Accidental Bloggertag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-2351552008-10-12T07:12:11-05:00Cerebral Table TalkTypePadAmazing High Speed Photos (Sujatha)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-568760352008-10-12T07:12:11-05:002008-10-12T07:12:19-05:00Enjoy!SujathaSundarWho Is "That One"? (Joe)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-568571692008-10-11T13:58:32-05:002008-10-11T13:58:41-05:00Apparently he is "a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President of the United States." Or so says John McCain. One interesting thing about that Boston Globe article: it sure looks...JoeWhat's really not going on in this election? (Joe)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-567926492008-10-09T21:30:06-05:002008-10-09T21:30:13-05:00"Obama isn't practicing any kind of crouching Rezko hidden Ayers plausibility fu."JoeWho won the debate? - "That one." (Sujatha)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-567137512008-10-08T10:01:21-05:002008-10-09T07:38:07-05:00I think this article by Mary Lyon mirrors my impressions quite well on the presidential debate last night, and saves me the trouble of having to write in detail about it.SujathaSundarNobel Quibbles (Sujatha)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-566562752008-10-07T08:42:51-05:002008-10-07T11:24:49-05:00The Nobel prize for medicine this year has been awarded to HIV and HPV pioneers: Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of France (HIV) and Harald zur Hausen of Germany (HPV). "Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research...SujathaSundarMy Vacation Hold tag:typepad.com,2003:post-565571152008-10-04T18:31:21-05:002008-10-04T21:26:43-05:00I will be leaving for India tomorrow and will return toward the end of the month. Unless I have something really interesting to report, I will not be posting during this period. My co-authors will keep the front page refreshed...Ruchira PaulIrony of the Day (Joe)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-565499592008-10-04T12:39:18-05:002008-10-04T15:34:56-05:00Way back in the day (last October) I went off on Dozier Internet Law for its absurd website terms-of-use page, which made a number of laughable legal claims; these appear to me to basically be intellectual-property claims couched in contract...JoeIt's Down to Obama and McCain, Now (Joe)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-565486612008-10-04T11:43:11-05:002008-10-04T11:43:48-05:00I think Jack Balkin is absolutely correct in his assessment of the VP debate. This is probably a mild victory for the Obama campaign. Sarah Palin was picked to help push McCain over the top. For a while, it seemed...JoeSetting up the stage for tonight's debate tag:typepad.com,2003:post-564563892008-10-02T15:46:09-05:002008-10-02T15:46:30-05:00The wingnuts are crying "foul" even before tonight's debate has taken place. If Palin does well, it will be because she is smarter than the liberal media gave her credit for. If she tanks the blame goes to ..... moderator...Ruchira PaulThe coastal ecology after Iketag:typepad.com,2003:post-564252552008-10-02T15:13:00-05:002008-10-02T17:48:10-05:00In the last few weeks since Ike struck the coast of Texas, you have heard a lot about my thirteen days without electricity, entire neighborhoods without power and water and massive havoc wreaked on the infrastructure of Galveston and the...Ruchira PaulAn Unhealthy Obsession(Sujatha)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-562952512008-09-29T15:40:57-05:002008-09-29T15:47:08-05:00A couple of weeks ago, an insert containing a DVD was in my Sunday newspaper : 'Obsession', with the O represented by a Crescent and Star, well recognizable as the symbol of Islam, and the N ending in the business...SujathaSundarThe Low Ranking Monkey and The Low Hanging Fruit tag:typepad.com,2003:post-562253112008-09-29T00:00:00-05:002008-09-28T23:08:39-05:00We did have a presidential debate last Friday after Drama Queen John McCain (do read Frank Rich's spot on analysis of McCain's theatrics) managed to create a short lived suspense around the event. The inaugural debate has been characterized in...Ruchira PaulScience as Art (Sujatha)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-562338372008-09-28T08:55:54-05:002008-09-28T08:56:20-05:00The 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners.SujathaSundarFeeling Human Again!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-561572522008-09-26T00:00:00-05:002008-09-26T10:19:13-05:00The electricity in our house is back after thirteen interminable days of power outage. On Thursday at 9:45pm while I was in my neighbor's kitchen boiling water to fill the thermos, a utility truck came by and at 10:15pm, the...Ruchira PaulJohn McCain suspends his campaign ... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-561071822008-09-25T00:00:00-05:002008-09-25T00:00:48-05:00.. and cancels his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, apparently because he has to rescue the economy from "cratering." Asked Letterman: "What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president?...Ruchira PaulStormy Emotionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-560838482008-09-24T14:43:00-05:002008-09-24T14:57:32-05:00This morning I began day twelve without electricity and as usual found myself feeling hot, mildly grumpy, anxious and a bit more dispirited by the failure of Center Point Energy to restore power at our corner of the street. After...Ruchira Paul'Hari Puttar' Redux (Dean)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-560412882008-09-23T15:25:33-05:002008-09-23T15:26:05-05:00The long awaited resolution to the hotly contested Hari/Harry Puttar/Potter suit has emerged, in Hari's favor. Well, not really long awaited, and probably not all that hotly contested. In fact, this case, like the recent suit resulting in an injunction...Dean RowanMatch-o-Matic Testtag:typepad.com,2003:post-560077762008-09-23T00:00:00-05:002008-09-23T00:00:38-05:00Who's your candidate? Take the test. I scored once for McCain - on immigration. (Today is day 11 without electricity in my home)Ruchira PaulIs religious prejudice a cover for racial bias? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-559794482008-09-22T11:57:29-05:002008-09-22T22:06:04-05:00Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times thinks so. Despite the Reverend Wright controversy and his own declaration of how he came to embrace the Chirstian faith, a substantial percentage of American voters, many of them Democrats, persist in their...Ruchira PaulDirty Laundry - The Great Equalizertag:typepad.com,2003:post-559560602008-09-22T00:00:00-05:002008-09-22T00:00:45-05:00Yesterday was day nine without electricity in our home. Only four houses on our street remain unplugged. All the other neighbors had their power restored the Sunday after the storm. As I have mentioned in previous posts and comments, although...Ruchira PaulA Clueless Campaigntag:typepad.com,2003:post-558303122008-09-19T15:19:50-05:002008-09-22T08:46:34-05:00This week has been pretty bad for Sen John McCain's presidential campaign and for the GOP. McCain has made it amply clear that he has no clear grasp of economic issues. President George Bush came out of hiding to make...Ruchira PaulDear Democrats... (Joe)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-558545742008-09-19T12:04:50-05:002008-09-19T13:15:30-05:00Dear Democrats, What I want most for Christmas is a structural change to American politics. Not Sandy Levinson's new constitutional convention (although I would not object to that). But similar to the problem with the antidemocratic "two senators per state"...JoeBlown Transformerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-558306342008-09-19T00:00:00-05:002008-09-18T23:26:53-05:00In my home and at the Large Hadron Collider.Ruchira PaulHow costly is a storm? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-558175362008-09-18T16:13:53-05:002008-09-18T19:37:32-05:00Today is the sixth consecutive day that our house is without electricity. We are minimally functional with borrowed electricity from our neighbors through an extension cord. After six days, I am getting used to it and learning to improvise around...Ruchira PaulWhat's in your water?(Sujatha)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-557957462008-09-18T08:12:36-05:002008-09-18T08:16:45-05:00Every few months, along with the water bill, I receive a little brochure from the water company that assures me that the level of coliform and fecal bacteria in the water that flows through the taps has been tested at...SujathaSundar