Friday, October 12, 2007
About Me
- Name: Vivek
- Location: United States
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. My general research interests are mainly at exploring how technology can be used to minimize negative interactions between humans and villagers, thus improving conservation prospects for an endangered species and economic prospects for villagers as well in southern India, which is my study region. For my doctoral dissertation, I am exploring how elephants respond to perceived threats such as recorded tiger growls or villagers shouting and whether this technique of threatening sound playbacks can be used to reliably mitigating elephants from raiding on villagers' farms.
Links
- E-Service Bazaar - Visit the trial version of my mom's business web site
- The Economist: The Best News Magazine in the World, not least because of its very British style of writing
- BBC News: The Best News Web Site in the World
- The Times of India: Full of Vehement Anti-China Passion
- Deccan Herald: Bangalore's Own since 1948
- Save The Hindu: A Movement to Save India's Once Respected Newspaper, Now Xinhua Mouthpiece Based in Chennai
- An Anti-Hindu Blog; Caution: This site runs way too far to the Right on things such as religious and Hindu extremist issues, but generally exposes The Hindu's pro-China leanings pretty well
Previous Posts
- Your Choice 2009: Why Your Vote Matters
- An Appeal for Obama (and other CA endorsements)
- So tell me, just what is so effing special about C...
- Jammu and Kashmir: Forever a Quagmire?
- Freedom in the World 2008
- 7/25 - A date the world will not remember
- America's Downfall
- Delhi Hotel Experience
- Trip to India
- Seduction by California
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