Happy New Year 2018 !!

Yet another year dawns
With hope of spring
And past sorrows left behind
To be in happiness around.

With time flowers of life blooms
From buds of inspiration in heart
With petals of serenity soft and tender
To whose beauty whole humanity surrenders.

This beats of nature rhythm
Fills everyone’s heart with wisdom
To rise with love and affection
And to spread everywhere kindness vision.

'Smoke Rings' Spotted In The Ocean From Space

Scientists have discovered the equivalent of smoke-rings in the Tasman Sea which may 'suckup' small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean. The rings were spotted by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images from the same time and place.

60-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Strike Discovered In Scotland

Simon Drake, an associate lecturer in geology at Birkbeck University of London, zeroed in on a meter-thick layer at the base of a 60.0 million-year-old lava flow.

Once In A Lifetime - An Inspirational Poem

The rainbow of hope around you
When in edge of the distress mountain you live
When you lose your way in jungle world
The symphony of songs of birds can be heard.

The sight of hope is far and beyond
Bathing you with serenity where your feet land the ground
And the direction for you to be in civilized society
Is in the song of the bird’s beauty.

So fill your life with beautiful colors
From the nature resources
For once in a lifetime moving in a direction
Where lies your happiness destination.

Scientists Are Slowly Unlocking The Secrets Of The Earth's Mysterious Hum.

It's comforting to think of Earth as solid and immovable, but that's false. The world is vibrating, stretching and compressing. We're shaking right along with it.

Huge Waterspout Forms Off Italian Coast. Rare Phenomenon Caught On Camera.

The whirling waterspout was filmed wreaking havoc at the harbour in the coastal city of Sanremo in northwestern Italy.

A Kiss From A Rose - An Inspirational Poem

Waves splash the face
And compete with tears
Blurring the vision
When you are in search for reason.

But when the gaze fell up
The sea gulls sang never give up
Encouraging to move forward each step
As waves retraces back step by step.

Thus the nature kisses and wishes
Guiding you away from stress
So happiness is all around
To keep you warm and sound.

A Kiss From A Rose - An Inspirational Poem

Waves splash the face
And compete with tears
Blurring the vision
When you are in search for reason.

But when the gaze fell up
The sea gulls sang never give up
Encouraging to move forward each step
As waves retraces back step by step.

Thus the nature kisses and wishes
Guiding you away from stress
So happiness is all around
To keep you warm and sound.

The Difference Between Night And Day Is Disappearing, Scientists Warn.

From 2012 to 2016, the artificially lit area of the Earth's surface grew by 2.2 percent per year, according to the study led by Christopher Kyba of the German Research Centre for Geosciences. Kyba and his team analyzed high-resolution satellite imagery to measure the extent of artificial outdoor lighting at night. The study also found that areas of the planet already lit grew even brighter, increasing in luminosity at a rate of 2.2 percent per year.

How Earth Changed In 20 Years, Captured In Captivating NASA Animation

Since 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life on the surface of the land and ocean. A new animation captures the entirety of this 20-year record into a captivating few minutes.

Global Warming: NASA Tool Reveals Mangalore Will Flood Sooner Than Mumbai, New York

NASA data has shown that Karnataka’s Mangalore city will flood first if the levels of sea rises due to melting of glaciers as a result of global warming. A report said that the sea level at Mangalore will rise by 15.98 cm compared to 15.26 cm in Mumbai and 10.65 cm in New York in the next 100 years. It is believed that Mumbai and New York are the most vulnerable cities, however, the new finding has put forward an alternative theory. The findings are based on NASA’s gradient fingerprint mapping (GFM), which is developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The tool helps them analyse data as to how much rise in sea level will be cause by the melting of glaciers. “This is the first time our method will enable planners and engineers to retrieve data about sea level in their area, and get updated numbers when new data about glacial melting becomes available,” Surendra Adhikari, a co-author of the study, told Hindustan Times on Thursday. Glaciers– that hold 75 per cent of world’s freshwater– are melting at a brisk place due to global warming. The rate is not constant due to gravity, the “push-pull influence” of ice, the wobble of the planet. Rising sea level will erode coasts and can cause flooding. Sea level will rise by 0.51-1.31 m by the end of the century. Mumbai and Kolkata are the most vulnerable coastal cities as people living their have the biggest threat of losing their lives.

