Any 600 million productrion of Jatropha would need involvement of all those who have worked for years in DBT projects and developed accessions and high yielding plants. (Kumar 2008)

You can get it by going to the Insert menu and choosing Object…, and the selecting Microsoft Equation.        

"Quidquid oritur, qualecumque est, causam habet a natura. Cum autem res nova et admirabilis fieri videtur, causam invetigato, si poteris, ratione confisus. Si nullam causam reperis, illud tamen…

Clogged arteries everywhere are taking sides in the sure-to-be epic battle for your cholesterol-induced death. The Phoenix Sun Times opens the article with the following paragraph: "A battle of the…

Former failed CEO and current political candidate Carly Fiorina has campaign staff who don't mind thinking outside the box a little. How far outside?   Portraying your opponent as a demonic…

As I search the Net on freelance writing assignments, I bookmark science and technology news, tools and toys that extend my attention-span into wondering. Paying scientific attention is a distinct…

I saw that mathematics was split up into numerous specialties, each of which could easily absorb the short lifetime granted to us. Consequently, I saw myself in the position of Buridan's ass which…

Random Noise #20 : Aude Alteram Partem Aude Alteram Partem - hear the other side - is a principle of administrative and natural law which states that a fair hearing requires that both sides of a…

According to the lede in a recent New Scientist article: Spammers’ own trickery has been used to develop an “effectively perfect” method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer…

What is spacetime geometry?     Think of a very large ball. Even though you look at the ball in three space dimensions, the outer surface of the ball has thegeometry of a…

Media Wakes Up From Coma The media is currently reporting on 'mind-reading' experiments using brain scanners.  Whilst the 'yes-no' response is news, the use of brain scanners to detect awareness…

The debate of food vs fuel is an excuse for putting lame excuses for our failures to retain productivity level of the farmlands, irregular practices of growing crops in the areas where they should…

Go check out Carnival of Evolution # 20 at Skeptic Wonder. This month's issue includes a metagenomic analysis of the carnival submissions. (I get a fairly long phylogenetic branch of my own!) Go…

    What Is The ‘Reality’ For The Observer Who Is Observing A Person?     February 3, 2010 – Damascus, Syria   Ayad Gharbawi       The definition/s of a Mind…

The current system for allocating grant money favors senior investigators with established labs over junior faculty with smaller labs and shorter track records, and conservative projects that are…

Those of you who primarily follow this blog by RSS should come check out some of the remodeling done around here: Hot Topics: Scientific Blogging has some outstanding writers, who are now coming…

An integrated approach is needed to mitigate climate change it needs social change in thinking process also. The bigger is better. More consumption is sign of prosperity. I can purchase gas , petrol…

IS IT TRUE WHAT WE PERCEIVE? REMEMBERING THE CONCEPT OF SENSORY UNIVERSE   Two weeks ago I started to experience a compression of the maxillary branch of the left trigeminal nerve. Let me tell…

To celebrate my 1st anniversary writing for this site, I thought it time to update my biography here.  You'd think I'd have one ready, but in fact I can't stop with just one.  Having too…

"Why three families ? Why the particular symmetry structure ? [...] If the Higgs particle turns out to exist as conventionally described, with a reasonably low mass (say less than 200 GeV) then that…