Bindesh Shrestha

Periodic Table

Bindesh Shrestha — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:37:00 +0000

I found it a while ago. I could not locate the original source for it but here is a perfect example of nerdyness.

Logorama

Bindesh Shrestha — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:48:43 +0000

Logorama, the Academy award winning animated short film, is one of the most creative and wittiest shorts I have ever seen. The short is about 15 minutes and entirely comprised of allegedly 2,500 logos and characters from the ads. I didn't even noticed 1,000 logos but watching it over again, I found a few more than the first time. Logorama has witty and sometime crude social commentary on modern logo infiltrated society. Sometimes logo behave like the characters of the products they represents , while sometime they behave like a bad stereotype or even what the logo could also represent. There are many subtle pop culture humor in the story. Among many one of my favorite scene (spoiler here ........ so stop reading if you don't want to know any scene from the short) is Ronald McDonald riding a motorbike made from Grease logo getting way from collapsing buildings made from Logo of companies such as Enron and finally falling over after colliding with Weight Watchers' logo. Classic indeed!
Search for video online , itunes or youtube.

BioPhotonics’ article “Exploding cells, one by one”

Bindesh Shrestha — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:01:34 +0000

BioPhotonics has published an article "Exploding cells, one by one" by Anne L. Fischer on our work on direct single cell mass spectrometric analysis at atmospheric pressure.

http://photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=41135

3 Steps of Anthropogenic Climate Change Deniers

Bindesh Shrestha — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:09:00 +0000

“You're wrong and I can prove it.
“You're right but it doesn't matter.”
“It matters but it's too late to do anything about it.”

Summarized from the article “Convincing the climate-change skeptics” by John P. Holdren (2008)

Blog on cultural idiosyncrasies (Nepali)

Bindesh Shrestha — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:19:46 +0000

As someone interested in cultural idiosyncrasies , I have been a big fan of books like Holy Cow and Ciao America. Finally I have found a blog that's just seemed tailor made for me (a Nepali in United States). “Musings from an American-Nepali Household” is a blog of an American woman, who understands Nepali cultures, and eloquently writes on those idiosyncrasies. Highly recommended!

Lost Treasures of Tibet (Mustang)

Bindesh Shrestha — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:04:19 +0000

Nova’s “Lost Treasures of Tibet” discusses the art restoration project in Mustang, Nepal. The most interesting aspect is the philosophical debate on restoration that is shown at the end of the documentary.

PBS Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tibet/

Steve Jobs “How to live before you die?” Commencement Speech

Bindesh Shrestha — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:54:04 +0000

Why people vote against their own interests?

Bindesh Shrestha — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:46:48 +0000

BBC's report written by David Runciman examines why people vote against their own interests. According to him and other psychologists, such as Drew Weston , people vote based on emotions. So good emotional stories rather than facts convince voters. Original article is here.

Gene for empathy?

Bindesh Shrestha — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:12 +0000

Researchers, Sarina Rodrigues and Laura Saslow have pinpointed a genetic explanation for why some people are better empathizers than others. According to their research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they found that genetic differences that lead to effects of hormone oxytocin were linked to their ability to empathize and trust people.

Summary Report
http://bit.ly/SociallyAwkward

Original Article
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/11/18/0909579106.abstract

Why pain sometimes lingers?

Bindesh Shrestha — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:05:12 +0000

After injury the pain system becomes hypersensitized, i.e, responding with sense of pain to painless area to protect the healing tissue. However, sometime that pain overstay its usefulness.
See the summary report and the original report in Nature.