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News Juxtaposition: Climate Change


The state of dysfunction in the Indian Congress Party


India’s Independence Day


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


Indian Railways decides to enforce baggage limits


Adios Cassini


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


Of Alien Megastructures


Gallons per 100 Miles — The Calibration Chart


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


On Failure in Metallic Materials


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


Thoughts on Interstellar, the movie (spoilers!)


On avoiding plagiarism


Apple’s Curse


More on the Naked Mole Rat


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


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


Confusing correlation with causation


Tapeworms inside the human brain


Forks over Knives’


Trying to be too clean


The Mystery of the Abydos flying machines in ancient Egypt


The Boeing 787


The Robot that flies like a bird


It’s all in the Statistics!


Using Markdown by John Gruber