Category: Odds But Not Ends
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There was a song dedicated to the victims of the 7/7 attack in London, cut out of the NBC's footage that was shown yesterday, instead replaced with a vapid interview of Michael Phelps. Click here to read the article and view the footage (sorry, no embedded link is available) Might the cut have been in…
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The motto below the cat picture, "He who dislikes the cat, was in his former life, a rat." seems no longer apt. We have been seriously maligning rats, who apparently show empathetic behavior and even a degree of altruism that was hitherto unsuspected. Or maybe just unnoticed and unstudied. "The first evidence of empathy-driven helping…
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A friend sent me the link to this interesting web game and I am pretty impressed with the results. I have played it a few times and I can see that it can become quite an addictive distraction. The batting average of the Akinator in my hands is pretty impressive so far. Here are some of the "characters" it identified for…
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A wonderful article at 3 Quarks Daily by Ryan Sayre. Enjoy.
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Here is an alternate view of Jesus' resurrection. This story makes its rounds every year around Easter in one form or the other and it is not really as new as the BBC report makes it out to be. I had heard it many times as a child in India. The reason why the Rozabal shrine has only recently been getting attention…
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An interesting story in Thursday's Houston Chronicle about a scientist's decades long wait to patent an invention. There are no details of the exact bureaucratic snarl that held up the application for so long. But I suspect that the back and forth between the physicist and the patent office may have resembled Narayan's experience with Aetna when…
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Meet a composer without arms, legs or human faculties. Emily Howell is the name given to a software program created by David Cope: "With Cope’s help, Emily Howell has written three original opuses of varying length and style, with another trio in development. Although the first recordings won’t be released until February, reactions to live…
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Is it her art or her age that charms? A Twisted Sense of Humor Is it a leaf or..?
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Since Ruchira has already proclaimed her (Ir)Religious Manifesto, I thought that I might talk briefly about mine. Some of the time, I fit somewhere on the continuum between Atheism and Agnosticism. It's like the flavor of the month. If I feel in a mood to be 'mysterian', I claim Agnostic leanings. If I feel mystery…
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The Chinese enthusiastically await President Obama. He is by far the most popular foreign leader in China. To commemorate the visit artists have created the likeness of Obama in Chinese Red Guard uniform on t-shirts and other paraphernalia (not for sale) and a flaming Obama statue (because he is so hot).
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Actually, this is all about the automobile. Normally, given the same circumstances – on an interstate feeder road near a hurricane levee between Houston and Galveston, a car veers off into 3 feet of water and no one is hurt, the news would have only made it to the police blotter or perhaps garnered a few lines in the local news…
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It was a small volume tossed carelessly in with the rest of the frayed spines on the Public Library bookshelf : "Love of Seven Dolls" by Paul Gallico.He was one of my favorite authors as a teen, and this was one book that intrigued me, with a faded rendition of a full-skirted girl looking at…
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