In science, it is a well known fact that in extending theories to real-world is as much a question of known “how much” of something is happening, apart from what exactly is happening. Its this crucial aspect that has physicists worrying about adding never ending degrees of precision to any numbers they report (typical . . . → Read More: The Life and Times of a Cellular Signal
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Life is diverse. There is no doubting that. In fact, the diversity has led many to believe that the possibilities offered by the seed of complex interactions, several thousand genes and their myriad products are so large, that we shouldn’t really be surprised at just about anything we see in the biosphere. Adding a . . . → Read More: Reigning in Evolution A bit of good reading, with reference to the writing of a certain holy book. Disclaimer : The following is an excerpt from Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses”. This particular excerpt is , to my knowledge , in the public domain. . . . → Read More: The Satanic Verses Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list . . . → Read More: Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list I write this as a addendum to a series of questions on the power of science and an explanation posted by Sean Caroll at the Cosmic Variance blog. The detailed post on the misunderstandings , elaborates on why scientists can be so sure of their conclusions (when they can form them) and . . . → Read More: A New Perceptive Model for Science I watched a recent TED talk and loved this poem by Felix Dennis – poet, resurrected from drug addiction, and a titan in the publishing industry , who in his own words ‘has too much money to care about it now’. He has a unique style of reciting his poetry, and as for this . . . → Read More: The Better Man The Readability Experiment lets you restyle web pages for better reading. They offer “Bookmarklets” that one can click to re-style a given webpage so that it is easier to read. Ubiquity is an “intelligent” command-line and natural language parser for Firefox. Its hard to explain because of its ubiquitous features( everything from Twitter posts . . . → Read More: Using Ubiquity+Readability Project I’ve been around the forums a bit, and have gotten used to the fact that you have to have pretty thick skin if you are going to state your opinion on the internet. As any veteran on internet discussion forums will tell you, “Argumentum Ad Hominem” is a common method that people fall back . . . → Read More: Net-Hate xkcd – A Webcomic – Correlation You have to be a geek to get this UPDATE 4th July 2009 : Due to lack of time and the fact that similar and much better scripts have been written, I recommend everyone install the Gadget-supported Gmail (ad-less and wide) script. I myself use this script now, and it is done much better. The author also commits to updating the script periodically. . . . → Read More: A Better Gmail (in Firefox only) |
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