Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Quantum physics videos on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0F530F3BAF8C6FCC
Good set of videos on quantum physics! A bit hard because the material itself is!
It is by IIT professor and arranged by same nptel of ministry of education of india.

Real analysis and calculus videos on youtube

Nice videos on real analysis and calculus. It starts from real fundamentals. It is really really good! Taught by IIT professor!
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3A87B93CB9912EC1

Coding horror

Nice site on software and related issues. Posts are of good quality. But most important thing is the comments. Comments give you a lot of info. It provides a forum for [intelligent, computer science] people to express themselves.
See a sample post:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001266.html

Wolfram Alpha computational engine


Amazing engine - It produced results for almost anything I typed in. Elliptic integral, derivatives and what not! Beautiful! I am really humbled by the creators of this Engine!
It computes anything!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Best malayalam comedy movies!

1. Nadodikattu
2. Poochakoru mookuthi
3. In harihar nagar
4. Varavelppu [yes]
5. Vadakkunoki yanthram [this too]
6. Mazha peyyunnu Maddalam kottunnu
7.Sanmanassullavarku samadanam
8.Ramji rao speaking

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

How cyanide kills?

I was wondering how cyanide kills so fast.

I did some google search and found that it kills by depriving organisms of ATP and oxygen. 

CN ions bind to cytochrome enzyme in mitochondria and turns off production of ATP. Cells die without energy [which include heart and brain cells]. It also deprives cells of oxygen by preferentially binding to Heamoglobin over oxygen, so it ends up transporting CN

It explains quite a bit of details:

http://publications.drdo.gov.in/gsdl/collect/defences/index/assoc/HASH016b/2155e82b.dir/doc.pdf