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Series Finale of Eureka

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Just watched the series finale of Eureka. Five seasons of science and imagination with a new adventure in every episodes while continuing a main story arc. It tells the adventures of a sheriff in a town filled with scientists and nerds. Through this TV show, I was introduced to the world of gravitons, worm holes, FTL drive, virtual reality, organic computing, body printing, time travel, teleportation and artificial intelligence. What I found in separate movies, TV shows, I saw all of them in this TV show. I was fascinated to see, that an entire episode included a setup similar to what was done in Biosphere 2 project, a real research done in Arizona. Biosphere 2 site The other thing that fascinates me is the smart home, in which the lead character lives. The smart home is run by an artificial intelligence called SARAH. I really hope to live in smart home like that in the very near future. It is a really good sci-fi because, some of the concepts used in the show are really bei

Medical Camp at Mannar

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Immediately after IBSS, I had to go to the medical camp organized by our faculty's Hindu Society. The participation to that was compulsory for every member of that society. At first I felt a little reluctance towards participating in it. But at the end I was so glad that I took part in it. It was a two day camp. The organization of the event had little short comings and it was the first medical camp for me and I was a little bit off the charts. On the first day, we did screening to school children. As I was a first year student, the things I could were the presentation on snake bites and first aid as part of health education and checked the visual acuity using Snellen charts. As for me I sucked at the presentation. I had to do it in Tamil and luckily I had to do it only once. But checking visual acuity was okay. There were students who had 6/60 and still hadn't consulted a doctor before. And there were students, who wore spectacles but stopped wearing them.  On the second