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Parag sprinkles complex pharma and bio terms to boggle my mind. All I could understand was that something called the Cytochrome P450 is the latest ass-kicker enzyme and would be called a slut if it was a human.
Anya wonders if Nanotechnology and Stem Cell Research are just "hot trends" because they sound cool. Is complex science with far-out applications hyped? - is his rant.
Selva lists few great science links on the Scientific Indian blog (the originator of Scian Melt). Theory of Dimensions, Evolution, and Godel make Science fun. Be sure to check out the mind-boggling Presentation on Dimensions [PDF link] at UChic (frankly I had to save it for a careful read at a later time)
Mark Liberman points to an interesting evolution of whale songs and delves into post contains links to the sounds of the nature that we never thought held so much meaning…err..just don’t get too carried away![thanks to Amardeep Singh for the original link]
Atanu Dey takes a swing at India’s under-wraps problem of high level corruption. A death penalty for a bribe (over $1 million) sounds far-fetched but Dey tries to use economics to make his case (Krantiveer Nana Patekar might agree though). The figures are large enough to make your blood boil though especially when you are not getting regular power and water.
Whoever thought that blood-sucking oil companies would give a damn about web semantics? Chetan writes about positive spillovers from oil platform technology and its implications for large-scale implications. XML is much powerful than we thought. Web semantics has fascinated Chetan to an extent that he sees an urgent use in his professional life regards Weight Control (nooo..not the Atkins kind)
Suresh’s Geomblog will host the next Scian Melt on or around January 10th. Send in your nominations or scientific fascinations.
by Patrix | on Saturday, December 25th, 2004 at 8:53 pm | 
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December 26th, 2004 at 9:35 am reply
The Scian Melt 5
is up at Patrix. For those new to Melt, here’s the background. Melt was an idea suggested by Prashant and implemented here at TheScian within a day (if my memory serves right). It was inspired by Tangled Bank.
After the next Melt at Geomblog, our futu