India's most recent cabinet reshuffle, the third since the United Progressive Alliance was re-elected in 2009, had a familiar, head-spinning feel to it.
Indeed one noted migration expert, the Swedish scientist Thomas Alerstam, turned a familiar question on its head when he noted "We should not ask 'why do birds migrate?', when a better question would be 'why do not all birds migrate?'" Not that they have a particularly easy life.
Odd I know that a simple canoe trip could bring up so much 'stuff' but grief has a way of rearing it's familiar head just when you think it has gone for good.
Now, in 2009, as I approached the dining-room of his Johannesburg home – my eyes fixed on the back of that familiar head – I was disconcerted by the possibility that this time the sphinx would not come to life; that he would be lost in the fog of old age.
If Wallace had accepted Zuckerman's offer, he would have found himself in a familiar situation, competing head to head with rival daily the New York Post, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the owner of the Sun in the UK.
In a study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers have said the familiar head-tilt relates to a dog's ability to empathise.
The simple truth is that chart patterns, from the familiar head-and-shoulders to saucer bottoms or pennant formations, are-at best-random in their results.
Sure the 1970s and the 80s have been rearing their familiar heads, but one house's interpretation of those decades has felt quite distinct from another.
Two familiar heads pop out from behind the pillar, heads thrown back in laughter.
That familiar head-shaped image is the final product of highly sophisticated mathematics and modeling and statistical analysis -- much of which neuroscientists themselves don't fully understand.
