People sometimes ask me how I have access to so much great stuff.   Well, I am somewhat plugged in to other people who find good stuff, like Andrea Kuszewski and Guy Kawasaki on Twitter for…

Two weeks ago we posted a story on Gliese 581g - a planet that was discovered and said to be in the habitable zone of a star.   Our comment was that reduced chi-squared statistics may mean that…

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and, with it, Soviet communism, one of the great joys for this former US Army Signal Corps officer was getting to talk with a former East German officer who came to…

Maurice Allais won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1988.  So why is he of interest here?  His Telegraph Obituary is headed: Maurice Allais, who died on October 9 aged 99, was a Nobel Prize…

I love good comment sections in blogs: Good questions, different opinions, more examples, constructive criticisms, and so on; all this can help to get a much better picture of the issue at hand.…

East and West have developed in different manner. Societies evolved into countries on the global earth not so long ago taking into account history of earth . Man in last 5000 years has evolved What…

Will Jaipur live for another 50 years or not ? There are some reasons to be looked into the matter why Jaipur may not survive another 50 years. 1. Greed of builders to make buildings and selling…

Most of the films in Bollywood show the boy or girl rich or poor hating each other or their parents fighting each other. My foreign Professor once asked me after seeing a movie ( I took great pains…

An article at TBD.com by Amanda Hess is about HIV-positive black gay men.  Okay, so far so good.   But it had an important typo, namely a key letter left out of a word, and the correction…

People considered Jatropha some kind of miracle plant which will produce tonnes of oil without nutrition, water and good land and good seed or good climate. Researchers are not needed. Agrotechnology…

There is a common song these days speak slowly or else father will be awake. I have not seen the film. Its common story of societies struggling to be called modern , they imitate all dresses of the…

Once I was traveling from north to south in a country of almost 6 to 7 hrs of journey by train which bring you out of the country in that time frame. Now the language will change also. As the train…

A French court has just decided a case that will likely have a great deal of effect on online search engines if the decision is upheld after appeals. A French man had been accused of “crimes…

At the dinner held 10 days ago for those who had retired as our department finally closed the day before, my previous PI (until 2002) recommended me to read The Origins of the British: The New…

In one airline I asked for a cup of tea (second time) during an 8 hr flight.   The steward asked “ were you not served before? “  I felt it was a mistake to ask a second time so I…

Today is the last of the International Cephalopod Awareness Days: Squid Day! Naturally Squid-A-Day is feeling very festive. Sorry I missed Day Two--yesterday was the first day of the squid workshop…

Under the science/environment topic, one tidbit of hot news this past week was a paper linking a synergestic effect between a fungus and a virus and the death of honeybee hives.  What was not…

The ChatterBox Arctic Index This index is a work in progress.  I am trying to make it easier for my readers to find articles which may be of interest to them.  Comments are disabled for…

Welcome to October 10th, 2010, 10/10/10, unless you are in Europe, where they will write it 10/10/10 just to be different.  If you are a fan of binary counting, 101010 translated to decimal is…

A new report in Nature Geoscience says there may be large deposits of carbonate sedimentary rocks a few miles beneath the surface of Mars. If substantial carbonate minerals exist it might indicate a…