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The Greatest Nature cover ever….
After years in our office, someone finally got round to putting up the huge copy of the greatest @NatureNews cover. — Daniel Cressey (@DPCressey) I worked on the Human Genome Project, so I guess I should make a poster out of this as well.
Read MoreThe Naming of Things
Recently, Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, was in the news because scientists named a tiny Australian leech after her. “I am thrilled to be immortalized as Chtonobdella tanae,” Tan said. “This humble leech has looped across a new scientific threshold—the first microscopic...
Read MoreA Library in Jaffna
Shareeq is too young to remember much of the war years. But for another patron, 75-year-old Rajenthiran Selvanayagam, spending time at the library is a peaceful contrast to that era. He lost his wife to the war. His son went mad. Selvanayagam visits the library three...
Read MoreThe Original Angry Young Man
Many boys who went to school in Madras must've worn this costume for the "fancy-dress" competition at school. Draw on a mustache, wear your dad's wedding "reception" coat, memorize a couple of Tamil verses, and you are all set! Outside of Tamil Nadu, this costume...
Read MoreMango Mistletoe
That the mistletoe has medicinal properties, shouldn't have been lost on any reader of Asterix comics. Getafix needed sprigs of mistletoe to make magic potion for the inhabitants of that little Gaulish village, we knew so well. And some 2,000 years ago, the druids in...
Read MoreThe Peril of The Seas — Coming to a Coast near You..
I am working on a story which recalls a Sherlock Holmes adventure The Adventure of The Lion's Mane. The detective is his own chronicler in this one because trusty old Watson has become a family man. This story introduced me to the idea that a...
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