Radha Jalan took over management of ElectroChem‚ a struggling company that researched and developed fuel cell technology‚ after the sudden death of her husband Vinod Jalan in 1992. She did so because she was intrigued by the possibility of participating in the early stages of a growth industry‚ and she looked forward to the intellectual stimulation and challenge. The biggest challenge she faced early on was funding‚ mostly because the company was not profitable and the government grants that had
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How far does curiosity take you?The book is called The Only Alien on the Planet and the Author’s name is Kristen D Randle.Smitty went through a horrible experience when he was little‚ his brother tried to drown him and told him if he ever spoke or told anyone about him trying to drown smitty that a bomb was going to explode in his head.Ginny had started to talk to Smitty because she was so curious that he would never talk and how he was so smart.The theme of the book made me realize how far curiosity
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In Vandana Shiva reading she disuses how the residents of Plachimada fought against the Coca-Cola Planet in their community‚ to help save the water supply and crops. On March 2000 Coca-Cola was granted permission “ to produce 1‚224‚000 of Coca-Cola‚ Fanta‚ Sprite‚ Limca‚ Thums Up‚ Kinley Soda‚ and Maaza” in Plachimada . In addition‚ they were given a license to install a motor to extract water. However‚ To manufacture millions of bottles of soft drinks the started “ to illegally extract million of
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Religions are based on beliefs and they teach us moral lessons that we don’t feel of any worth today. I have gone through all the posts made here. Most of us have put forward views contrary to the beliefs. All the religions of the world teach us to have control over our greed‚ material advancement‚ material prosperity‚ aspirations etc. But we are talking about economic growth which is subject to decay. If we peep into all the religions‚ there is only I mean only one thing is common and that is there
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How Many People Live on Planet Earth There are 7 more than billion people on earth right now‚ and the number is getting bigger each day. Population growth is a serious problem‚ studies show that the world will hit about 8 billion people by the spring of 2024; it may even rise to 10 billion people by 2100! This growth will cause a large impact on quality of life. We will have the same amount of resources as we do today. Developing countries will have the worst time because they already don’t have
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1) "The Antarctic is the vast source of frigidity on our planet‚ just as the sun is the source of our heat‚ and it exerts tremendous control on our climate ‚" [Jacques] Jacques Costeau told the television camera . "The cold ocean water around Antarctica period north to mix with heater water from the Torrid Zone ‚ and its upwellings help to aplomb both the open water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity‚" (Captain Jacques Yves Costeau
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Introduction Fire is very useful in man’s existence in planet Earth. During incient time‚ Hominid (great apes) is the group of people discovered fire. They used fire to keep them warm and to protect them against wild animals. As the time passed by‚ they discovered that fire can be used to cook food. Until now‚ people used it in daily live‚ and many other things that need the benefits afforded by fire. While fire has helped much in shaping and developing the country’s industries‚ it has also become
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Essay for Chapter One: First Peoples‚ Populating the planet (to 10‚000 b.c.e.) The Paleolithic Era is a significant time to the world’s history. The reason the Paleolithic era is so important to the world’s history is that it fills in many gaps in history. It tells one‚ how people moved from one place to the rest of the world. How it was that the nomadic people survived by gathering food /berries and hunting animals. It also helps humans understand the different stone tools nomadic people used
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“Goldilocks and the Three Planets” “Goldilocks and the Three Planets” is an article written by Neil de Grasse Tyson that sums up the creation of the planets and why life is on Earth. He sets it to the story of Goldilocks‚ where Earth is the Little Bear’s stuff. He then breaks down the different reasons as to why we continue to have life. All of that is the basics to understanding Exoplanets. Exoplanets are just planets that orbit a star that is not our Sun. There is a subsection of exoplanets called
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In today’s society‚ one has to ask him or herself‚ “Am I living for my own happiness or am I living for the materialistic objects around me?” The phrase‚ “Pave the planet or wear shoes” highlights this moral dilemma. In chapter 3‚ David R. Loy begins elaborating on the Buddhist movement‚ asserting that it focuses on calming one’s mind and attaining happiness from within. Apart of their philosophy‚ their attitude towards wealth‚ poverty‚ and money is nonexistent since; true wisdom does not come from
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