LfE 19: Work and Tea

 Posted on November 5, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  781 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

22/02/2010 Hello everyone, It’s been a long time since I last wrote, partly because I’ve not been doing too much of new things – the project develops, and software glitches occur daily that I patiently overcome. [Read More]
Amsterdam  anthropology  bicycle  british lunch  children´s charity shop  culture  dangrous  durham  FENS  fiddle  food  leith  linux  money  moving houses  paradigm  police  princes street  Religion  River  scottish tunes  shuttle  skype  syrian  tea  teaching music  technical  traffic  vegetarian  visa  walk 

As an 'Equalist'

 Posted on November 3, 2011  |  3 minutes  |  509 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

First published on August 12, 2007 during my BSc in Bangalore. Before the first tests this year, there was a lecture on three consecutive days for the girl students of all three years of degree in the Multi-Purpose hall. [Read More]
babies  corruption  dress code  dress sense  eve teaing  fear  forcing discipline  girls  injustice  kitchen  man´s mind  questioning  rape  science teachers  social conditioning  women 

Flakes

 Posted on November 2, 2011  |  1 minutes  |  61 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Written in Feb 2007 The season changes Clouds cover parts of The sky. I lose peace. Moisture in the wind Falling leaves; dry and Brittle. Wait for rain. [Read More]
flowers  leaves  nature poetry  rock  seeds  universe 

The Amazon and us

 Posted on October 30, 2011  |  6 minutes  |  1249 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

First published on August 12, 2007 _“In the time it takes to sing this song, There’ll be four acres cleared in the Amazon. The jungle burns all through the night, [Read More]
AC  air con  air conditioning  Amazon  biodiversity  biogeochemical cycles  brasil  brazil  brun watson  bulbs  burning forests  cattle ranches  Chico Mendes  climate  consumption  dams  deforestation  E.F. Schumacher  earth  ecological integrity  ecosystems  ecuador  endangered species  extinction  fresh water  furniture  global warming  indegenous communities  India  industrial  lifestyle  local governments  logging  loving  lungs of earth  mc donald's  mining  money  oil exploration and extration  peru  pollution  rainfall  rate of extinction  raw material  reality  self destruction  selfish  sensitive  shot  slaughtered  Small is Beautiful  soil fertility  species  tropical forests  USA  venezuela  wake up to reality 

LfE 18: Activities and work place

 Posted on October 28, 2011  |  3 minutes  |  526 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

07/02/2010 Hello 🙂 It snowed one morning unexpectedly. It is Feb so I thought all that weather is over. But it lasted an hour and melted within the next two days. [Read More]
access card  audition  band  children's charity  CRIC  cyclotron  Edinburgh  fMRI  Image analysis  letters  musicians' brains  PET  project  QMRI  research  rock  royal infirmary  science  shop  sing  snow 

LfE 17: Brain Scan

 Posted on October 24, 2011  |  3 minutes  |  510 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

26/01/2010 Hello, It feels like a long time since I wrote. My project is now developing and I have a better clue about what it is about. [Read More]
3T  blanket  brain  brain scan  ear plugs  Edinburgh  feel magnetism  good resolution  headphones  holiday  house-warming  indian  jazz bar  letters  letters from edinburgh  magnetic objects  meditate  MRI  noisy  old music  party  patient gown  peaceful  radiograoher  republic day  safety  saturday  scanned  supervisor  vegetable 

LfE 16: Back in Edinburgh

 Posted on October 23, 2011  |  2 minutes  |  300 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

12/01/2010 Hi everyone, Hope you all had a good holiday. I’m back in Edinburgh, this familiar and beautiful city. I actually have developed a kind of loyalty to it. [Read More]
bike  birthdyay  buildings  carrots  children's brains  corn  Edinburgh  familiar city  family  footbridge  good vibe  letters from edinburgh  letters home  lock  london  loyalty  peas  police  project  queen  strict  sun set  underground  values 

LfE 15: A visit to Oxford and Thoughts in Slough

 Posted on October 22, 2011  |  5 minutes  |  857 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

29/12/2009 Hello 🙂 I have been in Slough, a town near London, for around two weeks now. It has been restful to spend time with family, watch movies, go shopping etc. [Read More]
architecture  atheism  Attention  bill clinton  biomagnification  boxing day  brainy  character  children's movies  Christian  christmas  climate change  colin dexter  copenhagem  CS Lewis  decorations  dogma  dressing up  Eagle and Child  Edinburgh  effort  environmental  extinction  failure in crops  family  famous people  Harry Potter  ideas  inspector morse  islam  J.R.R. Tolkien  letters from edinburgh  letters home  london  looking good  magic  margeret thatcher  money  natural disasters  oscar wilde  oxford  ozone  PB Shelly  planet  poet  poisoning  pollution  recontextualise  richard burton  rowan atkinson  save  shop  skill  slough  spirit  spiritual  starvation  thirst  trying on  tumours  uk  underground library  war