Science as a way of life
I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's this and this. Welcome.
September 29, 2006
Category: Creative commons
"Blogger. N. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do,", kindly ventures Guy Kawasaki. Shit. There's no middle ground for bloggers, is there? Bloggers either hold their gaze steadily to their navel or fanatically bludgeon their...
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Category: Prime Stream
Floss and you shall have a healthy heart. There's a whole load of fun stuff at The Register's Odd Body page....
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Category: Creative commons
A joke I heard over the beebs as I was driving today. I paraphrase. An old lady was talking to a friend. The Friend: "You seem quite happy and in good shape. What's the secret?" Old Lady: "I have two...
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September 28, 2006
Category: Prime Stream
"This will be a scientific horoscope which will be prepared on the basis of genes and chromosomes of the animals," said DK Singh, additional Director, BAU. Link Scientific horoscopes?! IMHO, 'Additional' Director and his esteemed university should stop screwing the...
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September 27, 2006
Category: Prime Stream
Kurinji is a flowering plant found in the southern parts of India. It blooms once every 12 years. You heard it. Every 12 years! And, what are we doing to it? Killing it. That's what. Take a look at...
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Category: Prime Stream
At Richard Dawkins personal website....
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An excellent essay on the current state of physics at The New Yorker by Jim Holt. It is the best of times in physics. Physicists are on the verge of obtaining the long-sought Theory of Everything. In a few elegant...
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September 25, 2006
Category: Prime Stream
The God Delusion is the new book by Richard Dawkins. Readers of Dawkins would already know Dawkins position on religion. Beebs has an interview with Dawkins in it's Newsnight programme. You can watch the video online. Quite interesting. Prospect Magazine...
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Over at balancinglife, Sunil has a post on a bee which runs the official air-taxi service a certain beetle larvae. The elaborate mechanism by which the beetle larvae finds a place to feed is astounding. You can also listen to...
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September 22, 2006
Category: Creative commons
A gravity well is a hole dug out in space for frogs to live in. No one knows who put the frogs in there. The well keeps the frogs inside and the frogs have been suspicious of Something Beyond for...
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