Importance of YOGA in Daily life

Over the last few decades, there has been an upsurge in the prevalence of yoga. Medical professionals and celebrities are also adopting and recommending the regular practice of yoga due its various benefits. While some regard yoga as simply one more prevailing fashion and associate it with the new age mysticism, others vouch for how astonishing this form of exercise feels. What they don’t understand is that what they see as simply just another form of exercise will profit them in ways they never envisioned.

Before we get into the benefits of Yoga, it is essential to understand what exactly Yoga really is. Yoga is not a religion, it’s a way of living that aims towards a healthy mind in a healthy body. Man is a physical, mental and spiritual being; Yoga helps in developing the balance between all the three as stated in Ayurveda in India. Other forms of exercise, like aerobics, only assure physical wellbeing. These exercises have very little to do with the improvement of spiritual or astral body.

Yoga is not just about bending or twisting the body and holding the breath. It is a technique to bring you into a state where you see and experience reality simply the way it is. If you enable your energies to become exuberant and ecstatic, your sensory body expands. This enables you to experience the whole universe as a part of yourself, making everything one, this is the union that yoga creates.

The founder of Yoga, Patanjali stated, “Sthiram sukham asanam.” It implies that a posture that appears to be firm and agreeable is your asana. You may be astounded to know that an asana is just a preliminary step into the act of yoga. It is a way that encourages you to achieve the greater good. Yoga focusses on idealizing concordance between your mind, body, and soul. When you adjust yourself so everything functions brilliantly within you, you will draw out the best of your capabilities.

Importance of Yoga

The perfect unison can be achieved through Hatha Yoga and its various branches (Ashtanga Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Yin Yoga, Kundalini Yoga), depending on what you like and the problems you are looking to tackle through the practice.

Some of the Advantages of Yoga are as follows:
Improves brain function
Lower stress levels
Alters gene expression
Increases flexibility
Lowers blood pressure
Improves lung capacity
Relieves anxiety
Relieves chronic back pain
Lowers blood sugar in diabetics
Improves sense of balance
Stronger bones
Healthy weight
Lowers risk of heart diseases
Yoga as a practice has innumerable benefits that positively affects an individual both physically and mentally. Whether it is reducing your blood pressure or raising your pain tolerance, listed below are a few things that yoga works on:

Enhanced Circulation:
Yoga improves your blood circulation. This means better transportation of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. Improved blood flow also indicates healthier organs and glowing skin.
Improves Posture:
Yoga teaches how to control and how to balance. With regular practice, your body will automatically assume the right stance. You will look both confident and healthy.
Uplifts your mood:
Practicing yoga on regular basis uplifts your mood instantly as it leaves your body with refreshing energy.
Lowered Blood Pressure:
Practicing yoga on daily basis enhances the blood circulation in the body. This enables oxygenation in the body due to which there is a significant reduction in the blood pressure as the body calms down.
Keeps Premature Aging at Bay:
Why not age gracefully and not before time? Yes, yoga helps you detox and eliminate toxins and free radicals. This, apart from other benefits, helps delay aging too. Yoga also relives stress which is yet another factor that beats aging.
Reduces Stress:
When you are on your yoga mat, you focus on the practice. This means that all your focus is concentrated on the matter at hand, and your mind slowly drains out the stress and troubles that are plaguing it.
A Drop in The Pulse Rate:
Yoga eases the body by reducing the strain. When the body relaxes, the pulse rate decreases. A low pulse rate indicates that your heart is strong enough to pump more blood in a span of fewer beats.
Increases Strength:
You use the weight of your own body to increase your strength. This is a very bewildering method of strength training.
Anxiety Management:
A little twisting, bending and controlled breathing helps you overcome anxiety.
Better Cardiovascular Endurance:
Yoga improves oxygenation in the body and also lowers the heart rate. This results in higher cardiovascular endurance.
Lowered Respiratory Rate:
Yoga involves a whole lot of controlled breathing. It entails filling your lungs to their full capacity, thus allowing them to work more efficiently.
Fights Depression:
When you practice yoga, repressed feelings surface. While you may feel sad, the negative energy is released. This helps to combat depression.
Teaches Balance:
Yoga also focusses at improving balance and also allows you to gain control over your body. Regular practice of yoga will enhance your ability to balance the poses in the class and focus well outside the class.
Stimulation of Organs:
The internal organs are massaged when you practice yoga, thereby increasing your resistance to diseases. Also, once you are attuned to your body, after years of practice, you will be able to tell instantly if your body doesn’t function properly.
Increased Immunity:
Yoga and Immunity go hand in hand. As yoga works towards healing and enhancing every cell in the body, your body automatically becomes more immune. Thereby, increasing your immunity.
Instills Full Body Awareness:
Practicing yoga on regular basis will help you become aware of your own body. You will begin to make subtle movements in order to enhance your alignment. With time, yoga helps you to become comfortable in your own skin.
Improvement in Gastrointestinal Health:
Practicing yoga regularly activates the digestive system and the other stomach related diseases like indigestion and gas are eliminated. Therefore, gastrointestinal functions improve in both men and women. Read more about indigestion home remedies.
Increasing Core Strength:
It is essential to understand when your core is strong, your body is strong. Your core holds the weight of your body. It helps in increasing your resistance to injuries and also help you heal better. Yoga works on the core and makes it healthy, flexible and strong.
Higher Levels of pain Tolerance:
Yoga increases the level of pain tolerance and also works towards reducing chronic pain.
Increased Metabolism:
Yoga keeps the metabolism in check since a balanced metabolism is essential to achieve ideal weight.
Improved Sexuality:
Yoga increases your self-confidence and offers complete relaxation and more control. This gives your sexuality a much-needed boost.
Renewed Energy:
Yoga has the ability to make your mind and body feel rejuvenated. People who perform yoga on daily basis feel energized after a session of yoga.


