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.
December 31, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
No, no, it wasn't caused by any of the modern marvels to counter erectile dysfunction, it was biological evolution ensuring good sex and the consequences thereof, says Dr Bowman. A report at Press Esc: "As the diameter of the bony...
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Category: Creative commons
Great post at Neil Gaiman's journal on getting an agent (via reddit). Covers much more ground than just agents. Read up. I liked these best: There is no substitute for writing a book that people want to buy and read....
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Category: Prime Stream
Astonishing story at Beebs. They share an easy intimacy that belies the fact that identical twins Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein spent their first 35 years in total ignorance of the other's existence. They were given up for adoption to...
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December 28, 2007
Category: Creative commons
Measuring the world is a novel by the young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann who has been hailed as one of the most promising new generation of writers. This novel is the first to be translated into english (by Carol...
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December 26, 2007
From The Independent: Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned....
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December 23, 2007
Category: Creative commons
Coincidentally, I read two contrasting poems on the same day: Shakespeare's sonnet in the Oxford book and Philip Larkin in The Nation's Favourite Twentieth Century Poems. Shakespeare's famous 12th sonnet that urges us to procreate When I do count the...
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December 18, 2007
Category: Creative commons
We needed a secular name. Some day, I hope considerations like secular names would be irrelevant. But, this is not that day. As a parent, I did not wish my child to bear a name that leans on blind faith....
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December 10, 2007
Category: Behind Curtains
Nidhi Nova was born on 7th Dec early morning after a marathon labor (24 hrs) when she and her mother tried to negotiate the rites of passage. In the end, Nidhi had to be operated out as her head was...
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December 3, 2007
Category: Creative commons
Love it! Worthy successors for The Black Knight....
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December 2, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Hooray! After days of anticipation, they are finally out! First Prize - A Story in Blue by J Ramanand Joint Second Prize - Call of the Running Tide by Anita Murthy Joint Second Prize - The Going Got Tough by...
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