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Former Principal, RIE(NCERT) Mysore, India

SNPrasad: Mysore, Karnataka, India; Former Principal and Professor of Physics, Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), Mysore. Teacher Educator & Educational Consultant. Involved in promotion and popularisation of science and inculcation of scientific temper.

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List of Previous Posts - All Posts in Chronological Order (Click to Open)

001) Curtain Raiser (Feb 10)
002) Total Solar Eclipse of 1980 (Feb 10)
003) Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 (Feb 10)
004) China Diary Part I (Mar 10)
005) China Diary Part II (Apr 10)
006) China Diary Part III (May 10)
007) Luna with a Lumix (May 10)
008) Is science education promoting scientific temper? (Jun 10)
009) An Enduring Enigma (Jul 10)
010) A Personal Photo Album - Part 1 (Jul 10)
011) Tagore and Einstein on Music (Aug 10)
012) Wah Taj – Personal Photo Album Part 2 (Aug 10)
013) Education for Sustainable Development (Sep 10)
014) Jaipur the Pink City - Personal Photo Album Part 3 (Oct 10)
015) Triumph of Newtonian Mechanics - the Story of Neptune (Oct 10)
016) Eton of India: Mayo College Ajmer - Personal Photo Album Part 4 (Nov 10)
017) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [SETI] (Nov 10)
018) Delhi - Legacy of Lutyens and the Mughals - Personal Photo Album Part 5 (Dec 10)
019) Ring of Fire – The Great Annular Solar Eclipse of 15 Jan 10 (Jan 11)
020) On my home turf - Mysore the City of Palaces - Personal Photo Album Part 6 (Feb 11)
021) Wonders of the Night Sky with the Naked Eye (Mar 11)
022) A Corollary – Wonders of the Night Sky with a wonderful ICT Tool (Mar 11)
023) The Alluring Aura of Anoopshahr - Personal Photo Album Part 7 (Apr 11)
024) Enhancing Student Participation in Learning at the Collegiate Level (Apr 11)
025) The Banyans of Manasagangothri – Personal Photo Album Part 8 (May 11)
026) Promotion of HRD through School Science Education (May 11)
027) Watch out - Total Lunar Eclipse on 15-16 June 2011 (Jun 11)
028) Total Lunar Eclipse in Retrospect (Jun 11)
029) A Happy Interlude at Hapur - Personal Photo Album Part 9 (Jul 11)
030) Bose and Einstein – A Historic Collaboration (Jul 11)
031) Sights of Amarkantak – Personal Photo Album Part 10 (Aug 11)
032) Chandrasekhar - Fermi-Dirac and White Dwarfs (Aug 11)
033) My Encounter with Corruption – a Devil and three Angels (Sep 11)
034) Three more Angels - no more Devils (Sep 11)
035) The Backwaters of Kumarakom – Personal Photo Album Part 11 (Oct 11)
036) Dark Matter Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe (Oct 11)
037) Nature's Bounty in God's own Country Wayanad – Personal Photo Album Part 12 (Nov 11)
038) Down Memory Lane – Summer (Institutes) of 65 at RIEM (Nov 11)
039) Look out for the Total Lunar Eclipse of 10 Dec 2011 – You can't miss this (Dec 11)
040) Total Lunar Eclipse of December 10 in Retrospect (Dec 11)
041) International Year of Chemistry 2011 – Commemorating Marie Curie (Dec 11)
042) Nobel Laureate 'Venki' Ramakrishnan – Skeptical Scientist stirs up a hornet's nest (Jan 12)
043) Science Education and Social Justice – A Critical Appraisal (Jan 12)
044) Madurai's Magnificent Heritage – Personal Photo Album Part 13 (Feb 12)
045) Commemorating a historical achievement – Raman his effect and the National Science Day (Feb 12)
046) Resplendent Ruins of an Extinct Empire – Personal Photo Album Part 14 (Mar 12)
047) Down Memory Lane – The Old Man and his Thosai Eatery (Apr 12)
048) Big Banyans near Mysore and Bangalore – Personal Photo Album Part 15 (May 12)
049) Transit of Venus – Last chance of the century to see it on 6 June 2012 (May 12)
050) Transit of Venus in Retrospect – The lost chance to see at home (Jun 12)
051) The bird’s nest and its hapless habitants – A pictorial story (Jun 12)
052) The Exasperating God Particle – Missing piece in a cosmic jigsaw puzzle (Jul 12)
053) Mystery of the Missing Baby Bulbuls – A New Pictorial Story (Jul 12)
054) Marathon Man from Mysore and his magnificent obsession – Three monumental feats of endurance and courage (Aug 12)
055) Sun-drenched Goa with its beckoning beaches – Personal Photo Album Part 16 (Aug 12)
056) The Big Temple of Thanjavur a glorious heritage – Personal Photo Album Part 17 (Sep 12)
057) Learning and teaching Mechanics at the undergraduate level – Debut of an exciting new textbook (Oct 12)
058) In and around the fabulous Mysore Palace – Some glimpses of nocturnal grandeur during Dasara 2012 (Oct 12)
