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• Gravity powered lamp generates as much light as 40 Watt bulb
by RY Deshpande on March 31, 2008 02:32AM (PDT)

• Japan’s Second Defeat after the Second World War
by RY Deshpande on March 29, 2008 09:06PM (PDT)

• 68: There came on her a change
by RY Deshpande on March 29, 2008 08:44PM (PDT)

• Tibet is one thing, but India and China tensions spell bigger disaster
by ronjon on March 29, 2008 08:39PM (PDT)

• The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener by Stephen Pfohl (C Theory)
by Rich on March 29, 2008 04:47PM (PDT)

• Larks are losing the ability to sing—by Graham Keeley
by RY Deshpande on March 29, 2008 02:20AM (PDT)

• Global Voices: alternative global journalism at its best
by Rich on March 28, 2008 08:24PM (PDT)

• Earth Hour 2008
by RY Deshpande on March 28, 2008 06:38AM (PDT)

• Spring comes earlier in U.S. for birds, bees and trees
by RY Deshpande on March 28, 2008 05:36AM (PDT)

• At the ends of Man: Sri Aurobindo and Michel Foucault
by Rich on March 27, 2008 04:07PM (PDT)

• A weaver of positive myths—A. Rangarajan interviews Amin Maalouf
by RY Deshpande on March 27, 2008 07:09AM (PDT)

• Death Reckoning in the Thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida by Joshua Schuster (Other Voices)
by Rich on March 27, 2008 06:30AM (PDT)

• 4) The Anthropic Principle: Final Letters, Susskind's #3 & Smolin's #3
by ronjon on March 26, 2008 01:33PM (PDT)

• Kalam recalls Raman’s unique trait
by RY Deshpande on March 26, 2008 01:47AM (PDT)

• or Guernica Iraq!
by Rich on March 25, 2008 07:40PM (PDT)

• Guernica and/or Iraq
by Rich on March 25, 2008 04:54PM (PDT)

• China considers wetland park at Poyang Lake
by RY Deshpande on March 25, 2008 04:31AM (PDT)

• Beyond the Silence—A Poem by Sri Aurobindo
by RY Deshpande on March 24, 2008 03:00AM (PDT)

• Happy Easter! - The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene
by ronjon on March 23, 2008 12:45PM (PDT)

• 67: Death in the Forest
by RY Deshpande on March 22, 2008 09:30PM (PDT)

• How to Think about Science
by Rich on March 22, 2008 12:58PM (PDT)

• Sri Aurobindo and Hinduism (a speech by Peter Heehs: Hyderabad 2006)
by Rich on March 22, 2008 11:40AM (PDT)

• The knight of science fiction: Arthur C Clarke—by Anthony Tucker
by RY Deshpande on March 22, 2008 02:53AM (PDT)

• Two Arthur C. Clarke quotes to remember
by ronjon on March 22, 2008 02:00AM (PDT)

• Arlington Institute Report on Global Demographic Shifts
by ronjon on March 21, 2008 01:48PM (PDT)

• $516 Trillion Deriviatives Bubble a Disaster Waiting to Happen
by ronjon on March 21, 2008 01:35PM (PDT)

• "A human being is a part of the whole, ..." by Albert Einstein
by ronjon on March 21, 2008 12:00PM (PDT)

• Managing climate change—by Richard Stagg
by RY Deshpande on March 21, 2008 04:55AM (PDT)

• Feather to Fire (A remarkable 6 minute video clip)
by ronjon on March 20, 2008 07:00PM (PDT)

• Poems from Oaxaca - Winter 2008, by Rosita Wandellah
by ronjon on March 20, 2008 04:19PM (PDT)

• First extra-solar organic molecule discovered
by ronjon on March 20, 2008 01:04PM (PDT)

• Languages face peril
by RY Deshpande on March 20, 2008 04:26AM (PDT)

• Goethe and his times—by Prof Khwaja Masud
by RY Deshpande on March 19, 2008 02:57AM (PDT)

• Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90
by ronjon on March 18, 2008 05:17PM (PDT)

• 3) The Anthropic Principle: Leonard Susskind's #2 to Lee Smolin #2
by ronjon on March 18, 2008 04:21PM (PDT)

• Muslim biology precedes Darwin—a brief note
by RY Deshpande on March 18, 2008 04:30AM (PDT)

• Thailand Princess to visit Puducherry & Auroville
by ronjon on March 17, 2008 03:34PM (PDT)

• Indo-Anglian Mystic Poetry: Sethna, Nirodbaran, Themis and Deshpande—by Goutam Ghosal
by RY Deshpande on March 17, 2008 04:54AM (PDT)

• 66: Deeply she listened...
by RY Deshpande on March 16, 2008 01:50AM (PDT)

• Anandashram High School—where MV Nadkarni had his early education
by RY Deshpande on March 15, 2008 08:00AM (PDT)

• Auroville, Cynosure of the World
by ronjon on March 15, 2008 02:00AM (PDT)

• Chapman’s Homer—Keats’s Sonnet
by RY Deshpande on March 14, 2008 09:59AM (PDT)

• The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter (Book Review)
by ronjon on March 14, 2008 02:00AM (PDT)

• After 40 yrs, Auroville still going strong
by ronjon on March 14, 2008 02:00AM (PDT)

• Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone
by ronjon on March 13, 2008 04:21PM (PDT)

• High Dynamic Range Imaging—from Wikipedia
by RY Deshpande on March 13, 2008 07:48AM (PDT)

• Auroville's Landmark 40th Anniversary Celebrations
by ronjon on March 13, 2008 02:00AM (PDT)

• WMAP gives thumbs-up to cosmological model
by ronjon on March 12, 2008 01:27PM (PDT)

• Maya May Have Caused Civilization-Ending Climate Change—by Anne Minard
by RY Deshpande on March 12, 2008 06:29AM (PDT)

• 6th grade at Yosemite in September
by RY Deshpande on March 11, 2008 04:46AM (PDT)

• Appreciating Arabic science that predates Newton—by Jim Al-Khalili
by RY Deshpande on March 10, 2008 04:07PM (PDT)

•  Artificial black hole created in lab
by ronjon on March 9, 2008 01:00AM (PST)

• 65: Savitri prays to Durga
by RY Deshpande on March 8, 2008 07:37PM (PST)

• Situating the state in rural India—by V.K. Natraj and G.S. Ganesh Prasad
by RY Deshpande on March 8, 2008 07:21PM (PST)

• Boriska, boy from Mars, says that all humans live eternally
by RY Deshpande on March 8, 2008 08:06AM (PST)

• Adwaita—A Sonnet by Sri Aurobindo
by RY Deshpande on March 7, 2008 06:23AM (PST)

• The world's most powerful optical telescope has opened both of its eyes.
by RY Deshpande on March 7, 2008 05:47AM (PST)

• ‘I do not believe in a full decipherment’ of the Indus script—Asko Parpola interviewed by S. T. Baskaran
by RY Deshpande on March 6, 2008 08:10AM (PST)

• Celebrating the Semicolon in a most unlikely Location—by Sam Roberts (from NYT)
by RY Deshpande on March 5, 2008 03:50PM (PST)

• NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes
by ronjon on March 4, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• First Avalanche Photographed on Mars by HiRISE exp. on NASA MRO
by ronjon on March 3, 2008 02:15PM (PST)

• Mangesh V Nadkarni who became a Savitri legend for us
by RY Deshpande on March 3, 2008 01:45AM (PST)

• The Golden Krishna—29 February 1960
by RY Deshpande on March 3, 2008 01:26AM (PST)

• Prof Nadkarni, we do hear you—by Amartya Kumar Dutta
by RY Deshpande on March 2, 2008 01:00AM (PST)

