Hitting “Mute” on the Ocean Engg professors’ brain August 23, 2008
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Ah…I’d have just loved to do that. Seriously !! on all those 4 profs who blabbered on and on in the 40 x 4 odd classes i had in that department.. and made me listen to 75% of those.. ! read on
TMS: The brain’s mute button
The Michael Bay Verizon FiOS Commercial we’re parodying is all over YouTube.Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) isn’t only used to turn off the speech center of the brain, as depicted in the video accompanying the Daily Telegraph article that John highlights in this episode—it’s also useful in therapeutic contexts. For example, it can be used to treat depression.
Naturally, Gawker Media sci-fi blog Io9 does its best to imagine the most dystopian way this treatment could possibly be used. The psychiatrist behind Corpus Callosum recently posted a good roundup of what’s new in TMS.
Am sorry..but that damned sciam-monitor website doesn’t tell me an obvious way to embed that video here.. Please go there and see the video for yourself.
Don’t forget to list the people whom you would like to use this upon !
Technology Shift August 20, 2008
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A nice slide show on technological shifts. Face those facts. But all those predictions seem nonsense to me. See it for the first few slides and once the predictions start.. forget it.
Some interesting olympics videos August 18, 2008
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Some truly interesting videos from the olympics of yesteryears !!
Kerri Strug wins a gold for the US team women gymnastics in a do or die situation..limping to the spring board… (let me not spoil the moment by describing it in mere words)
1996 Altanta Olympics – Kerri Strug’s Gold Medal Vault
Eric Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea swims alone in the first of the 100m free style heats at the 2000 Sydney olympics.. hats off to him and for those who sponsored him to come up to this big stage to participate and booooooo to the laughing crowd and the taunting commentators …
The Dream: Roy and HG on Eric ‘The Eel’ Moussambani
Do you know of other interesting videos ? Please include them in the comment.
A Day in the life of a Grad student August 30, 2006
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This made my humour reading for the day !! Loved it to the core !!
6:30 Wakeup and lie awake in Bed 6:31 Realize you spent $18 on last night's dinner, means no eating out for the next 6 weeks 6:32 Hit snooze button. Go back to sleep. 7:00 Wake up suddenly with heart in mouth when you realize you didn't hit the snooze button--you turned it off. 7:01 fall asleep again. 7:44 Wake up with heart in mouth again. 7:45 Ready to go to school, will shave tommorrow, will eat early brunch at (Denny's/Penny's/Lenny's/Dinko's whatever cafeteria). 8:03 Arrive at school Realize your foreign officemate arrived earlier today must have got more work done 8:04 Pass by Advisor's office, chat with Secretary to find out if he is coming in today. He is, darn. Need to start work on the draft due this afternoon. 8:15 Read electronic mail 8:20 Delete mail from students taking CMPSC201 regarding questions about the class. Hate your TA job. Depression: too much work to do today 9:00 For jumpstart: go to Pepsi machine. 9:05 Kick Pepsi machine; promise yourself to call up the company and ask for your money back. Wonder why they would beleive you.
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1:00 Group Meeting with advisor 1:14 sudden awareness of one's shallowness resentment towards foriegn officemate for sucking up to your advisor Get reminded by your advisor that you need to do some more work for your literature survey. 1:51 Advisor hands you the reddened copy of your draft for corrections 1:51:02 The 49 second urge to murder advisor begins!! 1:51:52 Realize that he controls your assistantship/grade/graduation possiblity/graduation date/all job opportunities/and the rest of your life. 1:52:53 Thank him 1:52:54 Thank yourself for not saying something stupid to your advisor. 1:53:00 splitting headache #1 1:59 Check electronic mail, don't reply though, you are too busy to do that 2:06 More generic cola 2:17 Oh No, it is my turn to cook tonite2:30 Sit through the class you were told to sit through 2:39 Look outside the window make unrealistic plans to quit this degree program and take up a job. Wonder why blonde girls are so pretty. 2:48 More perverted day-dreams. Close the office door and open a few .gif files. sharpen pencil 3:06 worry about never graduating time to write a letter--NOT! no time for that. rearrange desk call up bank; see if you have any money fear of losing aid next Fall Read latex manuals to figure out how to put &$%&% in %$^% format 3:43 watch the clock make plans to do a all-nighter tonite Vow to watch only 2 TV programs 4:58 Notice Advisor leave 4:58:01 Sudden sense of freedom Go home for quick, short dinner break. 9:00pm Come into the office...............
Wow !! That was cool.. (uhh.. just hope that I don’t enter this attractor’s limit cycle.. )
thanks to Kmap for the link
Finally a fluid mechanics blog July 28, 2006
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Do check out the Image gallery in his blog http://alexl.wordpress.com/fluid-mechanics-around/
Found this interesting link there.. http://www.efluids.com/efluids/pages/gallery.htm will take quite some time to see through all those pics
Photos !! July 28, 2006
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Ah !! Photos are becoming my favourite.. I am more and more beginning to look into Photo blogs. Whoever said these words is a God !!
A Picture is worth a thousand words !!
Infact.. I might start one myself..One thing is for sure.. Until I start a photo blog.. I request you all to use this http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ to modify this page appropriately and block all images and show only their urls.. Otherwise.. browse through at your own peril !! Of course I mean wasting your bandwidth !!
Coming to this blog http://bestofmadhukar.blogspot.com/ !! The words used to describe them were better than the photos themselves. Of course I don’t have the patience to put all that here.. Why don’t you check them out for yourselves…
Update: For some reason or the other WordPress is not posting these images properly..I would have left them at their original size.. but only half the image is visible.. I tried rescaling them.. and now they aren’t displayed at all.. Is anybody from WordPress listening ?? Please.. atleast allow us some modifications in the template.. like increasing the text area width etc.
btw.. does anybody know how to auto rescale images in Performancing.?? Of course I can manually edit the image urls to do that.. but I would be very grateful if peformancing had a feature and I knew it. . !!
Eye – Brain bandwidth July 28, 2006
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How Much the Eye Tells the Brain from PhysOrg.com
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimate that the human retina can transmit visual input at about the same rate as an Ethernet connection, one of the most common local area network systems used today. They present their findings in the July issue of Current Biology. This line of scientific questioning points to ways in which neural systems compare to artificial ones, and can ultimately inform the design of artificial visual systems.
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F-Spot.. the latest photo management application for GNOME July 24, 2006
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I saw this in LFY (dunno which month) recently.. Atleast the screenshots and the features listed seem to be pretty impressive.. The only problem .. requires Mono.. !!
Will give it a try as soon as I get back to Chennai.. which will be the next Monday btw. I should be on the train now next week !!
Photo in the News: Mouse Rides Frog in India Monsoon July 21, 2006
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link via Sowmya



