Simulating the whole brain one cell at a time.

The lab is an important place where discoveries are made, whether the lab is virtual or whether the lab is a physical space where experiments are conducted. It is also a place where the data is acquired, compared and finally conclusions drawn to make the discoveries possible. One feature that is common to most labs…

When we think of internet, it seems amazing to see that there are so many computers connected. This was made possible by the internet protocol version 4 provides 232 (4,294,967,296) addresses even though not all of them are usable. There are mostly saturated and the total number becomes about 4.2 billion and that is about…

Each researcher spends quality time managing the literature that they have collected in the form of papers and PDF’s. However, the collection of PDF continues to grow and there are very little in the form of tools that help manage it. There are three(3) great open source tools that work wonderfully to manage the collection…

Paper comes in different sizes. Paper is used every day and it has been accepted as a standard but there is some interesting mathematics behind it too. Consider size A0: The area of a A0 size of paper is exactly 1 meter square. Interestingly, each subsequent size is half the area of the previous size….