Improves sleep:
Yoga helps you relax your mind completely. It helps you work on unnecessary tensions, thus facilitating better sleep.
Integrated Function of the Body:
Yoga means unison. When you practice yoga on regular basis, your mind starts to work in union with your body. This enhances movement and grace.
Allows- Self Acceptance:
Yoga enables self-awareness and betterment of health. Your self-esteem improves, and you become more confident.
Builds Self – Control:
The controlled movements of yoga teach you how to render that self-control to all the aspects of your life.
Brings about a Positive Outlook to Life:
Many hormones in the nervous system are stabilized when yoga is practiced on the regular basis. This helps you becomes more positive and you tend to look at life with refreshed and positive perspective.
Reducing Hostility:
When yoga is performed on the regular basis, the anger is greatly controlled. The breathing and meditation calm the nervous system, thereby decreasing anger and hostility. Reduction in hostility means reduction in blood pressure. This automatically enables a stress free and healthier approach towards life.
Better Concentration:
Performing yoga every day will eventually result in better concentration and in less than eight weeks of yoga practice, you will find yourself more motivated.
Tranquility and Calmness:
The breathing and meditation enables you disengage from your thoughts. This helps you calm down. With everyday yoga practice, you will notice how the calmness is no longer just a part of your practice – it becomes a way of life!
Yoga transforms your life and broadens your horizons in ways you can never imagine. It is absolutely worth trying!

BIOMIMICRY

Kira hunt is a landscape technologist working in Canada and specializing in park design, structural detailing, and heritage interpretation. Now, she works on biomimicry and learning strategies from nature that can improve our cities and bring us closer to the natural world.

WHAT IS BIOMIMICRY?

Biomimicry means to imitate life, i.e., design inspired by nature. This is a kind of approach that can be used in various forms of fields such as anthropology, architecture, etc.

The creation of Velcro

  • Velcro was inspired by the burrs of the Burdock plant. In 1941 a Swiss engineer named George de Mestral was hunting in the Jura mountains in Switzerland when he noticed small burrs from what was later identified as the Burdock plant stuck to his pant legs and covering his dog’s fur. Hence the hooks of the burr were replicated into the Velcro and hence a reusable fastener was created.
  • But this isn’t considered a biomimicry success as Velcro is harmful to nature because of its plastic content, so it could be better as it harms the environment. She calls it a shallow example of biomimicry.

The principle of circularity

Most Biomimicry practitioners follow life’s principle of circularity. They compound the resources and energy of nature. It is believed that energy is never exactly used up by a single product, only stored for a period of time. So recycling products can help the division of that energy and eventually lead it back to its source.

Similarly, if we protect the earth, care for the living systems, and green the society, the favor would be returned. We would get fresh and clean air, water, diverse food, and healthy places for people to live in. If we harm nature, by the principle of circularity we are harming ourselves. n life do to keep the earth life-sustainable?

To prevent this, what should humans do?

Mass manufacturing of short-termed usage products causes an increase in landfills. The circular economy works on this sector of designing products that have minimal to no wastage or pollution. Reusing the products will lead to healthy natural systems.

A good design always follows THE THREE Rs:

  • Reduce: Reduce purchasing and creating products that contain chemicals and particles that are harmful to the environment.
  • Reuse: try to reuse a product in multiple ways. Reusing natural resources leads to lesser consumption and a more sustainable way of living.

Recycle. Recycle a product to continue with existing materials.

How does life support life on earth?

