Re: [silk] The Reinvention of Silk

2011-03-13 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 22:48, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Fascinating. Besides, how could I resist forwarding a piece with this title? Udhay http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/science/08silk.html?_r=1hpw=pagewanted=all The Reinvention of Silk By HENRY FOUNTAIN Fio Omenetto

Re: [silk] The end of Peak Oil (for now) ??

2011-01-16 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 01:24, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: So France [1] and Australia [2] might end up becoming the new Saudi Arabias. IF these pan out (and that's a big if) then: * What does this mean for Peak Oil? * What does this mean for geopolitics? * What does this mean for

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Kolkata?

2011-01-05 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:03, Volker Grassmuck vgr...@rz.hu-berlin.de wrote: I didn’t respond to the meet request in Sao Paulo by Andre in October because I was away in Europe. Didn’t even know there are other silkers in Sao Paulo. Now they will be −1 as unfortunately I have to move back to

Re: [silk] Visa-free and visa-on-arrival travel for Indians: maybeuseful for last-minute travel

2010-12-16 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:57, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Andre Uratsuka Manoel [16/12/10 01:26 -0200]: I'm going to Mexico next year to visit a friend and I can attest that an American visa is accepted by Mexico. not for indians it isnt. try going to san diego

Re: [silk] Visa-free and visa-on-arrival travel for Indians: maybeuseful for last-minute travel

2010-12-15 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 20:56, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote: [...] -I have not been to Mexico, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Turkey or South Korea, but I am nearly certain from previous research that a US or UK visa does not get you visa-free access to those places (unless buried really

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 15:05, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Maybe Charles can post

Re: [silk] Uphill, both ways...

2010-04-01 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 19:14, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.slate.com/id/2249565/pagenum/all/#p2 San Diego Is East of Reno? The most common navigational mistakes we all make. By Tom Vanderbilt Imagine two cities, one to the north of where you live and one an equal distance to

Re: [silk] Uphill, both ways...

2010-04-01 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 23:21, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Andre Uratsuka Manoel an...@insite.com.br wrote: I think the article was making the point that people thought that going North was tougher because they unconsciously equated it, in their heads

Re: [silk] Ombaba gets Nobel peace

2009-10-10 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 15:31, Amit Varma amitbl...@gmail.com wrote: Agree entirely. BTW, the Nobel Committee chairman has said that the prize to Obama was not based on potential, but on performance: We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but for what he has done in

Re: [silk] Is voter ignorance killing democracy?

2009-07-05 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Bruce Metcalfbruce.metc...@figzu.com wrote: [...] But how does an educational requirement strike the rest of you? It would dent the president of my country the right to vote, and he has been surprisingly good (well, I am surprised. Other people are not). Not

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-14 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:05 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: This is interesting information. Could the vanity part have been because only the richest could afford to bathe often in those times and the Church was catering to the (unwashed) faithful? Maybe. Europeans who first came to Brazil

Re: [silk] Dinga Dee

2009-03-11 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Rishab Ghosh ris...@dxm.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:51:01PM +0530, ss wrote: Like I said I loved the video. It's original if nothing else. i loved it too. it was so sad-funny. and low budget. shows a sense of humour. but a poor judgement of the

Re: [silk] can't accuse them of being timely

2009-02-12 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't aware that Catholic teachings in the States trod the Proddie line on this count? For some reason I was under the impression that Creationism is a preoccupation particular to [some] Protestant sects in the

Re: [silk] can't accuse them of being timely

2009-02-12 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:20 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: Is it a coincidence or what? A series of articles about Darwin have been appearing in seemingly unconected media. SciAm. then Nat Geo - then Deccan Herald - and now this. Today is his 200th birthday! Long live ... well, his

Re: [silk] Bruce Sterling's State of the World chat

2009-02-02 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
Hello, On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:48 PM, J. Andrew Rogers and...@ceruleansystems.com wrote: On Feb 1, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Andre Uratsuka Manoel wrote: Keynesian theory = epicycles Austrian theory = Kepler-ian dynamics Interestingly, the image I have in my head is the very opposite of that. My

Re: [silk] Bruce Sterling's State of the World chat

2009-02-01 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
Hello all, First, let me introduce myself. My name is Andre Uratsuka Manoel and I am a Japanese-Portuguese-Spanish Brazilian from Sao Paulo, Brazil. I've been lurking here for a few weeks now, having met a few of the regulars of this list (including Udhay and Eugen Leitl) from other lists. I've