Is anything meant to remain complex?
The first answer is “No”. I mean, whatever you’re writing about, the onus is on the writer to break his subject down to its simplest components, and then put them back together in front of…
September 2012
On the fear of the disgusting
Disgusting things are broken, unnatural manifestations of beauty in an otherwise beautiful world. If anything, isn’t it the symmetrical and the alluring that we must fear for their full mastery over chaos? Disgusting things are…
A brief description of galactic clusters and their detection
The oldest galaxies are observed today as elliptical, and to be found in clusters. These clusters are the remnants of older protoclusters that dominated the landscape of outer space in the universe’s early years,…
Blunt the blade
Are destructive but naturally occurring environmental phenomena important to Earth’s atmosphere? Does the mere acceptance of its innate “environmentalness” free it from having to tolerate human intervention? For example, how do hurricanes contribute to Earth’s…
The capacity to notoriety of work
Why is it considered OK to flaunt hard work? Will there come a time when it might be more prudent to mask long hours of work behind a finished product and instead behave as if…
A revisitation inspired by Facebook’s opportunities
When habits form, rather become fully formed, it becomes difficult to recognize the drive behind its perpetuation. Am I still doing what I’m doing for the habit’s sake, or is it that I still love…
An Indian supercomputer by 2017. Umm…
This is a tricky question. And for background, here’s the tweet from IBN Live that caught my eye. RT @ibnliveTech: India plans fastest supercomputer by 2017 http://t.co/rRtjl4Gd — News18 (@CNNnews18) September 16, 2012 (If you…
Rubbernecking at redshifting
The interplay of energy and matter is simply wonderful because, given the presence of some intrinsic properties, the results of their encounters can be largely predicted. The presence of smoke indicates fire, the presence of…
The invasion
The most fear I’ve ever experienced is when I smoked up for the first time. I thought I’d enjoy it – isn’t that always the case when you foray into an unknown realm of experiences,…
The weakening measurement
Unlike the special theory of relativity that the superluminal-neutrinos fiasco sought to defy, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle presents very few, and equally iffy, measurement techniques to stand verified. While both Einstein’s and Heisenberg’s foundations are close…
The common tragedy
I have never been able to fathom poetry. Not because it’s unensnarable—which it annoyingly is—but because it never seems to touch upon that all-encompassing nerve of human endeavour supposedly running through our blood, transcending cultures…
Credibility on the web
There are a finite number of sources from which anyone receives information. The most prominent among them are media houses (incl. newspapers, news channels, radio stations, etc.) and scientific journals (at least w.r.t. the subjects…