The thought behind this post has been vaguely floating in my mind for the past few weeks. A quick preface first. Medicine has advanced enormously. Genome mapping, human cloning, or even plastic surgery would have been considered far fetched by the common man a century ago, but in the past…
So, everyone lies – at some point, in some form, to various degrees. Kids lie, because [http://nymag.com/news/features/43893/] they are just copying their parents. I came across Raul’s ‘mesmeric yet whimsical’ rant about the lies he told his 3 year old [http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/…
Recently, Vishal Sharma [http://blog.sharmavishal.com/] and I decided to devote some of our time towards a dedicated blog portal covering technology startups and interviews with prominent people from IT, TeleComm and Green Tech. Vishal successfully led the Australian Startups Carnival [http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/03/summary-australian-startups-carnival.html]…
With the announcement last night of Google App Engine [http://appengine.google.com/], it’s now literally possible to build your entire web app on top of Google’s vaunted infrastructure – the BigTable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigTable], CPU cycles, and bandwidth – all courtesy Google. It has already been…
The other day I was reading an article on Rediff, “Why can’t Indians build a great product in India? [http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2008/mar/03druvaa.htm]“. It got me thinking about the scale of impact that strategies like seed funding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_funding]…
Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget – and so important to repeat new knowledge? With the Brain…
Earlier, I wrote about the SaaS [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2008/03/20/pain-in-the-saas/] (Software as a Service) model of software application delivery, and it drew the attention of Lars Leckie [http://larsleckie.blogspot.com/] who writes about SaaS, and more recently wrote about DaaS (Data as a Service)…
The science of sleep [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep] has been a bit intriguing for me [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/10/19/amount-of-sleep-needed/] in the recent past. Yawning may be contagious [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/07/12/why-is-yawning-contagious/], but the biggest question is — why do…