• 64: The world as living God
by RY Deshpande on March 2, 2008 12:40AM (PST)

• Remembering my Uncle Dr Mangesh V Nadkarni—By Shodhan B Nadkarni
by RY Deshpande on March 1, 2008 01:27AM (PST)


• 3) And here's Lee Smolin's Response #2 to Leonard Susskind #2
by ronjon on February 29, 2008 08:26PM (PST)

• Supramental Manifestation—The Golden Day: 29 February 2008
by RY Deshpande on February 28, 2008 09:15PM (PST)

• 2) Smolin vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle: Leonard Susskind's Reply#1 to Lee Smolin
by ronjon on February 28, 2008 01:23PM (PST)

• 1) Smolin vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle
by ronjon on February 27, 2008 02:11AM (PST)

• An inspiring story—that things do happen for a reason!
by RY Deshpande on February 26, 2008 08:00PM (PST)

• Last Darshan of the Mother—a Video Clipping
by RY Deshpande on February 25, 2008 04:05AM (PST)

• “I was facing a huge and massive golden door…”—the Mother
by RY Deshpande on February 25, 2008 03:47AM (PST)

• 63: The Unknown waited his hour
by RY Deshpande on February 23, 2008 09:34PM (PST)

• The Diver of the Deep Sea
by RY Deshpande on February 23, 2008 09:22PM (PST)

• Physical Transformation—the Early Beginnings
by RY Deshpande on February 23, 2008 04:25AM (PST)

• Google $20 million lunar challenge gets under way
by ronjon on February 22, 2008 10:22PM (PST)

• It is the psychic being which will materialise itself and become the supramental
by RY Deshpande on February 21, 2008 03:19AM (PST)

• 21 February 2008—the Mother’s 130th Birthday
by RY Deshpande on February 21, 2008 03:11AM (PST)

• Nobel Laureate Queries Point To Postmodern Dark Matter Theory, Big Bang
by ronjon on February 21, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• Military Hopes to Bring Down [Potentially Dangerous] Satellite
by ronjon on February 20, 2008 04:39PM (PST)

• The Mind of Light and the Yoga of Physical Transformation
by RY Deshpande on February 20, 2008 01:45AM (PST)

• Potentially Habitable Planets Are Common, Study Says
by ronjon on February 19, 2008 02:49PM (PST)

• The Supramental Boat—the Mother’s experience narrated on 19 February 1958
by RY Deshpande on February 19, 2008 03:24AM (PST)

• This is the American Spirit
by RY Deshpande on February 18, 2008 03:38AM (PST)

• Superfluids could create a 'universe in a bucket'
by ronjon on February 18, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• Laser Light Creates [first?] Black Holes In The Lab
by ronjon on February 17, 2008 09:57PM (PST)

• 62: A lonely Absolute negated all
by RY Deshpande on February 16, 2008 07:46PM (PST)

• Western Views Of India—by Prof Francis X. Clooney
by RY Deshpande on February 16, 2008 04:20AM (PST)

• New frontiers in space propulsion sciences
by ronjon on February 16, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• The Physical Transformation—a Marvellous Attempt
by RY Deshpande on February 15, 2008 06:47AM (PST)

• Colorizing metals with femtosecond laser pulses
by RY Deshpande on February 14, 2008 08:22AM (PST)

• K D Sethna’s Contribution to the Study of Indian Prehistory—by Akash Deshpande
by RY Deshpande on February 12, 2008 04:00PM (PST)

• New type of bird found in Nepal
by RY Deshpande on February 12, 2008 03:41AM (PST)

• Darwin’s legacy
by RY Deshpande on February 12, 2008 03:28AM (PST)

• The Material Basis for the Phenomenon of Man
by RY Deshpande on February 12, 2008 03:14AM (PST)

• Akshardham Delhi—the 8th Wonder
by RY Deshpande on February 11, 2008 01:45AM (PST)

