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Steve Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011 which is 4 days before I am writing this blog. He has left an indelible mark on the use of gadgets by humans. The way he envisaged the importance of design and form-factor in the production of smartphones and computers is amazing to say the least.

I am also an Apple fan, owning about 4 apple products as I am writing this, and using one of them to pen this post. All of us in our family really enjoy using these and the image ...

Tags: apple, eulogy, iphone, macbook, steve jobs

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Some scientists poke needles at our bubbles of happiness. Yes, at least they did for me.

I was touting my gray hair as a sign of wisdom for the last 3 to 4 years. But now, some researchers from UK and Germany have 'discovered' the 'real' reason for this graying, thus exposing my 'wisdom'!

Wood et al [1] using FT-Raman spectroscopy have proved H2O2-induced oxidative damage in the entire human hair follicle, inclusive of the hair shaft, ...

Updated March 7th, 2010 at 04:11 PM by Shashikiran

Tags: gray hair, graying, h2o2, hair, hydrogen peroxide, oxidative damage, premature graying, senile, wisdom

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What is BT Brinjal? It is creating so much controversy in India with even the Environment minister going back and forth over the issue.

Like most people assume, BT here does not stand for Bio-Technology! Bt Brinjal is Bacillus thuringiensis Brinjal.

Bt Brinjal is a genetically modified brinjal (syn: eggplant, aubergine, begun) created by inserting a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) into brinjal. This has been developed ...

Updated February 14th, 2010 at 05:33 AM by Shashikiran

Tags: bt brinjal, genetic engineering, genetically modified, mahyco, monsanto, vegetable

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Every office has politics, as long there are at least two employees!

Experienced something which I don't want to discuss here, but while googling about it, found this very well made statement:

If you don't know the problem; you are INNOCENT.
If you know the problem, but don't know the solution; you are IGNORANT.
If you know the problem, you know the solution, but you don't want to use or implement; you are a CULPRIT.

Perfect.

Mahatma Gandhi's quote ...

They say "when everything is going fine, nothing goes wrong". Similarly, when we face ‘failure’ in life, everything seems to be going wrong. The same principle applies to our days of medical studies too (as it would to many other situations).

However, it is a reality that many students who ‘fail’ in medical course and eventually graduate do ‘well’ in their careers than many others who graduate without any failures during the course. This seems to be an anomaly at the face ...

Tags: challenge, failure, success

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