"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for." -Marian Wright Edelman The psychology of entitlement. It seems that research, op-eds, rants, and satire are increasingly focused…

I was watching Jesse Ventura's show on Global Warming today. He went after those who are promoting Global Warming as a way to increase their pocket books. He had interviewed one of the business…

When some one iterrupted me and told me that he has seen Jatropha growing on bare rocks I could not deny this fact but when people say its a plant for wasteland and Government of over 30 countries go…

Separation science has seen glamour and growth with ever-increasing demand for analysis ranging from environmental, toxicological to forensics. The list is endless and the genre is getting narrower…

The latest issue of Cell has some goodies on synthetic and systems biology: "Engineering Static and Dynamic Control of Synthetic Pathways, by William Holtz and Jay Keasling: Maximizing the production…

  What is Space?    A Brief Exposé of our Neglected Stepchild in Physics           By: David Cox…

    SUICIDE OF A WOMAN February, 1995 – London   Ayad Gharbawi   Killing Your only Haunted eye And those that witnessed How frail You are Yawn O! How vile Man is!   And…

    Death Of A Friend   Ayad Gharbawi   Say to us Hurtful Words Of changes to come Impersonal   Waves A-wash Upon hearts Mortified – O days; Gone? Or are you To become…

      AN OLD SUICIDE NOTE     Ayad Gharbawi   From my eye That once Used to win And now Getting to be Upset In my own blood That is still So unreal.   So goodnight…

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I'm fascinated by the effort to reconstruct the Neanderthal life - how they ate, where they lived, their physiology, their cognitive workings, their use of symbols. They were more like us than any…

...Why are you so insistent on the sweeping Poetry of sky and sea? Are you, then, fonderOf the circumference of earth's impoundingThan of some sphere on which the mind might blunder, If you, with…

Shoot. Today I am on strike. This morning I decided to post here an article describing the details of a new result just approved by the CMS collaboration, the observation of a nice signal of phi…

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…

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…

Carbon Sequestration The Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research is using the LI-8100 to monitor soil CO2 flux near the injection well. Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership’s…

I’ve been critical of patents that seem to have been issued for ideas that don’t represent much innovation (most recently, this one, and see more discussion here), extending existing “prior art” only…

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.…

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…

Lately I have been having pains in my shoulder due to leaning to the left while sitting in my computer chair. This has put a strain on the muscles in my shoulder, neck and arm on my left side. I was…