He liked Jane Austen; here is an excerpt from Pilgrim on the great bird continent by Lyanda Lynn Haupt. Link via Grrlscientist.
Archive for February, 2006
One more reason to love Darwin…
February 28, 2006Quantum interrogating sleeping puppies!
February 27, 2006Here is a nice post in Cosmic Variance titled Quantum interrogation which attempts an explanation of superposition and wavefunction collapse — using the analogy of feeding a sleeping puppy.
Guha’s guilt!
February 27, 2006Here is Ram Guha on my favourite cricketer, divided loyalties and assuaging his guilt!
A bit of chaos…
February 27, 2006Are you in a mood for a short tutorial on chaos? Here is a story from digg. I especially loved this one:
Music can be created using fractals as well. Using the Lorenz attractor, Diana S. Dabby, a graduate student in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has created variations of musical themes. (”Bach to Chaos: Chaotic Variations on a Classical Theme”, Science News, Dec. 24, 1994) By associating the musical notes of a piece of music like Bach’s Prelude in C with the x coordinates of the Lorenz attractor, and running a computer program, she has created variations of the theme of the song. Most musicians who hear the new sounds believe that the variations are very musical and creative.
Take a look!
Meditations on the sea side!
February 27, 2006And since I think best with a pencil in my hand, I started naturally to write…
So starts an excerpt from Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh at NPR. Some nice thoughts out there — go check it out.
Ha…Ha…Ha…!
February 27, 2006I have not stopped laughing yet; the inimitable PhD comics — nothing can beat it, ever!
Paleoanthropology!
February 24, 2006John Hawks brings these glad tidings about the free access to the journal PaleoAnthropology. Sounds cool and I found some of the book reviews very interesting and extremely readable. Have fun!
Commuting to work!
February 24, 2006A nice joke in Cosmic Variance about commuting to work 
And, some about conductors and stuff too!
Rephrasing the writing question!
February 24, 2006Here is an article by Margaret Atwood about writing and who it is for; link via Moorish Girl. Nice reading!
A novel to look out for!
February 24, 2006Moorish Girl has a post about the reviews of the new novel The Inheritance of Loss; looks promising!
