The first men on the moon land in Pakistan. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (the first men to land on the moon), arrived in Karachi in early 1970 during their tour of South Asia. Here they are seen being greeted by an enthusiastic crowd just outside the Karachi Airport. –Picture courtesy LIFE.
RIP Neil Armstrong (via haceeb)
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16-year-old Egyptian Muslim discovers catalyst to turn Egypt’s plastic waste into biofuel
Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad is not your average 16-year-old. While most teens were delivering pizza or working on their tans this summer, Faiad was discovering a way to turn Egypt’s plastic waste into roughly $78 million worth of biofuels each year.
The idea to use plastic as biofuels is not new, but Faiad, a student at the Zahran Language School in Alexandria, Egypt, has found an inexpensive catalyst that could make the process not only economically feasible, but economically profitable for her country. Egypt’s plastic consumption is estimated to total 1 million tons per year, so Faiad’s proposal could completely transform the country’s economy, while also handling their plastic waste issues.
Faiad says that her catalyst, called aluminosilicate, could inexpensively break down plastic waste while producing gaseous products like methane, propane and ethane, which can then be converted into ethanol. She calculates that her discovery could inexpensively generate about 40,000 tons of cracked naphtha and 138,000 tons of hydrocarbon gases per year — equivalent to $78 million.
The green teen has already won an award for her findings at the 23rd European Union Contest for Young Scientists, and she is currently looking into patenting her idea through the Egyptian Patent Office.
Source: The Green Prophet
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16-year-old Egyptian Muslim discovers catalyst to turn Egypt’s plastic waste into biofuel
Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad is not your average 16-year-old. While most teens were delivering pizza or working on their tans this summer, Faiad was discovering a way to turn Egypt’s plastic waste into roughly $78 million worth of biofuels each year.The idea to use plastic as biofuels is not new, but Faiad, a student at the Zahran Language School in Alexandria, Egypt, has found an inexpensive catalyst that could make the process not only economically feasible, but economically profitable for her country. Egypt’s plastic consumption is estimated to total 1 million tons per year, so Faiad’s proposal could completely transform the country’s economy, while also handling their plastic waste issues.
Faiad says that her catalyst, called aluminosilicate, could inexpensively break down plastic waste while producing gaseous products like methane, propane and ethane, which can then be converted into ethanol. She calculates that her discovery could inexpensively generate about 40,000 tons of cracked naphtha and 138,000 tons of hydrocarbon gases per year — equivalent to $78 million.
The green teen has already won an award for her findings at the 23rd European Union Contest for Young Scientists, and she is currently looking into patenting her idea through the Egyptian Patent Office.
Source: The Green Prophet
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lol….this is hilarious….thankgod I wasn’t like this!
collab: WSWCgradschool and Keaton
Moon walkers in Karachi (1973). When there was still love between Pakistan and USA, Apollo 17 Astronauts made it to Pakistan on an official state visit and were paraded through streets of Karachi.
At expense of sounding cheesy it actually does remind of a vintage Pakistani song, “wo jo hum main tum main qarar tha, tumhay yaad ho kay na yaad ho” (the special connection which was there once between us, you might not remember it anymore).
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A Pakistan-based scientist has been honoured by the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), the body said in a statement released this week.
Dr Yusuf Zafar, who is the director general agriculture and biotechnology at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission was declared ‘Scientist of the Year-2012’ for his pioneering work in the cotton biotechnology sector.
Zafar has over 110 scientific papers (published in national and international journals) to his name. According to ICAC, “in cotton virology his group covers nearly 90 per cent of the global published literature.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the moral obligations of science. (via marxisforbros)
This is why I dislike Neil deGrasse Tyson. What a ridiculous quote.
Many scientists have played some of the nastiest roles during the course of human history. There was a serious lack of moral consideration for the repercussions of creating a nuclear weapon during the Manhattan Project and, as Oppenheimer said, the team went ahead quite simply because they said they wanted to see if they could do it. They were excited after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because they could see how the weapons they created effected humans. Scientists create the weaponry militaries use. Neil’s logic is similar to what NRA members spew: “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people!”