The chemicals and combinations used by nature are friendly. The simplest elements are used the most. The human industry uses double the number of elements that are more toxic. Nature’s elements are biodegradable.

For example, the manufacturing industry uses plastic, foil, and paper and glues them together because of their different contributions for a cup. Individually, these components can be recycled, but when bonded together, they are impossible to be recycled. Whereas, a crab shell- retains moisture, is sturdy, and protects the crab. The only difference between the two products is that the crab shell is biodegradable and a single unit.

Do we really need to import products and resources from the other side of the world when we could make do with recycling waste materials itself?

We are at a unique point in time where we have the tools necessary to find the strategy of nature and to emulate the structures of the living world. Finding new materials to use would be a big sustainability win. 

  • Using products that can be made using biomass. This can help support regenerative and circulative economies. Using biomass for 3d printing can help us focus on different regions that can have their own niches. Coastal cities can take advantage of seafood waste, etc.

Conclusion

Kira Hunt advises engineers and designers to look for organisms that are solving problems that they want to solve and learn from them. We can bring in new ideas and reimagine the human activity with the living system that supports us!

Training and Internship

A young kid after his first encounter with a fictional world passionately years for more of it. Then, with the benefit of accessibility, voraciously consumes the stories be it books or cinema. This engagement not only feeds the young mind with new ideas, but also teaches it how to express. After umpteen fictional experiences, the mind learns the art of restrain and silence. Now the quietened mind begins to observe the aesthetics of a fictional world and the seeds of creation are sown in the mind. An artist is born.
This allegory in a way helps us to understand the role and importance of training and internship. A fledgling equipped only with knowledge and curiosity enters the place where it can fly. The opportunity to work in a practical setting teaches it the art of application and restrain. Here at this point, I believe l, it is important for it to experience a state called the ‘Flow’. The obligation of presenting the environment conducive to experience this state, a concept borrowed by me from Kalam’s autobiography, lies on the organization and the mentor.

The mentor’s role is to hold the hand of the intern so that his mind frees itself from fear and doubt and is in a better position to experience the Flow. Now the quietened mind learns the art of working in and observing an organizational setting. The observation results in creative output. The experience of the Flow builds the qualities of passion for work, commitment and effort. This ideal training benefits the organization through the performance of the intern and production of quality workforce. The person gains practical skills and builds his character through his experiences of working with others in an organizational setting. The fire is bestowed with the wings to fly.

Healthy Indian Snacks

It is so easy to pick junk – laden fried foods and sugar when hunger pangs and cravings take over. Here are some of healthy Indian snacks that are full of nutrients.

1. Makhana

Makhana is low-calorie option that is full of nutrients like protein, potassium, fiber, iron and zinc.

2. Oats

Oats is a whole grain food, which is again full of nutrients.

3. Gur Chana

Many Indians used to eat gur chana, it is full of nutrients like protein, iron, calcium etc. It helps in increasing Red Blood Cells.

4. Til Ladoos

Til ladoos is made up of sesame seeds and jaggery. This healthy Indian snacks can cure cancer, prevents degenerative diseases and treats anemia issue.

5. Bhel Puri

Bhel puri is made up of puffed rice, peanuts, vegetables sprinkled with mixed spices and herbs. It is tasty snacks loaded with nutrients.

Benefits of Travelling

The benefits of traveling are not just a one-time thing: traveling changes you physically and psychologically. Having little time or money isn’t a valid excuse.

Here are some of the main benefits of traveling, in case you need convincing. And I’m sure that once you get started, you’ll find some more yourself!

1. Traveling Improves Your Health!

From cutting down on stress, to lowering your chances of developing a heart disease, the health benefits of traveling are huge.

2.Traveling Makes You Smarter!

Even more than just languages, traveling helps you learn about yourself. You might run into challenging situations where you need to be resourceful and think differently.

3.Traveling Improves Your Understanding Of Other Cultures!

Travelling always develop empathy and a deeper understanding of other cultures.
Being more understanding and tolerant about a culture different than ours is part of being smarter.

4.Traveling Makes You More Interesting!

Mentioning something that most people aren’t familiar with or bring a new perspective is always a good way to shine in a social situation.

5.Travel Makes You Happier!

Sure, a travel experience easily makes you happier by getting you away from your daily grind.

6.Travel Lets You Disconnect & Recharge!

One of the best things you can do for your mental health every now and again

7.Travel Makes You Physically Healthier!

If you’re an active individual and asking why is travel important, there are some great benefits of traveling in store for you!

8.Traveling Can Boost Your Creativity!

