Random Thoughts

Walking through the main campus of Reading University, where they have been planting a lot of saplings recently, I came across this: With the sun getting stronger, and the leaves not yet out, one…

I went to an old link to the Kids Science Zone ("Awesome Science for Kids"), kidssciencezone.com/astronomy.  It said "Nothing found!" Oh, wait, the top-level structure had changed, so I clicked…

I'm Back - With an Apology I have been absent from science20.com for some time due to illness.  I apologize for not reponding to the many comments and emails I have received in my absence. I was…

Despite my chronic lack of time these days, I always manage to find ten minutes for a blitz chess game on the internet. It is a total waste of time and brain energy, but it never fails to provide…

If a site like the Huffington Post takes a fair use snippet of your article here and then links to you, their snippet will rank higher in Google than your actual article in keywords related to your…

Balancing the demands of work, parenting, blogging, autism advocacy and more can at times be daunting. My mind is a whirring jumble of thoughts, pinching worries that eat away at me, and an…

Finally, it looks like Silvio Berlusconi will be tried. The judge for preliminary investigations has accepted the request of an immediate trial, put forth by the magistrates who collected a large…

If I were to brag about the most exciting and defining moments of India's proud and enriching sporting past, like any other Indian, I too would choose from this willow game. May be I deserve to owe…

Just that I was recovering from a tooth ache and being lectured upon dental anesthetics, that I came across an interesting experiment on understanding pain.  I hope this can alleviate the pain…

If I could do Calliope as a full-tilt project, not just a hobby venture, I would make it involve transmedia and gaming.  As life goes, I had neither opportunity nor talent to come up with, say,…