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Gravity powered lamp generates as much light as 40 Watt bulb
Japan’s Second Defeat after the Second World War
68: There came on her a change
Tibet is one thing, but India and China tensions spell bigger disaster
The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener by Stephen Pfohl (C Theory)
Larks are losing the ability to sing—by Graham Keeley
Global Voices: alternative global journalism at its best
Earth Hour 2008
Spring comes earlier in U.S. for birds, bees and trees
At the ends of Man: Sri Aurobindo and Michel Foucault
A weaver of positive myths—A. Rangarajan interviews Amin Maalouf
Death Reckoning in the Thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida by Joshua Schuster (Other Voices)
4) The Anthropic Principle: Final Letters, Susskind's #3 & Smolin's #3
Kalam recalls Raman’s unique trait
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Guernica and/or Iraq
China considers wetland park at Poyang Lake
Beyond the Silence—A Poem by Sri Aurobindo
Happy Easter! - The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene
67: Death in the Forest
How to Think about Science
Sri Aurobindo and Hinduism (a speech by Peter Heehs: Hyderabad 2006)
The knight of science fiction: Arthur C Clarke—by Anthony Tucker
Two Arthur C. Clarke quotes to remember
Arlington Institute Report on Global Demographic Shifts
$516 Trillion Deriviatives Bubble a Disaster Waiting to Happen
"A human being is a part of the whole, ..." by Albert Einstein
Managing climate change—by Richard Stagg
Feather to Fire (A remarkable 6 minute video clip)
Poems from Oaxaca - Winter 2008, by Rosita Wandellah
First extra-solar organic molecule discovered
Languages face peril
Goethe and his times—by Prof Khwaja Masud
Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90
3) The Anthropic Principle: Leonard Susskind's #2 to Lee Smolin #2
Muslim biology precedes Darwin—a brief note
Thailand Princess to visit Puducherry & Auroville
Indo-Anglian Mystic Poetry: Sethna, Nirodbaran, Themis and Deshpande—by Goutam Ghosal
66: Deeply she listened...
Anandashram High School—where MV Nadkarni had his early education
Auroville, Cynosure of the World
Chapman’s Homer—Keats’s Sonnet
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter (Book Review)
After 40 yrs, Auroville still going strong
Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone
High Dynamic Range Imaging—from Wikipedia
Auroville's Landmark 40th Anniversary Celebrations
WMAP gives thumbs-up to cosmological model
Maya May Have Caused Civilization-Ending Climate Change—by Anne Minard
6th grade at Yosemite in September
Appreciating Arabic science that predates Newton—by Jim Al-Khalili
  Artificial black hole created in lab
65: Savitri prays to Durga
Situating the state in rural India—by V.K. Natraj and G.S. Ganesh Prasad
Boriska, boy from Mars, says that all humans live eternally
Adwaita—A Sonnet by Sri Aurobindo
The world's most powerful optical telescope has opened both of its eyes.
‘I do not believe in a full decipherment’ of the Indus script—Asko Parpola interviewed by S. T. Baskaran
Celebrating the Semicolon in a most unlikely Location—by Sam Roberts (from NYT)
NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes
First Avalanche Photographed on Mars by HiRISE exp. on NASA MRO
Mangesh V Nadkarni who became a Savitri legend for us
The Golden Krishna—29 February 1960
Prof Nadkarni, we do hear you—by Amartya Kumar Dutta
64: The world as living God
Remembering my Uncle Dr Mangesh V Nadkarni—By Shodhan B Nadkarni
3) And here's Lee Smolin's Response #2 to Leonard Susskind #2
Supramental Manifestation—The Golden Day: 29 February 2008
2) Smolin vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle: Leonard Susskind's Reply#1 to Lee Smolin
1) Smolin vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle
An inspiring story—that things do happen for a reason!
