Archive | February 2011
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The King’s Speech
Colin Firth’s speech for being adjudged the Best Actor this time around at the Academy Awards for, guess what, The King’s Speech. Here’s a dash of the man and his words: About these ads
KVPY: 10 Tips to Succeed!
So it seems like I am on a reblogging roll today! This time I resurrect another one of my favorite and popular post from my long dead old blog pointing out the 10 virtues of a research project which may help you to get selected for the Interview stage. When you get there, do read […]
The Final Frontier: Acing the KVPY Interviews
So, yet another repost of a popular article from my now fossilized old blog. I was getting a lot of questions regarding how to handle the KVPY Interviews and how to write a project report that gets the approval of the same. So, I decided to go ahead and repost those articles so that at […]
Decoding Twilight: The Oatmeal Style!
So, my friend thinks I am weird because she once caught me looking at Twilight accessories (hey, I sometimes get distracted by bright emo jingbang!) but here is the way I actually feel about it all:
Power to Akshaya Patra
I attended the Indiblogger #Indical bloggers meet up a few days ago and I thought that I would work on spreading the word of this worthy cause. In the light of the said commitment, I decided to do some guest blogging (Thanks Bassy at Between the Lines) on this topic. Go to the post undermentioned […]
Another Brick in the Wall
This is a repost from my old blog. Something happened today morning to remind me of the fact that as medical students we go through some of the worst times in our lives, and it never pays to give up in the struggle for life. I am trying to mask the identities and changing the […]
The Retraction Blog (via Retraction Watch)
I stumbled upon this group following a discussion on an online email discussion group regarding repositories of retracted papers. Whilst that discussion raised an important question: how does the retraction of a paper affect the metrics of other papers citing the retracted work, this post is not about that. (I hardly know anything about that […]
Saving Private Ryan!
This is not about the movie, but about the cricket match that just unfolded just now, where England scraped through against a buoyant Dutch side that put up a challenging 292/6 from its tally of 50 overs. While I am not particularly fond of the 50 over version of the game now that T20 has […]
#IndiCal Blogger Meetup
I attended the Indiblogger meet up that was organized by Indiblogger in collaboration with Akshaya Patra and others in Kolkata, at the Suresh Neotia Center for Excellence in Leadership last Sunday. Here are some of the memories as captured by my Blogger Buddy Nipon, himself a doctor, with his mobicam. The meet was attended by […]
Memorial Program for Nikhil Charan Bose
I wrote in a previous post about the passing away of Nikhil Charan Bose or our beloved Nikhil-da. A memorial program will be held to honor his memory on Thursday, 24th of February, 2011, at 5 PM at: Ramgarh Community Center Beside Mukul Bose School Ganguly Bagan I would strongly request any of his ex […]
Did Chopin Have Temporal Lobe Epilepsy?
Frederick Chopin is not only one of the greatest composers this side of history, but also, a paleopathologist’s delight. He died at the age of 39, which, even by the standards of those days, was quite young. There were several interesting correlated family ailments which has sparked the minds of the medical folks. In this […]
Another Reason to Love WordPress.com
I know you can cite several hundred reasons to LOVE (and also, correspondingly, to HATE) wordpress.com, but I want to speak of one here from my personal experience. As you may know, I have been debating the wisdom of changing the looks of my blog, and had created a poll to ask my readers what […]
Bloggy words: Numbers, MedGadget Awards, Blogger Buddies
I was nominated as one of the Finalists in the Medgadget Annual Medical Weblogs Awards, which is akin to the Oscars of the Medical Blogging world. I had started this blog mid-November, and in fact, as of today, it is just 3 months old! In the course of this short span of time, my blog […]
Blog Buddy Review: Who Wants to be Next?