Traveling can help! If you’re looking to reignite your creativity,

Heart of Man

The heart is a four chambered muscular pump located inside the chest .It is ‘heart’ of circulatory system. The heart is conical in shape. The heart is a mesodermal derivative. The adult human heart is roughly about the size of a closed fist. It is a myogenic heart. The heart is covered by a fibrous sac called pericardium. The wall of the heart is primarily made up of cardiac muscles called myocardium. The inner surface of the heart is lined with a thin layer of epithelial cells called endothelium. The heart is formed of four chambers, namely two auricles and two ventricles. The auricles are named as right and left auricles. The ventricles are named as right and left ventricles. The right and left auricles are separated by a fibrous partition called interatrial septum. Similarly, the two ventricles are separated by an interventricular septum. The auricles are separated from the ventricles by an auriculoventricular septum.

The right auricle opens into the right ventricle by a right auriculo ventricular aperture. Similarly, the left auricle opens into the left ventricle by a left auriculo ventricular aperture. The right auricle receives deoxygenated blood through three veins, namely inferior vena cava, superior vena cava and coronary vein. The left auricle receives oxygenated blood from the lungs through pulmonary veins. Two main blood vessels carry blood from the ventricles. One large aortic arch carries blood from the left ventricle to the various parts of the body except the lungs. The pulmonary aorta carries blood from the right ventricle to the lungs. The heart contains three types of valves. They are bicuspid valves , tricuspid valves and semilunar valves. The left auriculoventricular aperture is guarded by a valve called bicuspid valve . It has two flaps and hence the name ‘bicuspid’. The right auriculoventricular aperture is guarded by a tricuspid valve containing three flaps. Both bicuspid and tricuspid valves are fastened to small conical muscles called the papillary muscles on the ventricular wall through several tendinous strands, the chordae tendinae.

TRAVELLING

 

Man is a traveler by nature. He does not
like to keep static at a place for a long time. So, people like to visit new
places whenever they find time and opportunity. People travel for different
purposes. Some travel for getting an education and some travel for pleasure.
Many people also travel for business and employment. Travelling is, indeed,
very pleasant. It is useful too. By traveling to new places we can know new
people and learn many new things. Travelling opens new vistas of experience and
understanding for us. When we go to a new place all of our senses and instincts
become awake.

Travelling plays an important part in
making us feel relaxed and rejuvenated. It also brings positive changes in our
life and keeps us alive and active. Travelling gives us practical experience of
things we have studied in the books and surfed on the internet. So a person who
does not travel at all does not find any meaning in the name of India Gate or
Ganga River. However, if he has traveled to these places, he can truly relate
everything he has studied and will always remember each and every detail of
that place.

Nowadays, many people like travelling as
they want to explore the world and watch everything they have read about. And
this seems to be quite justified as practical knowledge is way more essential
and effective than the theoretical one. People like to visit historical places
present in different parts of the world and gather information on the same to
write books and stories. Travelling has become
easier due to advancement in technology and transportation. Earlier people use
to travel by road or sea and it takes many days to reach from one place to
another, however, now the scenario has changed and people travel to far off
places within hours and minutes-thanks to well-built roads and aeroplanes.

Traveling – The First Thing on Your To-Do
List

There is nothing quite like traveling,
like seeing a new place for the first time or returning to a favorite one.
People of all ages, from all around the world, go to foreign places for
different reasons – mainly, for work, family, and leisure. Whether by plane,
train, ship or by automobile, traveling is generally a pleasurable experience,
at least for the people who can financially afford comfortable and safe methods
of travel. But it has more benefits than satisfying one’s need to make money,
like, for example, to see loved ones and enjoy oneself on vacation. There are
other benefits of traveling worth mentioning and trying out. Many poets,
writers, and painters travel to different places to capture some of the best
things of nature and express them in the form of paintings or poems. People
also travel for business purposes so as to expand and gain profit from their
business. Students travel for educational purposes so everyone has a unique
reason to travel. Therefore, travelling is an important part of human life and
it instils knowledge and offers various benefits to mankind.

Heart break

we hear about this heart breaks everyday it maybe our friend or family member or it can be self experienced but is it common to get heart breaks ?. Mostly teenagers goes through this stuff a lot and do many bad decisions during this period even they show their emotion by taking their own life away but is it really worth it. Its not only teenagers goes through this stuff even aged person gets divorce or breakup which is worse but they handle the situation better so this is only to know about teenage heart breaks.

Before finding the reason we can see some facts about these Only 12% say they never think about it and 20% say they rarely do. Not surprisingly, the number is much higher among unhappy couples, where 87% of partners contemplate leaving their relationships. But even 34% of extremely happy partners think about breaking up from time to time. I cant totally agree with is because there will still a part of everyone looking forward to meet his long gone girl friend if the breakup is all about misunderstanding and situation. There are some breakups which happens when he/she cheats which makes us more broken.

