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When will we learn?

Of all places, I found an article on reddit about a girl born with eight limbs on the outskirts of Bangalore. Lakshmi is one of those conjoined twins where one twin did not develop completely. What makes her case especially … Continue reading

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Science can be sexy!

Being a wonk (as Brits would say) or a nerd/geek is usually a bad thing. If you’re too interested in science or (god forbid) you choose that as your profession, you can forget about ever being called hot or sexy. … Continue reading

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Design Rocks!

Two friends go trekking in the mountains. Much of the area they were tramping through had not really been explored well before and they were quite excited about being pioneers. After an hour or so of rigorous trekking they came … Continue reading

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Let there be light?

The August 30th, Edition of the Hindustan Times, Mumbai had a column titled “Higher Knowledge, Clearer Concepts” by Asish Arora. This was one of their regular columns called Inner Voice which I assume has to do with some airy, “spiritual” … Continue reading

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Finished!

I finished reading Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything a few days ago. I’d actually put it down for a few days while I read through some other books. (In point of fact, one other book.) I started … Continue reading

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I have the best friends

I came home this evening from work and found a box from Amazon.com! A big surprise, of course! I quickly opened it to find “The Beak of the Finch” by Jonathan Weiner, sent to me as a gift from Rebecca! … Continue reading

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The Panda’s Thumb

I decided to skim through the blogs of my GNE contacts today and was reading Outis‘ blog and came across this post. The post speaks of The Panda’s Thumb, a community blog “dedicated to explaining the theory of evolution, critiquing … Continue reading

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