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 

Letters from Edinburgh: 2

 Posted on September 18, 2011  |  3 minutes  |  588 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

**13/09/2009 THE BEGINNING: PART 2** Hello! I just got back from a great time at three events. I climbed Arthur’s Seat and made a friend (Greek) who’s about to start studying Bachelors of Computer science and met a Londoner who studies Geology. [Read More]
Arthur's seat  aussie  bagpipes  beautiful view  bengali  birth place of harry potter  bright sun  castle  chinese math student  coffee crawl  computer science  cool fresh air  Edinburgh  edinburgh castle  elephant house  geology  george square  greek  gym  hogwarts  hollyrood park  j.k. rowling  kannada  letters from edinburgh  linguist  lovely scenery  marathi  music  old college  sanskrit  sea  skyline  sydney 

Android body vs Human body

 Posted on August 6, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  678 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A lot of futuristic science fiction puts forward several ideas of what an android would be like. Data from Star Trek (TNG) is an intriguing character who tries very hard to understand what it is to be human. [Read More]
actors  aging  android bodies  artists  automated  battlin age  breathe  breathing  consciousness  contemplation  dangerous  data  Data Lore  death  deceit  dreaming  eat  eating  emotion  emotion chip  exobiologist  feel  feeling alive  feeling connection  food  history  human  humour  I Mudd  idioms  immortality  individuality  infinite memory  logical  love  making jokes  malfunction  memory  Mudd  not part of nature  nurse chapel  paradoxes  personal choices  planet of androids  poisonous gas  programming  rapid learning  resources  sickness  skills  sleep  sleeping  smelling  social contact  star trek  strong  supercomputer  tasting  The Enterprise  the next generation  The Original Series  The Ultimate Computer  TNG  toilet  TOS  violinist  What Are Little Girls Made of?