Every year, last week of May, NCBS conducts interviews for admission to our Ph.D. and Integrated Ph.D. program. If you are invited to the interview, this post is for you. This is not an official post, I am writing it as a student who went through it. You should report at the campus by 7:45 … Continue reading Admission interviews at NCBS Bangalore
Author: Dilawar
Graduate Student at National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.
Rule and Person
In the extent to which societies are governed by rule or person, in traditional societies based on agriculture, personal factors counts for almost everything. People are able to take finer personal distinctions in their businesses and other day-to-day work. In these societies, personal links can be used (or misused) for practically any purpose; and a … Continue reading Rule and Person
Course Review: Basic Neurobiology/Neuroscience at NCBS Bangalore
Basic Neurobiology course offered at NCBS Bangalore consists of 4 modules of around 6 lectures each, plus a couple of labs on electrical models of cells. Each lecture is around 90 minutes. Usually there are three lectures a week but sometimes two lectures and a tutorial or lab-session is also organized. The TA support is … Continue reading Course Review: Basic Neurobiology/Neuroscience at NCBS Bangalore
Arithmetic and marriage
Few days ago, I read a newspaper story. On suspecting that bridegrooms is illiterate, the bride put him under an arithmetic test: "how much is 15 + 6?". And when the answer given was 17, she called off the marriage. A few childhood memories popped up. When I was a kid, my father asked me … Continue reading Arithmetic and marriage
Thinking about Languages
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined … Continue reading Thinking about Languages
Course review: Randomness in Biology
"Randomness in Biology" is a graduate level course offered at NCBS Bangalore by Dr. Mukund Thattai. This course follows -- in spirit -- Handbook of Stochastic Methods: For Physics, Chemistry, and the Natural Sciences by Gardiner and Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry by Van Kampen. It offers a bag full of stochastic tools to … Continue reading Course review: Randomness in Biology
वो आँखे
टखनों पर रखे अपने सर को रोकते अपने कापते हाथो को, उस अँधेरे कमरे में वो आँखे देख रही है, प्रकाश की वो शिखा जो जल रही है उस केरोसीन से जो घर में अब नहीं है बचा। वेदना तो भी दया आती नहीं , देखकर उसकी दशा। जो जी रही है केवल मृत्यु के … Continue reading वो आँखे