• [Most] Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
by ronjon on February 10, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• 61: She beheld the many births of thought
by RY Deshpande on February 9, 2008 03:11PM (PST)

• Supermind from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by RY Deshpande on February 8, 2008 09:31PM (PST)

• "We Should Take the 'Posthuman' Era Seriously," by Martin Rees (Pres. of the Royal Society)
by ronjon on February 7, 2008 01:03PM (PST)

• • Towards New Age--RY Deshpande's book reviewed by Dr. Joan Price Ph.D.
by RY Deshpande on February 7, 2008 05:32AM (PST)

• Galaxy without dark matter puzzles astronomers
by ronjon on February 6, 2008 05:23PM (PST)

• Climate experts sound grim warning
by RY Deshpande on February 6, 2008 07:59AM (PST)

• Amal-kiran—the Fire-Worshipper
by RY Deshpande on February 5, 2008 05:38AM (PST)

• Human DNA, the Ultimate Spot for Secret Messages (Are Some There Now?)
by ronjon on February 5, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• SCIY's Page Views, Readership and Bandwidth all reach new highs in January 2008
by ronjon on February 4, 2008 11:11PM (PST)

• NASA to beam Beatles' song 'Across the Universe' to deep space on Feb.4, 2008
by ronjon on February 4, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• Chandrayaan: India’s Mission to the Moon
by RY Deshpande on February 4, 2008 01:07AM (PST)

• George Bush and Progress (Bill Moyers and John Stewart in conversation)
by Rich on Sun 03 Feb 2008 09:33 PM PST

• Divine Sight—A Sonnet by Sri Aurobindo
by RY Deshpande on February 3, 2008 03:25AM (PST)

• 60: The sun before abysmal Night
by RY Deshpande on February 2, 2008 04:09PM (PST)

• The Value of Science—by Richard Feynman
by RY Deshpande on February 2, 2008 05:29AM (PST)

• Russia to Become an Eco-Village Nation??
by William H. Kotke on February 1, 2008 01:06PM (PST)

• The Mother recollects the meeting with Sri Aurobindo in 1914
by RY Deshpande on February 1, 2008 05:12AM (PST)

• Listen to Bhagavadgita Online
by RY Deshpande on January 31, 2008 07:34PM (PST)

• Immersing Bapu’s ashes
by RY Deshpande on January 31, 2008 05:59AM (PST)

• “Ram … Ram” were Mahatma’s last words
by RY Deshpande on January 31, 2008 05:48AM (PST)

• A French chemist and his fragrant enterprise at Auroville
by ronjon on January 31, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• We are in the dark about Dark Matter—Carlo Rubbia
by RY Deshpande on January 30, 2008 06:53AM (PST)

• Are supermassive black holes the source of cosmic rays?
by ronjon on January 30, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• The Mother’s Past Births
by RY Deshpande on January 29, 2008 04:17PM (PST)

• The Divine Body—by Sri Aurobindo
by RY Deshpande on January 29, 2008 04:44AM (PST)

• U.S. Economy: New-Home Sales Drop to 12-Year Low
by ronjon on January 29, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• Roger Anger passes away - Jan. 15, 2008
by ronjon on January 28, 2008 10:46PM (PST)

• Universe may be 4 billion years older -- possible solution to dark energy enigma
by ronjon on January 28, 2008 02:13PM (PST)

• K. D. Sethna’s Historical Vision of Ancient India—by Pradip Bhattacharya
by RY Deshpande on January 28, 2008 03:53AM (PST)

• 2b: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as I Saw Them—by V. Chidanandam
by RY Deshpande on January 27, 2008 04:11PM (PST)

• 59: A camp of God pitched in human time
by RY Deshpande on January 22, 2008 03:35AM (PST)

• The Science of Living: to know oneself and to control oneself—by the Mother
by RY Deshpande on January 22, 2008 03:23AM (PST)

• The Future Evolution of Man—by Pavitra
by RY Deshpande on January 21, 2008 03:32AM (PST)

