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June 23, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
The French president has spoken in favor of Legislation against women wearing burka in public recently. I agree with the assessment that burka is a symbol of servitude. When women wear it for cultural and religious reasons, they are, as...
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June 22, 2009
Category: Creative commons
This year's contest announcement is up at TheScian.com. Get going. There are three prizes and a book deal up for grabs. With the selected stories of this year, we'll have a fantastic collection of stories for our first book. Four...
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June 21, 2009
Category: Creative commons
With my daughter at a nearby park. To fatherhood, to memories. Warm wishes from one father to others....
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June 20, 2009
Category: Creative commons
This note is dedicated to tomorrow's children......
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June 17, 2009
Category: Creative commons
I am sitting at the window seat of the Alitalia flight. It is flying over the Italian alps near Milan, few minutes away from landing. The sun is setting behind the alps creating a vast dynamic art that sweeps slowly...
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June 11, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Here....
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June 9, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
The human brain is easily bored (yes, even amidst sex) that there are many happily married couple who would forgo sex and instead watch a comedy show. The operative word to remedy the situation is, of course, Variation. Here is...
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Category: Prime Stream
Comprehensive review of the state of affairs at New Scientist. Surprisingly, the biological mechanism and the reason (or lack of it) for this is still not well known. My last conversation about this was about 12 years ago with a...
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June 4, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
The Red Planet is all over the revamped IEEE Spectrum website. I enjoyed reading Kim Stanley Robinson's 10 Favorite Mars Novels and CMU Team's Google Lunar X Prize efforts. There is an interview with Madhavan Nair, head of ISRO,...
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June 3, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Racists, Nazi-sympathisers. It's a typical example of how, if you let them, the ugly-at-heart would try to twist democratic processes to grab power. Stop them. Here's view under the hood....
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Highly Allochthonous 11.05.2009
Eruptions 11.05.2009
Not Exactly Rocket Science 11.05.2009
Corpus Callosum 11.05.2009
Starts With a Bang 11.04.2009
