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Star Trek… indeed!

Posted in Nature-n-Science, tagged , , , , on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“A young star is speeding away from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came from; based on its young age it has traveled too far to have come from our galaxy.” – The story startled me. A runaway star from one of our neighboring galaxies – the Large [...]

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Reference Correction

Posted in Books-n-Authors, tagged , on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A small note of correction – the reference from Richard Feynman’s quote mentioned in the previous post Nature’s Beauty and Mind’s Perception was actually from his second biography book “What do you care what other people think?“, and not from the first one “Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman“. A portion from the first page of [...]

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Nature’s Beauty and Mind’s Perception

Posted in Nature-n-Science, tagged , , , , , , on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Just happened to come across this new piece of research in Digg.com. And memory raced back to the days of reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”. I still remember buying that book cheaper from one of the ill-fated bookstalls in the 1997 Kolkata Book Fair. It was sold cheap the day after the fire because [...]

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