Be your own mentor!

While it may sound absurd to be your own mentor, that is exactly what Dennis Matthies, a lecturer at Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning, says is effective in the current time and age. Read the article at -
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/03/mentor.html?partner=rss

I tend to agree that self initiated learning and vicariously gaining from others experiences is certainly more effective than the old school thought of learning through a formal mentoring process.

What do you think?

What is this blog all about?

Mumbai Metro Rail & Commuter Train Network

Click on the image to see an enlarged version.

Over 6 million commuters use Mumbai's urban rail network daily. 4700 passengers (it is built for a maximum capacity of 1700 pasengers) travel in every 9 train car rake during peak hours. Unfortnately the over-crowding also causes many accidents, leading to 3500 deaths every year. Efforts to upgrade the train network and build newer lines is actively being pursued offlate.

A latest news item talks about the Indian Prime Minister laying the foundation for Mumbai's new metro rail venture.

The mumbai map was obtained from http://urbanrail.net/as/mumb/mumbai.htm
The site urbanrail.net provides information on urban rail transport systems around the world.

Some interesting sites about the mumbai urban rail network:
http://www.geocities.com/mumbairail/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_suburban_railway
http://www.answers.com/topic/mumbai-suburban-railway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Metro

Global Warming

Is "global warming" real? Certainly, the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans has increased in the last few decades.

Wikipedia has a good description of "global warming" and concepts associated with it. (The image on the left is also from Wikipedia)

Now is it CO2 that is causing it? Don't know for sure. However, Al Gore's movie has generated a lot of excitement for both believers and opposers of the "CO2 causing global warming" theory.

Al Gore in his movie and book - "An inconvenient Truth" presents CO2 and other green house gases to be the primary cause of the climatic changes and warns people that things will get much worse if we don't start taking conscious steps to stop the accumulation of CO2. Read more on http://www.climatecrisis.net/.

On the contrary, some scientists think there is little evidence that CO2 is really causing the climate change. Canada Free Press has an interesting summary of what these scientists are saying. Read more at http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm.

What do you think?