• Globalisation or an Integral Society?
by RY Deshpande on January 20, 2008 05:45AM (PST)

• 2a: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as I Saw Them—by V. Chidanandam
by RY Deshpande on January 20, 2008 05:12AM (PST)

• World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns
by ronjon on January 20, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• 58: There suddenly she met her secret soul
by RY Deshpande on January 19, 2008 03:50PM (PST)

• Consumerism and materialism deadlier than armed occupation—by Marcus Dam
by RY Deshpande on January 19, 2008 06:35AM (PST)

• Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million
by ronjon on January 19, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• Image, Symbol and Myth in Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry--G. S. Pakle
by RY Deshpande on January 18, 2008 03:36PM (PST)

• Catastrophe insurance industry losses reach $75 billion in 2007
by ronjon on January 18, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• 1: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as I saw them—by V. Chidanandam
by RY Deshpande on January 17, 2008 06:05AM (PST)

• New Mode of Cell Communication Discovered: Sub-atomic Protons!
by ronjon on January 17, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• Toyota Will Offer a Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle by 2010
by ronjon on January 16, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• "The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus & the World of Renaissance Magic and Science," a review by Erik Davis
by ronjon on January 15, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• "Fight Global Warming Now," a DIY handbook by Bill McKibben
by ronjon on January 14, 2008 02:00AM (PST)

• The Final Days: The Mayan 2012 Calender (NYT Magazine)
by ronjon on January 13, 2008 10:43AM (PST)

• 57: The Triple Soul-Forces
by RY Deshpande on January 12, 2008 03:07PM (PST)

• The Works of the Mother
by RY Deshpande on January 12, 2008 06:03AM (PST)

• Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth: An Interview with Astrophysicist Janna Levin
by ronjon on January 11, 2008 03:48PM (PST)

• 'The Davos Question': A 6-minute video re Auroville, by Aryadeep
by ronjon on January 11, 2008 12:55PM (PST)

• Chandra data reveal black holes spinning near speed of light may effect new star formation
by ronjon on January 11, 2008 12:07PM (PST)

• The Works of Sri Aurobindo
by RY Deshpande on January 11, 2008 06:00AM (PST)

• Tata Unveils the World's Cheapest Car
by ronjon on January 10, 2008 11:48AM (PST)

• 6: Sahana Devi Reminisces—Ashram life in the early days
by RY Deshpande on January 8, 2008 07:52AM (PST)

• Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children (NYT)
by ronjon on January 7, 2008 12:09PM (PST)

• One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China?
by ronjon on January 7, 2008 11:48AM (PST)

• Many Biofuels Have More Climate Impact Than Oil
by rakesh on January 6, 2008 06:26AM (PST)

• 56: We are the messengers, the occult gods
by RY Deshpande on January 5, 2008 04:10PM (PST)

• Auroville: A new way to live
by ronjon on January 5, 2008 02:53PM (PST)

• Climate Change, Courage & Celebration, by Frances Moore Lappe
by ronjon on January 4, 2008 11:57AM (PST)

• 'Tipping Points' in Global Climate Change: Latest report from AGU SF Mtg. of Dec.07
by ronjon on January 3, 2008 02:28PM (PST)

• Could Arctic summers be ice-free 'by 2013' !?
by ronjon on January 3, 2008 12:32PM (PST)

• Nanosolar begins large-scale printing of revolutionary inexpensive 'nano-ink' PV
by ronjon on January 2, 2008 02:57PM (PST)

• To walk through life—by Sri Aurobindo
by RY Deshpande on January 1, 2008 08:17PM (PST)

• SCIY's distinct readers & MB transferred reach new highs in Dec.07
by ronjon on January 1, 2008 12:40PM (PST)

• 55: Her spirit was mute and free
by RY Deshpande on January 1, 2008 04:09AM (PST)

• Happy New Year 2008--from the Mother
by RY Deshpande on December 31, 2007 08:39PM (PST)