The question that begs no purpose.

http://youtu.be/few-CN5OywQ

Why do mirrors flip horizontally, and not vertically?

http://youtu.be/vBpxhfBlVLU

The Cost of Knowledge

"They, like many other academics, were upset that the work produced by their peers, and funded largely by taxpayers, sat behind the paywalls of private publishing houses that charged UK universities hundreds of millions of pounds a year for the privilege of access."

Srinivasa Ramanujan's Theta Function

"Ono uses a 'magic coin' analogy to illustrate the complexity of Ramanujan's vision. Imagine that Jacobi, who discovered the original modular forms, and Ramanujan are contemporaries and go shopping together. They each spend a coin in the same shop. Each of their coins goes on a different journey, traveling through different hands, shops and cities.

'For months, the paths of the two coins look chaotic, like they aren't doing anything in unison,' Ono says. But eventually Ramanujan's coin starts mocking, or trailing, Jacobi's coin. After a year, the two coins end up very near one another: In the same town, in the same shop, in the same cash register, about four inches apart."

Full note on:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121217091604.htm

My homeland today...

The Malaysia I grew up with in the 90's is the last best episode of the country. Hope remains.

http://youtu.be/27LADw_pS-U

Reason is God!

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it. ~ John Adams

Post by Animals Australia.

தென்றல் வந்து...

Being proud for somebody else's hard work.

http://youtu.be/kYdTFnCjdJk

Well, the outcome is so axiomatic. To the greatest extent, it's despite, and not due to, the ambiguous policies with selective actions. A class of people working twice as hard for half the reward. More reasons to be proud for that, if at all. Sigh.

A message well said.

This will hardly go to the dogmatic brains of the indoctrinated. And to the oriental minds of the economic masters.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=irG1bqHWhJI

TPP: The IP Chapter!

Deal with it, in open. One of the biggest treaty ever, and access to medicine, nutrition & healthcare is pertinent and must be inclusive.

Smile...please!

• Never waste fresh tears over old grief.
• A great relationship is just 2 people who specialize in forgiveness. 
• Never let your memories, be greater than your dreams. 
• Every once in a while, someone comes into your life, and makes you wonder how you ever lived life without them. 
• Most couples don't have hundreds of arguments, they have the same argument hundreds of times. 
• Having a thousand friends isn't a miracle. The miracle is to have a friend who will stand by you when thousands are against you. 
• People will hate you, rate you, break you and shake you. How strong you stand is what makes you. 
• Apologizing doesn't mean your right or wrong, it just means you value your relationship more than your ego. 
• When you set out to be original, be prepared to be copied! 
• When you sense someone is competing with you, you've already won. 
• If people are talking behind your back, congratulations! It means you're far in front.

Measure of happiness

The best moments in life are priceless as they can only be recalled not relived. Measure your happiness not by how much your worth is but how worth it being alive is.

Humankind's everlasting point of conflict

"Religious bigotry has existed from time immemorial. Religious bigotry manifests itself as a holier-than-thou attitude towards others. The religious bigot has in his/her head the idea that those belonging to his/her religious groups will be saved and the rest will go to hell. They firmly believe that they and they only have a special connection with the Almighty and that which others lack. This in turn leads them to think that only they have His special favors and others do not."

Tan Sri Ani Arope

Chairman of Malaysian Science University (USM)

{ex-Senior Advisor to G.E. International for the Asean Region}

Extinction of a World's (Last) Language

(http://news.discovery.com/human/the-65000-year-old-language-goes-extinct.html)

"When eighty-five year-old Boa Sr. died on January 10, 2010, she took with her the last of her native language of Aka Bo (also called Bo). Boa Sr was an Indian Great Andamanese elder in the Andaman Islands of India; she was also the only person of the roughly 52 remaining natives in her village who remembered any Bo, so when she died the language became the world's most recent language to go extinct.

Extinct languages are different than “Dead” languages because dead languages (like Latin and Sanskrit) are kept alive by scholars who study them. Extinct languages are permanently gone when the last native speaker dies. Though Aka Bo is the most recent language to disappear, it may not remain the world's last forever. It is estimated that half of the nearly six thousand languages spoken in the world will become extinct within the next 200 years."