Monthly Archives: September 2012

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Skin Color Measurement

Category : Cosmetics , Evolution

English: "A Venerable Orang-outang",...
English: “A Venerable Orang-outang”, a caricature of Charles Darwin as an ape published in The Hornet, a satirical magazine Deutsch: Man sieht Darwin als Affen dargestellt, was eine Anspielung auf seine Evolutionstheorie sein soll. Seiner Meinung nach entwickelten sich die Menschen aus den Affen, was damals eine völlig neue Vorstellung war. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today I read an interesting article about the evolutionary significance of colour vision. (Why am I getting into evolution so much? Darwin’s ghost is haunting me!) The author believes that colour vision evolved to sense oxygenation modulations in the hemoglobin under the skin. Interesting theory indeed.

I (We) have been working on an algorithm to measure skin colour for some time. Accurate skin colour measurement may be a useful tool in cosmetic dermatology though it may test the claims of many fairness cream manufacturers! The algorithm is far from perfect.

Want to test it? Click here or the banner below to access it. Be warned!! Use it at your own risk and do not upload any pictures that you don’t want me to see.

BTW are you ready to test the next fairness cream?


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The transgenerational conflict

English: This is a recreated vector image in S...
English: This is a recreated vector image in SVG. The original “Human_evolution_scheme.png” was made by José-Manuel Benitos. The following was stated by the original author: “Simplified scheme of human evolution, it does not try to be trustworthy, but a symbol of this process” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Listen2Me (Photo credit: beapen)

Today I read a well structured and exceptionally comprehensive review of the theories and evolutionary significance of ageing. The author argues that ageing may not be a fortuitous consequence of post-reproductive decline of evolutionary selective pressure as “Evolutionary Theories of Ageing” (ETA) suggest but a phylogenetically conserved, signalling pathway controlled inexorable progression towards death. As Anti-ageing and its pragmatic cousin graceful-ageing are pivotal to cosmetic dermatology, we should be aware of the evolutionary significance of ageing. The author substantiates, based on 400,000 published scientific papers, out of which 4000 have been referred in this monumental paper, that ageing may not even be a group selection process due to resource limitation but a individual germ-soma conflict over the utilization of resources. A transgenerational conflict between germline cells and soma is happening inside you!!


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Bollywood Stars in Dubai

Category : Bollywood

Few of the Bollywood‘s hottest stars came to Lamcy to promote their new releases. The crowd was manageable when Emraan, Esha and Bipasha came for the promotion of Raaz 3.

But the crowd went berserk when they saw Kareena the next day! But it was fun. I was on the third floor, but could still get a descent glimpse of her though she could stay only for 10 minutes. She came for the promotion of her new movie Heroine.