Visual Nature Verses Poetry Book

Visual Nature Verses Poetry Book Front Cover by Venkatesh M.R.

Visual Nature Verses Poetry Book

Visual Nature Verses Poetry Book Back Cover by Venkatesh M.R.

India From Space On Diwali

A picture of India on Diwali, taken from space by 'NASA', has by now become a standing joke. The Photoshopped picture was circulated year after year - but people are wise to it now. So what does India actually look like from space on Diwali - the festival of lights? Thanks to astronaut Paolo Nespoli, we now have an answer. On October 19, the 60-year-old Italian astronaut shared a photo of India, taken from space.

Nobel Prize in Eonomics 2017

American Richard H. Thaler wins Nobel Prize in economics.An American professor won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into why people make bad decisions.Economics is built on the assumption that people make rational decisions based on the desire to increase their economic well-being. While economists have long known that isn't strictly true, Thaler was a pioneer in studying why people sometimes make irrational decisions, and how they can be encouraged to make smarter ones. "He's made economics more human," said Peter Gärdenfors, a member of the committee that awarded the prize. Thaler, 72, of the University of Chicago, told the press that the most important value of his work was the understanding that "in order to do good economics, you have to keep in mind that people are human."

Nobel Peace Prize 2017

ICAN Has Been Awarded 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.“The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons,” a statement from the Nobel Prize Committee said.

Nobel Prize in literature 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British Author, Wins Nobel Literature Prize.Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of "The Remains of the Day", won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for a run of "exquisite" novels that the award body said mixed Franz Kafka with Jane Austen.

Nobel Prize in chemistry 2017

Scientists awarded Nobel prize in chemistry for work to visualize biomolecules.Nobel Prize in Chemistry Won by Three Scientists For Biochemistry 'Revolution'. Dubochet, affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Frank with Columbia University in New York and Henderson with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Britain, have made ground-breaking discoveries that have enabled the development of cryo-electron microscopy

Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

US Trio Win Nobel Prize in Physics for Finding Einstein's Gravitational Waves. The work of Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne crowned half a century of experimental efforts by scientists and engineers. Measuring gravitational waves offers a new way to observe the cosmos, helping scientists explore the nature of mysterious objects including black holes and neutron stars.

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2017

Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 Americans For Insights Into Body's Biological Clock. The citation for the 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize says the researchers - Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michal W. Young- isolated a gene that controls the normal daily biological rhythm.

Piano In The Dark - An inspirational Poem

In the dawn of your life
When wishes rise in the sky
Look around at the garden of serenity
For the path filled with beauty.

As some blossomed hopes may wrinkle
And plants of life will be sorrowful
So listen to songs of birds around
To cherish in fertile ground.

Your buds of aspirations to blossom
From serene songs in ambiance
Shedding light into your life
Guiding you with each step.

Proven Deed - A Motivational Poem

Be the gracious ocean of life
With aspirations flowing like rivers
From hope of mountain
Which in your heart stations.

In its journey some wishes leaps
Some desire in your life sleeps
But river flows day and night
So be awake in your thoughts.

Then your aspiration reaches the destination
With thoughts of river flowing to ocean
Your hopes filled with light
With vast happiness beaming in heart.

For Every Child - A Poem

The human race like lotus in pool
To evolve with serenity
With love and faith in ambience
Every child should rise with beautiful stance.

Growing in calm waves of thoughts
Possessing pure and simple tastes
To blossom one fine day
Filled with life which in everyone’s heart stays.

So the beauty of race stays through generations
Blooming after growing with patience
The humble and calm beauty of each child
Is what people need by their side.

Tougher Than the Rest - An Inspirational Poem

The smooth feather of aspiration
When blown out without reason
With bleeding wings in sky
Just with heart give another try.

The azure horizon is vast
In it fill your ambition thoughts
To heal and favorably feel
And being ahead in your tale.

So wings of aspirations gliding
With happiness you will be singing
Being tougher than the rest
By trying what is best.

Return To Innocence - A Philosophical Poem

Wishes blossom beneath the horizon
After striving through seasons
The seeds of hope that germinate
Is what in our heart we plant.

In the cycle of life we retain
The path in our life we maintain
So when leaves of life fall
We are born again in fertile soil.

Live the life in the lane
Washing away all the stain
So each day is to rejoice
From your innocent choice.

