It doesn’t happen everyday … an Indian for Nobel … not that there’s any dearth of talent (in fact we have it better), but there are several other factors … anyway, it’s awesome. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, currently in MRC lab in cambridge will be getting the 2009 Nobel in Chemistry ( alongwith Thomas A. Stitz and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
3 Jul
Who says religion isn’t science ??
At this college there was an extra credit question “Is hell endothermic or exothermic” This is what one kid wrote: First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell [...]
8 Apr
It ain’t easy
Prequel : Project … hunted ! Hmmm … There are many subtle nuances that have to be kept in mind while you do this project. Not at all that easy. The pre-planning is very very important. Have to proceed very carefully, for the territory is vastly unknown, though familiar. For example, we were thinking of [...]
31 Mar
Project … hunted !
When you think like ‘how-to-do, when-to-do, why-to -do’ before ‘what-to-do’, you’re in a total mess. Gotta venture first with something in mind, and then only you see new avenues opening up one after another. My one-and-a-half-yr long project seems to be settled. By a very happy turn of events, it’s the ‘deadly’ combination of me [...]
14 Jan
Brain-chewer Mathematica
Only a week into the 2nd sem and already hands full, maybe i’ll say overflowing. Studies aside,- where also, to my utter disappointment, my least favorite linear algebra has very much infiltrated into Stat,- have to copy writings into this year’s taking-shape-wall-mag, “Raman Effect”. And on top of that, this freak Mathematica contest. Got to [...]
9 Jan
Brainstorming
This was the third and last rung of the scholarship exam, JBNSTS, the Scientific Creativity test. A weirdo, of course, of an exam, because it lasted 30 hrs ! There were 32 students in total, each one given 8 questions, 2 each from phy, chem, math, and bio in the morning of 5th. We had [...]
9 Dec
Homeopathy, …… we’re still not there
Surely I am not taking sides. Just as ‘once upon a time Biology was termed ‘voodoo science’, now this branch of the so called larger group ‘alternative medicine’ is branded pseudoscience, thanks to some stubborn docs and equally, perhaps more, stubborn medicine-giants. Of course the underlying basics of homeopathy are somewhat ‘holistic’. To the current [...]
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