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Stairway to Night Sky – The Hanle Effect

Astronomy, Education, ScienceOctober 30, 20223KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I have always been fascinated by what the skies looked like to the naked eye before the artificial lights flooded the planet. How spectacular would the skies have been? My first conscious effort to gaze upon the skies started from Coimbatore. Astronomers use the ‘Bortle’ scale that rates the sky from a location from 1…

Coimbatore’s Love For Science

Activities, ScienceAugust 24, 2021907Views 0Likes 0Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbk9POR-TGc&ab_channel=MangoEducationFor a lot of kids, Science is hard, and Math is even harder. In our education system's framework, all students, regardless of their ability to learn, are strengthened and tested mostly on their memory and content reproduction skills, and not on understanding the concepts. The very nature of this framework is the reason for majority…

Science Education: Is It What You Think It Is?

Education, ScienceMay 7, 2020895Views 0Likes 0Comments

What is your response when you hear or read the phrase . If you're woozy with excitement and your body straightens with pride and inspiration, you’re in a good place, and this piece of writing will agree with you. If you scrunch up your nose and feel mildly anxious or disinterested, I still urge you…

A Dream Winter School for Every Science Lover

ScienceJanuary 30, 2017725Views 0Likes 0Comments

There are certainly those moments in everyone's life that would be strongly etched in the hearts for a lifetime. I was fortunate to have been a part of the Winter School of Astroparticle Physics (WAPP 2016) organised by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Cosmic Ray Laboratory (CRL), Ooty. This write-up is not about the…

Ooty – A place for Science Lovers too!

ScienceNovember 19, 20161KViews 0Likes 0Comments

For us Coimbatoreans, whenever we feel bored, or have an unplanned holiday, or sometimes for no reason at all, we just pack our bags, get on our bikes and drift towards Ooty. Sometimes we go just to have a cup of tea. Ooty is much more than a neighboring district to us. It is a…