Word: ramachandran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hermetically sealed fantasy world that most Indian films inhabit, Ratnam's movies often flirt with incendiary political issues: a terrorist kidnapping in Roja; the 1992-93 Hindi-Muslim riots in Bombay; the rivalry of Tamil actor-statesman M.G. Ramachandran (known as MGR) and screenwriter-statesman M. Karunanidhi (MK) in Iruvar; more terrorism in Del Se; the Sri Lankan war in Kannathil Muthamittal. He is also fascinated with powerful figures in the Mumbai Mafia. Nayakan attached the structure of The Godfather to the career of gang lord Varadarajan Mudaliar, and Ratnam revisited the underworld in Agni Nakshatram and Thalapathi...
...Hwang ’05, Lily Kang ’03, Mario Garcia ’05 and Manoj Ramachandran ’05 traveled to Houston at the end of July to attend NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. Along with teams from other colleges, they conducted a novel scientific experiment in a plane designed to simulate a zero-gravity environment...
...started grabbing onto all sorts of things,” Ramachandran said. “It’s kind of like being underwater, except you can’t swim—you’re just kind of sitting there, and it’s impossible to go anywhere...
...belt A-team, comprised of Jeanie C. Yoon ’02, Chang and Wellesley student Charity Maclay, placed first in sparring. The Harvard men’s color belt B-team, including William J. Wright ’03, Calvin K. Huang ’02 and Manoj Ramachandran ’04 placed second...
What does all this tell us about the mind? "What you're seeing here is a window into thought itself," says Ramachandran, who is slated to speak at the Princeton meeting. "It also gives us an experimental handle to investigate the neural basis of more elusive phenomena like metaphor." It's a fair bet, he argues, that synesthesia is caused by genetic mutations that create dense neural connections between areas of the brain that process sensory information. Ramachandran hypothesizes that in normal brains, a handful of these links might play a role in the formulation of metaphors, which often blend...