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A Question of Taste – How many is it – 4 or 5 or 6?
Filed in Uncategorized, October 10, 2005, 1:00 am by SukumarAs a Tamil, I often encounter the assertion that there are actually 6 tastes and the scientific world (read western) …
Intelligent Design round up – Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit
Filed in Uncategorized, September 26, 2005, 1:00 am by SukumarI am sure all of you are following this Intelligent Design Vs. Theory
of Evolution controversy. In the most recent …
Amazonian ants use herbicide to kill unwanted plants
Filed in Uncategorized, September 22, 2005, 9:09 pm by SukumarTweetI had written earlier about leaf-cutter ants using antibiotics to kill off unwanted fungi. Here is an amazing report in the Scientific American about Amazonian ants using formic acid as a herbicide to get rid of unwanted plants. This is supposedly the first record of an ant using formic acid as a herbicide. Some more […]
Vocal Signatures help Penguins identify their offspring
Filed in Uncategorized, September 20, 2005, 1:00 am by SukumarSharon Begley writes a science column in the Wall Street Journal on
fridays. It is often the column that I …
Could the Katrina disaster have been averted?
Filed in General Interest, September 5, 2005, 11:25 pm by SukumarAn article (link below) by Mark Fischetti in the October 2001 issue of Scientific American talks about the Coast 2050 …
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