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I was looking at the world university rankings released by Times Higher Education and was surprised to find or rather not find even a single University from India in it! http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html The irony is most of these top 200 Universities have a significant number of students from India or of Indian origin! In other words, they or

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This happened to me yesterday August 29, 2009... the very first time in my entire life... so far. There was new Indian restaurant (Bali - for folks from Cincinnati, there used to be "The Village" restaurant here earlier) that opened recently which I thought will check out. So, there I was with my wife. We went for buffet which was pretty decent. While having the dessert (gulab jamun which wasn't

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Fact 1:Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable. ..At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened! TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE "CON" FOLDERExplanation: In windows the folder name and the special system variables share the same interface, so when you create a folder with a system variable

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This morning, when I called home, my mom was telling about a new superstition going around in the town! Whoever has son(s), should break a coconut at the main entrance of their homes! The number of coconuts to be broken is proportional to the number of sons one has. My mom was reluctant to do it (my years of brain washing has good effect on her; she is more rational now than she was 20 years ago)

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According to a Web survey by America Online and Salary.com, the average American worker admits to wasting 2.09 hours per day at work, not counting lunch. While most managers/supervisors expect the average employee to waste about an hour a day, the results of this survey were startling. These 2.09 hours per person per day add up to a whopping $759 billion in salaries! Of the 10,044 people who

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In the normal day to day meetings we meet, interact, exchange pleasantries, etc. with fellow colleagues. However, when it comes to meetings we will be left with no clue as to what exactly these characters are ( at least initially). These people are like Jekyll and Hyde - amicable in privacy but hungry wolves in public. So, how well we should be armed to handle these meeting monsters? How should

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Last night I was watching the American Idol. Don't know why I was watching it. May be we all have some morbid desire to watch someone humiliated. It's just like watching Nascar races. A majority watch them expecting there will be some crashes and then all the news channels play them again and again. Anyway, coming back to the American Idol show, it seemed all stage-managed. And boy, they were

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Behavior of one of the colleagues today prompted me to write this. This guy was using an internet phone and talking so loud that I could hear him even when I closed my room door. And this guy was sitting in a bull-pen sharing the office space with at least 4 other persons. Imagine their fate! So, this guy goes on and on for about 25 to 30 minutes and when his vocal chords start wearing down, he

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The Conference Call is Nothing But a Waste of Time! I feel so happy typing that.....Sometimes I wish I could go back to my old surgery days and all I have to face is the glare of the operation room lights and a silent buzz of the ECG machine or the cylinder of gaseous anaesthetic or the occasional tinkering of the surgical instruments. I love being a research faculty but what really wears me down

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"Tomorrow is Friday! I hardly got anything done this whole week" one of my postdoc friends was complaining today. I listen or overhear a lot of these! How the day went by and nothing got done. There was no time to grade the exam papers, revise your hot manuscripts, meet with advisory committee members, help with re-designing course curriculum, design the new Web site for your department, take the

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May be this is a bit late....there goes one of the resolution down the drain - I will not procrastinate :( - I'm not going to include that. Some of these are not mine and were compiled from other sources over the net!I resolve to work with neglected families. (my own). I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm with which I answer my e-mail.I will think of a password for my computer

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How much Hyderabadi are you? Here's a test (courtesy: somewhere from internet)Your address reads as 1-3-1/405/A/23-2.You are a common visitor to one of these good old roadside cafes and you call them Kef.Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chinese delicacies such as "Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".Your answer is

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While looking for some abstracts, I came across these 4 articles. It was mildly amusing reading them. It was comforting too because sometimes I get this feeling that may be I am wasting my time pursuing what I'm doing now! BTW, these are real research papers (you can check PubMed).1. This is not fiction! I am reproducing the excerpt from the original paper which appeared in Trends in Biochemical

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Handy guide to modern scienceIf its green or it wriggles, it's biology. If its stinks, it's chemistry.If it doesn't work, it's physics.Scientific and futuristic graffitiEntropy isn't what it used to be.There's no future in time travel.Reality is for people who can't face science fiction.Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.Young's lawAll great discoveries are made by mistake.Corollary: the greater

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Being a student advisor is not easy. At the same time it is not rocket science. So, what really makes a good advisor? Take the students to free lunches, serve them beer, take them to casinos, give free tickets to derby.... Well, not really (although, these things will make you a popular advisor :)). After much thinking, I compiled a checklist sort of things and I think if anyone fulfills most of

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Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family.D'oh!!!That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!Mmmm, 52 slices of American cheese.Mmmm, forbidden donut.There's a New Mexico?Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocalte to milk.Awww, there's only one beer left and it's

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Yesterday morning, I heard from one of my university friends that 4 of my friends who are all in various stages of their careers, and none of them are happy.One of them is slogging in PhD and already knows he doesn't want to be in academia any more. Well, he has started looking into what kinds of careers might make him happy.Another seems to be doing good in academics and is almost near-finish.

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I will try doing a Lettermanesque Top Ten Ways of Telling if someone is a desi. No, this is not that regular list (your suitcase has spices, you have a pressure cooker, you apply oil to hair and Ponds powder to face....)1. Time: Our concept of time and punctuality are so nebulous that our national language Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow - "kal". Just show up whenever is the

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This is the holiday season and everyone invites everyone. Fortunately or unfortunately I was also invited by one of my colleagues for dinner at their home. Well, it wasn't really a very pleasant experience. I thought may be I should ruminate on some of the host etiquette. Because from where I come we consider - "athidhi devo bava" (translates to guest is equivalent to God)!1. Serve your guests

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