Seeing Things

Copy: Life is easier if you don't speak up. Sign-off: Debate It did offend me, at first. Well, it was a mix of an offended feeling and of not seeing any sense in the ad. As I saw it, the line "life is easier if you don't speak up" does not go with their tag line of "debate". I wondered how was one to have a debate without speaking up? I found it plain rude and insensitive to ridicule the lives of these great men. Until Mr. Amit Verma , through whose blog I came across this ad, pointed out to me that the ad was not making fun of but was glorifying them. And then I saw it. Through inverse portrayal, the ad actually emphasizes on the sacrifices these great men made. They could have lived the life portrayed but chose not to. About the meat and beer, I doubt the Dutch team that made this ad were aware of the taboo associated with those. I think they simply wanted to portray these people enjoying a "good" life. Suddenly, the ad became interesting and ...

Fascinating stuff. A mini, scaled down version of the BIG BANG is being staged today by scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research ( CERN ), Switzerland. The team hopes that recreating the explosion that created the world will show how the galaxy formed and how stars and planets came together. They also hope to unlock many puzzles in particle physics such as as dark matter and dark energy etc and to help us learn more about how the universe began. Some scientists fear that this experiment might create black holes which could swallow up the earth. However, a safety review by scientists at CERN and in the United States and Russia, issued at the weekend, rejected the prospect of such outcomes. Lets see. :) CERN is credited with the creation of the world wide web in 1989 - the origins of this blog The Big Bang is most probably the origin of you and me!