The Great Ganesha

What are YOU looking at? Oh, my clone? In that case, it’s fine. Keep on looking. The FDA (after a few years of debate) says that food from cloned animals and their progeny is safe to eat. Looks like this thing has been on the back-burner for a while (pun intended, I apologize, I couldn’t [...]

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Well, to start with, there’s Zoloft, Wellbutra, Paxil, Celexa, Cymbalta, Lexapro and of course, the oldie-but-goldie Prozac, to name just a few. If you’re not into prescription drugs, you can load up on the over-the-counter codeine derivatives found in your everyday cough syrup. Then you can go “under the counter” (wink wink, nudge nudge). Hell, [...]

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Sci Fi Tech – the Sci Fi channel’s official blog, has an interview with a very special member of the Geek Squad. The Geek Squad are those brand-manager-manufactured geeks who pretend to know everything about technology in the Best Buy ads and help you resolve your email problems. So, in order to vamp up their [...]

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A friend forwarded me an email about two guys (Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu) who recreated Escher’s 1953 lithograph Relativity using Lego blocks. It’s their fourth such endeavor for an Escher work and – I have to say – a damn cool hobby. Lipson even has a Lego rendition of Rodin’s Thinker. Take a look [...]

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Was browsing through last week’s Economist when I came across this full-page spread on page 84: This is what the first paragraph reads: The State of Maharashtra is the third largest and the most progressive and industrially advanced state in India….Mumbai, country’s leading financial, trading and service centre warrants aviation facilities of highest order. To [...]

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In today’s New York Times: As Beijing?s influence in Asia and around the world has grown, their common interests have forced Tokyo and New Delhi to begin warming their historically chilly relationship and to start forging closer economic ties. ?The key issue facing the whole region is how to accommodate the rise of China,? said [...]

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Was browsing around YouTube this morning and I came across a bunch of animated Ramayana clips. Here’s one on Hanuman (in Hindi), since I’ve blogged about him before, though in another context. They’re made to be in the style of Japanese Anime and I was intrigued, so I did a little bit of research (well [...]

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  ? So it looks like the theory that calculus in India predated Newton’s and Liebnitz’s calculus is back in the news again. I blogged about it in a series of three posts some time back, and it’s good to see that it’s getting some traction. I seriously doubt it will enter the mainstream any [...]

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An article from two weekends ago in the WSJ talks about what happens to a marriage as technology gets more and more programmed for individual use. If you’re married, you know where this is going. He likes techno, she likes rock. He likes sci fi, she likes romantic comedies. And that leads us to some [...]

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I heard on NPR yesterday, that an Italian DJ named Gaudi (a namesake of the original, obviously) has remixed some of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s early work to a reggae beat. He got some forty-year-old reel-to-reel of tapes of unreleased sessions from Khan’s record label and spent two years wading through all of it, isolating [...]

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