Pi Clock
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Author Archives: Venkat
Holiday Book List
Forbes has these recommendations for gift (giving and receiving) for 2011 holidays What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite by David DiSalvo Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the … Continue reading
Physics of surrealism
Could not get better. Source: Troll Science
Hacking epson inkjet to print graphene circuits
Arxiv.org paper from University of Cambridge group has incredibly intelligent method of using a commodity epson deskjet printer to print large area graphene devices. Starting with flakes of pure graphite, they exfoliated layers of graphene using liquid phase technique using N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP) as … Continue reading
Google honours Stanislaw Lem
Google has published a little animated puzzle in honour of Stanislaw Lem on the 60th anniversary of the publication of his short stories collection The Cyberiad! My own tribute to the master (in Tamil) is here. And you can read … Continue reading
English making us Dyslexic?
As a non-native english speaker, I am always amused when native speakers ask me how do you spell it? I go on to say V-E-N-K and she repeats BEN. NOOOO… It is V, as in Victor. OK.. VENK-A-T . It … Continue reading
Royal Society opens its archives
Royal Society (UK) has announced that it is opening its archives free for public access. Great news for science nerds and historians (and sociologists and cultural anthropologists…). These archives include the first ever peer reviewed scientific paper, Treasures in … Continue reading
Requirements to read Frontiers in Bioscience Journal
Science advances rapidly, technology leaps, however scientific journals can not keep pace with them. Frontiers in Bioscience journal has the following system requirements to browse the journal: The minimum system requirements for browsing the journal and the virtual library are … Continue reading
The Onion on Nobel Prize
Though a bit late, this one is too good to miss; The Onion reports on this years Nobel Prize announcement. A special mention is about the Chemistry Prize: triumphant fans of the 2011 laureates mobbing Stockholm streets last week, breaking … Continue reading
Canadian Ivy League Universities
Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report (Download PDF) lists Ivy League universities in Canada. With University of Toronto topping the list, there are totally 5 universities (out of the total from Southern Ontario region : U of Toronto, Queens, Western … Continue reading