Nobody knows. Neither anyone would ever know. We are the unfortunate (or perhaps fortunate) consequence of an accident called life. But why should we bear the trouble which we have not chosen. ...
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What if the human species is wiped out tommorrow?
[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100]This is an interesting account[/URL] of the possibilities of regeneration of environmentally greener [i]earth[/i] once the humans are wiped out instantly. Overall, the article, citing optimist...
Synthetic Biology makes (bio) diesel
The genetically modified bacteria ( [i]E. coli[/i] ) have been successfully engineered to produce biodiesel from glucose and plant oils. This could be used as an alternative to normal diesel fuels, thus off-setting greenhouse emissions. And in contrast t...
The Virus Transistor
In yet another demonstration of weird but appropriate fusion of biology with other scientific areas, researchers have combined tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles. This created super-fast transistors.
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The bliss of ignorance…
Ignorance towards the global warming, population explosion, sadness, terrorism, ozone layer thinning, poverty....
Ignorance towards the fact that our lifespans are insignificant in front of the grander design...
Ignorance towards the purpos...
End of Science?
John Horgan argues that the [URL=http://www.discover.com/issues/oct-06/cover/?page=1]pure science has ended[/URL]. Full Stop.
I don't understand how one can call the end of pure science when we have huge gaps in basic knowledge such as the [i]or...
God and Evolution
I don't know if they are mutually incompatible, but Richard Dawkins certainly thinks so. See [URL]http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index.html[/URL] for an excellent interview of his on the same topic.
PS: I am a (Atheist...
Search strategy in a Random Grid
Suppose we have a MxN grid with each cell having a particular (random) number. Also suppose that you are an organism capable of moving one cell left/right/up/down and accessing the number on the cell you are presently standing on. Moving takes away X uni...
Jeev – October, 2006 issue released
We are happy to release yet another issue of Jeev. [URL=http://www.dce.edu/jeev/issues/oct06/index.php]The October issue of Jeev[/URL] has an eclectic array of articles. The table of contents for the latest issue is... Dear All,
We are happy to r...
Budding (Bio)Entrepreneur
You might be thinking what kind of a post on Entrepreneurship is doing on the blog Biohacking. Well, the fact is that for the last 2-3 weeks I am in pretty charged-up mood. The other week, I read [URL=http://www.businessworld.in/SEP0406/index.asp]Busines...