Your ignorance is an asset
How well Benjamin Cohen Rachel Carr captures the sentiment! If I could write half as well.......Posted on July 21, 2008 11:53 AM • 3 Comments •
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The developing world needs its own science journals
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 on July 18, 2008 5:15 AM • 2 Comments •
Dark circles under the eyes
From New Scientist ... rings are often a sign of being chronically worn out, stressed and run-down - tiredness rather than sleepiness. Tired people don't just need more sleep, but a better and more agreeable lifestyle. This is easier said...Posted on July 11, 2008 5:52 AM • 1 Comments •
On Flounder Fish and Software
There are numerous occasions when one has to consider the lifetime of the software one is using or developing (or maintaining, that awful dark side of software). Fortunately or unfortunately, business considerations (budget, in other words) dictate what problems...Posted on July 7, 2008 11:16 AM • 2 Comments •
Biological Ironies
I was watching David Byrne + Daniel Levitin at The Seed Salon yesterday evening and heard Daniel Levitin (the professor dude) talk about how ironic that the brain, which receives sensory inputs from all over the body, does not itself...Posted on July 4, 2008 6:34 AM • 0 Comments •
What happens when you split your brain
What happens when you split your brain in the middle? By splitting I mean the surgical kind where the corpus callosum (the connecting neural tissue between right and left hemispheres) is severed. Why would anyone do that, I hear you...Posted on July 1, 2008 12:32 PM • 11 Comments •
To Get Rich is Glorious
Over the long run income is more powerful than any ideology or religion in shaping lives. No God has commanded worshippers to their pious duties more forcefully than income as it subtly directs the fabric of our lives. -Gregory Clark...Posted on June 26, 2008 12:23 PM • 2 Comments •
Taxi cab number 1729
"I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was...Posted on June 25, 2008 10:37 AM • 0 Comments •
Charming monkeys?
At the Beebs: A group of Indians are planning to present a statue of the revered Indian monkey God, Hanuman, to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The group decided to order the idol after they read a magazine report saying...Posted on June 25, 2008 4:17 AM • 2 Comments •
Add emoticons to your emails!
I was looking for some information on the intertubes and google dropped me onto a website that it thought would help. I found a large block of ad content on the site that said "Add emoticons to your emails!" with...Posted on June 21, 2008 4:28 AM • 1 Comments •
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