What is Dark Matter? – Science Concept of the day!

Dark matter is a mysterious form of matter which exerts gravitational effects on ordinary matter but cannot be observed via any other means. While conventional matter can be detected through stellar activity, light scattering, radio emissions, and other means, dark matter clouds are invisible to the vast majority of our instruments. Yet they constitute 90% – 99% of the matter in the universe.

Origin, history and Legend of Chess game.

The origin and history of chess is still an open debate. While the main contender for this question is China , many say that it originated in India . Most scholars agree that chess originated in India in the sixth century as “chaturanga”, a military-style strategy game.

What is Ice Age? How and when does it occur?

An Ice Age is a period of time, typically about 30 million years but occasionally as long as 300 million years, during which ice sheets cover at least the Earth’s polar areas. Individual Ice Ages have sub-Ice Ages, called glacials (when cold) or interglacials (when warmer) that operate in cycles of 40,000 and 100,000 years. When the term “Ice Age” is used colloquially, it often refers to these shorter glacials, periods when the ice caps extend significantly beyond the poles and into the hearts of continents such as North America and Eurasia.

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Adding Repositories and Projects to Subversion using Subclipse

This post explains in detail how to add repositories and projects to subversion using subclipse on eclipse. It deals with navigation around svn repository view, team synchronize view and the normal Java view. Click here to read in detail about how to add repositories and projects.

Subclipse integrates Subversion with Eclipse

The procedure to install Subsclipse plugin on Eclipse IDE. With Subclipse you can work on subversion directly on the eclipse IDE. Auto update of subclipse is easier than downloading and installing. Read how to auto update subclipse plugin to eclipse…

“Smell-O-Vision” : Smell The Movie

During the 1950s and early 1960s, motion picture companies experimented with a number of gimmicks in order to compete with the new audience-stealing medium known as television. One of these gimmicks, championed by movie producer Mike Todd, Jr., was dubbed Smell-O-Vision because it attempted to use familiar scents to enhance an audience’s movie-going experience. The Smell-O-Vision process proved to be a glitch-filled flop with audiences, however, and only one Smell-O-Vision movie was ever shown in theaters.

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What are the smartest animals on planet Earth?

Intelligence has been defined as the ability to achieve complex goals in complex environments. Some animals clearly are better than this at others. Humans are the smartest animals on the planet. Even some of the least intelligent humans can solve problems no animal could hope to.

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Subversion – Downloading, installing, running and configuring

In this post, I talk where to download subversion server from, the client for collabnet subversion server from. Explain in a step by step manned about how to install the subversion server and create a repository and then make a minor checking into the subversion server. Read it here…

What is a Live CD? Explainstuff – fact of the day

A Live CD is a bootable compact disk that contains its own Operating System (OS). Booting to a Live CD allows a user to try out alternate operating systems without making changes to the computer’s existing OS, hard drives or files. Read more about Live CD here:

What is ‘Muscle Memory’? – Explain Stuff – Unconscious Scientific concept of the day.

Muscle memory can best be described as a type of movement with which the muscles become familiar over time. For instance, newborns don’t have muscle memory for activities like crawling, scooting or walking. The only way for the muscles to become accustomed to these activities is for the baby to learn how to do these things and then practice them with a great deal of trial and error. Gradually, as the baby becomes a skilled walker, he falls less, is able to balance, and finally is able to incorporate other activities into his life such as running.

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