During my last 5 years of stay in America, the one thing that has always managed to perplex me about this country is how much of a dichotomous heart it manages to hide under its own twinkling skin. This dichotomy is in its simultaneous sanctuary to the conservative and the ultra liberal, the billionaire and [...]
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My experiments with life: Sleep Deprivation
I have lately been in an unusually experimental mood. One of the main reasons for this is my renewed fascination with research which has encouraged a resurgence of the ‘curious character’ in me – which, by the way, is also behind the continuing lull in updates on this blog. Anyway, it has always seemed fascinating [...]
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Oh the donutity!
The other day Himanshu said, ‘a donut and a bagel were sitting side by side.’ And I doubled up laughing! The possibilities are limitless.
Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, [...]
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What?
I realize that I have not written in almost a month. And I can almost not form coherent sentences already. I have even started finding it hard to finish se. And as far as proper, to the point sentences and understandable, well knit ideas are concerned – ideas which require neither grammatical dexterity and verbal [...]
Soccer and Cricket
I have been following the soccer world cup with a certain degree of regularity over the last few days. Now, I have never been as ardent a fan of soccer as a lot of my friends have been but I have been sucked into the maelstrom by the waves of passion which must necessarily exist [...]
Gulf Oil Spill
It has been 50 days since the Gulf oil spill started and the news media and the internet have since then been inundated, often confusingly, with various estimates of the amount of oil leaking into the ocean every day. We heard 1000 barrels in the beginning, then 5000, then 12000-25000. I was watching CNN today [...]
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Neutron stars, sugar cubes, and squeezed humans
The wikipedia article on Neutron star says the following, ‘The density of a neutron star is approximately equivalent to the mass of the entire human population compressed to the size of a sugar cube.’ I hope we can all agree that whoever came up with the idea of measuring the density of stars in the [...]
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Feynman
If I could have one wish fulfilled, listening to this man in person would be at the top of the list. Above world peace and unlimited chocolates!
Bishop’s gambit
Throughout the last 4 years I have been fortunate enough to have had the company of friends who are not only smart people but have an intelligent and curious outlook towards the world. I think that it is relatively easy to be good at something, anything if only you start early enough and work relentlessly [...]