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August 29, 2008
Category: Creative commons
It's blogroll rebuilding time! How better to start than with a clean slate. To begin, all the book podcasts I listen to regularly have now been placed in Google Reader. You'll also find it shared on the side bar to...
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August 27, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
How would you explain digital computation and binary math/logic to someone who does not have a mathematics or computer science background? I had about two minutes to think when my brother-in-law asked how computers work. I went with the first...
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August 21, 2008
Category: Creative commons
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by...
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Category: Prime Stream
Suvrat Kher, a geologist, has given answers to questions from a muddled engineer and wannabe astrologer. Suvrat Kher is a patient bloke. Instead of hitting the questioner on the head repeatedly with Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit, he has done the...
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August 19, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
How does one deal with those who do not understand the rational way of living, those who follow unreasonable dogma like religion and give in to superstitions? There are two different approaches marked by the diametric positions that they take....
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August 15, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
Leaping Shampoo Fascinating effect. Even more fascinating is how the experimenters are able to produce a cascade effect (towards the end of the video). [via reddit]...
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August 14, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
LiveScience has a nifty list. From an artificial hippocampus - the part of the brain that helps with short-term memory-, to Retinal Prosthesis or bionic eyes - electrodes implanted in the eye that help people who've lost some of their...
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August 13, 2008
Category: Behind Curtains
An article in NY Times about an immigrant who has lived half his life in the US dies in custody due to systemic negligence and apathy. This is not a one off case, if you are tempted to dismiss it....
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August 12, 2008
Category: Creative commons
Anand Giridharadas (his blog) writes at IHT: many of the people who are making the new India new - from the stockbrokers to the bedecked socialites - are responsible for preserving a certain gloomy element of the Indian past: a...
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August 7, 2008
Category: Behind Curtains
What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. -Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet....
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