4.5 billion years sounds a lot to me, but Earth is relatively a newer planet. For last 4 billion years there exists some form of life here, majorly green-blue algae, but what I failed to understand is that how diverse life (multi-cell) only evolved some 545 million year ago. Scientist call this event as Cambrian [...]
Recently my wife was reading Kathy Reichs novel where she has described about mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Kathy Reichs is also producer & writer of the popular TV series Bones. Before hearing about mtDNA, I had very little idea about any types of DNAs, except Y & X chromosomes. My DNA knowledge is/was limited to doing paternity [...]
I was sitting with my friend, P, today after lunch, having a smoke and appreciating the beautiful weather. It is very rear in Hyderabad to have a sunny sky and still not hot. As with all good things in life, this was also short lived. As usual we blamed it on global warming (the most [...]
Egyptian and Indian culture are the testimony of the power and intelligence that was with the people of these civilization thousands of years back. Perhaps the science was more advance then, than it is now. I was recently reading a book on Teleportation – the science of moving from one place to another with the [...]
On the first thought of looking at the title of the blog you may think how awful it is to be a cockroach, but after knowing their survival instinct you may not be surprised to find why everyone envy them. It’s long been known that cockroaches are the only living thing that can survive a [...]
Yesterday I was having discussion with my team for externalizing all labels and strings of the our new application in development, so that it is easy to localize the application for different languages. The application that we are currently working deals extensively with graphs and images. While having all this discussion I had an spontaneous [...]
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