While marking old science books as keepers or giveaways, I paused to browse through an old favorite and modern classic published in 1979, the famous "physics for philosophers" book, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics" by journalist Gary Zukav.

This essay is continued from "Shame Theory" Part I which is available here.

As described in my profile, I don't want to blog about my own field of research. However, in anticipation of questions about my research, I'm going to write this introductory post.

So far, all my published work addresses how species concepts apply to bacteria.

If you are interested in learning more about this issue, I recommend the following:

1) An essay proposing one approach to defining bacterial species.
2) An essay panning the idea of universal species concepts.

"One way of thinking about the confinement problem was suggested by e+ e- annihilation into hadrons. Initially, the virtual photon dissociates into a quark and an antiquark that move with almost the speed of light back-to-back. Feynman had argued that additional pairs would be produced in the region between them, along the line separating the initially produced . The new pairs and original would rearrange and become a bunch of outgoing mesons [...].

ABSTRACT: A large number of hydrocarbon yielding plants like Calotropis procera, Euphorbia antisyphilitica have been reported to yield bio-fuel products. Attempts have been made to increase their growth and hydrocarbon yield potential. Studies were conducted to improve growth and productivity of these plants under field conditions In Rajasthan, Calotropis procera grows wild while Euphorbia antisyphilitica has been introduced from Mexico. Jatropha grows wild in south east Rajasthan which lies on south east side of Aravalli hill range which roughly divides the state in semi-arid and arid regions. Detailed studies have been conducted on the growth and cultivation and improvement of hydrocarbon contents of Calotropis procera and Euphorbia antisyphilitica.