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Why Scientists won’t use Twitter…

Twitter doesn’t need an introduction. The microblogging service is widely popular, and most Twitter users swear by its wonderful utility. It is a “Social Commons”, as one enthusiastic web junkie put it. But a few months into using Twitter, I realised that there are very few scientists – and I mean natural scientists, on Twitter. [...]

PHD Comics: Abstract Mad Libs

  One of the most accurate templates of an abstract I’ve seen. Tags: phd, comics, humour, abstract

Bio Majors

Tags: biology, rocks, cuttlefish, xkcd

Observer finds proof Qasab is Pakistani

London: Reinforcing India’s assertion that the Mumbai attacks had Pakistani links, a leading daily here said on Sunday that the lone surviving terrorist belongs to a village in Okara district of Pakistan’s Punjab, an “active” recruiting ground for Lashkar-e-Taiba.Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, alias Qasab, interrogated in custody after the terror attacks that killed 183 people, [...]

What They Hate About Mumbai

  By SUKETU MEHTA     November 29, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor MY bleeding city. My poor great bleeding heart of a city. Why do they go after Mumbai? There’s something about this island-state that appalls religious extremists, Hindus and Muslims alike. Perhaps because Mumbai stands for lucre, profane dreams and an indiscriminate openness. Mumbai is [...]

The World Watches.

Mumbai shootings: Reaction in quotes There has been widespread international condemnation of the series of shootings across the Indian city of Mumbai in which more than 100 people have been killed and many more injured. PAKISTANI PRESIDENT ASIF ALI ZARDARI The attacks in Mumbai have claimed many innocent victims and remind us, yet again, of [...]

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Wisdom from the Songs

“Freedom, oh Freedom, that’s just some people talking… Your prison is walking, with you in this world all alone.”   The Eagles , in “Desperado” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsLylyEoLDo”]

Dortmund Vs. Shalke

Living in Germany one can’t really escape the Football madness. Yesterday, Schalke played against Dortmund – both teams bitter rivals, at Westfalionstadion in Dortmund. Now you have to understand the context here – When it comes to Schalke and Dortmund, the football games are not games. It’s personal…emotions are raging…and there is a lot of [...]

Twitter Replies from the Twitverse

Twitter allows to reply to people you are following by appending an “@<username>” in front of the message. But unfortunately, the person you are trying to reply to doesn’t see this reply if they, in turn, are not following you. Of course this impedes some communication , but it turned out that all you had [...]