Round Dice

Independence Day

anilMenon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:31:27 -0400

This blog is moving to Wordpress. New blog address: http://anilmenon.com/blog.

2009 Indian SF Workshop At IIT-K: Part 2 (Being There)

anilMenon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:30:00 -0400

Part 2: 2009 Indian SF Workshop at IIT-K. Final part, thank God.

2009 Indian SF Workshop At IIT-K: Part 1 (Getting There)

anilMenon — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:30:00 -0400

My experiences as an instructor at the 2009 Indian SF Workshop at IIT-K --Part 1.

Typepad, we need to talk...

anilMenon — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:47:35 -0400

A preamble to an impending break-up.

Sprout Out Loud - 2009 SF Workshop at IIT-K

anilMenon — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:36:42 -0400

Enthumercial for the upcoming SF workshop at IIT-K

A Few Good Stories

anilMenon — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:38:20 -0400

Soliciting recommendations for a few (< 10), great speculative-fiction short-stories (< 5000 words) to use in a workshop at IIT-Kanpur.

Democrats In Deep Gloom Over Inability To Fail

anilMenon — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:24:54 -0500

Democrats blame competence for their failure to fail.

Moonshot

anilMenon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:58:54 -0400

Chandrayaan I is on its way to the moon.

Evolution Of The Obvious: The Foster-Kokko Model Of Superstition

anilMenon — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:03:55 -0400

Kevin Foster and Hanna Kokko's paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society claims that "..natural selection can favor strategies that lead to frequent errors in [causality] assessment as long the occasional response carries a large fitness benefit." Objection, your Honor. Leading question.

Fishy Transference

anilMenon — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:00:00 -0500

A recent experiment seems to show some species of fish can do transitive inference. My goldfish writes a rebuttal.