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.
November 30, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Murphy's Body Snatchers Law states that if a body can be snatched, it will be. Watch a wasp turn a cockroach into a zombie by blocking a neurotransmitter and then leading it by its antenna to the dining table to...
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Category: Prime Stream
Nature talks of the paradox where military generals have helped science more than politicians. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of Pakistan's first fully fledged military coup. In 1958, it fell to General Mohammad Ayub Khan to "save the...
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Hence rotten thing! Or I shall shake thy bones out of thy garments....
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November 29, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Starting shortly at The Royal Society. I am going to see if I can plug into the webcast....
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Category: Creative commons
Why do Indian women drape their sari on the left shoulder normally? Is it just because of the preponderance of right handedness (so draping over left shoulder is just a bit more convenient) or is there some other reason?...
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November 27, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
An eligible beebs reporter tries out scientific algorithmic superior proven and utterly amazing match-making advertised in some websites. "The website then uses what statisticians call a regression equation to determine what sort of person I would be best matched...
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Category: Prime Stream
A summary in WSJ about the state of affairs for OLPC.[via reddit] The discussion is not very much about what really makes an OLPC. It is more about how Intel, Microsoft and other companies are actively subverting it and how...
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November 26, 2007
Category: Creative commons
Only in Singara Chennai. During my seven years of madras monkey business I traveled by hanging onto a window rail with my left hand small finger like a gibbon. Never once did I have the privilege of seeing a wheel...
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Category: Creative commons
The Big Sleep at NY Times Until the 20th century, few people needed money. Apart from salt and iron, everything could be paid for in kind. Economic activity was more a means of making the time pass than of making...
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Category: Behind Curtains
The past week has been one long workout. Over the course of the week, I've wrestled with instruments of great power: two electric saws (one light weight, one heavy duty), sander, drill, and a few others for whom I...
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