Things to Ponder about!

Haven’t been blogging for sometime now, but here are some things that really bother me

Palin and her folksy values about guns, foreign policy and global warming. Palin is becoming more of an issue, not due to her inferior competency but due [...]

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Nano-materials: Both sides of the picture

Nano-materials are projected to be an extremely promising class of materials possessing properties that are new, cheap and easy to engineer for a variety of applications. One of potential applications is that of drug delivery. Nano materials like carbon nano-tubes and fullerenes have been effectively used to transport drugs to specific cells in the body [...]

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Mumbai’s First Earth Hour

On 15th Mumbai, India decided to pull the plug on power for an hour on a Saturday evening. Although the event wasn’t a major success, with pockets of the population not responding to the black out with dubious excuses, the awareness of Global Warming was instilled. Its good that India’s economic power house responded aware [...]

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Long live Silicon CMOS

The largest threat that the semiconductor electronic industry is posing is that of excessive power dissipation due to CMOS scaling. Scaling follows Moore’s law.Just when everyone was skeptical about the end of the Silicon CMOS era, researchers at Clemson University has come up with a new way process compatible with existing technology to circumvent the [...]

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Technology: The New Helm of Indian Politics

Gujarat is synonymous with entrepreneurship and yet again! Well, now you know what’s common with Modi, Hillary and Obama. All the three are using Youtube for their political activism and propaganda. Orkut too isn’t far behind.
Never did anyone think that the Narendra Modi, the self proclaimed ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’ would take to the internet so [...]

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Bill Gates and Statistics

Lack of black engineers hurts U.S., Bill Gates says
Did you actually do a survey on what percentage of the graduating black students want to take up computer science as a profession?
You dont choose a profession because it has jobs!

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Waitress Blasts Media

“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”
Its time [...]

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Vinyl comes a full circle

As an audiophile myself, I know the warmth that the sound on vinyl records bring forth. The digital age hasn’t deterred enthusiasts from collecting records as a hobby. Although major record companies are skeptical about the reemergence of vinyl records, there is no doubt that the vinyl tend is slowly catching on.
Smaller companies are now [...]

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Photoshop and Politics

Recently an obscure Indian news website carried a news reporting how the current chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir used Photoshop as a means to project his popularity among the masses. The doctored pictures portrayed large numbers attending his rally.
It was very disappointing to see that this piece of news did [...]

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About IMEC and the Nobel

Recently, the Nobel prize for peace was awarded jointly for raising the awareness on global warming and need for alternate renewable energy sources of which solar power remains the forerunner.
Solar Cell technologies are widely known for their low efficiencies. InterUniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Belgium where I once worked has reported a breakthrough with efficiency close [...]

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