Tinku Town

best place to live

2006-07-08T11:20:00.000-07:00

People waste so much time talking about what cities they like and most of it not even intuitively speculating. I took a quiz at a couple of sites a while ago, and got Long Island, NY and Augusta, GA as the best places for me. Which is funny because I am from augusta, ga and Long Island is one of my favorite places, I have relatives there... http://www.bestplaces.net/ http://

philosophical investigations

2006-06-17T12:12:00.000-07:00

Philosophical Investigations is a brilliant and funny piece of philosophy before Chris Rock and Sienfeld. Its true that perfect communication is impossible, but that doesn't mean we can't try to improve the suboptimal communication that happens anyways. The social web is changing the whole paradigm. We no longer have to analyze our own thoughts, but the sum of world voices can be analyzed for

review of gandhi's autobiography "my experiments with truth"

2006-06-17T12:01:00.000-07:00

Gandhi may have been the only honest successfull politician ever. If Gandhi had been born before the American Revolution, the declaration of independence may have including the protection of truth as one of the self evident responsibilities of the goverenment, and maybe pursuit of not so self-evident truths as a right... Gandhi's autobiography along with The Daily Show's book on Democracy

v for vadetta review

2006-05-13T15:21:00.000-07:00

http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2006_06/levatter-vendetta.htmlThis is a great and informative review that increased my satisfaction after seeing v for vandetta. V for Vandetta was a supposedly libertarian movie, I didn't think so when I saw it. But this review clarifies how it was supposed to be, with lengthy excerpts from the book. Now, only if I had time and motivation to get the book. I

minimum wage and home schooling

2006-04-15T16:55:00.000-07:00

On the minimum wage: http://www.lp.org/yourturn/archives/000271.shtml "While we live in a non libertarian environment, we do sometimes need protections like the minimum wage. For example, I am a doctor in training. Now, I wish medicine was not as regulated, but since it is and I have to go through a residency to do what I want to do, be a doctor. I need some protection like the 80 hour per

neurobiology and computer science

2006-04-11T22:47:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,here are a couple of links that I think are the bridge between organic and electronic computation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_states http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_614.htmlthese things are taken for granted by organic / natural computers (starting, interrupting processes) Simulating these events requires artificially checking legalities that physics and

Re: Intel Science Talent Search winner biographies (but look at their parents)..

2006-03-15T03:37:00.000-08:00

This whole business of children and parent's influence causes problems for me. I like to think of myself as a defender of children's rights, and too much brainwashing (or atleast discipline) from parents, ( was against the v-chip etc...) I prefer Krishna's method of only preaching when asked for. unfortunately not preaching is just allowing others to preach your children... add this to the list

evolutionary psychology

2006-02-20T05:54:00.000-08:00

so I did a search for evolutionary psycology on nybooks.com steven pinker is a supporter... I'm not a huge fan of either evolutionary psycology, steven pinker, and probably wouldn't see eye to eye with denett on everything either (I don't think they are super clear in their reasoning even if they have some interesting ideas). I forget what context i last heard about evolutionary psychology in...

Re: [Tinku Town] diets debunked

2006-02-12T01:04:00.000-08:00

I am tired of people saying there is research that eating 5 meals a day is better than 1 meal a day for losing weight, but they never cite the study.I don't think anyone has seriously debunked the one meal a day diet. In medical school, I had a lecture "diets debunked" that debunked atkins, southbeach, limiting variety, food replacements, and most diets, except one meal a day.In the end calories

diets debunked

2006-02-12T00:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5368/1378?ijkey=4aE5b8dml9vsMProtecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J Hilts - Sample pages displayed by agreement with UNC Press Total Nutrition: The Only Guide You'll Ever Need - From the Mount Sinai School of Medicineby Herbert

indian film festival

2005-10-28T10:27:00.000-07:00

I used to brag that Dallas has a desi film festival. I guess Boston does too. Are you guys interested in going to a film? http://www.iaac.us/fifthannual_film_festival2005/Schedule.htm Naveen

pani puri recipe

2005-09-12T21:43:00.000-07:00

Pani Puri Ingredients for puris: 3/4 cup rawa (cream of wheat) - 1/2 cup White flour - 2 tsp. Urad dal flour - 1/4 tsp Salt - . 2 pinches Baking powder - cold water oil for deep frying Method for puris: Dry roast urad dal till golden brown in colour. Pound into fine powder in a blender. Mix white flour, rawa, urad flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Add water and knead to a

Socratic Method

2004-10-08T13:23:00.000-07:00

Socratic methods sucks Socratic method guides a student's deductive thought processes through deductions from an informal language dictionary, hoping to arrive through successively narrower although still uncountable ideas to a predefined idea. And this through an optimally, efficient path of questions, negative reinforcement, free clues often in the form of more questions, and rarely positive

My Favorite Movies

2004-01-08T13:35:00.000-08:00

1. Kamasutra: a tale of love 2. Praying With Anger 3. TM Ninja Turtles I 4. Batman 5. Don’t be a menace to Southcentral while drinking your juice in the hood Abortion is prohibited by Hindu text, but the ethics of abortion in Hindu society are complex and debatable. It is thus taboo and yet legal in India and Hindu culture. The American debate on abortion is centered on the following questions: When does life begin? When is the fetus viable