meet the bombyx mori
bombyx-mori Make a guess, what is this? Don’t google, just make a guess…:) Posting your guess here is optional, but in any case, this post will be updated with a kind of mini-thesis and more photographs soon…! ——–
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[article] The Alternative Hypothesis
Some very interesting ideas are voiced in this beautiful article by Navadarshanam… The Alternative Hypothesis Midway through life, Eknath Easwaran says: I was beginning to sense that there was nothing in the industrial world�s endless whirl of new products and pleasures that would compensate for the things receding ever further into the distance: our hope…
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music out of the ordinary
Still buried under tons of miscellaneous activities but felt compelled to write a short note. Heard just a few seconds of some music and felt there was something unique about it. My aunt was viewing Doordarshan for a change, and the violinist playing the music was Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan The extraordinary thing was the unpredictability. Usually…
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a creature's ability to aim
[Republishing another old draft…] One thing about the Egyptial Vulture is that it is one of the very few birds that can use a tool – it uses stones to break open eggs. Sometimes flying high with a pebble and dropping it to break the egg open! The Egyptian Vulture has developed the ability to…
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trees
Happened to come across a nice post involving trees today and felt like putting up some pictures from a walk through forest/plantations in Chikmagalur (October 2003) Naseeb, a Geneva native of 12 years and a Stanford and Oxford graduate, was traveling to a third world country once to “help”. His driver stopped the car in…
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what the hibiscus said
“I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody – including me – has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.” ~ Ken Wilber So it was with the case of this hibiscus plant…
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a bit of nature
Some nature pictures from over the past few years, since 2003…
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some ideas about the Mahabharatha
I’m no authority on all this, I’m just summarising what I’ve so far learnt and understood from various sources. I think the Mahabharatha can be seen at many different levels. At one level, its a story – someone kills someone, someone takes an oath to not do that, someone plots against someone, someone else sticks…
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creative way of representing creativity
There are a lot of nice things out here on this site which I get regularly from their mailing list. But this particular one on creativity really got to me. (It includes music as well).
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timely link
Learnt a lot about time management in Hyderabad (straightaway through the experience, there was no time to think about it!) I surprised myself by being a radically different fellow – a meticulous principled person completing each and every task perfectly and in time, handling random interruptions and yet addressing each of them completely and thoroughly!…