Day-Trip Every once in a while I post a poem in my blog. I hope that my readers may enjoy my poems and that educators may find them helpful as teaching aids. For a very long time in the UK people…

Really, does anything more need to be said?   Patrick, where were you when this was filmed??

Really, does anything more need to be said?   Patrick, where were you when this was filmed??

My talk on evolutionary imagery at the Centre For Inquiry. Here is a video posted by the Centre For Inquiry Canada of a talk I gave in Toronto a few months ago. Larry Moran was my gracious host, and…

Fear blinds us, immobilizes us, and makes fools of us. Scary stories abound on the internet, through emails, and in conversations, and dangers lurk in the dusty corners waiting to pounce on us and…

Sitting in a balcony facing a forest in the apartment of our daughter I wonder where the botanists have gone. In our times it was common site to see lots of botanists tracking the woods and…

If you look at the Pines sitting in your balcony you will wonder why they growth taller and taller and their apex moves towards the sky in straight line. You can see apical dominance. What provides…

At Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz writes on fan movie art While a lot of fan art is just a time-killing diversion, some of it is valuable because it situates P.R. material within a larger conversation…

At Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz writes on fan movie art While a lot of fan art is just a time-killing diversion, some of it is valuable because it situates P.R. material within a larger conversation…

This guy is really talented.    As Anita Ashbaugh wrote, "As I was watching this I was thinking "how cool" because it's a skeleton. If the marionette had been a clown, for instance, I'd…

This guy is really talented.    As Anita Ashbaugh wrote, "As I was watching this I was thinking "how cool" because it's a skeleton. If the marionette had been a clown, for instance, I'd…

When I was in my late teens, my father (a chemical engineer) took an interest in quantum mechanics.  Two words from his conversation at that time stuck in my mind, namely Hamiltonian and…

A group of former Scienceblogs.com folks have created Scientificblogging.org - an aggregator for science blogs. Science.alltop.com by the legendary Guy Kawasaki did such a good job at this it caused…

A group of former Scienceblogs.com folks have created Scientificblogging.org - an aggregator for science blogs. Science.alltop.com by the legendary Guy Kawasaki did such a good job at this it caused…

Palace of winds or Hawamahal of Jaipur is one the landmark or monuments. If you climb up the monument you can see the Nahargarh fort or Tiger fort once den or tiger is now a barren hills . Hope some…

Janter Manter of Jaipur is now world heritage site but what about hills of Jaipur. Most of plants are cut and taken away as headloads by women for fuel. Termite attack is destroying large number of…

A view of Jaigarh fort from the Amber fort of Jaipur tells the untold story written on the hills, barren hills with no vegetation. As a botanist one may cry but how many of are us botanists nowMost…

Late Professor B. Tiagi was a great botanist who taught almost all the people or now teachers  ( or now retired teachers ) who worked all over Rajasthan in the period hailing from 1960s to 1990s…

Tylophora Indica ( Asclepiadaceae)   Root or leaf powder is used in diarrhoea, dysentery and intermittent fever. Dried leaves are emetic diaphoretic and expectorant. It is regarded as one…

Look at a waterfall for 30 seconds. Now look at something stationary. The stationary object will appear to drift upwards. The same phantom movement is true after stepping off an airport walkway: if…