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An engineer and a graduate student by profession, I have an interest in evolutionary biology and occasionally write about stuff I read.
Croor Singh
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- September 8, 2012
- 04:09 PM
- 175 views
The Colour of Memory
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
Memory reconsolidation offers an explanation for the plasticity of memory and hope for people suffering from such conditions as PTSD.... Read more »
Suzuki A, Josselyn SA, Frankland PW, Masushige S, Silva AJ, & Kida S. (2004) Memory reconsolidation and extinction have distinct temporal and biochemical signatures. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 24(20), 4787-95. PMID: 15152039
- November 30, 2010
- 02:18 AM
- 613 views
Gender Achievement Gaps in Science and Maths
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
A study that shows that values affirmation can help female students do better in a calculus based Physics course.... Read more »
Miyake A, Kost-Smith LE, Finkelstein ND, Pollock SJ, Cohen GL, & Ito TA. (2010) Reducing the gender achievement gap in college science: a classroom study of values affirmation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6008), 1234-7. PMID: 21109670
- November 18, 2010
- 05:39 AM
- 992 views
Fractals in clouds – why clouds appear ‘cloudlike’
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
Clouds have distinctive shapes. Or they seem to have distinctive shapes. It turns out that is likely due to the fractal nature of clouds. The fractal nature of clouds was first shown in this paper in Science, from 1982.... Read more »
LOVEJOY, S. (1982) Area-Perimeter Relation for Rain and Cloud Areas. Science, 216(4542), 185-187. DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4542.185
- November 18, 2010
- 05:35 AM
- 766 views
Fractals in clouds
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
Clouds have distinctive shapes. Or they seem to have distinctive shapes. It turns out that is likely due to the fractal nature of clouds. The fractal nature of clouds was first shown in this paper in Science, from 1982.... Read more »
LOVEJOY, S. (1982) Area-Perimeter Relation for Rain and Cloud Areas. Science, 216(4542), 185-187. DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4542.185
- November 16, 2010
- 12:00 AM
- 760 views
Excretion in birds - why IISc's roads are coated white
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
A study that shows that some frugivorous birds can be facultatively ammonotelic. The study proposes that this ammonotely is apparent, and also proposes two mechanisms for the apparent ammonotely.... Read more »
Tsahar, E. (2005) Can birds be ammonotelic? Nitrogen balance and excretion in two frugivores. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208(6), 1025-1034. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01495
- November 10, 2010
- 12:12 AM
- 739 views
CV Raman on drums
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
A paper from 1920 that describes why a class of Indian percussion musical instrument can produce harmonic overtones.... Read more »
RAMAN, C., & KUMAR, S. (1920) Musical Drums with Harmonic Overtones. Nature, 104(2620), 500-500. DOI: 10.1038/104500a0
- November 7, 2010
- 02:56 AM
- 1,088 views
Rolling and Slipping of Euler’s Disk – Spin a coin and watch it roll!
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
An experimental study of the motion of Euler's disk. It is shown that the major energy dissipation mechanism in the problem is the friction from the surface and not viscous drag.... Read more »
Caps, H., Dorbolo, S., Ponte, S., Croisier, H., & Vandewalle, N. (2004) Rolling and slipping motion of Euler’s disk. Physical Review E, 69(5). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.056610
- October 4, 2010
- 11:37 PM
- 884 views
The Ignobel Prizes – A computational study of the Peter Principle
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
This year’s Ignobel Prizes have been announced. Among the winners are an engineering solution to the problem of collecting whale snot, a prize in Medicine for the people who discovered that asthma can be treated by putting the patient on a roller coaster (I’m having a hard time imagining clinical trials for this!), a Peace [...]... Read more »
Pluchino, A., Rapisarda, A., & Garofalo, C. (2010) The Peter principle revisited: A computational study. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 389(3), 467-472. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.09.045
- November 30, 1999
- 12:00 AM
- 956 views
So, is Darwinian Natural Selection Optimal?
by Croor Singh in Learning to be Terse
Game-theoretic approaches to study whether multiple strategies are possible in the same environment.... Read more »
Daniel S. Falster, & Mark Westoby. (2003) Plant height and evolutionary games. Trends in Ecology , 18(7), 337-343. DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00061-2
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