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.
April 27, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Poor man's VR. Bought a few pairs of Red-Blue 3D Glasses (you can buy them online, I paid five pounds for five glasses) to view the 3D images of Sun produced by NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites. This...
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April 26, 2007
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A discussion at nonoscience. There is something missing here, something very simple, impalpable, profound, sacred. There is a void which can only be felt and hard to demonstrate. You can call it "scientific fervor", "fire in the belly," "passion" or...
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Category: Creative commons
Toilet trouble endured by Sunil....
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April 25, 2007
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Smart people suck when it comes to financial health. One study* has apparently showed that although smart people earn more, they spend more too thus justifying this blog post's title. Posting this has been therapeutic. The study* and its conclusions...
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A contest [via]. I like the interface that streams the photos depending on your mouse movements. A browser barely manages to contain such interfaces. We need VR, 3D interfaces, holographic projections, cranial data accessories......
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April 24, 2007
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Sunil writes about the physics festival he visited....
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Jonathan Gottschall writes in The Age: At exactly the same time I was reading The Naked Ape I was re-reading Homer's Iliad for a graduate seminar on the great epics. As always, Homer made my bones flex and ache with...
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From ISRO press release. In its eleventh flight, conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, this afternoon (April 23, 2007), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C8, successfully launched the 352 kg Italian astronomical satellite, AGILE, into a 550...
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Bill O' Reilly supposedly interviewed Richard Dawkins. Bill had the mike, the studio and the buttons and so Bill jumped on the pulpit and delivered his sermon without having the decency to treat the guest properly (he didn't allow...
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April 21, 2007
Category: Creative commons
I was reading The Telegraph Magazine today [paper copy]. Salmon Rushdie introduces Taryn Simon's An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamilar - a collection of portraits that capture the hidden reality: bushmeat, fruits and other items confiscated by US...
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