059) The mathemagical genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Commemorating 125 years of infinite excitement (Nov 12)
060) Waiting for the world to end – What will (not) happen on 21st December 2012 (Dec 12)
061) Away from the beckoning beaches of sunny Goa – Personal Photo Album Part 16B (Dec 12)
062) Popular myths and misconceptions and the plain truth behind them – Some examples from everyday life (Jan 13)
063) Rock-cut cave temples of Badami and surroundings – Personal Photo Album Part 18 (Jan 13)
064) Roadblocks and diversions in the path of scientific advancement – Some examples from the history of Physics (Feb 13)
065) Chalukyan Stone Temples at Pattadkal and Aihole – Personal Photo Album Part 19 (Feb 13)
066) The Gol Gumbaz and other monuments of Bijapur – Personal Photo Album Part 20 (Apr 13)
067) Memory Lane Revisited – Summer of 65 at RIE Mysore (Feb 14)
068) All Night Sky Watch Party at Gavi Betta (Mar 23)
069) Tools of the Astronomer Part 1 - Ground-based Optical Telescopes (Apr 23)
070) A Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse on 20Apr23 (Apr 23)
071) Goodbye Comet C/2022 E3 [ZTF]! … and Welcome Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) (Apr 23)
072) Japan: Land of the Shining Sun! Part A: Tokyo - Personal Photo Album Part 21 (Apr 23)
073) Japan: Land of the Shining Sun! Part B: Horror of Hiroshima Personal Photo Album Part 22 (May 23)
074) Japan: Land of the Shining Sun! Part C: Kyoto - Cultural Capital of Japan Personal Photo Album Part 23 (May 23)
075) Japan: Land of the Shining Sun! Part D: Osaka Personal Photo Album Part 24 (May 23)
076) Physics behind the Horror of Hiroshima - E=mc2 Unleashed! (Jun 23)
077) Ancient Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs! Part A: Pyramids and Egyptian Museum Travelogue 25 (Jun 23)
078) Ancient Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs! Part B: On the banks of the Nile Travelogue 26 (Jun 23)
079) Jewels in the Desert Part A: Dubai Travelogue 27 (Jun 23)
080) Jewels in the Desert Part B: Abu Dabhi Travelogue 28 (Jun 23)
081) Sri Lanka – Pearl of the Indian Ocean Travelogue 29 (Jul 23)
082) Recreating the Night Sky! Birth Centenary of the Planetarium (Jul 23)
083) Youthful Old Age! A Self-evaluation Tool (Aug 23)
084) Watching the launch of Chandrayaan 3: Story of an adventurous quartet - Travelogue 30 (Aug 23)
085) Khagola Darshana (ಖಗೋಳ ದರ್ಶನ) Advent of a Kannada Compendium on Astronomy and allied disciplines (Aug 23)
086) Angkor Wat of Cambodia Largest (Hindu-Buddhist) Temple Complex in the World Travelogue 31 (Aug 23)
087) The Astronomical “Aah” Scale: A Self-Evaluation Tool for Amateur Astronomers (Sep 23)
088) Asteroid Hunt! This may save the Earth one day! (Sep 23)
089) Oppenheimer – The Man and his Legacy: How the A-Bomb changed the course of history (Sep 23)
090) World Space Week -October 4-10 Space and Entrepreneurship 2023 (Oct 23)
091) Annular Solar Eclipses - Eclipse path on 14 Oct 23 confined to the Americas (Oct 23)
092) Borobudur - Indonesia World’s Largest Buddhist Temple - Travelogue 32 (Oct 23)
093) Hanle Dark Sky Reserve (HDSR) - Star Party October 2023 (Oct 23)
094) Acute Mountain Sickness - A Case Study at Hanle Dark Sky Reserve (HDSR) Ladakh (Nov 23)
095) Towering Reminders of Hinduism! Prambanan Temple in Indonesia Travelogue 33 (Nov 23)
096) Nobel Prize in Physics The Unlucky Thirteen! (Dec 23)
097) Glimpses of Israel The Promised Land! Travelogue 34 (Dec 23)
098) Awakening a Sleeping Giant! 14" Catadioptric Vintage Telescope with Equatorial Mount (Jan 24)
099) Watching a celestial Ring of Fire! Annular Solar Eclipse of 26Dec19 (Jan 24)
100) Science NonScience & the Paranormal: A look back at a landmark publication (Feb 24)
101) The Great North American Eclipse! Welcome to the total solar eclipse of 08Apr24 (Mar 24)
102) The Great North American Eclipse of 08Apr24: A tale of two sightings (May 24)
103) Seven Plus 7 Wonders of the World In celebration of two personal milestones (May 24)
104) Seven Wonders of the Night Sky Visible to the Naked Eye (Jul 24)
105) Excellence in Hypertension Research - Prestigious AHA Award to Mysore-educated Biochemist (Sep 24)
106) The Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru: One of the Seven Wonders of the World - Travelogue 35 (Oct 24)
107) Rocky Ruins of Petra in Jordan - One of the Seven Wonders of the World Travelogue 36 (Nov 24)
108) Vijnaana Rasayathri (ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ರಸಯಾತ್ರಿ) - In memory of Popular Science Communicator Prof J R Lakshmana Rao Part I – Book Release Function (Dec 24)