A study say women is the one who are more likely to do more breakups but they are the one who feels more broken after the breakup but the thing is a majority of people move in relationship without having a idea of it a relationship its not just a thing which you can go through easily but no one realizes that but the worst case is they do this again and again even though it hurts.

So is it okay to be broken ?. yeah you can be broken its completely normal but we have to handle the situation better without making he/she suffer we hear many things about a boy killing a girl for not accepting his love its not healthy for this society. Each and every parents has a responsibility of avoiding this situation by talking about this with their childerns who is going through a rough phase

Key Elements of Good Web Design

Web design is at the center of providing a satisfactory online experience. Modern web design has come a long way. Websites cannot afford to look like the Classified section of a newspaper. No site stands a chance if it cannot look sophisticated and function flawlessly.

Effective web design does not just create visual appeal but also implements favorable SEO optimization techniques to help the site rank higher on Google searches. While there are hundreds of design elements to choose from, a few of them are indispensable.

Key Elements of Good Web Design

This article will narrow down these elements to seven essentials, the elements that must be fixtures in every web design blueprint.

1. Mobile-Friendly Layout

This trend is only set to increase as more people take to their phones as their primary source of online access. Consequently, a mobile-friendly layout lies at the core of modern web design.

Primarily, a mobile-friendly layout refers to the usage of responsive website design. Responsive web design refers to a design strategy that lets websites ‘adapt’ to different screen sizes without compromising usability and user experience. Text, UI elements, and images rescale and resize depending on the viewport.

85% of adults think that a company’s website, when viewed on a mobile device, should be as good or better than its desktop website. That means any website not incorporating responsive design will offer an unsatisfactory user experience, leading to loss of traffic, revenue, and credibility. You can see the example of Website design Charleston SC.

2. Clean and Bold Typography

Modern website design must feature safe, clean, and bold typography – a pillar of minimalist design.

Clean typography must include the following:
Appropriately sized text, which is usually larger than 16px
Black/gray typography, in accordance with the background hues or images
Web-standard fonts
Adequate space between lines to facilitate easy reading

Most organizations use a particular font or typography as part of their brand identity. For example, The New Yorker uses Adobe Caslon to create its highly recognizable typeset. Consider adopting a font for your website that will remain consistent across pages and other online resources you may provide.
3. Hamburger Menus

Most websites offer a long menu of options and features for users to choose from. While this may make for more straightforward navigation (since the user can go directly to whatever option they want from the home page), it also takes up a lot of screen space – especially on mobile devices.

Solve this quickly with a hamburger menu – a button that opens up to a broader menu or navigation drawer. This saves space, keeps the interface clean and uncluttered without removing navigational ease for website visitors.

4. Optimization for Speed

Web pages that load within five seconds experience a bounce rate of 38%. A 100-millisecond delay in load time can cause conversion rates to drop by 7%. Numbers like these should depict the significance of speed in modern web design – both on desktop and mobile devices.

In the age of instant gratification, websites are expected to load immediately, or they will be abandoned. Fortunately, building website design aligned with high page load speed is not a difficult task. A few simple steps to achieve this would be:
Optimize all images, regardless of size.
Choose a robust hosting environment, be it VPS hosting, shared hosting, or even a server dedicated to your site.
Use compression to keep files smaller.
Minimize HTTP requests in Chrome’s Developer Tools.

5. White Space

As an element of minimalist design, white space is essential for modern homepage design. Since the internet subjects every user to an infinite barrage of information, they can quickly reach a point of intellectual exhaustion. Using a balance of white space and content ensures that the site looks clean, organized, readable, and easy to navigate. Let your website breathe.
6. SEO Optimization

Modern website design elements can go a long way in improving a site’s SEO-based ranking. Quite a few of them are invisible, such as meta tags, heading tags, and other HTML coding hacks that belong to the website’s back-end code. Insert, tweak, and optimize these elements so that the website can reap the full benefits of Google’s SEO algorithm.

7. Cross-browser and device compatibility

Every design element being coded into a site needs to be displayed and function perfectly on every device and browser that the site is viewed with. The only way to achieve this level of consistency is iterative testing on real browsers and devices. That means every batch of design pushed into staging must be verified on real browser-device-OS combinations.

Look through a few modern website design examples, and notice how the pointers outlined above play a role in making them highly functional and appealing. Since every website must compete with thousands, sometimes millions of options online, it cannot afford to release anything but the most effective and aesthetically pleasing design. When discussing design plans, use these guidelines as a set of best practices, and continue to build creatively without excluding these stipulations.

