Another academic year, four more courses. This year, I audited Fluid Dynamics by Mahadevan, and Frontier in Biophysics by Sunney Xie in the fall, and Thermophysics by Girma Hailu and Physical Mathematics II by Eli Tziperman in the spring. Every one of them is a rewarding experience. This is the second time I audited Maha’s fluid…

While visiting national portrait library in 2012, I saw this quote by Malcah Zeldis: “Art is birth, and you cannot go to a teacher and find out how to be born… you have to struggle… until that image, the one that comes out of your need to create, emerges. ” Her words have stuck in my…

Bertrand Russell once declared that “[t]he main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.” So, we know he doesn’t play soccer, where instincts are trained, where every touch of the ball follows naturally…

Please check out my second Hippo Reads curation: Worldwide Water Crisis.

My first curation on Hippo Reads, 3D Printing: The Future of Manufacturing, is out. Check it out!!

“Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the…

There are books that one wants to have read, but not really read. On Growth and Form is such a book for me. I was completely blown away by its first chapter. But then I find myself reading bits and pieces here and there, skipping chapters and jumping from sections to sections. The book is…

I know I quote too much, but its eloquence is irresistible. ..the zoologist or morphologist has been slow, where the physiologist has long been eager, to invoke the aid of the physical or mathematical sciences; and the reasons for this difference lie deep, and are partly rooted in old tradition and partly in the diverse…