Take Something With You - An Inspirational Poem

The kettle filled with hope boils
When you shiver in winter breeze
Fed by the wishes of faith
To rise to steam state.

The vapors that glows in heart
From your thoughts spreads through out
The aspirations spreading through room
Your wishes converted to steam.

So holding on to your thoughts in heart
Where ever you go relate
To change to favorable line of fate
To reach your life’s happiness gate.

Happy Navarathri - A Poem

Oh Mother!, whose tongue strikes lightening
And lashes the evil of darkness out of the world
And light of sight illumines the universe
Giving darshan in various form in nine days
Please my humble soul and life bless.

Sun and planets move according to your will
With stars lighting your beauty by twinkling
With bells and conches in temples people play
For you to reside in the sanctum and fulfill their wishes
When they worship for you in this places.

Your various forms shedding away people's sins
When they stray in different directions
So please in this festival fill in my vision
Being the source of my rescource
Which praying at your feet inspires.

Research Article: Celebrities of this Planet Earth by Venkatesh M.R.

All true art is the expression of the soul. Poetry is no exception. In the recently published book 'Golden Horizon" Dr.Biplab Majumdar in one of his haikus says,

Indian poetry
Springs from Nature
And ends in deep spirituality

Which is true. Indian ancient culture is richest in the history of the world.. The great sage Shri Adi Shankarcharya once came across the old poor women, who offered a small fruit with great devotion. The sage was so moved that at that instant he formed and uttered a sloka in the form of poetry that gold coins showered from the sky on the old women.

Else where in the planet too the old flock lore played a great role in foretelling the calamities of the Nature.For example in October 2004 issue of National Geographic magazine in the article about Volcanoes in U.S.A. Hawaii National park in pacific ocean, the sequence of volcanoes is clear in flock lore of Hawaii pacific legend what is described in chant and song is the metaphor of what really happened. Scientist now regret it was all in the stories if they had the foresight to look there first.

Now let us look at our own tsunami of 2004. In hindu cosmology the universe is created anew out of cosmic ocean over and over again. Each time it begins in golden age the Krita yuga and ends in the time of social disorder and individual wrongdoing Kali yuga.

The flood now becomes the doomsday flood or pralaya which means at the end of the four ages of eon.

In oldest extant of Indian variant from about 900 B.C. the Shatabdha Brhamana, the first human being Manu, the Indian Adam, a tiny fish asks Manu to save him from big fish who which otherwise eat him. Fish eat fish is Sanskrit equivalent of dog eat dog which means anarchy. Fish in return promises Manu to save him from great flood that is to come.

Manu saves the fish but not only himself alone but all creatures with the help of the fish which is the incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

More significantly the myth is the part of cycle of time involving fire as well as flood, which Robert Frost called "Fire and Ice".

As young poet practically speaking now literature is finding a place in management courses. Literature especially poetry helps to develop concentration in over whelming information and fragmented ideas.

So poetry is for the future and not only of the past.

Let poets be true celebrities of the planet along with adventurers, explorers and scientists.

US open tennis 2017 men's champion

The King of Clay has once again assumed his throne -- this time on a hard court. Rafael Nadal won his third US Open and 16th career grand slam title Sunday, beating No. 28 seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, New York.

US Open Tennis 2017 Women's Final

Sloane Stephens won the first major title of her career after defeating Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0 in the final of the 2017 U.S. Open on Saturday.

Get Them Moving- An Inspirational Poem

In the darkness of wishful room
For happiness of heart you try to find room
The light fills from your dream
And joins with your aspirations to form a team.

It glows like lamp bright filled with sight
Casting the shadows away from thoughts
Making way for the breeze of serenity
To fulfill dreams with sanity.

So as darkness is filled with light
Heart sorrows will be light
And from seconds of ambiguity
You can move away with clarity.

One for the Family - An Inspirational Poem

The portrait hanging in the wall
With sad emotions like leaves falling in the fall
But the burning desires within
Is fed like logs to warm the cabin.

The language the picture speaks
To soar high our mind awakes
Like smoke in chimney joins the sky
If we strive we can reach where our hope lies.

Glowing bright from the heart
The portrait drives deep thoughts
So it is one for the family
In every home to lead life cheerfully.

