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• Naughty Sooty [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:29 pm

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  42 baby guinea pigs from his two nights of passion. link Read the comments on this post...

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• Not politics, not war, but sports [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:47 am

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  The Hindu on the Asian cup win of Iraqi team. "In 90 minutes, 11 men on a soccer pitch thousands of miles away have made millions of Iraqis happy while 250 MPs, our government, the mullahs, imams and warlords can't provide us with a single smile. I hope this is a turning point for our country." Read the comments on this post...

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• A mental fart in the general direction of religion [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:01 pm

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  Humans evolved over millions of years. It wasn't inevitabe, it wasn't predictable, it wasn't random either. It just was. It has taken incomprehensible amount of time to evolve the complexity needed in our neural clumps to hold reasoned representations of the world. Considering this biological history, it is safe to say that it will take

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• I am very cross with Evolution [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:36 am

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  What you have always suspected to be true is probably true. Intercourse and Intelligence at Gene Expression. ...intelligent people have lower libidos and less masculine physiques. What hormone is responsible for both sex drive and masculine builds? That's right: testosterone. And two new papers suggest that testosterone may depress IQ. One team

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• Economist on OLPC [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:38 am

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  "..trying to produce such an extraordinary product as a laptop that is kid-proof and capable of working in jungles, deserts or the bush, miles from the nearest grid connection, and all for the cheapest possible price, has concentrated minds remarkably. The XO offers a lesson for laptop-makers everywhere" -link Earlier posts on OLPC. Read the

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• Our World today [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:04 am

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  War, genocide Darfur Congo Iraq Climate Change, flood China India, Bangladesh Britain What shall we tell our children? Read the comments on this post...

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• Dreaming of Conscious Artificial Intelligence? [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:12 pm

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  A while back I read an essay on Artificial Intelligence at TR by David Gelernter wherein, besides other things, he discusses where AI research stands at present (the short answer, nowhere). Like all discussions on AI, it inevitably led to the question of Consciousness. As always, I promptly got confused about it. What is it? Is it an

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• Please give me the banana. Not half a banana, dammit, the whole banana. [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:22 am

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  A charade involding six orangutans and two psychologists. Read the comments on this post...

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• Scientology is scary [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:22 am

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  Very scary, like a plague of ambulance chasers. The video quality is not very good but that should not put you off from some of the very serious issues raised. Check this video [graphic at places] Scienceblogs posts on scientology Read the comments on this post...

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• If you access emails from open Wifi hotspots [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:13 pm

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  If you access emails from open Wifi hotspots, you want to read this at Slashdot. "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies very quickly over connections without encryption. He even

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• Seeing patterns and interpreting them too [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:13 am

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  We see patterns in the clouds, in the shadows of a dark street, in the martian sands, and sometimes even in the grime of dirty vessels (I see Saturn's rings in my coffee cup right now). Like our dreams, we are free to interpret patterns in any way we want, and we usually use that freedom to get all poetic and sentimental (or violent and scary, in

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• "You stupid or something? Read the fucking label", sincerely, PepsiCo & Coca-Cola [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:23 am

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  This is old news, but there are lot of people who may not know and still keep buying into the bottled water scam. Check the recent Economist article. "SO THE emperor really isn't wearing any clothes. Last week PepsiCo announced that the label on its Aquafina brand of bottled water will soon carry the words "public water source", instead of simply

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• The stigma of mental illness in India [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:29 am

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  An NDTV report on confinement compounds for mentally ill people. Another instance where the financial buden, social stigma and scientific illiteracy leads to vulnerable people being incarcerated. Read the comments on this post...

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• Women of the world, rejoice! [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:01 am

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  Beebs reports that you can now drink many a cuppa joes to stay sharp as you age. "French researchers compared women aged 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee per day with those who drank one cup or less per day. Those who drank more caffeine showed less decline in memory tests over a four year period. The study, published in the

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• Yangtzse River dolphin is no more [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:38 am

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  Baiji, the Yangtzse River dolphin, is now extinct after having lived in the Yangtzse river for the past 20 million years. In the 1950s several thousand baiji, as the dolphins are known in Chinese, were thought to swim in the Yangtze. The last authenticated record was in 2001. By the end of 2006, an expedition by the team triggered reports that

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