Environment Day 2012

15 things

Top 15 things every individual can do to protect and improve environment.
it is not just a message but own way to lead.
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government can not do all the things, present condition requires individual efforts and sacrifices.

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Nintendo to launch 'Wii U' videogame....

Nintendo has more to prove than ever when it takes the wraps off its highly anticipated "Wii U" gaming console at next week's "E3," the $78.5 billion videogame industry's most important yearly trade show.

Gamers and Wall Street analysts alike will be closely watching for the next salvos from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft - the "big three" of console manufacturers who have been at war for the past decade.

The main story line at the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3, to be held in Los Angeles from June 5 to 7, is to what extent Nintendo's new version of the Wii console might help the Japanese company's battle to reclaim its crown in an industry that is struggling to grow.

Nintendo's back is against the wall, said Jesse Divnich, consultant and analyst at research firm EEDAR.

The Asian gaming company - whose long-held position as the videogame industry leader has been usurped in recent years by Microsoft's Xbox - is pinning its hopes on the new touchscreen-enabled device to breathe new life into both hardware and software gaming sales.

The original iteration of the motion-gaming console sent shock waves through the industry six years ago, but since then Nintendo has been fighting a strong challenge from upstart casual gaming companies hitching a ride on Apple's iPad.

More than 45,000 analysts, retailers, investors and reporters are expected to attend E3, and they are hoping that Nintendo - creator of the "Super Mario" franchise - will disclose the price and other details of the Wii U.

Google to build new web addresses including '.lol'

Google has said it plans to run an array of new top-level domains, including ".google", ".youtube" and ".docs", as part of a major expansion of the web's addressing system.

The search giant would also run ".lol", a top-level domain that would refer to the common online abbreviation for "laugh out loud", as the firm thought that ".lol" had "interesting and creative potential".

According to The Telegraph, Google had kept its plans secret in an attempt to avoid rival bids until Thursday, when the deadline for applications passed.

In total Google has made more than 50 applications to Icann, which is the closest organisation to a governing body for the internet, for new alternatives to ".com" or ".co.uk".

It signaled to the fact that Google could offer each YouTube channel its own simple address. For instance, the current www.youtube.com/joebloggs could become www.joebloggs.youtube.

Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of the internet, who now works for Google, said that an expanded addressing system could make it easier for web users to find things online.

"By opening up more choices for Internet domain names, we hope people will find options for more diverse and perhaps shorter - signposts in cyberspace," he wrote on the firm's blog.

The full list of almost 2,000 applications is due to be published on 13 June, because of a delay caused by a technical glitch in the application system.

Ford Focus 1.0L EcoBoost Sets 16 World Speed Records - Web Exclusive

While many might consider the 125hp 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine in the European Focus to be inadequate, Ford has set about breaking records and proving it has much more to offer than you might expect.

With the Ford Focus 1.0-litre EcoBoost going on sale a few months ago, it’s already gained a following for its fuel efficiency. However, the car also offers surprising performance, as proven by establishing 16 FIA speed world records over distances ranging from 1km (0.6 miles) to 4104.7 km (2550.5 miles).

Eight journalists from France and the US were joined by WRC star Jari-Matti Latvala to drive at the CERAM test circuit in Mortefontaine, France. They drove three cars over a two-day period.

“This little engine punches way above its weight when it comes to performance,” said Latvala. “The records prove the Focus 1.0-liter EcoBoost can be lots of fun – as well as a very frugal car.”

To be eligible, each car was run-in under the supervision of an official FFSA steward, after being selected from the Ford manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany. The three cars set the “sub-1.0-liter class” world records for times recorded covering both 1km and 1-mile from a standing start and a flying start; and for highest average speeds recorded over distances ranging from 10km (6.21 miles) to 4104.7km (2,550.5 miles). The cars also set highest average speed records over timed sessions lasting one, six, 12 and 24 hours. The highest average speed recorded was 191.056km/h (118.716 mph) during the successful attempt on the world record for the highest average speed over one hour.

Famous Scientist ( Gösta Mittag-Leffler )

-: Gösta Mittag-Leffler :-

Gösta Mittag-Leffler

Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler (16 March 1846 – 7 July 1927) was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions.


Mittag-Leffler was born in Stockholm, son of the school principal John Olof Leffler and Gustava Wilhelmina Mittag; he later added his mother's maiden name to his paternal surname. His sister was the writer Anne Charlotte Leffler. He matriculated at Uppsala University in 1865, completed his Ph.D. in 1872 and became docent at the university the same year. He was also curator (chairman) of the Stockholms nation (1872–1873).

He next traveled to Paris, Göttingen and Berlin, studying under Weierstrass in the latter place.[1] He then took up a position as professor of mathematics at the University of Helsinki 1877–1881 and then as the first professor of mathematics at the University College of Stockholm (the later Stockholm University); he was president of the college 1891-1892 and retired from his chair in 1911. Mittag-Leffler went into business and became a successful businessman in his own right, but an economic collapse in Europe wiped out his fortune in 1922.

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1883), the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (1878, later honorary member), the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala, the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund (1906) and about 30 foreign learned societies, including the Royal Society of London (1896) and Académie des sciences in Paris. He held honorary doctorates from the University of Oxford and several other universities.

