Visited the Science Train at Egmore Station today
Thanks to a friend from the Goethe Institute, visited the Science Train in Egmore today. This train a joint Indi-German work has been designed with the purpose of spreading the message of pure sciences and encourage people to learn the same. In all about 12 bogies (10 actually considering one was fully for advertisement of sponsorers and one was an 'activity' area) of the exhibits (consisting of about 10 panels in each compartment with about two video based communication and one interactive gizmos in each) consisting of the following topics exhibited major achievements of Germany in these spheres along side with information on education and research organizations on those subjects: Nuclear Science, Nano-science, Biotechnology related (2 bogies), neuro-sciences and understanding biological sensory behaviour, one on astronomy (well the first one on energy starts with the big bang, but largely to do with nuclear energy), one on sustainable development, one on integrated systems ...