Stained Mind
Genie-General Topics of Interest and Poetry in English & Indian Languages
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Did You Know?
An adult's heart weighs from 9 to 11 ounces (255 to 312 grams). It makes 63 million heart
beats in one year - if heart rate is 120 beats/minute. This is comparable to a car engine
cycles per year (assuming the car runs at 40 cycles/second for 400 hours). A newborn
baby's heart weighs about 2/3 ounce (19 grams).
Electrons are so small that you can fit 1 billion million (10 raised to power 15) electrons in 1 mm wide space.
Indian scholar Aryabhata invented the zero number system. Until the 11th century,
Greeks and Romans used numbers up to 10 raised to power 6,whereas, the Indians used numbers as big
as 10 raised to power 53.
Almost 2600 years ago, Indian surgeon Sushruta used cesareans, cataract, urinary stones
surgeries.
The world's first university was established at Takshshila in India in 700 BC. Almost
10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
A 12 oz Coca cola has 39 gm sugar whereas your(adults)daily allowance for sugar is 40 gm.
Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better
than the whites and the natives. 38% of doctors in USA are Indians. 36% of NASA
scientists are Indians. 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians. 28% of IBM employees
are Indians.
According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for
computer software.
World crude oil consumption is roughly 28 billion barrels per year (US consumes ¼ of
this). It will take less than 40 years to consume some 1100 billion barrels of world's all oil
reserves. The countries with major reserves are Saudi Arabia (264), Iraq (113), Caspian
sea (115), UAE (98), Kuwait (97), Iran (90), Venezuela (73), Russia (49), Oceania (44),
Libya (30), Mexico (28), Nigeria (23), China (24), US (22) - where (xx) numbers are
reserves in billion barrels.
'We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made', Albert Einstein.
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About the Book
This book, an updated version of the ebook Mimila (visit http://www.links2save.com), written by Niranjan Humbad, is something you may like to reference forever. It has a section entitled "Genie" which talks about how sizes vary from small electrons to the universe; it includes useful information on health and nutritional values, height-weight charts of men and women, web links to airlines including phone numbers, heat-index and wind chill charts, links to important websites (for example, to find the weather of any major city in the world), conversion charts and more. Other sections include poetry/songs written by Niranjan in English, Marathi, Hindi and Gujarati languages - the topics vary from romance to philosophy. Some of the song lyrics from this book have been made into musical songs. Two of his songs were choreographed into dance performances at major Indian Programs. Niranjan's songs can be downloaded at http://www.mp3.com/ombudmusic where it has received over 10,540 plays by August 2002.
About the Author
Niranjan Humbad, an engineer by profession is also a singer and songwriter. His first poetry book, 'Novayachi Kavita' in Marathi, was published in 2000 with guidance from the well known Marathi writer Prabhakar Tamane. Niranjan, from Songir, Dhule of India, studied from Songir, Dhule, Pune and Bangalore schools and finished his Ph.D. at MIT, USA in 1981. He is recognized in the technical field of noise control and was Vice Chairman of the Noise Control and Acoustic Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2001-2002. He was President of Musicians Group of Ford Employee Recreational Association in 2001-2002.
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