I had been a apple computer user for the past 5 years and immensely enjoyed the hardware and the software. But, all good things come at a price. Apple’s price for a polished user experience has lately turned out to…
A Little Wit. A Little Wisdom. Lots of India.
March 12th, 2010
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More Schopenhauer
Lack of understanding [is] called stupidity; deficiency in the application of the faculty of reason to what is practical we [recognize] as foolishness; deficiency in power of judgement as silliness; finally, partial or even complete lack of memory as madness……
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Peepoo Bag
A poo bag that can make a difference to a lot of people in need, especially women and children. The PeePoo site.
[via NDTV, thanks Ramya.] Read the comments on this post…
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March 10th, 2010
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A Geological Ode To Charles Darwin
And so really, it’s just a scandal that the biologists have absconded with Darwin’s memories…..He’s ours. He’s a geologist, and we’re filing a class action suit..
Geophysicist Ross Stein of the USGS makes a good case in a discussion which…
March 4th, 2010
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Middle Ages March
As far as possible I try to avoid writing about the teaching of evolution and opposition to climate change in this country because of their overly politicized nature, but this piece in the NYT is one that no one can…
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The difference between thinking and thinking hard
Is there a difference between thinking and thinking hard? I mean, thinking is thinking. How can you say if someone is thinking hard or not?
Well, I am going to first call on Newton to tell you what that difference is.…
March 3rd, 2010
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A promising book falls apart
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were such horrific and singular historical events that any new retelling of them deserves to be read seriously. It was with such thoughts that I picked up Charles Pellegrino’s “The Last Train From…
March 2nd, 2010
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Marshall Nirenberg (1927-2010)
In the latest issue of Cell, Edward Scolnick offers a moving and insightful tribute to his former mentor, Marshall Nirenberg. Nirenberg won the Nobel Prize for Medicine along with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert Holley for one of the most…
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Genetic History Of Indian Populations
Partha P. Majumder summarizes population level genetic data from south Asian populations in a special issue of Current Biology on Archaeogenetics, the attempted synthesis of archaeology and genetics. The paper is open access.
South Asia — comprising India, Pakistan, countries in…
February 24th, 2010
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Mapping India: Can The RTI Be Extended To The NSDI
A clarion call seems to have been issued by the high priests of Indian government spatial data–
Resistance is futile…join the collective.
The Borg in this case is the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), an ambitious, much needed, slowly being built but…
