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Weather Report for today
Category: Prime Stream
Sunny day in the UK but I can't be oblivious to what's really happening around me: it's raining neutrinos. It's a deluge, in fact....
Posted by Selva at 7:25 AM • 0 Comments •
October 27, 2008
Book review: A Portrait of the Brain by Adam Zeman
Category: Prime Stream
There are many ways one can paint a portrait of the brain: as an organ that evolved from the simple beginnings as a few neuronal tissues in worms to one of the most interconnected mass of tissues anywhere in the...
Posted by Selva at 7:52 AM • 0 Comments •
October 22, 2008
Launching Chandrayaan - A waste of money?
Category: Prime Stream
BBC has some reactions by Indians on the launch. One of them is from a fruit vendor Sheila who is quoted as saying: "I don't think it is a good thing. I think this money could be used here for...
Posted by Selva at 9:22 AM • 10 Comments •
My heart jumped and missed a beat
Category: Prime Stream
When we (self and wife) were in Atlanta, Ramya had a dental operation (to remove a painful inner tooth). I was waiting outside the operating room expecting her to come out holding her chin gingerly and saying, ga ma tut...
Posted by Selva at 6:46 AM • 2 Comments •
Chandrayaan-1 is on its way to the moon
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BBC news report. ISRO press release here....
Posted by Selva at 5:24 AM • 1 Comments •
October 21, 2008
Günter Grass's The Rat
Category: Creative commons
Reading Günter Grass's The Rat. She-rat speaks thus: we rats have battened on it, eaten our way to erudition. Oh, those mouldy parchments, those leather-bound folios, those collected works bristling with slips of paper, those clever-clever encycopedias. From d'Alembert to...
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October 17, 2008
Glorious destruction
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Destructive re-entry (planned) of Jules Verne ATV. [Click on the link for a must-see ESA Video] [via APOD]...
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October 16, 2008
No more blogroll
Category: Behind Curtains
Instead, we'll have a regularly updated set of 'Today's Recommendations' (on the left, heading may change) that'll display the intertube bits I have read or heard that I'd love to share. This includes blog posts (not blogs themselves, which I...
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October 14, 2008
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Category: Creative commons
Watched this delightful Mexican duo play on a Jools Holland music show a few nights back (you can watch it on BBC iPlayer in UK)....
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