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Quote of the Day by Charles Darwin: 'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again...' - what 'Origin of Species' author said about human behaviorCharles Darwin's witty observation highlights how a monkey, after one bad experience with brandy, avoids it, contrasting with humans who of...- Dogs should not suffer due to Darwinian inevitabilityFor many Indians, though, the pie dogs that populate our country have become animals that need to be kept away from human habitations, unle...
- View: Survival of the specious or a beauty contest,Brits have a strange way of finding a PMThe winners with respect to species within ecosystems, however, could become losers with a change of circumstances. The mammoth was more fi...
- 3 Indian writers join Obama's 'A Promised Land' in NYT's '100 Notable Books' list'A Burning', 'Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line' and 'A Dominant Character' feature on the list.
- Variable pay incentive is real motivation behind retaining employees: Lavanya NalliNalli is a believer in Darwin’s concept of survival of the fittest.
- Zebras, giraffes, impalas and other evolutionary conundrums (Book Review)Title: How the Zebra Got its Stripes And Other Darwinian Just So Stories; Author: Leo Grasset (translated by Barbara Mellor); Publisher: Pr...
- New method developed to reduce antibiotic resistanceA novel mathematical method inspired by the Darwinian evolution has been developed to reduce the development of antibiotic-resistant bacter...
- Universal JointThe naturalist John Muir had said, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
- Bat ManA bat in the belfry equals lunacy; as does ‘batty’, which is synonymous with being soft or scrambled in the head!
- An unfair dealThe funny thing is that while science and religion have been slugging it out for centuries, art doesn’t seem to have the same problem.
- Shift, Alt, Release!So, even in the worst possible chaos, Nature's creativity never dies, seems to be the moral of the poem.
- Open power structure is best in new world orderIn every organisation and institution, power and authority were initially reserved for a selected band of people.
- Hardwired to believe in God?Our desire for beauty, what's called Sundaram, is as firmly rooted in biology as language is in Darwinian evolution. Both are a side effect...
- ‘Curves are back’ mantra for carmakerIf entire economies are back on a growth curve it is a no brainer that smaller entities would also round on new strategies to attract burge...
- A very simple creation storyScientists rubbish the creationists' argument about the origin of life, and human beings in particular, along two fronts: the practical and...
- Harmonising one's faith with scienceFrancisco J Ayala, a geneticist who trained as a Dominican priest, has won this year's $1.5 million Templeton Award for making “exceptional...
- The hard part is the softwareTowards the end of the Second World War the Germans had managed to beat all other nations in the race to develop a ballistic rocket and com...
- The burden of thinking animalsDoes attachment cause suffering in the animal world too? Now, there’s a modern day koan for novitiates who consider the words of the master...
- The non-negotiable faith in usThose who thought western faiths were in a reconciliatory mood and that the Vatican’s Galilean blunder was a thing of the past, after the P...
- Can’t be dogmatic about creativityIn the Beginning was the Word, says King James’ version of the Bible. This is the only exact place where Darwin seems to agree with the cre...
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