I came across this site a few days back. The site shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations. It also enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers and talks.
Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 24,000 academics have added themselves in the last four months. Some professors on the site include:
- Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
- Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/
- Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
- Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/
- Steven Pinker - http://harvard.academia.edu/
Independent researchers can add themselves at another portion of the tree.
Very soon all the colleges will be included in the tree and that is going to be very helpful for many.
PS: Slumdog Millionaire won 8 oscars today, Rahman 2!
Academia.edu
Alter ego
I had told in one of my previous posts about how jobless we are in our final year. To support my point, some of my friends here, who call themselves 'The Cycle Dudes' have made a video, which is like a trailer to a movie. Its done pretty well considering the materials they had at their disposal. The "movie" is called Alter Ego. You've got to watch this "home-made" trailer.
Theres a tamil version of the trailer too ;) with some tamil songs in the background.
Check out the videos. Trust me, you will appreciate their job! Its much better than some of the lame trailers we see these days.
A trip to Athirapally and Valsan's home
Last weekend, just after our sessionals, eight of us left for Valsan's home. We reached his home in the evening. Only after reaching there we knew that he had a big German Shepherd at home. As Philip and I like love dogs, we started playing with it. But i guess the dog wasnt too fond of us. :( It bit my hand within a couple of minutes. Luckily i was wearing a full sleeve shirt, with the sleeve folded 4 times; and its teeth fell right on the fold. Though the teeth didnt even touch my skin, it had left good imprints on my hand. We went to a doc there, who said that there was nothing to worry. :D
Early morning next day, Valsan, Bharath, Raja, Jp and I went to Guruvayoor temple. There we had to stand for around one and a half hours before the queue started to move. And once it started to move, you didnt have to do anything; others in the queue would keep pushing you all the way! There was a good rush there. When we came back, Philip, Veepi and Abhilash were still sleeping. We hadnt slept for even three hours, so wasted no time in kicking t
hem out of their beds.
We then quickly had our breakfast and set off for Athirapally and vazhchal water falls in the Innova that we had hired for the day. The water falls were beautiful. At Vazhchal we were able to sight many monkeys and few beautiful birds. There were lot of tourists there too. After spending around 3
hours there, we were all starving! We went to a good hotel from there. By the time we finished, it was 8. From the restaurant we went to a beach near TP's house. And after spending some time there we came back to Valsan's home. We were all out of gas by the time we reached home. All of us went to bed after a shower .The next day we were at home till lunch watching the cricket match and then we came back to hostel.
Big Phil sacked!
Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has been sacked today! The decision was taken following the draw against Hull city at home this saturday. Some Chelsea fans had also jeered at Scolari saying he didnt know what he was doing.
The former Brazilian coach, Scolari had a great start this season; with Chelsea winning many matches and staying on top of the table for few weeks. But since the team lost against Liverpool at home in the Premier League, Chelsea didnt win many matches. Following the draw against Hull city, Chelsea has slipped to the fourth position below Aston Villa.
Russian coach Guus Hiddink and former manager Avram Grant are believed be the early front runners for the position. Some fans had also held banners calling for Chelsea legends Gianfranco Zola (currently in West Ham) and Roberto Di Matteo to return to Stamford Bridge.
The assistant manager Ray Wilkins will be taking charge of the team in the meantime.
Hope whoever replaces him, will be able to do a good job for the club.
Update: Guus Hiddink has been appointed as the Chelsea boss today (11th feb)!
Links:
Chelsea Official Site- Scolari sacked
Yahoo sports- Hiddink appointed
