned: Indian Museum of the Earth may come up near Faridabad



• Our charity rarely begins at home: Indian mathematician VS Varadarajan and wife Veda donate $1 Million to establish 'Ramanujan Visiting Professorship' post in UCLA 



• Air chief marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis: "Converting the initial deal for 36 Rafales to the original IAF requirement for 126 aircraft is the crying need of the hour to counter emerging Chinese capabilities in stealth technology, cruise missiles and airborne early warning systems".



• You are the product: When Zuckerberg said privacy, he didn’t mean privacy from Facebook. . . . ‘Greatest Con Man in History’ . . . BJP splurging on Facebook, Instagram ads



• Following India's footsteps: France targets Google, Amazon and Facebook with 3% digital tax. Germany, Spain and UK may follow.



• Geothermal power: Swedish technology could make geothermal as mainstream as wind and solar. . . produces just 3% of the emissions of a coal plant generating the same power. . .Off-Grid Energy Access.



• Google's learn-to-read app: "Bolo" is essentially a reading assistant for elementary school children that harnesses Google's speech recognition and text-to-speech smarts.

Important point and the Language mission of @GoI_MeitY and MHRD addressing this. https://t.co/KFumyAu3cb

— Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India (@PrinSciAdvGoI) March 7, 2019




• Max Planck: "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve". . . . “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”



• How jihadists bought and sold their Yazidi captives : “They took women, abused them and killed them. A woman was shifted from one man to another unless it was to one who had a bit of mercy” . . . . . Women of Islamic State assault others they deem “infidels” at a camp where they are being held in Syria. “After being segregated to avoid problems, they fight among themselves”.



• Say NO to Vaseline: Petroleum Jelly May Not Be As Harmless As You Think