Emergent Noise

Guess what, 48 hour flood warning again, and the chief minister of the state asks people to stay at home. Apparently, the water logging has already started in some places and traffic is beginning to halt. … The tide is going out though, so it will hopefully take a turn for the better.

This last week has been the most chaotic week in memory, not just my memory, but Mumbai’s memory as well. In brief, on Tuesday, 26th July, it rained, and rained like hell…and that’s putting it mildly. Never before had Mumbai recieved 900mm (yes!) rainfall ina period of 24 hours. Entire neighbourhoods went under 9 . . . → Read More: When the Rain Gods were angry….

Finally, Autumn Sem-05 begins tomorrow. The updates so far have been few and rather far between, and they will be even more so now. I am thinking of moving this computer over to my room at IIT if I really need to. But since I have not yet gotten a handle over my time-table . . . → Read More: The day has dawned…

As many of us realized, Linux is really powerful *if* one can get it to work, which is usually a herculean task. I read a lot of blogs and forums on Linux, and here is a very funny and informative post from a frustrated user : I’ve been using computers since 1979, when the . . . → Read More: Die, Linux, Die!!

As usual, biology has proven to be far more complex than one expects. One doesnt think the dark depths of the ocean could support anything but chemosynthesis…however :

Grow in the Dark: Bottom-dwelling bacterium survives on geothermal glow

A microbe discovered in the deepest, darkest reaches of the Pacific Ocean makes its living in . . . → Read More: Biology breaks Trends

I’ve been reading the book by the Richard P. Feynman. And its a wierd book…because it moves from the laughable, to the insightful , to the abstract, to the human, to the philosophical side and to the scientific side of things almost as instantly as you can say “Poof”. (I don’t know why you’d . . . → Read More: Surely, you’re joking, Mr.Feynman !

On the TIFR website, a photo of Aditee and Sarada is found as follows :

You can check this link : Photoor this one, to verify : Album

Last time I checked, Sarada looked like this :

Are you inhaling too many things in that lab , Sar?

PS : Yes, you’re . . . → Read More: Mutation !!

Today , at night, I couldn’t sleep again, and so I started going through some of my old stuff. And look what I found : In 1998, I was in Nairobi , Kenya. And the school took us on a trip to Mombasa (a coastal town in Kenya with a similar history to Mumbai) . . . → Read More: Old Memories