"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." - Abraham Lincoln 

Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process (Emancipation Proclamation) that led to the end of slavery in the United States. He is also remembered for his character and leadership, his speeches and letters, and as a man of humble origins whose determination and perseverance led him to the nation's highest office.

Remember the scene in ‘Minority Report,’ the Steven Spielberg-directed science fiction thriller, when Tom Cruise uses his hands and fingers to search for date on a huge virtual screen?Even though the movie came out in 2002, and is set in 2054, it seems as though the present is catching up to the future. MIT research now comes up almost close to the the futuristic screen of the movie. Means you can also be a Tom Cruise  Before going into the details, a brief info about the present situation of touch screen computers..

Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa’s Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Baroque cathedrals of Latin America make up our world’s heritage.Sites of outstanding universal value inscribed on the World Heritage List – the historic centre of Prague in the Czech Republic and the old town of Cáceres in Spain, for example – can now be explored online by internet users around the world, thanks to an alliance signed by UNESCO and the international corporation Google.. 

 Mt. Everest the highest point on earth , which many adventure enthusiasts try to conquer every year is also one of the  geological hot spots with regular tectonic activity and where evidences of  damage by climate change are quiet apparently visible .

To highlight the impact of climate change and to attract the attention of world leaders, one week before the Copenhagen Summit on Climate change, Nepal government held a cabinet meeting on the Mount Everest .

 The Rector of the Moscow Institute of Open Education and Jordan's Ministry of Information and Communications Techonology have been chosen as the winners of an annual United Nations prize for the use of ICTs in education. They were chosen from among 39 projects in 29 countries by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO) for the 2009 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize.  

No less than a fourth of India’s geographical area, or 81 million hectares, is undergoing a process of desertification, reveals a first-of-its-kind ‘desertification status map’ of the country created by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in collaboration with several scientific institutions across the country...

There’s one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn’t shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. Even in conventional systems sometimes load vary, sometimes there will be a peak load, sometimes load on the grid will be less. A large battery storage can save fuel . But there is no such a storage system for electricity on large scale. That’s why many researchers have been pursuing ways of storing the power generated by the sources(non-convetional and conventional) so that it can be used when it’s needed.