Survival guide- when you fall from an air plane.

Interesting. Obviously scary too.

The Benefits of Failure -Harvard commencement speech by J.K.Rowling

This is inspiring.Don't miss

Lab on a postage stamp

It's the magic of Microfluidics.

h-index for science in India

Hirsch Index for science in India 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.

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

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

YUmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy story of coffee here

Top 10 discoveries of 2007

Time magazine has listed the top 10 discoveries.

Frog with fluorescent purple markings,legless amphibian, human heart valve out of stem cells... wow..amazing.

Don't miss

Dedicated to education - A site for teachers.

Science roll points to a webpage called Pageflakes for teachers.
Have a look at it.

Awesome video - Wasps injecting venom into cockroach brain

As Carl zimmer at The Loom puts it,it is an awesome parasitic manipulation.

Don't miss the Newscientist update and video of jewel wasps attack on Zombie cockroaches

Textbooks-Essential or Superfluous?

CBE-Life Science Education has an article on the relevance of textbooks in this mordern era.The author shares his experience of teaching with and without a textbook.

Are textbooks just for reference and not learning tools?

Take a look.

The author has given some webpages containing course materials

1. Biofundamentals (http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB1111)

2.Flash based virtual laboratories (http://bioliteracy.net/)

US falling behind the technology curve ?

Mike ,the mad Biologist points to Tom Watkin's thought in the Guardian.

X ray computed tomography and Digital dissection of spider

Over at BBC to have a look at how a 53 million old amber-locked spider was dissected.

Fall trees are beautiful because......

Professor in his Sandwalk has given the science behind the colour of fall leaves.

FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY at Edge

Formula for life by Richard Dawkins, Craig Ventor and other intellectuals. Here at edge.

Meet the Einsteins of the 21st century .

The hottest 10 nerds in Biological sciences speak out their views on the future of Biological sciences and where they think the revolution is taking us at Newsweek.

Winner of Ig Nobel prize- Vanilla from cow dung

Environmental Graffiti has a detailed post on Ig Nobel prize on Improbable research

Aminoacid Poem

Here is a poem by Greg Crowther on A is for ALANINE.

An easy way to remember aminoacids and their functions.