Mittag-Leffler was a convinced advocate of women's rights and was instrumental in making Sofia Kovalevskaya a full professor of mathematics in Stockholm - the first woman anywhere in the world to hold that position.

Mittag-Leffler founded the mathematical journal Acta Mathematica (1882), with the help of King Oscar's sponsorship,[1] and partly paid for with the fortune of his wife Signe Lindfors, who came from a very wealthy Finnish family. He collected a large mathematical library in his villa in the Stockholm suburb of Djursholm. The house and its contents was donated to the Academy of Sciences as the Mittag-Leffler Institute.

A legend that Alfred Nobel did not set up a prize in Mathematics because of a thwarted affair with Signe Lindfors is not supported by historical evidence.

Revolution Mosaic quilts iPhone photos from around the world......

Mobile photography is quite the popular pass time and in particular, iPhone photography has quite a number of doers and fans. When Instagram first came out, it was an iOS only application and with the iPhone 4, iOS users took to photographing and photography apps like a magnet takes to, umm, the opposite pole of another magnet. And since iPhoneography is a global phenomenon, there have been multiple attempts to reflect the universalness of the pass time.

A project called Revolution Mosaic wants to create one giant image that will combine a total of 360,000 iPhone photos from around the world to symbolize the mobile generation. The project has also released an app in the iOS App Store through which users can submit their photos for the giant iPhone photo quilt.

The application comes from Canadian developer Barrel Man Apps. Speaking on the project, Ian Tuason, the founder of Barrel Man Apps says, "Visionary photographers that I admire, well, they could be any one of us now.

We all have this powerful tool in our pockets and it only takes a gentle tap to take a photo and share our perspective to the world. So let’s turn that tap into a tidal wave. Let’s make that first iconic image from our generation be a collection of all our perspectives joined together."

To fund the project, Barrel Man Apps has secured seed funding from European venture incubator, 99 Fahrenheit Ltd. Luca Longobardi, Founder and CEO of 99 Fahrenheit says, "We are very interested in ideas that can change the world, and we believe Revolution Mosaic has that kind of potential."

Once 360,000 photos are uploaded to the Revolution Mosaic, Barrel Man Apps plans to transform the app into a platform of multiple mosaics. Mosaics will be created to raise social awareness or to unite cultures and charitable causes. Mosaics will even be created to document important events in the world, like the Summer Olympics or the World Cup.

Famous Scientist ( Per Martin-Löf )

-: Per Martin-Löf :-

Per Martin-Löf

Per Erik Rutger Martin-Löf (born 1942) is a Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematical statistician. He is internationally renowned for his work on the foundations of probability, statistics, mathematical logic, and computer science. Since the late 1970s, Martin-Löf's publications have been mainly in logic.

 In philosophical logic, Martin-Löf has wrestled with the philosophy of logical consequence and judgment, partly inspired by the work of Brentano, Frege, and Husserl. In mathematical logic, Martin-Löf has been active in developing intuitionistic type theory as a constructive foundation of mathematics; Martin-Löf's work on type theory has influenced computer science.

Per Martin-Löf holds a joint chair for Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University.

His brother Anders Martin-Löf is now emeritus professor of mathematical statistics at Stockholm University; the two brothers have collaborated in research in probability and statistics. The research of Anders and Per Martin-Löf has influenced statistical theory, especially regarding exponential families, the expectation-maximization method for missing data, and model selection.

Per Martin-Löf is an enthusiastic bird-watcher, whose first scientific publication was on the mortality rates of ringed birds.

In 1964–65 Martin-Löf was studying in Moscow under the supervision of Andrei N. Kolmogorov. During this time, Martin-Löf wrote his 1966 article On the definition of random sequences, which gave the first suitable definition of a random sequence.

Earlier researchers such as Richard von Mises had attempted to formalize the notion of a test for randomness in order to define a random sequence as one that passed all tests for randomness; however, the precise notion of a randomness test was left vague. Martin-Löf's key insight was to use the theory of computation to formally define the notion of a test for randomness. This contrasts with the idea of randomness in probability; in that theory, no particular element of a sample space can be said to be random.

Martin-Löf randomness has since been shown to admit many equivalent characterizations—in terms of compression, randomness tests, and gambling – that bear little outward resemblance to the original definition, but each of which satisfy our intuitive notion of properties that random sequences ought to have: random sequences should be incompressible, they should pass statistical tests for randomness, and it should be difficult to make money betting on them.

The existence of these multiple definitions of Martin-Löf randomness, and the stability of these definitions under different models of computation, give evidence that Martin-Löf randomness is a fundamental property of mathematics and not an accident of Martin-Löf's particular model. The thesis that the definition of Martin-Löf randomness "correctly" captures the intuitive notion of randomness has been called the "Martin-Löf-Chaitin Thesis"; it is somewhat similar to the Church–Turing thesis.

An algorithmically random sequence is an infinite sequence of characters, all of whose prefixes (except possibly a finite number of exceptions) are strings that are "close to" algorithmically random (their length is within a constant of their Kolmogorov complexity).