Tuesday 7 September 2010

infinite russian dolls

I lived in Delhi between the ages of 4-8 or so. A neighbour had a tin of coffee--Polson's if I remember right. It had a picture of a woman and a man in evening dress and there was a tin of the same coffee next to them which had the picture of ..... This used to fascinate me..how many times will that tin inside a tin be repeated?---will it go on forever? Even now, after almost half a century, I feel intrigued by that...
I was reminded of my childhood fascination by this article on complexity.

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Ceiling fan

 I read somewhere that as a solution for student suicides, IISc has decided to remove fans from hostel rooms. No fan, no suicide. This shoul...