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balancing life: January 2010
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Book Review: Atul Gawande’s “The checklist manifesto: How to get things right”. Ever thought about how healthcare could be improved? How doctors could reduce errors or complications during serious operations? Almost everyone has a theory on why hospital errors always occur. But Gawande, in his latest book “The checklist manifesto: How to get things right”. Aren’t doctors and nurses doing their best already? The checklist becomes a staggeringly effective weapon, taking little ...
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balancing life: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Book review: The missing manual – Living Green. Is just that much required reference to fill that void. The next section talks about a complete lifestyle change, from raising a green family (ever thought about how many landfills a baby’s diapers could fill up? There is little doubt that the book is comprehensive, and provides information to someone curious about green living at every level. Yet, there are some caveats or limitations in this book. Links to this post.
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balancing life: February 2010
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Saturday, February 20, 2010. Revisiting “Inherit the wind”. Stanley Kramer made “Inherit the wind”. Way back in 1960. It is remarkable that the movie remains as relevant and powerful today as it was back then. “Inherit the wind” was an adaptation of a play by the same name that was a parable of the famous Scopes “monkey” trial. And when it was made in 1960 also became a critique of McCarthyism. As the old quote goes, the more things change, the more things remain the same. Putting Brady on the witness bo...
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balancing life: Some changes
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Expect quite a few changes in this blog over the next few days/weeks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Enter your email address:. Disclaimer: This blog does not contain information about my professional/academic work. It is a personal blog discussing science, education, development and society with occasional other writing on books, travel and movies. View my complete profile. How buying “local” produce can have a very high ca. Basic concepts in science.
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balancing life: December 2009
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009. Back to blogging with Darwin, India and scientific peer review. It has been a nice long break away from the blog, but hopefully regular weekly programming will resume shortly. Till then, I'll leave you with these. First up, a lovey article by the always excellent Vikram Doctor in the Times of India (yup, even the Times sometimes publishes something worth reading) on Edward Blyth. Is well worth your time. Also, here is an excellent writeup by Suvrat Kher. Links to this post.
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balancing life: Eating high fructose corn syrup makes Yogi bear.......
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Thursday, April 01, 2010. Eating high fructose corn syrup makes Yogi bear. Fatter than the average bear. Apologies for that awful title that I couldn't resist. If you are fond of sweets, chocolates, candy, cookies and ice cream, and have ever read the label for the ingredients, you must have noticed one of them, called high fructose corn syrup. However, the data is slowly shifting towards the adverse health effects of HFCS. A recent paper in Pharmacology Biochemistry and behavior. Of course, there will b...
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balancing life: September 2010
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Monday, September 06, 2010. What’s next, Balancing Life? The blog and its archives will remain here. And at some point of time I’ll probably start writing essays and articles on this blog again. Till then, sign up for email updates (top right side bar), and you’ll know when I start writing again. Thanks for all the fish. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. What’s next, Balancing Life? Basic concepts in science.
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balancing life: July 2009
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Friday, July 03, 2009. I recently found out about yet another "social network", with a difference. For all the readers of this blog who might be graduate students or post docs, here's a new resource for you. If you are a young researcher still working on your thesis or a postdoctoral fellowship, you might find this useful. It is still work in evolution, but I think it does serve a specific need, and there aren't too many resources for young researchers out there. So go check it out. Links to this post.
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balancing life: October 2009
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009. 2009 Nobel for telomeres and ribosomes: answering basic questions in life. It’s fair to say that there were few surprises when the Nobel prizes in Medicine. Were announced. Chemists might again quibble, since the prize again went to biophysicists/biochemists for their work on a biological problem, but other than that, the prizes deservedly recognize magnificent work in two areas of basic biology that reveal very important ways by which life, literally, goes on. Though some pe...
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balancing life: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Expect quite a few changes in this blog over the next few days/weeks. Links to this post. Monday, March 29, 2010. How buying “local” produce can have a very high carbon footprint…. And other such thoughts. For a while I thought this was a compelling argument, and sometimes pondered over how guilty I should feel for not heading out to the local farmer’s market to buy “local” produce. But then, ever the skeptic, I decided to actually see if this was true. As well as other stores.
