Microbial variegation
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Nature’s bountiful Colours
are indeed a treat
to our visual appetite too.
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Tag: Poetry
The Future shall be nothing but Digital !
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Aping another organisation,
while bent on holding on to power,
the famous five shall carry on,
with no one to rein them on.
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Love and longing in life.
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Words, though merely made of letters and shapes,
invoke feelings and emotions so strong;
Words are indeed powerful.
Pen is mightier than sword, it is said.
An injury caused by words is more hurtful than an injury caused by fire:
said Thiruvalluvar.
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Our own beautiful sugarcane
An imminent trip to a sugarcane mill near Piracicaba,
with my lab colleagues,
warrants an exposition of words
on our own beloved cane !
The dirigibility of thought
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Two yeasts met in the woods and one of them took the road less traveled by and it made all the difference.
The roads are the divergence point in the phylogenetic tree ca. 200 Mya ago.
(Robert Frost’s original poem is some what different)
The roads are the divergence point in the phylogenetic tree ca. 200 Mya ago.
(Robert Frost’s original poem is some what different)
But what is beyond ?
Is it possible to have an immortal yeast, just like a HeLA cell ?
What happens to mitochondria in industrial yeast strains ?
If yeasts are perennially fermenting in open industrial vats, is it not expensive for the cells to invest energy in genes that it may never use ?
Is it possible to have an immortal yeast, just like a HeLA cell ?
What happens to mitochondria in industrial yeast strains ?
If yeasts are perennially fermenting in open industrial vats, is it not expensive for the cells to invest energy in genes that it may never use ?
A curious case of life in action
Water has the ability to blend with the surroundings. Named as Agua, Aqua, Jal, Paani in a variety of languages. Didn’t you notice its multiple personalities as snow, ice, vapor, steam? Remember the early morning dew? What an ethereal pleasure to walk on the grass, wet with morning dew, in the dawn of the day. Water has the innate ability to encompass everything on its way. Like a mother having an enormous bosom for her loved ones. The first drop of food has water as the main ingredient. Kudos to our Water.
Comic Verses
The pious priest – Anon There was once a pious young priest Who lived almost wholly on yeast; ‘For’ he said, ‘it is plain We must all rise again, And I want to get started, at least.’ Opportunity by Harry Graham When Mrs Gorm (Aunt Eloise) Was stung to death by savage bees, Her husband (Prebendary Gorm) Put on his veil, and took the swarm, He’s … Continue reading Comic Verses
Because I could not stop for death
My dear friend Shaku, who had taught English for 30 years, read her favourite poem for me, for this video. The staircase shot in the video was shot using Hague Mini Motion Cam MMC, and iPhone4. Continue reading Because I could not stop for death
Chemistry in Poetry
Source: Mala Radhakrishnan, assistant professor at Wellesley College, has written a book on poetry chemistry, called “Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances.” Her aim is to use poetry, but also easy-to-understand analogies to teach about thermodynamics, kinetics and molecular reactions. Source I used to sleep ‘ til my electrons would drool At P-32 element-ary school. The things we were taught were just totally boring. A mole of us atoms would … Continue reading Chemistry in Poetry
Perpetual Motion of Thought 