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Article Links: January-March 2008

Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Mon 31 Mar 2008 11:59 PM PDT  

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• What is SCIY (pronounced "sci-y") ?


• 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
• or Guernica Iraq!
• 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 D

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