Apple Products

Successful long term innovative companies have a broad vision mantra. Apple’s is “How do we make your life easier.” The main vision for apple product designers is observed to be improved accessibility, simplicity, and increase in functionality. In fact, the design seems to be of utmost importance in apple products that they appear to ignore manufacturing practicalities.

Apple design is more than the way something looks but the way it works on so many levels. Design defines experience because simplicity, clarity, and efficiency depict beauty. The designers work on bringing order to complexity. Almost all Apple products have a unique Unibody software that is thinner, resilient, all made out of a piece of aluminum. Each product is designed from the very beginning, its software.

Each product is identified with ways to be better, perhaps even before they are released. As they progressed the products became more intuitive and easy to understand and learn. To quote Jony Ives, “The best designs aren’t reserved, they’re used immediately”.

For example, the Macbook has the most efficient design possible, inventions across many disciplines, new MacBook is thinner and precise, butterfly mechanism, single led is used to illuminate keys, refined from glass to pixels, any moving parts(vents and fans) are eliminated to allow it to operate in silence and it’s extremely portable.

Within a visibly small amount of time, the Macbook Pro was released. It’s built for the extreme level of performance, remarkably portable. Most of the larger apple products give viewing content priority. Apple has a unique quality highlighted in the Macbooks and iMacs are the asymmetric fans that ensure even the lowest frequency of sounds to be heard.

Similarly, the iPhones, iPads, even Operating Systems were continuously developed. The changes and developments were tracked; they were observed and then developed. Most recreations in a more portable and smaller size weren’t reduced from the original version, rather, the main functions were concentrated into the new ones.

The video shares how much extensive research goes into a product to fit the user in the best way possible. The apple smart watch’s display time was consulted with multiple professionals before adapted into the watch itself. The watch could be highly personalized to fit the user. Self-expression was permitted via – multiple watch faces, different straps, each strap made of different materials, the hardware of aluminum, steel, and gold, wrist locks were made of different designs as well.

As the products progressed, they only became more successful, leaving little to none defective characteristics. Each product became more reliable and relatable. New ideas were easy to adapt.

Apple didn’t advertise its products in comparison to other branded products, but it’s own. The newest additions or improvements were announced first and then the relatability and familiarity are created using older products.  The consistently high-quality products from this brand are one of the reasons why Apple is successful.

IPCC Report: Need for Climate Action

 The latest sixth assessment report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on 9th August, 2021, indicates some key areas of concern related to climate change. According to the report, 1.5 degree celsius warming is likely to be experienced before 2040. The report says that warming is inevitable and immediate climate action is needed to achieve the best case scenario and minimise the level of warming.

A future of Extreme Events

The report pointed out that the increase in intense heat waves, extreme rainfall, dangerous rise in sea-levels, frequent droughts and melting of ice are a direct consequence of human activities. The scientists involved in the assessment have warned about a rise in such extreme events in the present and future. At 2 degrees of global warming, the heat can impact human health as well as agriculture. 

The report also indicated the possibility of rise in “compound events” in the future, as a result of global warming. Compound events are severe and deadly. The lake bursts and landslides that happen in the Himalayan region is an example of a compound event. 


Climate Action and Net-Zero Target

The IPCC report addresses the question of how long it will take to see the results after the immediate implementation of the Climate Action plan and whether good results can be experienced by lowering the carbon emission. The report has suggested immediate cuts in greenhouse gases. This has pressured many countries to renew their Climate Action Plan or the Nationally Determined Contributions(NDCs) decided in the Paris agreement. 

This has triggered the countries to take up the net-zero target. More than 100 countries have agreed to achieve the net zero target by the middle of this century, including the US, China and European Union. Net zero is also known as carbon neutrality. It does not mean cutting the carbon emissions to zero. It means a state in which the carbon emission of the country is compensated by absorption and removal of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. The gases are absorbed by creating more carbon sinks like forests. 

India is the third largest emitter in the world and a lot of pressure is being built on the developing nations to take up the net-zero target. The report says that global net-zero targets can keep the temperature rise in its best case scenario, and it is not possible without wider cooperation by the countries. 

Alok Sharma, the UK minister who will be presiding over the climate change talks in Glasgow said “The science is clear, the impacts of climate crisis can be seen around the world and if we do not act now, we will continue to see the worst effects, impact lives, livelihood and natural habitat.”


Blood and different blood groups in humans

Blood is a red coloured fluid flowing through the heart and blood vessels.it is also sometimes called as river of life because it circulates all the essential nutrients and oxygen to our body.it is made up of liquid part plasma( water and salts) and solid part( RBC and platelets).blood is pumped by heart to our whole body. Blood is a component of circulatory system of our body.

