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Paul C. Lauterbur, a University of Illinois professor of chemistry who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), died on Tuesday March 27, 2007 at his home in Urbana, Illinois. The cause of death was kidney disease. Lauterbur was 77 years [...]

The search for a good three column blog theme continues.
Currently trying out Anaconda, Ultimate 3 Column WordPress Theme

I found out about Complaints Choirs thanks to this post by Abinandanan at Nanopolitan.
Here is the YouTube video of the Helsinki Complaints Choir.
I found the Hamburg Complaints Choir in the ‘Related’ box and watched that. Though it’s more political and has complaints relevant to Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, the music and the song sound better and it [...]

Call me masochistic, but after two people said that my blog looks awful when viewed on Internet Explorer, I just had to check.
I hunted for and found the ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac’ hidden deep in my applications folder. I knew I had it somewhere as it was bundled along with the ‘MS [...]

I got an email from a friend commiserating Team India’s premature (but wholly justified) exit from the ongoing Cricket World Cup.
She also added…
I’m on the desktop, not my laptop, using Internet Explorer (not Firefox, as I usually do) and your site is totally wrecked. The posts are just one word per line going on [...]

A snippet from Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything,’ which would be of particular interest to Arunn and Lakshmi…
Physicists are notoriously scornful of scientists from other fields. When the great Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s wife left him for a chemist, he was staggered with disbelief. “Had she taken a bullfighter I would have [...]

Responding to my previous post Aphra Behn, the author of the series of posts that I had linked to, says…
“The exploitative cynicism of the British Government and the opportunist racism of parts of the British medical establishment in this whole situation disgusts me.”

She also suggests further reading for “those considering coming to the UK” [...]

For young doctors in India who hope to emigrate to the UK thinking that their future will be brighter there…..

MMC and MTAS by Aphra Behn.

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