Race Science

Race Science heading for rehabilitation from The Hindu

Last month, Mr. Pinker told the Edge website that "the dangerous idea of the next decade" will be the notion that "groups of people may differ genetically in their average talents and temperaments." It is all the more dangerous for being bound up with ideas about how populations vary in their susceptibility to disease. The implication is that we must take these ideas as a package.
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Over the years, the denial of race became almost absolute. Differences were only skin-deep, it was said — despite the common knowledge that certain groups had higher incidences of genetically influenced diseases. It became a taboo, and as the taboo starts to appear outdated or untenable, the danger is that unreflective denial will be replaced by equally uncritical acceptance.

This not the first article about race science that I am reading, it is something that is becoming a well know field of science.
How long it will be before this too will be used for or against someone? Good article none the less. 

Intresting isn't it!

Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service from NYTimes

There are bacteria that blink on and off like Christmas tree lights and bacteria that form multicolored patterns of concentric circles resembling an archery target. Yet others can reproduce photographic images.

These are not strange-but-true specimens from nature, but rather the early tinkering of synthetic biologists, scientists who seek to create living machines and biological devices that can perform novel tasks.

"We want to do for biology what Intel does for electronics," said George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard and a leader in the field. "We want to design and manufacture complicated biological circuitry."

While much of the early work has consisted of eye-catching, if useless, stunts like the blinking bacteria, the emerging field could one day have a major impact on medicine and industry.

thought

I was trying to list the names of people who have crossed my life and was amazed how many memories came back... More than once I said to myself how the could I not remember that name? and when did I lose contact with this person?

Now I wish it had not rained and it would have a fantastic test match. 403/0doesn't that sound good :)

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I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
-- Philip James Bailey

Firefox

Default browser not bad... eventually.

"Aadarsh Prem," Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Great I can see Hindi font when I create the post but it seems to appear as gibbrish when i publish it I have to figure this out in the mean time you guys can check out the poems on the site that I have listed below!
There are two more poems along with this one this page with anotations. "Mujhe Pukar lo" and "Kya Bhuloon"

Pleasent surprise

I googled Harivansh Rai Bachchan... and I found link to Madhushala by Dr. Harbansh Rai Bachhan [via wikipedia] and to top it all

To the surprise of many, he never drank as much as a single drop of liquor. He, however, belongs to the clan of kayashtha which is famous for their eating and drinking merrily.

Himmat Karne Waalon Ki Kabhi Haar Nahin Hoti

by Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Lehron Se Darkar Nauka Paar Nahin Hoti,
Himmat Karne Waalon Ki Kabhi Haar Nahin Hoti.

Nanhi Chinti Jab Daana Lekar Chalti Hai,
Chadti Deewaron Par Sau Baar Fisalti Hai,
Mann Ka Vishwaas Ragon Mein Saahas Bhartaa Hai,
Chadkar Girna, Girkar Chadna Na Akharta Hai,
Mehnat Uski Bekar Har Baar Nahin Hoti,
Koshish Karne Waalon Ki Kabhi Haar Nahin Hoti.

Dubkiyan Sindhu Mein Gotaakhor Lagata Hai,
Jaa Jaakar Khaali Haath Lautkar Aata Hai,
Milte Na Sahaj Hi Moti Gehre Paani Mein,
Badta Doona Vishwaas Isi Hairaani Mein,
Muththi Uski Khaali Harbaar Nahin Hoti,
Koshish Karne Waalon Ki Kabhi Haar Nahin Hoti.

Asafaltaa ek Chunauti hai Sweekaar Karo,
Kya Kami Reh Gayi Dekho Aur Sudhar Karo,
Jab Tak Na Safal Ho Neend Chain Ki Tyago Tum,
Sangharshon Ka Maidaan Chod Mat Bhaago Tum,
Kuch Kiye Binaa Hi Jai Jaikaar Nahin Hoti,
Koshish Karne Waalon Ki Kabhi Haar Nahin Hoti.

Silence

Have heard that silence is golden... just trying it out.
(Will be back to my vocal self soon enf)

India has lost over 10M girls in 20 years

Analyzing information about 133,738 births, the researchers found that the deficit in the number of girls born as second children was more than twice as great among educated mothers than among illiterate ones, the report said.

thought

Friendship does not come with the number of movies watched together or the number of places visited together. Neither does it come by hours spend on phone or what and how we share things.
Friendship is just a surity that the person wishes well for you, just a feeling of being comfortable and not having the need to put on a happy, sad or any other look to be accepted.

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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
-- Baltasar Gracian

Different kind of teenagers...

Right Stuff and Wrong in the Boys Who Dare from NYTimes

FARRIS HASSAN, the 16-year-old Floridian who ran off to Iraq over the holidays, arrived home last week safe and sound. But that was only after he'd cut prep school and flown to Kuwait, taken a cab to the Iraqi border and been turned away, then flown to Beirut and on to Baghdad with little more than some cash, an Arabic phrase book and a half-baked plan to see for himself what was going on over there.

Mr. Hassan's war-zone jaunt was unusual but hardly the first or even the most outlandish of risky adolescent stunts. Remember Mathias Rust, the 19-year-old West German who in 1987 flew a tiny Cessna from Finland to Russia and landed in Red Square, hoping to bring Mikhail S. Gorbachev to terms of peace with the West? Or Keron Thomas, the 16-year-old Brooklyn subway enthusiast who in 1993 borrowed an A train for three hours and carried its 2,000 passengers safely and skillfully to their destinations?

quotes

Calvin and Hobbes
Don't you simply love Calvin & Hobbes. I do :) So here are some pearls of wisdom from them...


Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!

Childhood is short, maturity is forever.

True friends are hard to come by ... I need more money.

There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"
- "On a weekend?"
- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

More random quotes here