1. India to charge writer Nasreen with 'hurting Muslim feelings'

Comment #67478 by anshul on September 3, 2007 at 2:50 pm

As an Indian I can only say that I feel helpless. There is no howto that tells you how to get a stupid law changed. I wish I could do something more than just blog about it. :(

2. New Research Proves Single Origin Of Humans In Africa

Comment #57475 by anshul on July 19, 2007 at 1:09 pm

Saw this on slashdot... An interesting comment here.. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=252537&cid=19914697

3. Rats influenced by the kindness of strangers

Comment #54530 by anshul on July 7, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Doesn't Tit for tat [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat ] improve your survival? This is only different in the sense that the first move in an iterated prisoner's dilemma is being made on the basis of average response from the population, which does sound like an improvement over the usual always-positive-first, if some assumptions can be made about the general population.