Jorge Cham hits the nail on it’s head once again! Today’s PhD comics strip on how your research findings make it into the public consciousness.
Archive for May, 2009
A big THANK YOU to my colleagues & friends who gifted me the coupon a few months back.
I finally got the chance to use it today, and went to the Landmark store at the Swagath Garuda Mall in Jayanagar. I remain impressed with Landmark – they really have a good collection of books. I finally got my hands on Carl Zimmer’s wonderful journey into the world of E.coli. A big bonus was finding Sergei Lukyanenko’s fantasy trilogy there – well, I got two out of the three. Have been promised that they will get the first in the set in a couple of weeks time, so am not complaining.
Red-whiskered Bulbul
a.k.a. the Red-whiskered Bulbul. One little fellow flew into my garden some time back. Really strange, as the only birds around these days seem to be crows and pigeons.
[Image from Wikimedia Commons]
“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.”
So says Mr Morgan. Too lazy now, but will have some sort of introduction/book review up in some time.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
- from here