*New Plastic Bleeds Red When Scratched, Then Heals Itself Like Skin*
POPULAR SCIENCE | MARCH 27, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/7qcyQ
Sounds promising, but I distrust these might be inventions...
Anyone here has special knowledge about this material?
Deepa.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
People who desire choice in their career will also desire a choice in
their partner, in their beliefs, in their religion, in their social
circle, in every aspect of life primarily because there's no coercive
counter
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:16:52PM -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
This is not just an Indian thing. It is traditional in Canada to have
a cottage or cabin at the lake, and there are so many lakes that
Same thing in Finnland, presumably.
even people of very modest means can often manage to have one.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
But, Cheeni, you criticise Shiv for terming it dharma vs adharmabut
when you call it a silent killer of the night (I remembered Bhopal when I
read that)...you too, take a judgemental stance.
It is a silent killer
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:35 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
With India's historical disdain for the humanities, neither historian
nor sociologist was around to fully record or explain the scale of the
destruction.
Srini this is wrong. The history and and sociologuists merely wroet out
After this very epic Christopher Priest rant that udupa pointed me to
elsewhere ..
http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/journal/1077/hull-0-scunthorpe-3/
Charlie Stross' twitter feed has a cute puppy display pic and there are
tshirts too. https://twitter.com/#!/cstross/status/185353259169488897
On 30-Mar-12 7:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
After this very epic Christopher Priest rant that udupa pointed me to
elsewhere ..
http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/journal/1077/hull-0-scunthorpe-3/
I found this amusing, more for the reaction on twitter and the SF
blogosphere than the
Thank you. I like Priest's rant a lot. I agree with him about Mieville
Stross; the others I'm mostly not familiar with. But the citations he gives as
evidence of bad writing are convincing to me, and his literary values seem
legitimate to me, and much like my own.
In particular, I've never
On Thursday 29 Mar 2012 10:12:14 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
but in general
there are very few records from commoners in the last century.
Srini there are thousands upon thousands of records. The internet is nowadays
bursting with them. Many are oral but an increasing number are documented.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
After this very epic Christopher Priest rant that udupa pointed me to
elsewhere ..
http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/journal/1077/hull-0-scunthorpe-3/
Charlie Stross' twitter feed has a cute puppy display pic
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
And on the topic of Priest, I thought _The Affirmation_ was
awe-inspiringly good.
+1 to that. His best book, easily. Among the books I have read, the only
one I found sub-par was The Extremes. It was like an old
On 30-Mar-12 9:45 AM, Thejaswi Udupa wrote:
Stross is a genius. He is one of the few SF authors whose understanding
of how computer science works is closer to how it actually works, and
that results in the right kind of geekery in his books. I can see how a
book like Accelerando can piss
Gah. Sleepyheaded morning, sorry. I meant to say Saturn's Children.
From: Udhay Shankar N
Sent: 30-03-2012 10:12
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] Charlie Stross internet puppy tshirt
On 30-Mar-12 9:45 AM, Thejaswi Udupa wrote:
Stross is a genius. He is one of the few SF authors
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