Saturday, January 26, 2008

Rishi Scientists of India

Get to know Nagarjuna(wizard of chemical science),Acharya charak (father of medicine),Acharya sushrut (father of plastic surgery),Acharya patanjali(father of ayurveda),Acharya bharatwaj (father of aviation technology),Acharya kapila(father of cosmology) here

Via Desipundit

Thursday, January 24, 2008

h-index for science in India

Hirsch Index for science in India here

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Science Women's Law



More WORTHY SCIENTIFIC EPONYMS here

Nobel laureate Davind Baltimore in India-January 2008

Dr.David Baltimore's lectures will be at Delhi,Bangalore and Chennai.More Details at Cell magazine

Hollywood Physics

Here at Popular science for scientific inaccuracy ,plus a few rare films that manage to get things right.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Indian graduates are slow in becoming productive

If you hire a graduate of an Indian university, it takes between 3 and 6 months for them to become productive says this article in Science

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Manjunath N.Swamy at Scientific american 50

Manjunath.N.Swamy of Harvard medical school is at Sciam 50 for his work on ways to break the blood brain barrier to get drugs into brain for neurological diseases.

New organisms of 2007

Wired magazine lists the Top 10 organisms of 2007 which incules bitanol producing bacteria, Fluorescent tadpoles,Glow in the dark cats etc