Science and society

Dr.Humphrey's quote in class today: 


In most countries' legal systems (actually he said US, but I think its safe to extrapolate to others too), you are innocent unless proven guilty.


In science however, you are guilty unless you can prove your innocence. 


What this means is, when you are discovering something unseen by others, inventing something not done before, there are so many unknown errors/deviations that can creep in, that unless you acknowledge their presence through quantification or take care of them in your design, you are doing bad science.


As an afterthought I wonder if there can really be anything called bad science. It can be science or it can be trash.  If its bad science, it wont be long before its proven its trash or its swept happily away under carpet and forgotten forever.

Morning Saaga!

Its one thing to be woken up by mechanical alarm clock sounds in the morning, and another to be woken up by your wife's apa-shruthi singing of the sa-ri-ga-mas at the top of her voice accompanied by constant 10 second even higher pitched corrections from the computer (thanks to skype and internet, her guru lives in the far away land of carnatic music :) )! 

With the time difference of 10 and half hours between India and our little apartment, the only feasible class timings so far have been worked out to be the golden time of 5:30 to 6:30 AM !! 

The thing is, when you wake up listening to a tune, you end  up humming it the entire day.... I wouldnt mind humming a good geetham... but sa-sa ri-ri ga-ga ma-ma pa-pa??!! 

And how come only sa-ri-ga-mas? Well she has some 'Janta'-attachment with the Janta-varasas... every time she comes to this lesson, something happens and the guru changes! i can only hope and pray she quickly gets past this stage and get into atleast good singing of geethas soon.

Any carnatic music teachers out there, please respond :)