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MOSS - The Dynamic Robot Construction Kit

Anakin with C-3PO

Be a techie or not, we all love Robots..! A robot has always been an integral part of our Sci-Fi fantasy since our childhood. And when we think of building up a Robot, we can imagine Anakin Skywalker fixing up C-3PO from Star Wars with all those wires and circuits. But building up robots now is no more complicated. After the concept of modular smartphones, here we have a whole new concept of building up modular robots.

Cubelets

A couple of years back a company called Modular Robotics came up with Cubelets. These were cube shaped robotic modules which could snap together with the help of magnets. These were like building blocks which had different functions and when interlocked together, could work autonomously like a robot. It was a great Robot Construction Kit for kids.

Resurging Roger ?

By his own lofty standards, Roger Federer had a disappointing 2013. He failed to make it to the finals of any of the four Grand Slams for the first time in a decade. He failed to win any of the Masters 1000 events. He had a shocking exit in Round 2 at Wimbledon at the hands of Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine. In fact the only title he won in 2013 was the Gerry Weber Open in Halle which is the warm-up grass-court tournament before Wimbledon. And when you are talking about Roger Federer, that does not count.

Also for the first time in his glittering career he was troubled by injuries. His back not a 100% for the best part of the year. This was the most evident when, in the 17 matches he lost last year, his normally reliable forehand was not working. His service was also not at its absolute best.

All this naturally led to the calls for his retirement. People started wondering if this was indeed the beginning of the end or maybe, some feared, the end itself. It was hard to believe that this man, after winning his seventh Wimbledon title, was the Number 1 player in the world in July 2012. That seemed to be ages ago. Plus the fact that Rafa Nadal was constructing one of the greatest comebacks in sport history and the continued dominance of Novak Djokovic, nearly everyone found it easy to write Roger off.

Schools – Killing the Creativity

UNESCO: “More people worldwide will be graduating through education than since the beginning of history.”

200 years ago, the era of Industrialism began. To make this so called Industry function better, main resource was needed called “Human Power”. For this British Empire started the system called “School Education System”. And the cycle starts from the very moment our beloved children start taking their first step into the beautiful world. No one denying the fact that all the children have extraordinary capacity for innovation. Kids have tremendous talents and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

I want to talk about Education and I want to talk about Creativity. Creativity today is as important in education as literacy, but the status it should be getting is not present there. All kids have one common thing and that is: they will take chance. If they don’t know, they will have a go. They are not frightened of being wrong. And if you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is, we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Coalition Politics

“Whoever forms the largest alliance will form the next government”

As the election is nearing both the national parties are hunting for allies and stitching partnership with the regional parties. In India there are more than 40 prominent regional parties with each having 2 or more seats in the Lok Sabha. Each party has its own area of influence and enjoys considerable vote base in respective constituencies.

Coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. We have seen the grand coalitions during the World Wars between major western countries.

Electoral or political coalitions are practised in a parliamentary system when no single party can achieve majority on its own. And many countries follow this type of alliance or coalition. In India coalition is a very old concept and was first experimented in 1916 when Congress and Muslim League reached an agreement to pressure the British government.