109) Taking Science to the Masses - Remembering a noted Kannada science communicator A K Bhat (Dec 24)
110) ‘Parade of Planets’ on 25th Jan 25 - The Truth behind the Hype (Jan 25)
111) Nobel Laureates in the Family - New Kannada Book Review (Feb 25)
112) Seeking Out Fear! The Paranormal as an Invention of Humankind (Feb 25)
113) Year of Quantum Science & Technology - Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics Part 1 (Mar 25)
114) Einstein and IYQ25 - Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics Part 2 (Mar 25)
115) Niels Bohr and IYQ25 - Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics Part 3 (Apr 25)
116) Wave Mechanics and IYQ25 - Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics – Part 4 Louis de Broglie & Erwin Schrödinger & Max Born (Apr 25)
117) The Uncertainty Principle – IYQ25 Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics – Part 5 Werner Heisenberg (Apr 25)
118) Killer Asteroids – Are they?? Protecting Humanity! A hosted article by Ilavenil T (May 25)
119) The Exclusion Principle – IYQ25 Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics Part 6 - Wolfgang Pauli (Jun 25)
120) Antiparticles and Antimatter – IYQ25 Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics Part 7 - P A M Dirac (Jul 25)
121) Moon Day Musings! 20 July 1969: One Giant Leap for Mankind (Jul 25)
122) The Rockstar of Physics! – IYQ25 Pioneers of Quantum Theoretical Physics Part 8 Richard Feynman (Jul 25)
123) Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology A Twelve Part Series Part 1 - Overview (Aug 25)
124) Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology Part 2 – Energy of Stars: Hans A Bethe (Aug 25)
125) Another Blood(y) Moon! Total Lunar Eclipse on 7Sep25 (Sep 25)
126) Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS - Alien Technology? Is it just much ado about nothing? (Oct 25)
127) When scientists turn unscientific! Some forgettable examples (Oct 25)
128) Science and Pseudoscience - Story of the N-Rays (Nov 25)
129) Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology (A Twelve Part Series) Part 3 – Pulsars & Radio Astrophysics (Nov 25)
130) Smart Telescopes & Astrophotography (Nov 25)
131) The Cosmic Hiss - Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology Part 4 - Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson (Dec 25)
132) Life History of Stars: Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology – Part 5 (A Twelve Part Series) Chandrasekhar and Fowler (Dec 25)
133) Binary Pulsars and Gravitational Waves: Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology – Part 6 (A Twelve Part Series) Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor (Jan 26)
134) Ghost Particles and Cosmic X-Rays: Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology – Part 6 (A Twelve Part Series) Davis Koshiba & Giacconi (Jan 26)
135) Goodbye! Comet 3I/ATLAS …as you leave behind a silent triumph for science (Feb 26)
136) Echo of the Universe Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology - Part 7 (A Twelve Part Series) John Mather & George Smoot (Feb 26)
137) Ultimate Fate of the Universe - Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology - Part 8 (A Twelve Part Series) - Perlmutter Schmidt & Riess (Mar 26)
138) Gravitational Waves How Einstein’s prediction came true - Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology - Part 9 (A Twelve Part Series) - Weiss Barish & Thorne (Mar 26)
139) An Exotic Planet and the Modern Universe - Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology - Part 10 (A Twelve Part Series) Peebles Mayor and Queloz (Apr 26)
140) Black Hole Formation and a Supermassive Black Hole at the Core of our Galaxy - Nobel Prizes in Astrophysics & Cosmology - Part 11 Penrose Genzel and Ghez (Apr 26)
141) Learning in a Brave New World of AI - Opportunities and Threats (May 26)
142) Beyond the AI Hype - The Enduring Role of Teachers - Guest Article by Prisha Kohli (May 26)
143) Teachers Still Matter - An insightful new publication on Language Teaching in the Age of AI by Prisha Kohli (May 26)
144} A Total Solar Eclipse in parts of Europe Today - Missing a rendezvous in Spain! (Aug 26)
145) NASA Space Telescope going up Today - Named Nancy Grace Roman (Aug 26)
146) Total Solar Eclipse of 12Aug26 - The charm of the eclipse at Leon Spain - A Special Guest Article by Dr B S Shylaja (Sep 26)

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