The story goes back to a conversation between me and Lothar in the summer of 2005. “Which instrument do you like the most Purushottam?“, He asked. “Piano”, I answered quickly. Though I played only…

Sometimes people are attracted to strange things. I still have trouble figuring out how people procreated in the 1970s and 80s - the hair, the moustaches, boys wearing those teeny short shorts - yuck…

What do you do with a petabyte of data? The question came up during a lunch today with two NASA computing people, on in IT and the other in supercomputing.  Modern satellites are returning…

While searching Scientific Blogging to make sure no one had written anything on a topic I'm about to undertake, I saw the following headline under the Science Codex bar on the bottom right of the…

Biomass currently supplies about a third of the developing countries’ energy varying from about 90% in countries like Uganda, Rawanda and Tanzania, to 45 percent in India, 30 percent in China and…

Biomass contributes a significant share of global primary energy consumption and its importance is likely to increase in future world energy scenarios. Current  biomass use, although not…

Is there an "Air Supply" in the bat world?  Not really, though they seem to have love songs, say  researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin So let's…

Women hedge and issue disclaimers and ask questions when they communicate, all traits that can suggest uncertainty and lack of confidence, but men do the same on gender-specific topics, according to…

UC Santa Barbara scientists have revealed what they call a potential new drug delivery system - a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue. They developed a peptide, a small…

The so-called SHOX gene (short stature homeobox gene) is responsible for the normal growth of bones and is often mutated in short-stature patients. Short stature is considered when final height of an…

An increasing population explosion and rapid industrialization is causing rapid destruction of forests. Nature crude is resulting in green house gas emissions causing population problems. Renewable…

Is music more than the sum of its parts?   We're going to find out if the right words and musical notes can lead to Frankenstein-ish success.A University of Hertfordshire academic says he has…

To start the process, I'm copying a post from my original blog.  I might post some of those entries here. Especially the ones which have  had a decent response. The purpose of joining this…

How can companies get the best possible performance out of their employees? Let them do whatever they want! And furthermore, don't offer incentives. Sound counter-intuitive? Not if you look at what…

Given that this is a social media site, it might be good to know what social media is, and what it can do. Here is an interesting, humorous, but intelligent slide show with a few answers. What the F*…

Today, although fully submerged by an anomalous wave of errands which had been patiently waiting for my return at work, I heroically managed to dig out of the ArXiv a paper worth a close look. The…

Tyler Cowen says the prevalence of individuals falling within autism spectrum make American academe competitive: A lot of people at colleges are aware of dealing with autism (and Asperger's syndrome;…

The non articulated laticifer cell present in C.procera (Asclepiadaceae) are distributed in cortex , phloem region, pith and among parenchyma cells present in the stem. The transverse and…

Behold, I bring thee tidings of the secret to weight loss: it's all in the mind. Simple, eh? And you spent all that money on gym memberships, diet supplements, and Jenny Craig dinners. But before…

While we’re on driving-related comments, there are (at least) two interesting things that differ between Montréal and New York: The signal for a protected left turn in New York is a green arrow…