LfE 7: No news is…

 Posted on October 4, 2011  |  2 minutes  |  336 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

12/10/2009 Hello!! It’s been a while it seems since my last update. All is well on this side of the world. I am cocooned in academic life and don’t hear the news very often. [Read More]
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LfE 6: Classes are Intense

 Posted on October 2, 2011  |  2 minutes  |  237 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

04/10/2009 Hello everyone! The weather this week albeit two days in the middle has been pleasant with sunny blue skies. This is most unexpected in Edinburgh but a joy to us although the wind can be a real bully while walking; pushing us forward and backward with no warning! [Read More]
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Letters from Edinburgh: 3

 Posted on September 20, 2011  |  2 minutes  |  325 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

**19/09/2009 THE BEGINNING: PART 3** Hello all! It has been nearly 10 days since I got here. Freshers’ week was very fun! I went for lots of cool events where we got to meet people from all sorts of fields from genomics to international politics and everything in between! [Read More]
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Dialogues III

 Posted on February 13, 2010  |  12 minutes  |  2476 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Dear readers, I’ve finally started to shed my inertia and write properly again. Here is the next set of Dialogues we had. J: Just to clarify, was it the Old Testament which said the earth was flat? [Read More]
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Dialogues II

 Posted on August 21, 2009  |  34 minutes  |  7215 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

S: In response to your questions: What is relativism? It’s the philosophical position that all points of view are equally valid and that all truth is relative to the individual. [Read More]
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Dialogues I

 Posted on August 18, 2009  |  15 minutes  |  3105 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

I have a friend who I found last September after nearly 9 years of no contact. We initially had no idea that we would become close again. [Read More]
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