Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. Buddhist Philosophy.
Who wants not to be no-one?
If I am someone, am I happy ?
Does happiness equals becoming?
Merciful rain clasps soil.
It was nice to see people playing. Of all ages. I see small babies crawling on foam cushion
on the floor. I see younger children tight rope walking assisted by volunteers.
I see women and men skateboarding with long skates. I see an intense table tennis match.
It was good to see teenage boys doing something different so that they are not stereotyped.
The ball wants to be free but it is contained in a quadrangle on either side.
Eu tenho liberdade, eu tenho escolha, (I have freedom and I have choice) the ball screams !
Samba flows in the feet of a damselfly fluttering the air.
I saw a women with white blotch all over her body. I see a man with tennis shoes,
with white spots all over his body. I see a lady whose dance movements
were like leaves under a gust.
I see an injured gigantic grasshopper.
I see ants devouring it already
from her distal end.
I weep. Why does life have to be so cruel.
Why do I have to witness such violence.
Is this what is called the survival of the fittest ?
I wrote this for the student magazine at DTU, in Copenhagen, in 2004 when I was still a PhD student.
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Mortal humans defy nature and
struggle to live longer. Rich become
richer, poor become poorer
and the economic disparity favors
the moneyed to thrive. To change
the ethics Mother Nature has nurtured.
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Is this not the irony of the human mind?
When you possess something, you seem not to miss.
Yet, when you don’t have that very thing, you care a great deal.
A dot can easily become a star on a paper.
I wonder how I would impart its white colour;
Colour white per se does not exist,
Yet, many yearn to have white skin.
Why this repulsiveness towards our own skin?
After all acceptance has to come from oneself.
Even if the whole world accepts LGBT people,
Often the most difficult step is to accept oneself.
What happens after we die. What is the microbiome signature of a human being ?
1. Internally derived microbes are the major control on internal preservation
Gut microbes are the main driver of tissue decay when animals die, and were probably important for preserving soft-tissue anatomy in fossil animals.
Philip Donoghue at the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues studied the brine shrimp and monitored its decay (pictured, middle and right) under various conditions. They found that soon after death, the shrimp’s gut wall breaks open and bacteria spill out into the body cavity. The bacteria form sticky aggregates, or biofilms, that gradually replace shrimp tissue and contain mineral deposits, as revealed by microscopy. This mineralization is a key step in tissue preservation in fossils. Evolution of the gut led to an explosion in both animal diversity and the abundance of fossils, the authors say. Royal Society Publishing Proceedings B. 13 May 2015. Open access.
There have been so many interesting research news over the last six months that I decide to give them all in one installment. It may make a good holiday reading. The first in this series is about proteins in general.
1. Exploring the limits of protein sequence space
Exploring the variability of individual functional proteins is complicated by the vast number of combinations of possible amino acid sequences. Podgornaia and Laub take on this challenge by analyzing four amino acids critical for the interaction between two signaling proteins in Escherichia coli. They build all the possible 160,000 variants of one of the two proteins and find that over 1650 are functional. Even though there can be very high variability in the composition of the interface between the two proteins, there are nonetheless strong context-dependent constraints for some amino acids, which suggests why many functional variants are not seen in nature. Science STKE 10 Feburary 2015.
Gosh it has indeed been a long time. Yes it is. Yes it is. So comment Petruska and Seine meet after their long break.
They
share their
hobbies and their
passion over a cup of
earl grey tea at Caracoli,
a cafe located in Alresford,
a village with maximum number of millionaires.
Such hedonists they were, they decide to go out for a drink to taste what they have produced through hard work.
Was it hard they surmise ?
Petruska and Seine see each other after a long summer vacation. Spring is in the air and they remember this beautiful song by Nina Simone titled ‘Another Spring‘ the sugarcane cutters were listening to in the North. Our heart melts listening to the mellifluous voice of Nina. Petruska asked Seine to watch this video of the sugarcane cutters who form alphabets in English, by twisting, bending and curling the intractable cane,
Though CEN.PK and PE-2 also have two different mating types, they decide not to discuss about gender, as they feel it is a strange belief introduced by the humans. Today being the international women’s day, they decide to come together and give an earnest salute to all the women on the planet who are alive now and also for all those unsung heroines, who had given their lives, hearts and souls, for their families. Continue reading “PE-2 and CEN.PK meet (No.7) and earnestly salute women”
Perpetual Motion of Thought 