Global food crisis
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Two book podcasts I listen to regularly. CBC Writers & Company Eleanor Wachtel is probably the finest interviewer of writers out there. Give a listen to her recent interviews. In one of the episodes, Orhan Pamuk is interviewed and what...
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April 21, 2008
Crisis of lifestyle and character
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The real crisis behind climate crisis. A NY Times article: Thirty years ago, Wendell Berry, the Kentucky farmer and writer, put forward a blunt analysis of precisely this mentality. He argued that the environmental crisis of the 1970s -- an...
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April 18, 2008
Laughing out loud
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Yesterday evening our three year old niece was playing with our four month old daughter Nidhi. She (niece) would leap towards Nidhi and shout. At first, Nidhi seemed slightly fearful of this leaping figure. At around the third try, Nidhi...
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April 15, 2008
There's turbulence in the air..er..water?
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Big whorls have little whorls, Which feed on their velocity, And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity --Lewis Richardson Poem quoted at Arunn's post on turbulence (in Tamil). Your southside smooth ride into turbulence....
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April 14, 2008
A question about Matter
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Consider a pebble in space. Assume it is very lucky in that it never gets hit by anything in space, neither does it fall into a star, planet or meet with any such physically violent end. How long will it...
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Goodbye to John Archibald Wheeler
A very personal tribute at Cosmic Variance by Daniel Holz....
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April 11, 2008
The Beagle Project, bloggers and beer
A few blogging folks in and around London met on Wednesday on Bora's visit for a tour of the Darwin Center. It was great fun, especially the later part when I started shaking all over (only partly aided by...
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April 10, 2008
Why we read blogs
We read blogs to read why we read blogs. Checkout an Ars post on a HCI (Human Computer Interface) study on blog reading....
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April 8, 2008
Bagpipe Music
A few lines from the poem by Louis MacNeice. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. It's no go my honey love,...
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