The Slow but Sure may not win this race

I read this article Point:Hypotheses first,by Robert Weinberg,under the caption "Has genomics done a lot to fight cancer?" In Nature published online 31 March 2010.(From Twitter

RT @NatureNews: Has genomics done a lot to fight cancer? Robert Weinberg argues no http://bit.ly/9leNsW ; Todd Golub argues yes http://b … 1:15 PM Apr 4th via web).

Robert A. Weinberg is at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and in the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.

Email: weinberg@wi.mit.edu

see also this website:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100412/full/news.2010.178.html?s=news_rss

Wave and Tidal Energy R&D Exciting

Over the weekend I treated myself to a perusal of articles about alternative energy. When I came to wave/tidal energy, I was amazed at the abundance and innovativeness of the devices employed. The Research and Development department is seemingly overbalanced with the number of Universities participating in the programs.

See You Next Swing

Mental Health matters: They will walk out on you now! Be back next Swing!! (As in mood swings).

Poetic Justice and a Child’s World

Poetry and storybooks give the imagination space to roam in a way computers never will, for adults & children alike.

The imagery in a poem especially, of flowers, stimulates the faculty of an adult’s imagination much like the reading of a bedtime story does a child’s. Below is an excerpt from one of my favourites: lines 78-93, Acon and Rhodope; or Inconstancy, by Walter Savage Landor:

2009 COPUS Year of Science

Let’s serve up a big slice of the science cake for the environment in 2009 please!

It is an indulgence to imagine that a whole year could be dedicated to solving just one of the world’s problems. Nevertheless, specific yearly themes are a good tool to help us focus. The Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science Network (COPUS) has declared 2009 as the Year of Science.

It is another country, “through the eyes of a poet”

If you love a little place in the world that may have heavy nostalgia for you, rest assured there are places like Italy that care for such corners, and will not let them be lost and swallowed up by acid rain or pollution dumps.

Italy. That is the place, somewhere in an august time setting, Joseph Addison was sent to. As was the custom in those days, for intellectual youth to do, and to make that cushy, he was granted a Pension of 300 pounds. Of course other places of Europe were on his visiting list, but the long poem, "A letter from Italy" is a record in verse of his tour of the place, along its length and breadth. It is said of him, he surveyed Italy "with the eyes of a poet". He has talked about Rome, Naples, the Tiber, Baia and Umbria. Of San Marino, there is a most amusing passage about it.

Heights of Inspiration

If you, perchance,should zoom in on a night scenario, and see a beautiful cityscape clearly outlined in a night for celeberations and thus illumined;would you for a moment think such a sight was only possible if the air was clear?No mists, no inclement weather, no fog smogs!Naturally you would think so.if it were a night, […]

Selected lines from Time-Line-English Poetry

 (ALSO READ THE SECOND ARTICLE BELOW)                                                                                                     Excerpt;

63 Lo!Where the heath,with withering brake grown o’er,

Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor …

Excerpt;

63 Lo!Where the heath,with withering brake grown o’er,

Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor,

From thence a length of burning sand appears,

Lost in Commerce

Excerpt:

1 "The road past Murree was smoother than a few years ago, and the monkeys were still sitting on the road when we passed through Ayubia National Park. The smell of pine was in the air …

Special role of computers in assisting the wide range of children’ s learning abilities

Children need to be taught etiquette and ethics regarding internet communications. It would be a good idea if the school teachers have a degree in education with teacher’ s training,as well as a degree in ICT.

Rewards and rewarding experiences of using PCs in schools.

I think there is a trend to 'reward' children when they perform well, and it cannot be more emphasised, to teach the children computer basics.

PCs in schools: Assure a value added preparation for the future workforce

Definite stuff. And why not? We expect either too much from a computer or too little. Just tell me,how many spheres of our activities like banks, police, news dailies’ offices, shopping centres, engineering firms, computer science learning centres themselves and IT learning centres, has the computer completely taken over? Can you imagine a giant monitor […]