Blog awards are a new thing in Pakistan and the Pakistan Blog Awards 2011 is the second of such event here. This year, I have a blog and since I have been so good(I think posting on my blog count as being good), I have nominated my-self in the category of Science Blog. So head…

Great News: More free online courses coming early next year from Stanford University. Some of us have already benefited from the currently running Machine Learning, Intro to Artificial Intelligence, or Intro to Databases classes, I myself am taking the AI and Machine Learning courses and am seeing a whole new way to learn. Here are the new classes…

When was the last time you spent almost an hour fiddling through the list of unicode characters list to find that one greek/latin character that you needed to put in your report. Shapcatcher.com – A website that lets you draw a character, then tries to recognize it and gives you a list of possible suspects.…

Superhydrophobic: Repelling water to the degree that droplets do not flatten but roll off instead. Only a few surfaces exhibit the hydrophobic let alone superhydrophobic phenomenon but the people at Ross Nanotechnologies have come up with a spray-on-can of superhydrophobic goodness. Here is a video that explains and demonstrates what the new spray can do: With…