i am a hero (or heroine)

hi all,
i took this test for fun an this is the report (im impressed)..u might like to take the test.
my profile:
You're intelligent, educated, and just a bit superior to everyone you know. If you're still in school, you probably make A's, if you're not too bored to waste the effort. If you work, your annoying boss relies on you to solve the problems no one else can figure out. You've never met a puzzle you can't solve. When it comes to leisure, you'd rather read, play a strategy game, or surf the 'Net than run around getting sweaty.
You're a brainiac, and you're not ashamed to admit it.Above all, you're a mastermind and a great thinker. You see the unknown as territory to be conquered, and the mysterious as something to be systematically unraveled. You don't have time for fools; you only spend your time with people who can comprehend your obfuscatory convolutions. You enjoy amassing knowledge, both useful and trivial.
Your Mission:
You were put on this earth to enlighten people. They will listen to you, because they are impressed by your vocabulary, your erudition, and your ability to grasp concepts that invariably elude them. You are the one who has to figure things out, because let's face it - you're the only one smart enough.Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to Discover Something. Something small, or something big. Find an unknown insect in your own backyard. Discover a cure for sunburn. Develop a faster way to get the dishes done. Calculate the number of molecules in the Andromeda galaxy. Discover a comet. Discover SOMETHING.And do make it a priority. The Famous Adventurer of Silmaria has a crystal ball trained on you, and will be noting your progress.

take the test here:
choose ur inner hero

My Inner Hero - Wizard!

i've got my eyes on you...

MIT people have successfuly made a robo with eyes (human like eyes).the robo is named domo, and can interact with its surroundings in ways only science fiction could perceive.

domo is sensitive to human faces and can lock it after sensing a human around itself..

after the voice box , this is another step in creating that artificial human ..

read the article here:

domo

evolving evolution

now this is getting exciting.scientists have started on the most famous experiment of all times-the experiment to determine how we came here, the origin of life and would expose the futility of a divine existence.i've read about it soo much that i am happy this experiment is being carried out while i am still alive and i hope the results have some social impact as well especially for the so called religious lunatics who don't possess an iota of religious laxity and are willing to take lives at the snap of fingers......
read the article here:
Primordial Soup's On: Scientists Repeat Evolution's Most Famous Experiment

sound not electricity!!

So, finally reading your ..textbooks could do u no good.scientists have discovered that the nerves transmit impulses not through discrete electrical signals but through sounds waves. the reason for this controversial idea is the fact that electrical signals must produce heat as they travel along the nerves but this is not the case in our body.And they say, the textbooks are not likely to be rewritten soon.

read the complete article here

Controversial New Idea: Nerves Transmit Sound, Not Electricity

making sense of the nonsensical!

this article by Michael brooks is one of the most intriguing stuff i've come across. 13 things that do not make sense.read about the placebo effect, dark energy, ultra-energetic cosmic rays and the tale of two spacecrafts who have gone offtrail in the most surprising manner.this and some of the best questions causing troubles for the best brains in the world.Worth your time definitely.
read the whole article here:
13 things that do not make sense.

feynman rules.....

Resources on Feynman!
After having read books on the life and the times of the legendary Richard.p.feynman, I have decided to equip myself with all the information I can find about him. Here is a list of books and other reference materials for all the feyman fans out there!!
MAINLY ABOUT FEYNMAN
1. Surely you’re joking Mr. Feynman! By Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton.
2. What do you care what other people think? By Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton.
3. Tuva or bust! By Ralph Leighton
4. No ordinary genius: the illustrated Richard Feynman by Christopher Sykes (editor)
This is the book which Feynman’s family and friends recommend as providing the most “true to life” image of the man.

ABOUT FEYNMAN’S LIFE AND WORK
1. Most of the good stuff by Laurie brown and john ridgen (editors)
2. Genius: Richard Feynman and modern physics by James gleick
3. The beat of a different drum by jagdish mehra
4. Disturbing the universe by freeman dyson
5. from Eros to Gaia by freeman dyson
6.NANO! By Ed Regis.
The impact of Feynman’s ideas about tiny machines is discussed in this book.

About quantum physics, including Feynman’s contributions
1. The character of physical law by Richard Feynman
2. QED: the strange theory of light and matter by Richard Feynman
3. Six easy pieces by Richard Feynman
4. Elementary particles and the laws of physics by Richard Feynman and Steven Weinberg
5. the Feynman lectures on physics by Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew sands
6. Feynman lectures on gravitation by Richard Feynman, Fernando morinigo and William Wagner
7. in search of Schrödinger’s cat by john gribbin
8. Schrodinger’s kittens by john gribbin
9. QED and the men who made it by sylvan s.schweber

FEYNMAN: THE MAN
1. The art of Richard p.feynman by Michelle Feynman.
Many of Feynman’s drawings, and a few paintings, chosen and photographed by his daughter.

i am back!!

"like a circle in a spiral
like a wheel within a wheel
never ending or beginning,
on an ever spinning wheel
as the images unwind
like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind"

articles on artificial intelligence

At last i found what i wanted more of. Found articles on artificial intelligence, and 118 of them, ranging from simple to complex topics.So now i know what will keep me occupied in the coming days.
click here to access the articles
articles on ai

et-cetera

Seems that blogging fever has taken me by its grip completely.i've started another blog about my not-so-intelligent pursuits and hobbies. And its called et-cetera-blog, and i guess you can judge the content by the title, its all about my perceptions, what i think and about the books i go through(not the course ones though).Hope people would find it interesting enough. By the way et-cetera is the root for etc...