The 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species is coming up next week, and even the creationists are celebrating. In fact one of them is giving out free copies of Darwin's seminal…

Robotic Surrogate Takes Your Place at Work Having one of those days where even a hearty bowl of Fruit Loops and Jack Daniels can't get you out of bed? A telepresence  robot can come into…

The decision to pursue physics in my tertiary years sprang from a rather naive mindset of my youth: the belief that this constantly evolving field had cracked open the chest of mysteries that we…

Pharmacognostical studies on Calotropis procera (Ait.) R.Br. Anita Kumari and Ashwani Kumar Calotropis procera (Asclepiadaceae) is a wild shrub, which grows upto a height of 1-3 m and its leaves are…

This is cool. AKA know as "Chaos Theory"....Just an underlying manifestation of nature. All is connected in weird ways in which we do not understand. This video being one of them. Mathematics and…

Scientific Name Apium graveolens Linn. Family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) Used Part Fruits. Distribution Area An erect, annual or biennial herb, wild in the foot-hills of north-western Himalayas…

Some of these plants of family Fabaceae are as follows :- 1. Acacia catechu Willd. ‘Khair’ (Mimoeaceae) :- The bark decoction is taken in the morning and evening for 3 days in stomachache . 2.…

Many plant names appear in similes and metaphors in Hindi literature e.g. the red lips of the beloved have been compared with red flowers of kachnar (Bauhinia variegata Linn.) and of the silk cotton…

Plant genetic transformation and molecular markers By Ashwani Kumar Pointer Publishers Jaipur India pp 288 ISBN 978-81-7132-613-6 The last three decades have seen momentous developments in plant…

Biotechnology for food, health and environment Ashwini Kumar Department of Botany University of Rajasthan Jaipur 302004. biotechnology has been increasingly applied to crop agriculture. The…

"What should be the role and focus of biotechnology in the agricultural research agendas of developing countries?" 1. Introduction The second conference to be hosted in the year 2002 by the FAO…

Today CNN features a short video with an interview to Professor Nielsen, the mastermind behind the whole "Higgs comes back from the future to prevent its own creation" crap.  I wrote about the…

Thursday, September 10, 2009 Yes work will be good for you. Some times "we" think too much. I know I do. Instead of living in the moment we project our fears into the future and create a reality…

Friday, October 16, 2009 Consciousness and the brain - my response to you tube's "Quantum Phyics" welcome to the martrix Bill A Peoples October 16 at 4:08pm AFTER SPELL CHECK LOL--- Max Planck…

The “Om” from you tube is profoundly pleasant. I agree with the traditions, thoughts and expressions presented here. Obviously based on Sanskrit’s from Buddhism and Hinduism I still agree with the…

What is the most important object physicists manipulate everyday? My answer with no hesitation is : the Lagrangian ! What is it? simply the object that contain everything one need to know about a…

No fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated extermination of its inhabitants. - Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle Read the feed:

They laugh now, but within 10 years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research. See more excellence at xkcd.

Possibly I have found it: Species of Opisthoteuthis are the most compressed, in the anterior-posterior axis, of any cephalopod. Mmmm! Syrup, anyone?

The siltstones, sandstones, mudstones and conglomerates of the Chuckanut Formation were laid down about 40-54 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, a time of luxuriant plant growth in the…