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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.
July 30, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
Read an article about Glass at NY Times. It seems to have coalesced some scattered thoughts between my ears (the word coagulated probably fits too, you decide). Some weeks back I was looking through the window at the sky. An...
Posted by Selva at 1:46 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
Orwell is a hero of mine, and of many. This news at the BBC caught my eyes. His diary entries are to be published on a special blog - one entry at a time by The Orwell Prize. "From 9th...
Posted by Selva at 3:23 AM • 0 Comments •
July 28, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
I'd love to see us stop the suffocating Vedic flatulence. Among my country men and women, there's a tendency to inflate the past beyond reasonable limits. If someone can draw a thread from Vedic literature, Vedic mathematics, Vedic astronomy, Vedic...
Posted by Selva at 8:06 AM • 7 Comments •
July 23, 2008
Category: Behind Curtains
I have a few invites to give away for Dropbox (private beta). Leave a comment with your email if you want one (first-come first-served). I have been using it for a week now to keep my notes, pictures, etc synchronized...
Posted by Selva at 4:38 AM • 12 Comments •
July 22, 2008
Category: Creative commons
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. --Ernest Hemingway...
Posted by Selva at 8:54 AM • 0 Comments •
July 21, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
How well Benjamin Cohen Rachel Carr captures the sentiment! If I could write half as well.......
Posted by Selva at 11:53 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
Last Saturday, we went to see WALL-E with our 4 year old niece. It's the story of an ordinary cleaning robot (WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) that, well, keeps cleaning a city on earth long after humans...
Posted by Selva at 9:29 AM • 6 Comments •
July 18, 2008
Category: Creative commons
Driving: It's half a ton of steel strapped under your bum and barreling down the road at breakneck speed. This is as crazy as it gets. Driving is, of course, a religious experience. What else could it be! It's nuts...
Posted by Selva at 7:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Prime Stream
Priya Shetty writes at New Scientist. Why? For a start, research published in international journals might not be relevant to the needs of individual countries. For example, academics specialising in mental health, such as Vikram Patel at the London School...
Posted by Selva at 5:15 AM • 2 Comments •
July 16, 2008
Category: Creative commons
Our eyes prefer to suppose That a habitable place Has a geocentric view, That architects enclose A quiet Euclidian space: Exploded myths - but who Could feel at home astraddle An ever expanding saddle? -From W. H. Auden's After...
Posted by Selva at 9:08 AM • 0 Comments •
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