Structure of blood

Blood is formed mainly of two components that are Plasma and blood cells .plasma is a pale yellow fluid part of our blood .it is about 55 % of our blood composition. Blood cells is also called blood corpuscles. they constitutes about 45% of blood. it is of 3 types that is RBC ( Red blood cells) or erythrocytes , WBC(White blood cells) or leucocytes and blood platelets or thrombocytes.

Some Characteristics of blood

  • Blood is heavier and thicker than water
  • its pH lies between 7.3 to 7.4.
  • Blood’s volume in our body is about 5 to 6 litres.
  • It is saltish in tastes

Functions of blood:-

  1. Transportation of gases : The blood carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues and carbon dioxide from tissues to the lungs.
  2. Transport of food :- It carries digested food like amino acid , glucose and many other s from our intestine to different organs of the body.
  3. Temperature regulation :-It absorbs heat produced by respiration in internal tissues and transport it in to the skin and lungs for dissipation.
  4. Distribution of hormones :- The endocrine glands secrete hormones directly into the blood . Blood helps to transport them in required organs.
  5. Defence against diseases :- It produces certain antibodies which fights against bacteria. white blood cell (WBC) covers the disease causing bacteria and protect the body.

Blood groups in humans

Karl Landsteiner discovered that human beings have glycoproteins on the surface of RBC called antigens. and globulin proteins in the blood plasma called antibodies. therefore, there is 2 types of antigens A and B and two types of antibodies antibody a and antibody b in our body. Based on this concept , there are 4 types of blood groups found in human body.

  1. ABO blood groups
  • person with antigen A are said to be having blood group A.
  • person with antigen B are said to be having blood group B.
  • persons having both antigen A and antigen B are said to be having blood group AB.
  • Person with no antigen is said to be having blood group O.
    • during blood transfusion , we cannot mix two different types of blood group in a body. when blood groups of 2 different types of groups A and B is mixed , clumping reaction occurs. because either the antibodies of recipient ‘s blood destroys the RBC of donor blood or vice versa.

Person with blood group A are called universal donor , because they can donate blood to any of the blood group. while person with blood group AB are called universal recipients because they have no antibodies and can receive blood from any of the blood group.

2.Rh factor ( Rhesus antigen system) : – Human blood also have Rh antigen . it is of two types Rh positive and Rh negative. Transfusion of Rh negative with Rh negative can be done with no problem and same goes for Rh positive to R h positive transfusion.( Source : Veer Bala Rastogi , 96).

The ESSENCE OF INCREDIBLE INDIA

Andhra Pradesh is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of 162,975 km^2 and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the north-west, Chhattisgarh to the north, Odisha to the north-east, Tamil Nadu to the south, Karnataka to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east. It has the second longest coastline in India after Gujarat, of about 974 km. Andhra Pradesh is the first state to be formed on a linguistic basis in India on 1 October 1953. The state was once a major Buddhist pilgrimage site in the country and a Buddhist learning center which can be seen in many sites in the state in the form of ruins, chaityas and stupas. It is also known as the land of the world-famous diamond Koh-i-Noor and many other globally known diamonds due to their source in its Kollur Mine. It is also known as the “rice bowl of India” for being a major producer of rice in India. Its official language is Telugu; one of the classical languages of India, the fourth most spoken language in India and the 11th-most spoken language in the world.

CULTURE –


Kuchipudi, the cultural dance recognized as the official dance form of the state of Andhra Pradesh, originated in the village of Kuchipudi in Krishna district. It entered the Guinness World Records for performing Mahabrinda Natyam with a total of 6,117 dancers in Vijayawada.

Andhra Pradesh has thirteen geographical indications in categories of agricultural handicrafts, foodstuff and textiles as per Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. It increased to fifteen with the addition of Banaganapalle Mangoes and Bandar laddu. The other GI tagged goods are, Bobbili Veena, Budithi Bell and Brass Craft, Dharmavaram Handloom Pattu Sarees and Paavadas, Guntur Sannam, Kondapalli Toys, Machilipatnam Kalamkari, Mangalagiri Sarees and Fabrics, Srikalahasti Kalamkari, Tirupati Laddu, Uppada Jamdani Sari and Venkatagiri Sari.

ARTS AND CRAFTS –
Kondapalli Toys at a house in Vijayawada
Machilipatnam and Srikalahasti Kalamkari are the two unique textile art forms practised in India. There are also other notable handicrafts present in the state, like the soft limestone idol carvings of Durgi. Etikoppaka in Visakhapatnam district is notable for its lac industry, producing lacquered wooden.

