Stem Cell Research

Embryonic Cells, No Embryo Needed: Hunting for Ways Out of an Impasse from NYTimes

This is a very informative article about the process of stem cell research. Also touches lightly on cloning process.

quote

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
-- Lou Holtz

How this blog works (or doesn't work)...

I have realized that over the last 300 odd posts, a pattern has developed for my blog. And incase some of you want to avoid certain sections(or the entire blog) here are the clues :)

Basically there are 4 sections

Quotes -- This has quotes from various sources
Thought -- This captures the occasions where my brain spits out some words.
Anonymuncule -- This has few times that I try my hand with writing.
Everything else -- All the news, articles, books, views and anything that has catches my attention.(Maybe I should subdivide this cause I find it difficult to find things that I have read and posted earlier. Don't think blogger has tagging ability)
(Opinion -- This is something that I want to add but then I do not have time for it. There are few posts that belong to this section though)

ps - it is a note to myself but comments are welcome.

anonymuncule

Entry bought peace with it and exit, silence.
Each was equally quiet but nothing could be so different.

quotes

Time! the corrector when our judgments err.
-- Lord Byron

The time you think you're missing, misses you too.
-- Ymber Delecto

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

A look at Bollywood Box Office

The box office is an ass from HT

Was good a fun read :)

Intresting read...

No News Is Good Blogging from NYTimes

"Whatever they come up with, the companies won't be competing with Office, but with Microsoft's coming upgrades to Hotmail and Outlook, as well as a new suite of collaboration software, writes Mary Jo Foley on Microsoft Watch. And here, they may actually win, thanks largely to Microsoft's famous torpidity in releasing software. "Is there a hot technology arena where Microsoft has fielded a new product first over the past few months and others are scrambling to catch up?" she asks. "I am coming up blank."
$100 LAPTOPS Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab is known for highly imaginative - some say fantastical - prognostications on the power of technology. His latest effort, though, has a certain down-to-earth quality: he wants to put laptop computers into the hands of impoverished children around the world at a cost of just $100 apiece.
Since M.I.T. announced the One Laptop Per Child effort in January, five developing nations have signed on, and talks are under way with the state of Massachusetts, PC Magazine's Web site says. At Mr. Negroponte's talk at M.I.T.'s emerging technologies conference, the site notes, "one of the more interesting moments of the presentation came during a question-and-answer session, when an individual who had set up a computer network in Guatemala described coming back to check on the machines and finding them loaded with pornography." Welcome to the developed world."