stuff that's too long for twitter & not really apt for my blog
...a radiologist peering into the interwebs...
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coincidental photographs
[received via email from a friend. all the photos seem to have been taken from this russian site]
i really like the last few images with the planes.
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for my Aussie twitter & blog buddies
via gocomics.com lyrics for the original kookaburra song are here
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amazing how new media works
i'm constantly amazed at how something as frivolous as twitter can lead to some amazing stuff.
thanks to my twitter pal sridhar, i play an anonymous cameo role (a pivotal role, in his words) in an interesting short story that he wrote in his tamil blog. all thanks to a story of a rare heavy metal toxicity that i found in the new york times (via twitter again) that i tweeted about. it's a great story, a typical work of rajeshkumar style tamil pulp fiction.Comments [1]
of trees and sacred memories
[inspired by this post by bongi]
this photo was taken in 2005, ten years after we planted a sapling in the then empty lot in front of the fairly new auditorium in our medical college on our graduation day. the little sapling had grown into a young tree of fairly respectable height, now in a pleasant copse. i'm sure it's grown more in height and bulk in these four years. i can't honestly say that i had lofty thoughts like bongi…i lay under the tree and, as best i could, told my friend who was with me about these thought. i then added that i would use the tree as a sort of temporal marker that i could come back to when i was finally what i would be. then i would stand under the tree and remember that exact moment when i looked into the unknown future with innocent hopes and dreams.
…but i do remember thinking about how immature and unprepared for the real world i was on that day when we planted that sapling.
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audition
a conversation on twitter (between saroj & i about this article in the ny times - see the screen grab) reminded me of something that happened years ago when i was in sixth standard, in my first year in boarding school.
one day a whole bunch of us were ordered to gather in the assembly hall after lunch. once there, we were told there was to be an audition to select new members for the school choir. the music teacher sang a short "aaaah" (is that called a chord or a tune?) and asked each of us to try and sing it in the same tune. my turn came in due course. i distinctly remember the dear lady's face twisting in horror within a few seconds of my attempt. she yelled out a tortured, "enough… next!!"that was the end of my budding musical career.Comments [1]
homeopathy is water - Dara Ó Briain
via youtube.com
i'm following more eminent medical bloggers* & tweeps who have already posted/tweeted this, not just because this is funny and i agree with it, but mainly because i wanted it to reach a broader audience in india, a country where "alternative medicine" has been vying for primacy with allopathy.
Ó Briain on the commonly seen phenomenon of "expert opinion" by pseudoscientists on television panels…
"It happens all the time in the medical stuff on television. You have a doctor on… and the doctor will be talking something with all the benefit of research and evidence…Then they’ll turn away from the doctor. In the name of “balance,” and turn to some crack witch-doctor, homeopath, horse-shit peddler on the other side of the studio."
“You never see this “balance” in the really really hard stuff. You never see this balance in physics. … Ah, Mr. NASA guy, you’re talking about the space station, that’s very interesting. Now for the sake of “balance,” we must now turn to Barry, who believes the sky is a carpet painted by God.”
more memorable lines…
“Science knows it doesn’t know anything, otherwise it would stop … That doesn’t mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairytale most appeals to you”
“Homeopathy is water… You can’t overdose on us, but you can fucking drown in it”“Herbal medicine has been around for thousands of years. Indeed it has, and we’ve tested it all and the stuff that works became “medicine.” And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.”
“A dietitian is to a nutritionist as a dentist is to a toothiologist”
if you are wondering how a comedian could be this wise, like i did, check this out - "He attended college in University College, Dublin, where he studied maths and theoretical physics."
*other medbloggers who have posted this…
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cloudy, wet sunday morning
in yercaud.
photographs taken from (& on) the balconies of suresh's house, except for the last one, which shows the kids having breakfast.
we're waiting for the kids to finish before we attack the food - idli, plain dosai, egg dosai, sambhar, chutney & chicken gravy.
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