My musings

Saw this extremely strange incident in our garden this morning. Apparently, the rose plant in the garden had a stem sprouted off from its flower! This is certainly the most strange and indeed, most beautiful thing I have seen in nature. It was my knowledge that stem does not seem... [Read More]

I found this very interesting game, Quantum Chess. The goal of the game as opposed to normal chess is to capture the opposing king rather than checkmate. Other interesting thing about this chess is that when any piece lands on white square it remain in its 'classical state' but if it land on black square then it undergoes quantum transformation... [Read More]

In the recent week there have been many reports like  Heisenberg uncertainty principle stressed in new test [BBC News], they are certainly very confusion for students, like me. Thankfully an excellent post here pretty much clears all the confusion by systematically explaining everything. The post also has links to more of such articles... [Read More]

This was originally drafted sometime in August but I forgot to post it. I found this extremely funny comix posted by César A. Rodríguez-Rosario on his blog. From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

University of Bergen has explained the problem, and consequences, of plagiarism with Hollywood-level production values in this grand video. This should be must viewed by every wanna-be research student. This was posted by Andrew Gelman [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwbw9KF-ACY] P.S. Press CC for subtitles in English.