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Biped I am, Who walks upright and thinks with a one and a half kilo mass of flesh. And gosh, this flesh does produce emotions and questions, and I bet you would agree with me.
Odds and sods

Nature’s call

300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside Bangladesh, has reduced open defecation from 19% to 3% in just two years by decentralising sanitation programmes Nearly half of India’s 1.2 billion people have no toilets at home Everyday 200,000 tonnes of human feces are deposited in India, left in the open References Guardian: Lack of toilets puts India’s health and rural women’s safety at risk … Continue reading Nature’s call

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Music

Composers of Western Classical Music – Visualised

I was looking for a timeline of composers of western classical music right from Hildegaard Von Bingen but I could not find an interactive one on the web. However,I found the following: Classical.net lists the major composers in its timeline in PDF format Classicfm has a much nicer timeline but it does not show all the composers. Media and text on a particular composer is included in … Continue reading Composers of Western Classical Music – Visualised

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Research News

Publish or Perish

The conversation When ‘exciting’ trumps ‘honest’, traditional academic journals encourage bad science By Robert de Vries, University of Oxford Imagine you’re a scientist. You’re interested in testing the hypothesis that playing violent video games makes people more likely to be violent in real life. This is a straightforward theory, but there are still many, many different ways you could test it. First you have to … Continue reading Publish or Perish

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