The guy that discovered DNA structure.

Now I am sure almost everyone have heard of James Watson. Watson and Crick were the famous scientists that discovered the structure of DNA (yes the double helix). What I did not know is Watson seems a queer one. He is all for genetic engineering to the extreme and has made some controversial remarks about how stupidity can be cured, all women can be made beautiful, Africans have lower IQ because of their DNA, etc. While it seems that this all stems from the fact that he believes that DNA determines everything hence all human beings are not equal, I think that it is better he reserved comment till proven. It could well be that intelligence is the actual abnormality. Read about some of his comments here and here.

Can a point be a circle or vice versa?

View 1 - A point is a 0 dimension object while a circle exists in 2D. So a point is not a circle.

View 2 - Imagine a circle with infinitely small diameter. Then it converges to a point.

This thing came up when talking about social circles and a person with no social circle only have themselves in it. So can oneself still count as a social circle or not a social circle?

ARGGGHHHH!!!

Darn, why this now? %$&^@(*^()@%@^%@*^%*@^%@^%$&Q$&&@!!!

Ig Nobel Prize

A few days ago an article by BBC about The Ig Nobel Prize caught my attention. The Ig Nobel Prize is a series of awards handed out every year by real Nobel prize winners to people that did some really funny research. Some of the notable research done this year includes:

• A gay bomb -- drop this on the enemy army and they will have homosexual tendencies resulting in confusion and loss in morale.
• Extracting vanilla flavour from cow dung
• "Sword swallowing and its side effects"

The rest of the list can be found on wikipedia or at the website of the Ig Nobel Prize itself. Now, if someone can win a prize for extracting vanilla from cow dung surely my country can win a prize for extracting drinking water from piss. Hence I did a ctrl-F and typed in the name of my country and guess who I found...

Busy Busy Busy

It is either that things are getting exponentially harder or that I am getting exponentially slower. In the meantime all I can afford is some of this.