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Today’s Google Doodle is special. The musical doodle highlights French musician Claude Debussy’s famous composition ‘Claire de lune’. The romantic composition with Debussy’s music is one of the best Doodles  created by Google in recent times. The animated Doodle paints a quaint river-side scene in the moonlight with the act progressing through cities and finally culminating in a tender, romantic moment. Debussy’s Claire de lune tune plays in the background as the scene is progressing. Lights in the houses and street-lights flicker on and off in the doodle giving an illusion of a passing night. The clouds move around playing with the full moon.  The river-side is lined by a road and as ships pass the river, there are cyclists and motor-men moving on the road. The scene incorporates elements like smoke rising from chimneys and flickering lights to match the strings of the piano. The ships finally give way to two people rowing boats. As they near each other, it begins to rain. ...

STEPHEN HAWKING 1- Stephen William Hawking is one of the most famous living scientists. His computer-simulated voice is familiar on many television science programmes. 2- Stephen Hawking (b.1942) is a British physicist who is famous for his ideas on space and time. 3- Hawking was born in Oxford, England and studied at Cambridge University, where he is now a professor. 4- Hawking suffers from the paralyzing nerve disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He cannot move any more than a few hand and face muscles, but he gets around very well in an electric wheelchair. 5- Hawking cannot speak, but he communicates effectively with a computer-simulated voice. 6- Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time (1988) outlines his ideas on space, time and the history of the Universesince the Big Bang. It was one of the best-selling science books of the 20th century. 7- Einstein thought of and Hawking developed the idea of black holes. They are co...

For over 10,000 years we’ve looked to the sky and gods for answers. We’ve sent spacecraft to Mars and beyond, and continue to build even bigger machines to find the “God” particle. We’re like Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” who went on a long journey in search of the Wizard to get back home, only to find the answer was inside her all along. In “2001: A Space Odyssey” astronauts are sent on a quest to Jupiter. At the end, David Bowman finds himself pulled into a tunnel of colored light — beyond space and time — to learn the secrets (but merely finds another riddle). Loren Eiseley, the great anthropologist, summed it up best: “If the day comes when the slime of the laboratory for the first time crawls under man’s direction, we shall have great need of humbleness. It will be difficult for us to believe, in our pride of achievement, that the secret of life has slipped through our fingers and eludes us still. We will list all the chemicals and the reactions. The men who have beco...