The state has many museums, which features a varied collection of ancient sculptures, paintings, idols, weapons, cutlery, and inscriptions, and religious artifacts such as the Amaravati Archaeological Museum, Visakha Museum and Telugu Cultural Museum in Visakhapatnam displays the history of the pre-independence and the Victoria Jubilee Museum in Vijayawada with a large collection of artifacts.

CUISINE –
Telugu people’s traditional sweet Pootharekulu originated from Atreyapuram village of East Godavari district.

TOURISM –
Undavalli Caves, is a monolithic example of Indian rock-cut architecture and one of the finest testimonials to ancient viswakarma sthapathis.
The state has several beaches in its coastal districts such as Rushikonda, Mypadu, Suryalanka etc.; caves such as, Borra Caves, Indian rock-cut architecture depicting Undavalli Caves and the country’s second longest caves- the Belum Caves. The valleys and hills include, Araku Valley, Horsley Hills, Papi Hills etc. Arma Konda peak located in Visakhapatnam district is the highest peak in Eastern Ghats.

The state is home to various religious pilgrim destinations such as, Tirumala Temple, Simhachalam Temple, Annavaram temple, Srisailam temple, Kanaka Durga Temple, Amaravati, Srikalahasti, Shahi Jamia Masjid in Adoni, Gunadala Church in Vijayawada, Buddhist centres at Amaravati, and Nagarjuna Konda.

LESSONS ON BEING WRONG

As a rule, we are incredibly hard on ourselves when it comes to being wrong and making big decisions in life.

  • If our first five relationships end with a break up, we think we’re destined to be alone forever.
  • If we go to school, get a degree, and spend years training for a job that we end up hating, we feel like a failure for not having it all figured out.
  • If we have a dream of writing a book or starting a non-profit or creating something of value and we stumble on the first try, we say that we’re not cut out for this.

In cases like these, when we are attempting to do something that is complex and multi-faceted, I believe that being wrong is actually a sign that you’re doing something right.

Here’s why…

First Choice vs. Optimal Choice

For some reason, we often expect our first choice to be the optimal choice. However, it’s actually quite normal for your first attempt to be incorrect or wrong. This is especially true of the major decisions that we make in life.

For example…

  1. Finding the right person to marry. Think of the first person you dated. Would this person have been the best choice for your life partner? Go even further back and imagine the first person you had a crush on. Finding a great partner is complicated and expecting yourself to get it right on the first try is unreasonable. It’s rare that the first one would be the one.
  2. Choosing your career. What is the likelihood that your 22-year-old self could optimally choose the career that is best for you at 40 years old? Or 30 years old? Or even 25 years old? Consider how much you have learned about yourself since that time. There is a lot of change and growth that happens during life. There is no reason to believe that your life’s work should be easily determined when you graduate.
  3. Starting a business. It is unlikely that your first business idea will be your best one. It probably won’t even be a good one. This is the reality of entrepreneurship

When it comes to complex issues like determining the values you want in a partner or selecting the path of your career, your first attempt will rarely lead to the optimal solution.

5 Lessons On Being Wrong

Being wrong isn’t as bad as we make it out to be. I have made many mistakes and I have discovered five major lessons from my experiences.

1. Choices that seem poor in hindsight are an indication of growth, not self-worth or intelligence. When you look back on your choices from a year ago, you should always hope to find a few decisions that seem stupid now because that means you are growing. If you only live in the safety zone where you know you can’t mess up, then you’ll never unleash your true potential. If you know enough about something to make the optimal decision on the first try, then you’re not challenging yourself.

2. Given that your first choice is likely to be wrong, the best thing you can do is get started. The faster you learn from being wrong, the sooner you can discover what is right. For complex situations like relationships or entrepreneurship, you literally have to start before you feel ready because it’s not possible for anyone to be truly ready. The best way to learn is to start practicing.

3. Break down topics that are too big to master into smaller tasks that can be mastered. I can’t look at any business and tell you what to do. Entrepreneurship is too big of a topic. But, I can look at any website and tell you how to optimize it for building an email list because that topic is small enough for me to develop some level of expertise. If you want to get better at making accurate first choices, then play in a smaller arena. As Niels Bohr, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, famously said, “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

4. The time to trust your gut is when you have the knowledge or experience to back it up. You can trust yourself to make sharp decisions in areas where you already have proven expertise. For everything else, the only way to discover what works is to adopt a philosophy of experimentation.

5. The fact that failure will happen is not an excuse for expecting to fail. There is no reason to be depressed or give up simply because you will make a few wrong choices. Even more crucial, you must try your best every time because it is the effort and the practice that drives the learning process. They are essential, even if you fail. Realize that no single choice is destined to fail, but that occasional failure is the cost you have to pay if you want to be right. Expect to win and play like it from the outset.