The brightest planet, Venus, is due to pass right in front of the sun, to stage one of the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena: a transit of Venus across the sun’s face. This upcoming transit of Venus will be the last one for the 21st century. It will take place across a period of nearly seven hours on June 5-6, 2012. During the transit, Venus will appear in silhouette as Read More ...
Fencer since the age of 13, Satya Gunput, Mauritian student 20 years at the University of Oxford, has recently ranked third in the African Championships held in Casablanca fencing. Note that it also served, in recent times, the British team of fencers 20 and under. While a special license from the International Fencing Federation (FIE) allows him to compete for Maurice, the young athlete is still awaiting the approval of Read More ...
LinkedIn has just acquired professional content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock. We’ve pasted the release below. SlideShare is a sharing platform for business documents, videos and presentations. SlideShare lets anyone share presentations and video and also serves as a social discovery platform for users to find relevant content and connect with other members who share similar interests. The company also has a huge enterprise following, Read More ...
Following the trend with Poonam Pandey, who once promised to go nude if India wins the World Cup, South Indian actress Nisha Yadav aka Ameesha Yadav have also decided to go semi-nude to support a low budget campaign of MumbaiWire to create awareness among people. But this year, Nisha’s photo shoot campaign “BASH THE TRASH AND DAMN THE PLASTIC’ is an attempt to create awareness among people to not to Read More ...
Skywatchers take note: The biggest full moon of the year is due to arrive this weekend. The moon will officially become full Saturday (May 5) at 11:35 p.m. EDT. And because this month’s full moon coincides with the moon’s perigee — its closest approach to Earth — it will also be the year’s biggest. The moon will swing in 221,802 miles (356,955 kilometers) from our planet, offering skywatchers a spectacular Read More ...