To say science is amoral under the guise of the purity of academic discovery is ridiculous. Unfortunately, the field of science has a dark history. What about eugenics? What about harmful GMOs? What about lobotomies, vivisection, and medical testing? Sometimes science does lead marching armies.
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Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
Scientists for the first time have been able to reconstruct brain’s vision in a consistent digital video and this is going to have huge implications. Just looking at these video clips I see a beautiful art form but imagine if you could record all of your dreams at night so you can watch them in the morning?
Presently my understanding is that these are only tapping into the visions your brain is producing not your memory but what if that is next on the list?
For more details on how this is actually done, click here.
Dr Atta-ur-Rahman
Knowledge is now the single most important factor in socio-economic development. Countries that have realised this and invested heavily in developing their human resources to the highest possible levels have leaped forward, leaving others far behind. Finland has a population of about one-fourth of that of Karachi but just one company from this country has exports double that of the whole of Pakistan. Malaysia decided 30 years ago to spend at least 30 percent of its budget on education, which it has been doing since, giving other sectors a much lower priority. The result is that Malaysia today accounts for 86.5 percent of the total high tech exports of the Islamic world, and is ranked ninth in the world in this category, ahead of many European nations.
Korea decided to give the very highest priority to higher education. In 1960, about five percent of the youth in Korea between the ages of 17-23 were enrolled in higher education institutions (about the same as of Pakistan today) and Korean exports were only about $30 billion in the ‘60s. By 2010, the enrolment of Korean youth in higher education institutions jumped to about 95 percent, the highest in the world. The result was a corresponding jump in its exports of high value products (electronics, engineering goods, automobiles, house hold appliances, steel, ship building etc) which have risen to $360 billion.
The four pillars of progress are (1) high quality education, (2) science and technology (3) innovation and entrepreneurship and (4) a governance system that allows merit to prevail and offers quick and fair justice.
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Engineering represents the backbone of defence and industry. A wonderful scheme was approved by the ECNEC in February 2008 to set up foreign engineering universities in Pakistan with integrated technology parks where foreign companies such as Siemens or Eriksson could set up research and development centres for new product development. Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Austria and Korea had all agreed to set up their engineering universities in various cities of Pakistan, in which degrees would have been offered by top foreign universities without our students going abroad. This could have saved Pakistan about Rs100 billion annually which is what parents spend today to provide high quality foreign education to their children abroad. However, the scheme was abandoned in May 2008, as the government had “other priorities than education” – amounting to a monumental national disaster!
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Pakistan’s first Communications Satellite PAKSAT-1R launched
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s first Communications Satellite PAKSAT-1R, as a part of Pakistan’s Space Programme 2040, was launched on Thursday at 2117 hrs on board China’s Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre.
Besides others, launch was witnessed by Secretary Defence Lt Gen Syed Athar Ali (R), Secretary Foreign Affairs, Salman Bashir, Director General, Strategic Plans Division Lt Gen Khalid Ahmed Kidwai (R) and Ambassador of Pakistan to China, Muhammad Masood Khan, said a press release issued here.
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Pakistan has become the sixth country, working on the genome projects after US, UK, China, Japan and India.
Just played around with the wesbite. Very cool!
LAHORE: The Lahore University of Management Sciences will officially launch a website on Monday that will carry real time information about air pollution at various points in the city.
The VIEW (Volunteer Internet-based Environment Watch) website monitors levels of air pollution at Baghbanpura, Garhi Shahu, Upper Mall, Awan Town, Cantt and Phases 2 and 3 of Defence. Solar-powered sensors have been installed in these regions that determine humidity, temperature, and the levels of carbon monoxide, ozone and nitrogen and sulphur oxides in the air.
The website, which is already functional, can be visited at http://view.lums.edu.pk/.
The project was launched in June 2008 with Rs3.5 million provided by the Environmental Protection Department. Sixty per cent of the funds were used to purchase electrochemical sensors from New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States, said Jehangir Ikram, chief researcher for the project. Thirty per cent went into paying the research assistant. Five undergraduate students of Lums’ electrical engineering department worked with Ikram for two years on the project.
Ikram said the EPA has pledged to assist his department in expanding the number of sensors from seven to 50 over the next five years. It has also pledged funding for batteries, which last two years for each sensor.
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