Posted on September 8, 2008 by klooj
Today’s topic at our office water-cooler(or at our gigantic, old and rusty coffee-machine) is the Large Hadron Collider(LHC). From the news articles I’ve been reading and from my costly undergrad and masters degrees in science related topics, I have come to understand that it is going to be ‘turned on’ (yes, I believe that’s the [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2008 by klooj
I’m always intrigued when yet another acronym is born to refer to people who live a certain way or indulge in a particular activity. The newest I’ve heard is ‘YAWN’ – Young And Wealthy, but Normal. It refers to self-made millionaires who are somewhere between 20-40 yrs old, live simple and sensible lives and prefer [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by klooj
I hate spring. There, I’ve said it. The unthinkable. The ‘wonderful’ season that follows a mournful winter. It sucks, badly, for me. And the reason I know it is not because of any Spring festival or the beautiful flowers blooming everywhere or the fact that we now have sunrise at 5:15am (yes, it is not [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by klooj
April 22nd is Earth Day, as I’ve been informed by the Google doodle. Apparently the movement to increase people’s awareness about the environment and climate change is not one more phenomenon started by Mr. Al Gore. In fact, it started in 1969/70 along with Woodstock and the rest of the goings on at the time.
Over [...]
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