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The Life and Times of a Cellular Signal

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

In science, it is a well known fact that in the process of applying extending theories to the real world, it 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 [...]

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Reigning in Evolution

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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 little [...]

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A New Perceptive Model for Science

Friday, July 17, 2009

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 why society in [...]

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Why Scientists won’t use Twitter…

Sunday, February 15, 2009

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. [...]

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