I was on the phone with a friend when she asked me that question. I always have this urge to never answer that question straight. But this time I had an additional thought. My cell phone was charging from the wall, so what I was actually doing was pacing around in a rough semicircle about …
Category: Science
The Goddamn Particle
All this Hype On the 4th of July there were some fireworks at CERN as they announced they have probably found the elusive Higgs Boson. The CERN website homepage was set to automatically redirect to a cool new facelifted page that announces this: On the top right is a tiny link to the original site. …
This Chance Life
If you don’t write, it doesn’t get written. So I decide to write again, picking one topic among many confused and overlapping things I keep thinking to write about. This one is about how life unfolds out of control, and has some overlap with my post about butterflies. Of late I’ve realized that many of …
Vulture
We were asked a simple question in class: ‘what causes tides?’ ‘Class’ here means a mixture of fourth years of an integrated Masters in various sciences, and also some integrated PhD students. All of us were already the equivalent of bachelors. We were blank. A little worse than blank, actually. Some tried to give answers …
Inquivesta Wallpaper
I designed this wallpaper for Inquivesta 2011. I just took the logo and inverted the colours. Hope you like it. By the way, I decided, right now, to participate in WordPress’ Post a Week 2011 Challenge (I’m not so sorry now that I migrated from Live Spaces – it’s frankly cooler here), starting with this …
One Life 