Independence Day - A Poem

Sailing to the coast of vision
With deep and silent sentiment
In favorable waves by the side
To uphold our country's pride.

With the mast of the ship like flag fluttering
To reach where everyone's dreams are fulfilled
With different cultures moving in same direction
For the ship to reach the destination.

Where people are fed with knowledge
And country moves forward as it age
Being the one to be proud to live on
And with our hopes shine.

Lunar Eclipse - A poem

Earth gobbles the moon
Like our ego before dream
But night is again filled with light
With our dreams in sight.

Why flowers laugh…- A Poem

The humming bird drinks nectar
And pollinates the grains
The bonds in society to germinate.

If it happens - An Aspiration Poem

When storm lavishes from wounds of heart
And thoughts branches of trees sway away
The woods of life cries for happiness
Let the light of love from the horizon dance.

So verdant leaves filled with peace
Let yield everlasting ripe fruits
To germinate into seeds of hope for next generation
When emotions of life change like seasons.

The presence of happiness in life everywhere
Is what in the ambience one should care
So if everyone to share light prepare
The whole civilization would be taken care.

Wimbledon 2017 men's final

Roger Federer defeats Marin Cilic for record 8th title.Roger Federer wins a record 8th Grand Slam title with a 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 win over Marin Cilic. This is Federer's 19th Grand Slam overall.

Wimbledon 2017: Womens Final

Muguruza overwhelmed Williams with a supreme display of power hitting in 77 minutes 7-5, 6-0 on Centre Court to become only the second Spanish woman to win Wimbledon

Indian Scientists Discover 'Saraswati' — a Supercluster of Galaxies

A team of Indian astronomers has discovered an extremely large supercluster of galaxies as big as 20 million billion suns which they have named Saraswati, Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) said on Friday.
This is one of the largest known structures in the neighbourhood of the universe, 4,000 million light-years away from Earth and roughly more than 10 billion years old, IUCAA said.

Solar Eclipse On August 21 Could Wipe Out Enough Power To Supply 7 Million Homes In US

A solar eclipse on August 21 will cast a shadow along a 113-kilometer corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina in the US and could wipe wipe out power equivalent of about nine nuclear reactors.

Find Out Why USA's NASA Is Tweeting About Guru Purnima 2017

Guru Purnima is celebrated in India as one of the most auspicious days of the Hindu calendar. It is celebrated on purnima or the full moon day in the month of Ashadha (June-July). While social media in India is full of people talking about the significance of Guru Purnima, there is also an unlikely entrant in this list of people tweeting about it. NASA Moon, NASA's official account about the earth's moon, has tweeted about Guru Purnima 2017 too.

In a tweet posted some 16 hours before writing this, NASA Moon talks about the many names given to the full moon this weekend, including Guru Purnima. Other names for Guru Purnima include Hay Moon, Ripe Corn Moon and Thunder Moon. Accompanying the tweet is a stunning picture of the full moon

Our Minds: A poem to reach the destination

Seeking the serene pool of tranquility

Where ducks of wishes swim with
beauty

With thoughts lined towards goals

Where each one with the other secure
feels.

Listening and singing along nature

Our will growing in stature

Flapping wings around with joy

To celebrate the deeds we try.

With drops of sweat eased out of
feathers

While reaching the destination
without fears

The mind filled with pleasantness

Stretches its beak to peak distance.

Everyday is a Gift - Poem about aspirations

The sun of aspirations shines

Glowing through the clouds

To write a new tale in vast azure sky

Where dreams of people lies.

Flapping ambition wings along swans

To reach the destination where hope
dawns

Rising in a bright horizon

Guiding from the path unknown.

Governing our life as we choose

Our wishes to realize

The gift to savour everyday

To make path in a new way.

Asteroid Collision With Earth Inevitable, Say Experts

: An asteroid strike on Earth is just a matter of time and it could destroy major cities, experts have said. According to Alan Fitzsimmons from Queen's University Belfast in Britain, it is a case of when an asteroid collision will happen, rather than if it will happen.

The warning comes ahead of the Asteroid Day to be observed on June 30. On that day in 1908, a small asteroid exploded over Tunguska in Russia's Siberia, levelling trees and burning the ground over 2,000 square kilometres.

French Open - Men's Final 2017

Rafael Nadal beats Stan Wawrinka in straight sets to win his 10th French Open title 6-2, 6-3, 6-1.

