Molecular Biology made FUN !!!

Following images from http://www.salisbury.edu/biology/faculty/flerickson/Human%20Genome%20assignment%20paper%2006.htm

DNA Song on Youtube

Bhagat Singh

Probably this is why we should remember our debt to people like Bhagat Singh...


watch more at aniBoom

Youtube search link for "Sebastian's Voodoo"

Books To Read

1. The Living Sea by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
   - inspiring tales of a researcher
2. The man who knew too much : Alan Turing and the invention of the computer by David Leavitt.
   

A Tool for Good Research

As i was deeply concentrating on my "research work" today, I saw something that i had not noticed before...

In the PhD comics website , there is an emergency button just below the comic strip at the bottom right corner... (image added for benefit of the reader). Click it if you haven't before... And scrolling down to the end of the page (of course i skipped the text), I found some interesting controls embedded there...

Cool!

An Awesome Idea

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I would be tempted to buy something by watching a tele-marketing advertisement. But the "Snuggie", a blanket with sleeves, has made me think otherwise.

Snuggling cosily under a blanket, I have often been irked by the need to take my hands out - for purposes like reading a book, typing on the laptop, holding the coffee mug etc. With the Snuggie, those irritating moments would be history. Hats off to the person who came up with the simple yet wonderful idea.

Here's an image of the Snuggie.

And here's the advert (done in classical tele-marketing style):


PS: And while I am writing this, why do I keep revising my writing, looking for places where I can be more terse etc? I guess that's what comes from being immersed in the process of writing a paper...

On extra-curriculars

Dad recommended: on extra-curriculars, their importance and how to manage. 

Nice article. But does it apply to Grad students?

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090101/jsp/careergraph/story_10320689.jsp