I quite by chance caught a lecture by V. S. Ramachandran on cable from the University of California, perhaps 5 or 6 years ago (maybe more) and was absolutely transfixed. The next day at work I was nearly as hard pressed to think of anything else as I was to find anyone interested in discussing it.
The lecture provided one of those exceptionally rare opportunities in which you get to watch someone who can really explain with a passion the essence of their work, one of those instances where yo...
