Difference between Climate and Weather

A lot of us tend to think that Climate and Weather are the same. I have heard some people even asking others, "How's the Climate today?" and the other party doesn't know what to say.

Well, the confusion is somehow justified as well because both the words refer to the same natural phenomena, but the different lies in their measurement time.

To put it in simple words, Climate is Weather over a long period of time, like 6 months or a year or even many years, whereas Weather is the instant phenomenon at a given hour or a day. Weather often changes frequently at many places during the day, sometimes changing every 15 minutes as well. However, on a longer average, climate doesn't change that frequently. If it changes that frequently, then it's doomsday for us.

Hence Global Warming is also referred to as Climate Change and not Weather change.

Next time when you greet someone, say "How's the Weather today?"

Cheers.

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Youtube's Amazing Feature

Lately I have been uploading some videos to my YouTube account. Since I has shot most of them using my HD enabled Smartphone, there were bouts were it resulted in shaky video moments.

I am not sure what kind of extreme algorithm YouTube uses, but then by asking it to correct the shakiness in the video, it produces amazing results.

I had read about some mathematical transforms which work on digital signals, and that includes pics and videos, which enable us to modify them as needed. And I believe the engineering team of YouTube must have found out some great combination to produce fantastic results.

Leave it on Google to deliver the best, Always.

To check out an example, please see the following link.

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Why is the US worried about a bean grown in India

Usually, the US should be worried about making their economy bounce back, as double dip recession still haunts them and unemployment rate is at an all time high. But then I read about something which is amazingly surprising.

The US is actually worried about the escalating cost of Guar Bean grown in India's State of Rajasthan and the reason why they are worried is because this little crop has the ability to escalate the cost of oil extraction in US.

Oil Fields in Texas use a gum like substance made from Guar bean to use a technique called as Fracking, which enables them to pump oil more than 10000 feet below the ground. With a failed monsoon in India and the fear of an impending crop shortage, the price of this bean has escalated from USD 2 per KG to USD 30 per kg in recent months, and this is making the Americans shit in their pants.

Guess you can't shun us Americans, Can you?

Color Blind friendly Traffic Signals

Halifax is a city in Nova Scotia Province of Canada and it is one the cities deemed as color blind friendly. Look at the picture below

What a brilliant Idea to make traffic lights friendly for people suffering from Complete Color blindness. If not with the color, they can identify stop and go signs at least from the shape of the traffic lights.

How lucky I am to perceive Colors.

Sometimes, we tend to take even the most simplest things in life, gifted by God, for granted. I am referring to one of the conversation I had with my colleagues last week. This conversation revolved around the ability of how human eye can perceive colors so beautifully and this is something which no one should ever take for granted, because color-blindness is a reality and it happens with a lot of people.

So, during the conversation, I found out that two of my colleague suffers from color-blindness. That's when I realized how blessed I am to see all the beautiful colors in this world.

Now both of these guys suffer from two different types of the same disorder. One is called as Trichromancy, or inability to distinguish between three primary colors, basically red, blue or green. This causes them to see most of the shades or red as either gray or dark blue or dark red or dark green. Weird huh!!

The other one suffers from another type of partial color blindness called anomalous dichromancy, where he is unable to distinguish between shades of green and yellow, and specifically in his case, yellow. He once told me that he can see all darker shades of yellow as white or maybe light yellow, that too depends on the luminescence and the contrasting colors accompanying the yellow shade.

How lucky I am not to have this disorder. Thank god. To find out if you can identify most of the colors, check out this brilliant wikipedia page which lists all the possible color combinations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

Don't get disheartened if you are among the color-blinds. You can still live a normal and a healthy life. Its just your eyes and your brain tricking you, nothing else.

Bhangarh - The Haunted ruined town

There are places in this world and then there are really weird and fascinating places in this world. One of them is a ruined town in India in the state of Rajasthan, which has baffled historians and people alike and is a good place for ghost hunters to explore.

So the location for this place is in the Rajgarh Municipality in the Alwar District within the state of Rajasthan in India. The closest famous city to it is Jaipur and is accessible by a number of roads.

This place is really cool, for people from all walks of life. It is in fact filled with beautifully carved temples, havelis and the main palace of Madho Singh, the younger brother of Man Singh, who was a General in Akbar's army. The decline of Bhangarh started when Madho Singh's son Chattr Singh took over the reins.

So why is this place haunted? There are two legends behind it.

One - The town was blessed by a Guru named Balu Nath, but only on one condition that the palace of the king should not cast a shadow on his Holy Retreat, the moment it does, his curse will materialize and the town will no longer be habitable. Well people say, Chattr Singh, son of Madho Singh, didn't pay any heed to the Guru's advice and the day the palace cast a shadow on the Guru's retreat, the town started declining. So till date the curse haunts the town.

Two - The second myth, which actually doesn't sound convincing to me(if Myths were convincing, they would be called as Myths), is that a Tantrik was in love with the princess of Bhangarh, and he tried to lure her with black magic by giving her enchanted oil. But the princess knew this beforehand so she poured the oil on the ground, it turned into a boulder, that boulder in turn crushed the tantrik, before dying he cursed the town and soon after that the princess also died and the town perished.

Now the funniest part is that the Archaeological Survey of India also considers this to be a haunted place and they believe there are ghosts inside the ruins, that is the reason why they have put up a notice saying that it is prohibited to be inside Bhangarh from Sunset to Sunrise. Unbelievable. Please look at the picture below.

The Stone inscription clearly warns about the prohibition.

I am not sure how much of this is true and why ASI also has an office 1 KM away from the actual site, but then something is really fascinating about this place and I really want to explore this once in my life, and see if there is really something fishy about this place.

Check out the 360 degree panoramic view of the Bhangarh site at the link below. http://www.360cities.net/image/bhangarh-the-most-haunted-place-in-india#98.60,8.10,70.0

Learnt something new.

As a sourcing consultant, I do my due diligence of research for the categories that I am working on and I happened to read a couple of pages about the science behind the requirement of tires for cars. I learnt an interesting thing about something called as the aspect ratio of the tire. It is defined as the distance between the rim and the topmost edge of the tire and it is always expressed as a percentage of the width of the tire. That is the reason why it is called as Aspect ratio. Not this gives us how thick the tire is and how it can effectively lead to greater stability for the vehicle. The thumb rule is, higher the aspect ration, lower the stability while maneuvering through sharp edges and turns and the opposite is true as well. That is why, you will see most of the BMW's, Merc's and high end super car tires with lower aspect ratio. But the trade off comes at the cost of lower air buoyancy, which is actually the counter pressure exerted by the tire from the ground upwards which basically provides the fluidity to the vehicle to move forward. No wonder, Super cars are nick named as gas guzzlers. Now Ain't that interesting. Share it guys Knowledge Shared is Knowledge Earned.