Stumbled upon this interesting and persuading video of Juan Enriquez ‘s presentation at the TED conference from 2004 entitled “Decoding the future with genomics”. Juan talks about the need to utilize the Genomic data generated from the labs around the world and ended the presentation with views about knowledge-based economy determining the fate of nations. [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Decoding the future with genomics
Posted in Awareness, Science on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ajab si & Main agar kahoon – Om Shanti Om
Posted in Indian cinema, Lyrics, Song on September 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
After Life in a Metro, no Hindi music album appealed to me much. Listening to my old playlist excessively while commuting daily, I was looking for a new addition to bring some variation. One recent numbers I like is Aankhon mein teri Ajab si from Om Shanti Om among the hoards of new songs. Though [...]
Shattered Still Life
Posted in Art, Photography on September 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Martin Klimas takes ’still life’ pictures of ceramic figures, taken as they’re being destroyed! From The Morning Life Martin Klimas destroys a lot of clay to make his art. Combining the silence of Eadweard Muybridge’s horse pictures with the association-rich composition of a still life, Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and [...]
The science of love
Posted in Science, Soul on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Helen Fisher is an anthropology professor and human behavior researcher at the Rutgers University and considered the world’s leading expert on the topic of love. Presently, Fisher is the most referenced scholar in the love research community. In 2005, she was hired by match.com to help structure the chemistry.com pair-matching website using both hormonal-based and [...]