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Morning Science Quote

Most American dictionaries do not distinguish between dynamic and dynamical. There is good reason to do so, however. Dynamic means changing. Dynamical is what concerns change. The position of an artificial satellite changes rather rapidly by earthbound st ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 5 2010 - 6:00am

Morning Science Quote

There may remain theorems whose confirmation is technologically infeasible; thes can be assigned to the category of "harmless." Theorems for which confirmation is logically impossible should be discarded as meaningless.- Foster Morrison, The Art ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 6 2010 - 6:00am

Cell Phone Radiation May be Good For You!

Well after all the alarmist talk about cell phone radiation causing brain tumors, now we have a new study that suggests that it may improve your memory. Specifically there is a suggestion that it may prevent or even reverse Alzheimer's, at least in mi ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 6 2010 - 8:30pm

Solid Space, Private Space, And Open Space

I've often run into the idea of 'realspace' (or 'meatspace') versus 'virtual reality' (or 'the Internet').  The concept is that they are two often separate worlds.  I disagree with that, and feel there are three ...

Article - Project Calliope - Jan 6 2010 - 10:57pm

Google is a verb

The deadlines for reports, projects, assignments make the students grumpy and tired. The pressure of preparing manuscripts and taking out those fine print make them work no end. However, little do they realize when the aspiring scientists had no access to ...

Blog Post - Payal Joshi - Jan 7 2010 - 5:43am

There’s a lot in the name, Shakespeare!

Bon Jour everyone. Recently, I attended a three day pharmaceutical conference at Ahmedabad. Conferences are events which always teach me about the venue rather than the scientific communication. During the meet, I met people of all shapes and sizes and es ...

Blog Post - Payal Joshi - Jun 27 2010 - 12:04pm

Smile away

Sunshine smile is the most amazing expressions on a human face. Cheeky chuckles, blushing ones, blah, blah are the happy expressions on the human face. What happens when the sunshine smile is converted into ghastly graphics making pace in the normal commu ...

Blog Post - Payal Joshi - Jun 27 2010 - 12:03pm

Staying off Facebook

Every now and then, someone invites me to join some social network, and the same thing usually happens:- I sign up, enter in some subset of the usual 'profile' questions (especially the personal section is worth looking out for)-I find a few peo ...

Blog Post - Payal Joshi - Jun 27 2010 - 11:36am

Late Morning Science Poem

...Why are you so insistent on the sweeping Poetry of sky and sea? Are you, then, fonder Of the circumference of earth's impounding Than of some sphere on which the mind might blunder, If you, with irrepressible will, abounding In..                   ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 8 2010 - 12:03pm

Morning Science Quote

Science is inextricably interwoven with cosmology, with theology, with epistemology, with ethics, politics, and psychology, all of them crucial to exploration into the human condition. A cosmology cannot be taken seriously that is not consistent with mode ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 11 2010 - 9:35am