low-throughput

First published 3 August 2010 @ just some words Contrary to what you read in Wikipedia , -logy is not a suffix. If anything, it is a roo...

Three months ago, I started another “low-throughput” blog, just some words . I wanted to have not-Blogger blog. But why did I choose to hos...

Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is my all-time favourite mad scientist . I don’t know in which field he is a professor but since he is teac...

From Brick Lane by Monica Ali : ‘This is the tragedy of our lives. To be an immigrant is to live out a tragedy.’ ‘What are you talking...

An amazing animation by RSAnimate, inspired by Dan Pink ’s talk at the RSA and his latest book, Drive . As long as the task involved...

I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand people who constantly talk on their mobiles. Back in 1995, Bill Bryson wrote in his Notes from a...

There are only a few buzzwords which irritate me more than this one. But what exactly is crowdsourcing? According to Wiktionary , it means ...

28 February 2009. I woke up in the morning (hey, that sounds like blues!) realising that I am not going to work today, or next week, or next...

Yesterday, while waiting in a queue to the passport control at Stansted airport, I was pondering how lucky I am to have British passport. I...

Circa 1986. The professor at our department of biophysics is saying (to nobody in particular): «Я только что сказал моим студентам что работ...