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اتوار 4 مئی 2008Sunday, May 04, 2008

Why GPS is Better Than a Wife

While a GPS receiver doesn't compare to a wife, it's probably better for navigation purposes.

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پیر 3 مارچ 2008Monday, March 03, 2008

How Zack Buys a New PC

I decided to build my own desktop again after my Dell laptop troubles. Finding everything at Fry's was easy and assembling it was fun.

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جمعہ 28 دسمبر 2007Friday, December 28, 2007

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore and the makers of the documentary do a great job in presenting the global warming issue. Highly recommended as it is about a very important issue of our times.

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پیر 27 اگست 2007Monday, August 27, 2007

Religion Explained

This is one of the best books I have read. It explains the origins of religious thought based on how our mind works. Highly recommended.

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جمعرات 25 جنوری 2007Thursday, January 25, 2007

Before the Dawn

This is a good book by Nick Wade which covers human prehistory as seen mostly from the study of genetics.

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پیر 30 اکتوبر 2006Monday, October 30, 2006

The First Human

The First Human is a good and readable book about the search for the oldest hominin fossils. It describes the science, the fieldwork as well as the disputes in the field of paleoanthropology.

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جمعہ 22 ستمبر 2006Friday, September 22, 2006

Islamic Calendar

Fiqh Council of North America has decided to use astronomical calculations for the Islamic lunar calendar. I like the idea, but it is very controversial in the community. Let's take a look at the blogosphere's reaction. Ramazan Mubarak!

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منگل 8 نومبر 2005Tuesday, November 08, 2005

The Ancestor's Tale

A good book for the layman about evolutionary history despite some forced organization of topics and the author's few digressions into politics.

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جمعرات 5 مئی 2005Thursday, May 05, 2005

Litmus Test for Telecom Meetings

The Bush administration has litmus tests for everything. If you don't support them, then you don't count. The latest is the news that Kerry supporters were nixed from a telecom standards meeting.

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بدھ 5 مئی 2004Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Fourier Transform Song

Now, you can enjoy music and learn signal processing concepts at the same time. Here are the lyrics to the song Table 4.1: Properties of the Fourier Transform. Integrate your function times a complex exponential It’s really not so hard...

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جمعہ 9 اپریل 2004Friday, April 09, 2004

No More Editing Embargo

It seems that the embargo on editing scientific and technical papers from countries on which the US has imposed economic sanctions (Iran, Cuba, Libya and Sudan) has been lifted. According to IEEE, they can now publish papers from the embargoed...

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بدھ 21 جنوری 2004Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Facial Expression

Via Gene Expression, I came across an old article in Monitor on Psychology about facial expressions. Joseph Campos, PhD, of the University of California at Berkeley […] says, “there is profound agreement that the face, along with the voice, body...

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جمعرات 18 دسمبر 2003Thursday, December 18, 2003

Embargo on Editing

Via Through the Looking Glass, I found out some news about my own backyard (IEEE). I know the news is old (October/November timeframe), but this is my weblog and I never promised timely coverage of news and events. As you...

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اتوار 24 اگست 2003Sunday, August 24, 2003

Thermodynamics and Evolution

I got suspicious when I found out that Harun Yahya was not a scientist. People who have not studied science can sometimes misinterpret scientific laws and ideas. Still, I was interested in reading his book “Darwinism Refuted”. After printing, I...

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ہفتہ 23 اگست 2003Saturday, August 23, 2003

Evolution Discussion Continued

My previous posts on the topic are here, here and here. Aziz Poonawalla has now posted his own viewpoint on the topic. In broad details, we agree. Aziz also points to an article on Evolution and the Quran at Talk...

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جمعہ 22 اگست 2003Friday, August 22, 2003

Evolution: Another Viewpoint

Following up on my critique of Muslims not accepting evolution and after finding out that Harun Yahya, one of the opponents of evolutionary theory, is not a scientist, I discovered a lecture by a Saudi geologist (specializing in micropalaeontology) Dr...

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بدھ 20 اگست 2003Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Harun Yahya

Continuing my previous post about evolution, I want to just let you know who Harun Yahya is. HarunYahya is a pen name used by Mr. Adnan Oktar. Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar is a prominent Turkish intellectual. Completely...

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منگل 19 اگست 2003Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Muslims and Evolution

Ticked off by The B. Files’ saying: my anti-darwinism has been reaffirmed after I read “The Lost World.” And Abez: Evolution is bogus. I am asking my readers, especially Muslims, to tell me their viewpoint about the theory of evolution....

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منگل 11 مارچ 2003Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Face Recognition

Here is a news item on CNN about face recognition using a 3-D scanner instead of a regular 2-D photo. For a fleeting moment, Mohamed Atta appeared on an airport security camera minutes before he boarded one of the planes...

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منگل 18 فروری 2003Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Computer Languages

A reader Trevor Anderson of Volokh Conspiracy defends C and blasts Java, Ada and Pascal. There are other languages, sure, and they are not all bad, I suppose. Java is okay if your objects need to be oriented: it looks...

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جمعرات 30 جنوری 2003Thursday, January 30, 2003

Evolution Controversy

When I came to the US, I was very surprised to find out that a lot of people here consider the theory of evolution to be wrong of “just a theory” (the word “theory” as used by laymen is very...

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