America the beautiful quarters

In 2010, the United States Mint began issuing 56 quarter-dollar coins featuring designs depicting national parks and other national sites as part of the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters® Program. Tanvi is collecting these and so far she has 8 (all of 2013). If you happen to have …

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Jainism and Physics

The purpose of this post is only to generate a little curiosity 🙂 ——————— I recall that the real reason why I got interested in jainism ~20 years ago was actually physcis for the most part. Here is why?…. Just like many other folks who love science, I have always …

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Skin donation

The intent of this post is to create awareness regarding skin donation. As most of you aware that recently my Dad passed away. He wanted to donate every organ but based on the circumstances/situation, we could only donate his eye and skin. I had not heard about skin donation before. …

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We miss you Samir !!

Samir Shah – our dear friend and an important cog in the KV family – unexpectedly left us for his heavenly abode on Jul 11 2014. An avid runner that Samir was, he passed away while doing one of his favorite activities – training for the marathon in the wee …

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Space Shuttle Endeavour

If you happen to be around LA, then you can visit California Science Center to see Space Shuttle Endeavour. The Endeavour experience begins with companion exhibit featuring images and artifacts that relate the shuttle program to California, where the orbiters were built. It has various artifacts like tires, fuel cell, …

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2014 Graduates

Have you ever attended award ceremonies back home for school/college achievements by the kutchi samaaj or your gaam etc ? While we don’t have any award distributions here in the US (yet!), I thought it would be a good idea to compile the milestones and achievements of our high school …

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Smartphone : boon or curse

Starting a new category called “Debate” where in we will deal with interesting topics. 🙂 We start with the smartphone. Smartphones have made life easier and communication faster.  People are on Mobile Apps like WhatsApp and Facebook all the time. We have reconnected with long lost friends and family.  We …

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