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January 30, 2009
Category: Creative commons
I am fascinated by the question: Who was Shakespeare. I take it as an expression of awe and wonder at a genius who kept almost all of his personal life hidden. It is also an opportunity to know about the...
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January 29, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
[text updated] Questions about the validity of previously calculated blackhole creation probabilities at LHC are discussed in this New Scientist article. The conclusion? We don't have a clue of what the range of probabilities are. It is however still small...
Posted by Selva at 9:17 AM • 7 Comments •
January 28, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Here's a gift idea that I shall dub iPoop....
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January 26, 2009
Category: Behind Curtains
I'll be back in the UK tomorrow. There is quite a lot of material that I have accumulated in the many weeks here: interviews with scientists, social entrepreneurs, ideas for articles, stories and more. I'll start publishing them in the...
Posted by Selva at 1:35 AM • 0 Comments •
January 23, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Read these in the past two months. I don't know if I'll get to review them properly. Still, wanted to share a few words about them while the mind is drunk with a heady concoction of ideas and stories. Sea...
Posted by Selva at 12:23 AM • 4 Comments •
January 20, 2009
Category: DesiPundit
Elizabeth Alexander's poem on the inauguration of Mr Obama as President captured America at the cusp of a new day. It is plain and simple, like a Whitman poem. Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of...
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Category: Creative commons
A story that I enjoyed very much. Touchstone is one of the two selected stories of the Scifi Contest. Ramanand, you may know, won the 2007 contest last year. With this we've exhausted all the publishable stories. The Scientific Indian...
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January 16, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
One chapter at a time over at Blogging the Origin. John's writing is a delight to read. Head over and enjoy his short stay (he'll be gone when he's done with the book. oh shame)....
Posted by Selva at 6:17 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: DesiPundit
The history of Congo (and Africa, in general) is one of unbroken plundering by the outside world. And, history repeats more keenly in African than anywhere else. More than 5 million people have been murdered, women and children have been...
Posted by Selva at 3:17 AM • 1 Comments •
January 15, 2009
Category: DesiPundit
The 58th edition of Four Stone Hearth, the anthro blog carnival is up. One linked post at Ethblography by Fran, an anthropologist, asserts that twittering means nothing: Like Wikipedia, then, it is for this reason that Twitter gets under my...
Posted by Selva at 3:50 AM • 4 Comments •
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
James Hrynyshyn 11.20.2009
Tim Lambert 11.18.2009
PZ Myers 11.17.2009
Ethan Siegel 11.20.2009
