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Late this month due to an extended stay in Kuala Lumpur for the Malaysian general elections. Here are the three articles I’ve managed to glean from around the web in April. This article from the Pacific Standard magazine covers a paper whose authors examined the obituaries of over 1,000 famous people published in The New York [...]

I’ve been busy with programming stuff since Algorithms II just started up. The first assignment involved processing WordNet graphs. The second assignment involved implementing seam carving, also known as content-aware resizing. Anyway that’s why I’ve been browsing less lately and so have fewer articles. Here we go: IBM’s Watson supercomputer made the news in 2011 [...]

Due to the Chinese New Year festivities in February, I had less time to browse around for science articles so only three of them this month: This article in The New York Times covers some very preliminary work on how brain signals can be transferred from one laboratory rat to stimulate another rat to perform [...]

The first month of 2013 has been particularly fruitful so we have a mixed bag of various science related articles. Here goes: We’ll start with the most important piece of news that made the rounds this month, though more often in editorial than science circles. This Mother Jones article, one of many on the topic, [...]

Just four articles for the last month of December 2012 and one of them isn’t a science article at all but is a retrospective on the year with a perspective that I hope more people would share. The first one is on a subject that Hiew actually forwarded to me earlier in the month. It’s [...]

Majorly late with this one, I know. I’ve been in Kuala Lumpur for extended period lately. But better late than never and I’m determined to keep this blog alive if updates now are less frequent. So let’s get on with it. This first one is a bit trite and still a truth worth keeping in [...]

A mixed bag of articles for this month, ranging from the funny to the weird. Let’s get to it.  Regenerative medicine, or growing replacement body parts from one’s own cells, will be the next frontier of medicine. This article from the admittedly skanky Global Post site demonstrates that it has the potential to covers external [...]