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  • Nobel Quibbles (Sujatha)

    The Nobel prize for medicine this year has been awarded to HIV and HPV pioneers: Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of France (HIV)  and Harald zur Hausen of Germany (HPV). "Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur won half the prize of 10…

  • Science as Art (Sujatha)

    The 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners.

  • Blown Transformers

    In my home and at the Large Hadron Collider. 

  • It almost happened in Texas

    The Hadron Super Collider near Geneva, Switzerland has been in the news recently. Today is D-Day (some think Doom’s Day), the day scientists all over the world will be eagerly waiting to find out what happens when a bunch of accelerated protons are made to collide with each other, resulting in a spectacular smash-up of matter.…

  • HIV Research News From Houston

    Depending on the topic at hand, our writings frequently reflect our personal feelings, opinions and experience to varying degrees. But that does not necessarily make all our stories "personal." In my inaugural post I had promised readers that Accidental Blogger would serve mostly as a conversational tool between its author [there was only one author at…

  • Sculpting the Mind (Sujatha)

    From an earlier discussion on memory, a chance wrong link sent me on the search for information on neuroscientist Ian H. Robertson. While I couldn’t dig up the much quoted research article regarding the inability of younger people to remember phone numbers as well as the older generation(primarily on blogs, which ought to have thrown…

  • Sunday Selections

    The weather is hot, blog traffic is down and I am out of ideas. So it’s links time again. The stories here range from extra terrestrial thrills to earthly narrow mindedness, with a bit of not so well known history thrown in the mix. Enjoy! Phoenix Mars Lander unearths (un-Martiates?) Martian polar ice.  LOS ANGELES…

  • Read Only (Dean)

    Ruchira nudged the A.B. authors to respond to a recent story in Wired, the magazine that by my lights utterly confuses its content with its ads. "Tell us if you agree or disagree" with the story, she asks, noting incidentally that she agrees. I’m pretty sure I disagree. First, however, I have to decide what…

  • While I was offline

    The Memorial Day weekend at the Paul household was TV and Internet free.  Early Saturday morning our cable service went out of commission and so did the two amenities dependent on it. Our cable provider Comcast blithely informed us that no technician could come out to restore connection any earlier than next Friday, the 30th…