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.
October 30, 2006
Category: Behind Curtains
So, what's keeping me from blogging? Two things really. Firstly, we moved to a new house over the weekend. It's a bigger and better house. The move has taken all my time and has also put my back through a...
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October 28, 2006
Category: Creative commons
Am back in Amersham after a three week trip to India. The vacation (a misnomer) in India was wonderful. So wonderful it was that at one point my body gave up digesting in disgust. A few books I read during...
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October 05, 2006
Category: Behind Curtains
Yours truly is travelling to his beloved country early morning today for three weeks (real early, am sleepless in amersham). Expect a short break at this blog for the next few days. I'll make the odd post from Namakkal and...
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Category: Creative commons
Spotted this in Flickr under science tag....
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October 04, 2006
Category: Creative commons
Let's talk music and software for a moment. Shall we? This post is about the software I use at home to organize the audible bits I have accumulated and keep accumulating everyday. You must remember that I am not an...
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Category: Prime Stream
Religion is like Pornography sez PZ. Indeed, they both leave a nasty aftertaste. No amount of sugar coating can rectify what happens to be a fundamental perversion of the intellect. PZ is taking the offensive one step further. The offensive...
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October 03, 2006
Category: Creative commons
Al Gore at TED Talks. He mentions releasing the climate crisis presentation under an appropriate licensing term (he's working with Lawrence Lessig) for young people to remix. Brilliant. A tremendously engaging talk with Gore relating hilarious stories in the first...
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Category: Prime Stream
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 has been awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". I read Smoot's Wrinkles in Time when I...
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Category: Prime Stream
Then go checkout the Shaastra Festival at IIT where a lot of very smart people would be talking. Via nonoscience. If you are going, can you take a audio recorder or a camcorder with you and get us the fine...
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October 02, 2006
Category: Creative commons
Oh dear! I can't get this out of my head [embedded audio. Via MF]. Want more? Try setting this to music....
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