This post is meant for my blogging buddies exclusively. Remember the segment in which I take down your WHOLE blog, and read it from tip to toe and end up ridiculing it? Casey, Stacey and Lisa (DePressed) have all been victims previously. Read them posts if you haven’t already! So, I want to review YOUR […]
Nikhil Charan Bose Passes Away: The End of an Era
Nikhil Charan Bose is no more… Nikhil Charan Bose, or Nikhil-da as we knew him, was one of the major pillars which supported the august institution of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur, my alma mater. I got a phone call from one of my teachers (Sarad-da) yesterday telling me that he had passed away on the […]
#IndiCal: The #AkshayPatra Kolkata IndiBlogger Meet
So, I have joined the Indian Blogging community at Indiblogger only recently but it seems like a real active group of people. The Indian Bloggers’ Meet is being organized by them, in collaboration with AkshayPatra near City Center on the 20th February, 2011. Here is the agenda: (I am copying this using the Windows Live […]
Wearing PLoS to Work!
So remember how I was talking about the Public Library of Science sending me over their t shirt last day? Well, here is another look: I wore it to work today! Support the movement: buy yours today.
On Feynman
There were 183 of us freshmen, and a bowling ball hanging from the three-story ceiling to just above the floor. Feynman walked in and, without a word, grabbed the ball and backed against the wall with the ball touching his nose. He let go, and the ball swung slowly 60 feet across the room and […]
New Look: What Do You Think?
Now this post is yet another cry for help directed towards my (?regular) readers, especially my Blog Buddies! Till yesterday, I was using the TwentyTen (now the WordPress default theme) with minimal changes to the default looks. Now I loved it because I am big on minimalism when it comes to my blog looks: a […]
Teenage Pregnancy: An Ethics Question
You-know! This post on Not House’s blog set me thinking about an ethically dicey question (Medical ethics has always been one of my pet peeves): Teenage Pregnancy and Consent. In this post, I am going to state an ethics issue, to which you may feel free to post your views/comments on (regarding the ethical implications […]
The PLoS T!
So, this came in the mail today: Needless to say I am thrilled beyond words and am not going to take it off for days to come! Support the Open Access movement: show your appreciation! for those of you wondering what the hell PLoS is, just click the pic to know more!
Help David Robertson win the 2011 Bloggie Award!
David Robertson is an environmental scientist who has been nominated for the prestigious Bloggies award in the Science section. I stumbled across his blog because he was freshly pressed and I was deeply impressed by this rocking and rolling, sky-diving, surf-riding, globe-trotting scientist who loved shooting stuff (with a camera). He is pretty much I […]
House MD and the professional guinea pig (via Humanities and Health)
A very interesting post with a poignant question to round it off: A must read for all concerned with health policies and the like. Whilst this post is not intended to be an answer to the question raised here, I must say that someday I intend to come back to it and write about it, […]
Life, At Full Tilt!
I am running off my feet with so many things going on in my life right now! Spent a marathon on call session in the hospital, then started to feel the twinge in the back that I get from time to time: undiagnosed upper back pain. Cramping. Killing. Tremendous family complications going on as well! […]
Valentine’s Day Special: John Hunter
In this special series, I will try to head up to Valentine’s Day with a series of posts to celebrate the day of love with posts not quite so pink and rosey. And I will start with the volatile Scottish surgeon: John Hunter! Yeah. You read that right! Read on, to understand why I chose […]
Polling Open for The MedBlog Oscars at MedGadget
So remember how I have been talking of being selected in the best New Medical Weblog category in the Oscar of the Medical Weblogs over at MedGadget? Well, polling has started now! You can vote for my particular category here. I have a bit of a head start thanks mainly to the fact that I […]
My Blogger Buddy: Lisa from My Life dePressed
Hey there. Your turn. At last! So I had bumped her for Stacey because I remembered an awesome number by the Fountains of Wayne. Flimsy excuse, I know! But don’t you worry Lis, I got an equally embarrassing but funky music vid for you: you can’t take umbrage though! She is one of my Blog […]
Blogging Summary: And A Shout Out For My Blog Buddies!
So I have been doing this blog buddy thing that the good folks over at The Daily Post suggested at the beginning of the year. But given how crazy my last fortnight was, I have ended up ignoring them for the whole time. So, when I managed to free up today morning, I decided to […]
7th Annual Medical Weblogs Awards by Medgadgets: I’m A Finalist
I know. I can hardly believe it myself. All these days I have read Medgadget I hoped what it would be like to be one of the winners, to write that thank you post, blahblahblah… I know every MedBlogger has thought of it at least once. And now against all odds, I am on the […]
