Streets of Neyveli
Apparently, the founding fathers of the industrial township of Neyveli, India, had a hard time choosing names for their hundreds of avenues, streets and lanes. Apart from political leaders, Indian states, a variety of flora and fauna, and professions and trades, such as engineer, there are roads named after countries, such as America, Italy and Australia, and after mining machinery such as bulldozer and dumper. The power station is duly honored by streets names Power, Boiler and Turbine. Chemical units get their share: Nitrogen, Oxygen and Ammonia. Nor are Ohm and Ampere forgotten. Ruby, handcraft, lamp, coconut, lime, and pumpkin – you name it. Neyveli has a street named after it.
Famous Vegetarian
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconvenience, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but with this lighter repast I made the greater progress, from greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”
– Ben Franklin
“Flesh foods are not the best nourishment for human beings and were not the food of our primitive ancestors. There is nothing necessary or desirable for human nutrition to be found in meats or flesh foods which is not found in and derived from plant foods.”
– Dr. J. H. Kellog
“It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Whenever I injure any kind of life, I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavailable, not even in apparently insignificant things. Then man is truly ethical who shatters no ice crystals as it sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from a tree…”
– Albert Schweitzer
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
– Albert Einstein
Weather Modification
Cloud seeding had its beginnings in 1946 at the General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady, New York. Cloud seeding can assist nature in the formation of precipitation, with appropriate types and numbers of nuclei at the proper times and places.
Cloud seeding experiments grew out of scientist’ knowledge of rain clouds; most clouds are made up of tiny drops of water. These droplets tend to fall toward the earth. But their falling speed is overcome by the upward motion of warm air below or within the cloud. So the droplets do not fall out of the cloud as rain. They are kept in the air, or they evaporate before they reach the ground.
Several scientists developed the ice crystal theory of rain in this century. In time it became the basis for rainmaking by cloud seeding.
Certain clouds loaded with moisture may be amenable to seeding under the right conditions. Surprisingly, winter clouds hold the best promise of success. This was borne out by a series of experiments in Colorado that increased the seasonal snowfall in the area by 10 to 30 percent. Similarly, seeded winter clouds in California, Australia and Israel have produced 10 to 20 percent more precipitation than normally expected. Research into rainmaking continues, but in the meantime, man will simply have to make the best of what weather he has, as he always has done in the past.
Evolution — “Monkey Theory”
The different species of living things were separate and distinct entities whose origin was determined by a creative process – either a single act of creation as described in Genesis, or successive acts of creation.
The whole meaning of Darwinism was focused on the supreme problem of man’s place in nature.
The culminating factor which brought about strong opposition to the very idea of evolution was the implication that man himself was also the product of an evolutionary process having a common ancestry with those creatures most allied to him in the details of their structural design.
The anatomical similarities between man and apes were not denied, but attempts were made to overemphasize such differences as did exist to s grotesque degree.
Things in nature change with time.
Changes occur in living organisms that serve to increase their adaptability, or potential for survival and reproduction, in the face of changing environment.
Single individual cannot evolve in their lifetime.
