• This blog is moving to Wordpress. New blog address: http://anilmenon.com/blog. Independence Day
• Part 2: 2009 Indian SF Workshop at IIT-K. Final part, thank God. 2009 Indian SF Workshop At IIT-K: Part 2 (Being There)
• My experiences as an instructor at the 2009 Indian SF Workshop at IIT-K --Part 1.2009 Indian SF Workshop At IIT-K: Part 1 (Getting There)
• A preamble to an impending break-up.Typepad, we need to talk...
• Enthumercial for the upcoming SF workshop at IIT-KSprout Out Loud - 2009 SF Workshop at IIT-K
• Soliciting recommendations for a few (< 10), great speculative-fiction short-stories (< 5000 words) to use in a workshop at IIT-Kanpur.A Few Good Stories
• Democrats blame competence for their failure to fail.Democrats In Deep Gloom Over Inability To Fail
• Chandrayaan I is on its way to the moon. Moonshot
• Kevin Foster and Hanna Kokko's paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society claims that "..natural selection can favor strategies that lead to frequent errors in [causality] assessment as long the occasional response carries a large fitness benefit." Objection, your Honor. Leading question.Evolution Of The Obvious: The Foster-Kokko Model Of Superstition
• A recent experiment seems to show some species of fish can do transitive inference. My goldfish writes a rebuttal.Fishy Transference

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• Stanislaw Lem, the incomparable author of The Cyberiad, died on March 28, 2006. A cheeky tribute to our modern Aesop of the Machines.Stanislaw Lem: The Aesop Of Machines
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