Last Darshan of the Mother—a Video Clipping
“I was facing a huge and massive golden door…”—the Mother
63: The Unknown waited his hour
The Diver of the Deep Sea
Physical Transformation—the Early Beginnings
Google $20 million lunar challenge gets under way
It is the psychic being which will materialise itself and become the supramental
21 February 2008—the Mother’s 130th Birthday
Nobel Laureate Queries Point To Postmodern Dark Matter Theory, Big Bang
Military Hopes to Bring Down [Potentially Dangerous] Satellite
The Mind of Light and the Yoga of Physical Transformation
Potentially Habitable Planets Are Common, Study Says
The Supramental Boat—the Mother’s experience narrated on 19 February 1958
This is the American Spirit
Superfluids could create a 'universe in a bucket'
Laser Light Creates [first?] Black Holes In The Lab
Colorizing metals with femtosecond laser pulses
K D Sethna’s Contribution to the Study of Indian Prehistory—by Akash Deshpande
New type of bird found in Nepal
Darwin’s legacy
The Material Basis for the Phenomenon of Man
Akshardham Delhi—the 8th Wonder
[Most] Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
61: She beheld the many births of thought
Supermind from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"We Should Take the 'Posthuman' Era Seriously," by Martin Rees (Pres. of the Royal Society)
• Towards New Age--RY Deshpande's book reviewed by Dr. Joan Price Ph.D.
Galaxy without dark matter puzzles astronomers
Climate experts sound grim warning
Amal-kiran—the Fire-Worshipper
Human DNA, the Ultimate Spot for Secret Messages (Are Some There Now?)
SCIY's Page Views, Readership and Bandwidth all reach new highs in January 2008
NASA to beam Beatles' song 'Across the Universe' to deep space on Feb.4, 2008
Chandrayaan: India’s Mission to the Moon by Rich on Sun 03 Feb 2008 09:33 PM PST

Divine Sight—A Sonnet by Sri Aurobindo
60: The sun before abysmal Night
The Value of Science—by Richard Feynman
Russia to Become an Eco-Village Nation??
The Mother recollects the meeting with Sri Aurobindo in 1914
Listen to Bhagavadgita Online
Immersing Bapu’s ashes
“Ram … Ram” were Mahatma’s last words
A French chemist and his fragrant enterprise at Auroville
We are in the dark about Dark Matter—Carlo Rubbia
Are supermassive black holes the source of cosmic rays?
Roger Anger passes away - Jan. 15, 2008
Universe may be 4 billion years older -- possible solution to dark energy enigma
K. D. Sethna’s Historical Vision of Ancient India—by Pradip Bhattacharya
2b: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as I Saw Them—by V. Chidanandam
59: A camp of God pitched in human time
The Science of Living: to know oneself and to control oneself—by the Mother
The Future Evolution of Man—by Pavitra
Globalisation or an Integral Society?
2a: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as I Saw Them—by V. Chidanandam
World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns
58: There suddenly she met her secret soul
Consumerism and materialism deadlier than armed occupation—by Marcus Dam
Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million
Image, Symbol and Myth in Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry--G. S. Pakle
Catastrophe insurance industry losses reach $75 billion in 2007
1: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as I saw them—by V. Chidanandam
New Mode of Cell Communication Discovered: Sub-atomic Protons!
Toyota Will Offer a Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle by 2010
"The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus & the World of Renaissance Magic and Science," a review by Erik Davis
"Fight Global Warming Now," a DIY handbook by Bill McKibben
The Final Days: The Mayan 2012 Calender (NYT Magazine)
57: The Triple Soul-Forces
The Works of the Mother
Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth: An Interview with Astrophysicist Janna Levin
'The Davos Question': A 6-minute video re Auroville, by Aryadeep
Chandra data reveal black holes spinning near speed of light may effect new star formation
The Works of Sri Aurobindo
Tata Unveils the World's Cheapest Car
6: Sahana Devi Reminisces—Ashram life in the early days
Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children (NYT)
One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China?
Many Biofuels Have More Climate Impact Than Oil
56: We are the messengers, the occult gods
Auroville: A new way to live
Climate Change, Courage & Celebration, by Frances Moore Lappe
'Tipping Points' in Global Climate Change: Latest report from AGU SF Mtg. of Dec.07
Could Arctic summers be ice-free 'by 2013' !?
Nanosolar begins large-scale printing of revolutionary inexpensive 'nano-ink' PV
To walk through life—by Sri Aurobindo
SCIY's distinct readers & MB transferred reach new highs in Dec.07
55: Her spirit was mute and free
Happy New Year 2008--from the Mother