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Bertrand Serlet — ‘Why AI works’


Miss Marple makes a comeback


News Juxtaposition: Climate Change


Music: lyrics for Nao, by Ritam Sen, Prasen, and Hoodkhola Kobitara


Ancient DNA traces origin of Black Death


Of Cricket, and How Fast Bowling is About More Than Speed


Multi-core parallel processing in Python with multiple arguments


The state of dysfunction in the Indian Congress Party


India’s Independence Day


Human evolution and the role of our grandmothers


Pregnant elephant tortured to death in India: it was fed a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers.


Wriddhiman Saha shines as India wicketkeeper


Celebrating babies’ first laugh


The climate change that helped the dinosaurs


Democracy brings discontent’ in peaceful Bhutan


FIFA updates its ethics code… to fight defamation, not corruption


The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize in literature


Disposable America — A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw. Seriously.


New free street library in Kolkata!


Indian banks contemplate ‘face reading’ to spot doubtful loan seekers


Indian Railways decides to enforce baggage limits


How the smallest programming bugs can be catastrophic


Adios Cassini


Of India’s high-speed rail ambitions, and lazy Indian journalism


Radiolab Podcast: Using flickering lights to treat Alzheimer’s Disease


UK Election: Interesting logistics of the Queen’s speech


Everyday bat vocalizations are rich and complex


How Bayesian inference works


Music: lyrics for Daniken, from Rupam Islam’s Notun Niyom


Music: lyrics for Haowaay Pa, from Rupam Islam’s Notun Niyom


Duck Tales 2017, first look


Recent ISRO satellite launch carried special imaging constellation


Indian Space Research Organization launches satellites, breaks record


Hoshino — Star Wars fan film


Hydrogen map of the sky to show the Sun’s motion in the galaxy


Of Alien Megastructures


Penn and Teller — fooled by a card trick


A hermit crab changes home; brings house guests along


Britain has voted to leave the European Union


Gallons per 100 Miles — The Calibration Chart


Muhammad Ali is no more


King Tut’s dagger was made from a meteorite


Mumbai Police go after comedian for “mocking” celebrities


Minimalist Travel — The World in One Backpack


Star Wars Episode 4 in one graphic


Octopress — adding category tags to the blog RSS feed


Creating “Linked-List” type posts


Of Cricket, Mankad-ing, and the Spirit of the Game


On Failure in Metallic Materials


On India’s World Cup performance (they lost today)


So-called “Scientist” bets against science; loses


Elementary school dumps homework; parents are ‘outraged’


Thoughts on Interstellar, the movie (spoilers!)


On avoiding plagiarism


This may be the best journal article ever


Using MathJax with Octopress


Creating Bandpass Bessel Filter with MATLAB


Apple’s Curse


The secret to happy work


MATLAB repository


Music: lyrics for Bnaador, from Fossils 4


Music: lyrics for Hajar Bichhana, from Fossils 4


Music: lyrics for Khnoro Amar Fossil, from Fossils 4


Music: lyrics for Mohakaash, from Fossils 4


Matlab: find a string within a cell array of strings


More on the Naked Mole Rat


Dissertation Proposal


A-second-a-day video


It looked fine from the outside.’


How would you explain to a public audience the importance of interdisciplinary research?


My scientific writing workflow


Chicago Sun-times fired its photographers. How’s that turning out?


On using (or abusing) bio-technology


The problem facing scientist writers


Where are the engineers’ blogs?


Website Rebuild — using Octopress


Stephen Colbert touches hearts as always—in a different way today


What advantages does a composite have?


So, what are Composites, again?


Getting up to speed…


It doesn’t matter if global warming is man-made


Virgin births… in snakes!


Rethinking Dinosaurs


Of Space Worms


Confusing correlation with causation


Tapeworms inside the human brain


And all because he didn’t know HTML


Some birds have their own HUDs


Guess why the Russian spacecraft failed…


Of the brain-eating amoeba


Christopher Hitchens is dead


The rat that’s ‘immune’ to acid


Forks over Knives’


Trying to be too clean


The Mystery of the Abydos flying machines in ancient Egypt


Steve Jobs is dead.


The Boeing 787


Ph.D. Candidate’?


When Galaxies collide…


Choosing passwords


The Robot that flies like a bird


It’s all in the Statistics!


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