(alt-text) Researchers just found the gene responsible for mistakenly thinking we've found the gene for specific things. It's the region between the start and the end of every chromosome, plus a few segments in our mitochondria.
Yesterday, October 25 was Picasso's birthday (b. 1881). Here is an iconic photograph of Picasso taken in 1948 with Francoise Gilot, his partner for ten years. Francoise Gilot later married Jonas Salk. A tribute to Cubism (which I am unable to credit properly, because I have pulled it from my old collection).
Taylor Swift would have written a new version of " Teardrops on my guitar" (Posted by Sounak) This is an oft-repeated ad for Teach India, a well meaning initiative by Times of India and British Council. Granted that knowledge of English perhaps does help in improving quality of life these days, but this image is unfortunately loaded with so many other messages -
- Better life means giving up Indian dresses. - Better life means giving up selling Indian style flower arrangements. - ... |
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