Dear Chuck,

I commented on the beautiful love trilogy from Torman in between pouring into your works today. I realized from his reply that perhaps he did not remember the importance of today, November 24, 150 years ago in 1859, when this seminal work of scientific literature… Read full post »

 Cartoon sent to me by Sunil Adam for this post...

It is sad to read about my fellow citizens here in the US who do not understand the cultures of the East. It is sad when we, who have immigrated here from the… Read full post »

 

 

           

This magnificently alien looking creature, this gloriously wretched one we call a cockroach, stands out as one of the most fascinating animals in the Kingdom. They are a prominent member of the class Insect… Read full post »

Image credit :NASA

 Happy 10th Anniversary!

Glenn and STS-95 Go to Space

The seven crew members in training for the STS-95 mission aboard Discovery pose for photographers prior to participating in a training session at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Pictured, from the left, are Pedro Duq…

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It is that time in life when all things sane must come to a screeching halt because the son is applying for college. Being an Indian-American parent, I should have known about such things and been all on the ball with facts and figures at my finger tips. I… Read full post »

 

Life reconstruction of the new fossil mammal, as a chipmunk-sized animal. Credit: MA Klingler, CMNH

On October 8, 2009, NSF announced the discovery of a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago. A newly discovered chipmunk-sized animal, named Maotherium asiaticus, has/… Read full post »

 Mr. Tony Blair working the audience

Can anyone explain to me what Mr Tony Blair is really doing in the US? I attended a speech by him tonight. An expensive event. He started by saying all the right things about globalization and inter-connectedness and how… Read full post »

 

It is rather odd to see the world fan up to Gandhi today. Google search has his image up. Montblanc has pens going for £15,500, with him apparently behind this caper, causing a furor; Apple has people “Thinking Differently “with him. I saw the movie “Lage Raho M… Read full post »

 

As opposed to the run from Alaska by Palin, mid-way through her term as governer, the Pacific salmon's amazing story is one of true grit.

Last week my video captured the salmon run take place in… Read full post »

At number....

10:   This was not my doing. Feeling inadequate might make one weep with the devastating loss of self worth. However, if unemployment rates are as high as 10%, chances are... it really was not personal. I have gone through the cycle of denial, anger, frustration and finally ad/… Read full post »

ExxonMobil  will pay SGI to make biofuels from algae.  

Following many years of the nebulous promise of biofuels, the floodgates have officially been opened by a decision taken by ExxonMobil. The world’s second largest company announced that it will spend up to $600 mi… Read full post »

  

Branta canadensis in my lake today! They have procreated with the change of season. The mom did not hear the news about the disaster in human economy, but the birds' biological antenna tells them of things such as extinction, dwindling fresh water, changing weather patterns./… Read full post »

By Tia Ghose

Robo-researcher

Will robots one day replace human scientists at lab benches?

[Published 2nd April 2009 08:01 PM GMT]

Though robots have been essential pieces of research equipment for years, they've mostly handled repetitive, simple tasks that… Read full post »

The World Trade Center -memorial recontsruction site as seen from "The Winter Garden Atrium" last week, March 20, 2009.

 

Lined up like crows on a wire, safe behind the windows beyond which lay the site of previous destruction, I stood watching the large… Read full post »

   

   1989 in Calcutta, India (Now Kolkata). Private complications galore prompted me to apply for research at SUNY, Buffalo, USA. Leaving the husband and my 6 year-old  back home, with the ordeal of passports and visas behind me, a  one-way ticket in the pock/… Read full post »

    Everything was set until I actually read Mishima666's post about getting unread on OS…..

    Till then I was perfectly okay about the visits and kudos on the 2 pieces that I have managed to squeeze out on OS, in between my more important job search. I am very… Read full post »

 

It shimmers free under the skies, tauntingly. Yet every time I look through my lens and capture its beauty, I have it frozen in that thin sliver of time, imprisoned in a frame. I look at it again and yet again and savor every changing mood.  I revel… Read full post »

    Movie watching is a way of life for us in India. As all my Indian army brat-mates will bear out, no one but no one even understands movie watching unless you are one of us. I am talking of movie watching taken to an art form …as in entertainment, socializing,… Read full post »