Are you in Chennai this week?

Then go checkout the Shaastra Festival at IIT where a lot of very smart people would be talking. Via nonoscience.
If you are going, can you take a audio recorder or a camcorder with you and get us the fine moments of science from there?

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Yours truly is travelling to his beloved country early morning today for three weeks (real early, am sleepless in amersham). Expect a short break at this blog for the next few days.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 has been awarded to John C. Mather andGeorge F. Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

Selva: first instalment of a podcast of Arno Penzias lecture and transcript is up here at my blog. check out...more to come tonight...