Women Final - French Open 2017

Jelena Ostapenko came to Roland Garros as an unseeded player who had never won a professional title of any kind. She will almost certainly be a seeded player from this point forward, and she also no longer has a zero in the championship category.

Ostapenko defeated third-seeded Simona Halep 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to win the French Open title by displaying consistent power and limiting her mistakes as the match progressed.

Not a Sellout - A Poem About Life

,

When dreams fly above the mountain of
serenity

The passing clouds gaze at your minds
beauty

With their silver lining following your
dreams

Trying to form a joyful team.

With your humble splendor thoughts
beaming

For the goal of your vision trying to
reach

To write the story of journey of success

So you feel wearing a comfortable
dress.

The life which everyone striving to
reach

In their own way goals to meet

Content with the happiness his mind
has got

For others although not a sellout.

Threat of Asteroid Hitting The Earth Growing, Say Experts

The risk of a sizeable asteroid hitting the Earth is significantly growing every few years, warn Czech scientists who analysed 144 fireballs from a recent meteor shower. The Taurid meteor shower showed significantly enhanced activity in 2015. Researchers found that this was due to a well defined orbital structure.

Researchers from the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences showed that a “new branch” of Taurids contains at least two asteroids of the size 200-300 metres. Since it is likely that numerous of undiscovered asteroids of decameter or even larger size are present as well, impact hazard increases significantly when the Earth encounters the Taurid new branch every few years, researchers said.

Go Green - A Inspirational Poem

Wind brings glory for recovery

As wishes ship sail in turbulent waves

Guiding the mast of faith in a direction

Where lies your happiness destination.



The face with a grace

Like saplings sprout from seeds

Nurtured by fertile habituate

By every day doing what is right.



The island of your heart to blossom

Where your dreams flowers bloom

The tender freshness of dawn everywhere

Everyday for your life to take care.

California's 'Super Bloom' Of Flowers Is So Big It Can Be Seen From Space

After years of drought, California is enjoying some lovely respite. Following above average rainfall a five year dry spell, Southern California is enjoying a 'super bloom' of hundreds of wildflowers.

Sincere Verses:Poetry Book

poems of humanity with creative human touch of nature as art!!

India At Night, As Seen From Space

NASA has just released new global maps of the Earth at night - the first since 2012. The stunning satellite images of Earth at night, referred to as "night lights," have been released every decade or so for nearly 25 years. Now, NASA scientists are trying to see if the night lights imagery can be updated more frequently - perhaps even daily. Doing so would drastically change how we forecast weather, improve natural disaster responses and even help track the effects of war.

A Poem: Part of the Foot Prints

The generations sings in spring
Cries in the winter of life
Dreams in heat of summer
In the verdant pasture to canter.

Cycle of life is far and beyond
But in meadow of youth spend
For your dream flowers to blossom
Which you cherish in your bosom.

Where dew drops caress your feet
When with serenity your goals you meet
Leading your journey step by step
Your memory for others to keep.

A Poem: The Hunter and the Hunted

Eagle flies high in the sky
Searching for a prey below
Like people scan around their ambiance
To increase their bank balance.

Eagle only satisfies its hunger
But here are men trying everything to acquire
Their greed flying high around
Polluting the environment they surround.

So let your mind be like azure sky
Only what you need to get to try
Then the end of the day what you hunt
In your life the time will be well spent.

A Poem: When You Lose Your Way

When desert sandstorm surround you
And you are in search for a path to live
Just breathe the joy and shut the eye
As in due time it will be a clear sky.

The pressure of work like heat in the day
Will turn into cold soothing wind at night
Since there is light even in desert
Keep your aspiration high each day before sun sets.

So achieving successes even grain by grain
Will also lead you to the main lane
Driving you to the board with sign, “there is gain after pain”
And honest efforts does not goes in vain.

A Poem: One and Only One

We wish to be first among the one
But sun and stars are the one
Which light and shine guiding everyone
From the day dreams in our heart are born.

The selfless service of the sun in the morn
When through its light flowers in plant blossom
Every day filling life and energy in our lawn
Painting the pleasant picture in our life’s each turn.

So to fulfill your dreams taking each step
While serenity of nature in your mind you keep
Where different flowers of race blooming beneath the one
You can live a life filled with fun.