Avec le temps Avec le temps, va, tout s’en va On oublie le visage et l’on oublie la voix Le cœur, quand ça bat plus, c’est pas la peine d’aller Chercher plus loin, faut laisser faire et c’est très bien Avec le temps… Avec le temps, va, tout s’en va L’autre qu’on adorait, qu’on cherchait sous la pluie L’autre qu’on devinait au détour d’un regard … Continue reading With time, it all goes, goes away
Ozymandias by P B Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand … Continue reading Senescence
As a student at IIT Delhi in the period 1997 – 1999, I used to visit the library every day without fail. One of the things I did was to copy down (printing was too expensive) quotations and poems onto my notebook so that I can share them with others. I wrote one poem a day on the blackboards of Waste Treatment Lab and Bio-Process Lab and … Continue reading Quest
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw … Continue reading Spring beckons us
Drones have become a routine part of military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Using data from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, California-based designers Pitch Interactive have visualised every known attack by the US and Coalition military since 2004. Source: Guardian Related “What is the future of humanity?” This question is by now of vital concern to everyone, because modern science and technology are clearly seen to … Continue reading The Future of Humanity
Source: Science I thrust my eppendorf tubes into the freezer, head off down the hill, go in to the classroom, and grab a chair. There will be 20 or so people here tonight of all different ages, from all walks of life. The room gradually fills. Some come in furtively, some greet each other and engage in a little awkward chat until it is time to … Continue reading Communication Skills
Alexander Mosolov’s ‘The Iron Foundry’ *** Related Frederic Rzewski’s Winsboro Cotton Mills performed by Emanuele Arcuili Train scene in The Dancer in the Dark Goulash at Brockwood Park School Continue reading Machine Music
A poem by John Donne Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee … Continue reading Various faces of Death
Nobuyuki Tsujii was born blind but was gifted with a talent for music. At the age of two, he began to play “Do Re Mi” on a toy piano after his mother had been humming the tune. He began his formal study of piano at the age of four. In 1995, at the age of seven, Tsujii won the first prize at the All Japan … Continue reading Musical genius
Perpetual Motion of Thought 