tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32341949225760478612026-07-24T11:33:54.999+05:30Read about my thoughts here! Not much going on in my brain though, if at all i have one!CacoPhonixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08230508544028345638noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234194922576047861.post-38943469380657188482010-03-01T07:03:00.005+05:302010-03-02T03:33:18.565+05:30

Dear friends, This FAQ list is in response to my post on Orkut about a voluntary research opportunity at Stanford Radiology. I received quite a few emails and, thus, thought it wise to post a list of the questions and their answers for general access. I'll keep expanding the list, if required, based on further emails and questions. Let me throw in a disclaimer, first: This is not an official

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The Lake Tahoe Basin was formed by a geologic block faulting about 2 million years ago. Eruptions from the extinct volcano Mount Pluto formed a dam on the north side. Melting snow filled the southern and lowest part of the basin to form the ancestral Lake Tahoe. Rain and runoff added additional water. Modern Lake Tahoe was shaped and landscaped by scouring glaciers during the Ice Ages, which

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Over the past several years, many people have asked me whether they should join DNB or MD. Some days ago, one of my juniors in MBBS also called me up for advice – he wanted to join a DNB course in Nuclear Medicine, and he was apprehensive about the pass percentages after the three year course. I gave him a standard answer that I give almost anybody who asks me same question! This incident

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Hi,This is the brief outline of the forthcoming Clinical Research and Clinical Data Management course in Orissa. Please circulate this info and let me know how many students you can refer for this course to be conducted for the first time in Orissa.As discussed, I would like to have a Coordinator stationed in Bhubaneswar with the following requirements - Good Spoken English skills, Networking

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For the benefit of every Tom, Dick and Harry visiting India and daring to drive on Indian roads, I am offering a few hints for survival. They are applicable to every place in India except Bihar , where life outside a vehicle is only marginally safer. Indian road rules broadly operate within the domain of karma where you do your best, and leave the results to your insurance company. The hints are

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Dear friends...Guys, we are no less brilliant than anyone else, so there is no reason why we cannot crack the almost fabled pathways to a PG, DNB, USMLE, or any other such stupid stuff. Many of us lack focus and try to grab on to every bit of information that we can squeeze into our heads. There is a minute portion of the total information that is high-yield - which means, about 30% of the

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A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly, and the pebbles

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Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.He further announced that he would now buy at Rs20. This renewed the efforts

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Two doctors, a psychiatrist and a proctologist, opened an office in a small town and put up a sign reading:"Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones: Hysterias and Posteriors."The town council was not happy with the sign, so the doctors changed it to read, "Schizoids and Hemorrhoids."This was not acceptable either, so in an effort to satisfy the council, they changed the sign to "Catatonics and High Colonics

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Asilomar...That is the name of the place... Beautiful white beaches, winding drives, cold ocean breeze, black cats, gazelles, and us!Spent a couple of wonderful days getting to know about a hundred people working in the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS).Big deal?Yeah, seen most of them, met a lot fewer, knew still fewer. And this was a time when everyone bared themselves as persons and

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This is one place where you need atleast a week to walk through most of its attractions which are all within just a few miles!The Strip or the Las Vegas Boulevard is the stretch of road on which most of LV's high and mighty dollar guzzling attractions stand! Huge flamboyant hotels, each with a supersized gambling area, rooms running into hundreds, multiple swimming pools, theme based construction

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Niagara Falls - a massive flow of water at the border of the US and Canada. One has to be there to appreciate the insignificance of the human size and the power of water!For those who plan to visit this place, some must do recommendations:1. Do ride the Maid of the Mist boat - it takes you right to the middle of the horse-shoe falls, where you are surrounded by the massive waterfalls on three

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That's a cute squirrel, isn't it?Well, it is just one of the attractions from Yosemite National Park, a witness to the colossal power of nature. Large deep flat-bottomed valleys formed by huge ice-age glaciers grinding through the flesh of earth - you have to see it to believe it!A night's camping with barbecued food and a day of admiring the beauty of chasms filled with emptiness, and the long

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Ladies and Gentlemen,If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh! never mind, you will not understand the power and beauty of your

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Here I am, in a different country, eating alien food (like it though!), meeting strangers, driving the wrong way, switching the lights off instead of on, using paper instead of water for my daily morning duties.... and did I feel it at all? Oh! No! The first few days after coming to Stanford were filled with fun-filled discovery, love-filled moments with wifey dearest, playful adorable kid

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Dharmagraha - Ashwin's Blogs: Don't Touch Rama's BridgeIt is a huge bridge like structure between India and and Sri Lanka, joining the two land masses otherwise separated by sea water. Legend says that Lord Shri Rama, with the help of excellent architectural skills of his army, had brought this bridge into existence, to facilitate his huge army's smooth passage, to fight Ravana and rescue his

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Do I have the time to say 'please' and 'thank you' to everyone whenever I talk or e mail? Hell no! Don't I sound old fashioned by using these words very frequently? Anyway, what purpose does it solve to say such words? Will the salesgirl stop showing me the product if I don't say please? We don't always use 'please' and 'thank you' with our friends and loved ones, do we?Well, that is the point.

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Once A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it.He held it up for all to see; asked the students, "How much do you think this glass weighs?""50gms!"...."100gms!"....."125gms"......the students answered."I really don't know unless I weigh it", said the professor, "but, my question is: what would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?" "Nothing" the

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Today I was digging out old emails from my inbox and deleting those that I thought were no longer of any consequence. That is when I found this forward among several others. It doesn't matter who sent it. What matters is this was one of the select few emails that touched my heart. Needless to say, I had to share this with all of those who care to read further.Here goes the story...One day a

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One morning, under the pretext of going for jogging/a morning walk, we ended up doing a photo shoot!! With the fine sunshine, cool breeze, chirping birds and nothing to do the rest of the day, we felt too lazy to actually exercise our muscles. Instead we decided on capturing our happy faces on film!!A small collection of these pictures are here for your viewing pleasure.KBR ParkClick on the link

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Ha! It seems my this trip to Hyderabad was besotted with unplanned excursions! This trip to Mount Opera is one more which happened to be decided upon pretty late in the morning!Nevertheless, it was wonderful fun! Water, water everywhere.... what more could a Piscean ask for?!MOUNT OPERAClick on the picture above or the link above to take you to the album!

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Holi - the festival that brightens every face with the amusement of looking at every other face! All of them colored bizarre with not only dry and wet colors, but also the fun, frolic and gay abandon that typifies this festival!Every Holi that I have celebrated has been memorable, and this one has been no exception! What added to its value was the fact that the celebration itself was an

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Most of us believe in fate. Even I do believe in fate. But today I came across one wonderful story that goes to say fate is what man makes himself! Somehow, the story didn't actually shake off my belief in fate, nevertheless, it is a wonderful story!Here goes the story...Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender.

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Not very frequently, but, yes, sometimes, I do pen down some small incident that happened with me during the day. It is indeed amazing how incidences, which appeared to be all too important yesterday, seem lighter than a feather today, blown away by the winds of time!Yet some of these stay in memories, to be lived afresh again sometime, when the pages of yesterday are turned back with nostalgia!

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