Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Assorted

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The Biggest of Puzzles Brought Down to Size Skype, the Web Phone Giant, Brings Cheap Calls to Cellular Google to Announce Venture Fund The C...
Monday, March 30, 2009

A bit of a background on the music industry

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British-Asian singer-songwriter, Jay Sean .
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Freeman Dyson profile

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Among Dyson’s gifts is interpretive clarity, a penetrating ability to grasp the method and significance of what many kinds of scientists do...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Weird Art

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In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing a...

Photo of the Day

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Photo by Sigit Pamungkas via cool photography blog from Reuters

Income of an escort in Singapore

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If you have youth, glamourous looks and finesse, we want you. Join us in entertaining our world wide clientele. Do not hesitate to contact u...
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An impressive critique of UK Prime Minister

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via Stumbling and Mumbling
Friday, March 27, 2009

Juan Cole's advise to Obama

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The School of Athens - History podcast of the Day

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The School of Athens ; Despite commissioning the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II is better known as a warrior than a scholar. But when he did...

Nassim Taleb on the History of Medicine

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What's Taleb upto now; History of medicine, anti-academic, anti-knowledge. Medicine: whenever we use knowledge as a driver instead of t...
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Nandan Nilekani and Tom Friedman

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Book recommendation; Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

Parenting Advice from Gladwell's Outliers

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Parents and Society matter!

Find a Toilet anywhere in the World

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SitorSquat ; Sitorsquat.com is a site that is dedicated to telling you where the closest place to relieve yourself is and whether or not th...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mindmapping for Teaching

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Top 100 sites by Country

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Pakistan (includes pornhub and bollywoodhungama ) India (includes Pornhub, Indian Railways, Shaadi,) Saudi Arabia Australia China (include...

Mind is not a blind slate

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Babies 'can do' maths

HOT from Singapore

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THE controversial legislation which allows reimbursement of living kidney donors was passed in Parliament yesterday after a heated debate. E...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Political Islam 101

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Juan Cole comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Mark Sanford Engagi...
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The Man who Produced THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Creative Defense Contractors

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Photo of the Day- Timothy Geithner

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via Indecision
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Monday, March 9, 2009

The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan

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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America Russell Shorto interv...
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Parenting skills of Mankiw

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Mankiw's favorite children's books ; Miss Rumphius By Barbara Cooney Cactus Hotel By Brenda Z. Guiberson Frindle By Andrew Clements ...
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Cool Blogs and other links

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Joshspear Zoomdoggle Tasks Every Day Wants for Sale Urlesque Bore Me
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One more reason why you should blog

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From Seth Godin ; The best measure of a blog is not how many people it reaches, it’s how much it changes what you do. Changes your posture, ...

Not the time to be thinking of doing a PhD

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Andrew Delbanco , the chairman of the American studies program at Columbia University, said that the system producing graduate students was ...

The Brothers Karzai

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The older brother of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, Mahmoud Karzai has major interests in the country’s only cement factory, its domina...
Saturday, March 7, 2009

Science Podcast of the Day

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THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM IN PHYSICS ; The most famous fruit in physics is an apple, but the most famous animal in physics is a cat. It belong...
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Young Americans and Britons take the lead

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in cocaine-use !
Friday, March 6, 2009

Pornography Fact of the Day

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subscriptions to online pornography sites are “more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender ro...

A fisherman turned banker, now back to Fishing

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Lean and hungry-looking, wearing genuine rather than designer stubble, Alfsson still looks more like a trawler captain than a financier. He ...

A unique way to catch Tuna

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Catching tuna Maldivian style
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Tech Headline for the Day

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iFart And Pull My Finger Battle To Stink Up The App Store. Please Keep These Under Control, Apple.

The rapture of the geeks?

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Truly said, ' Death makes strange even the most rational of minds '; Using technology, he plans to bring his dead father back to lif...

New Rules for the Sub-prime Age- Bill Maher

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Friday, February 27, 2009

More Game Theory from Middle East

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In early summer 1995, a few months before his assassination, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin asked Jordan's King Hussein to approach Iraqi ...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Is it religion or culture?

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A 14-year-old Israeli girl has got a divorce from her 17-year-old husband, making her what media are describing as the country's younges...

The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

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Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World.

Another former dictator's Art collection

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After Ceausescu visited Pyongyang in North Korea, he decided to rebuild his own capital city. The result was to wipe out much of historic Bu...

Economic Gangsters from Paradise

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The lavish lifestyle of the former head of the tiny island nation of Maldives ; Gold Plated Toilets Over 8 million dollars! Private island r...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

John Kay's ‘long walk’ problems

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For years, I have identified what I think of as ‘long walk’ problems - knotty issues that are best tackled if you can get away from it all....
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Steven Pinker with Colbert

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Steven Pinker Colbert Report Full Episodes Funny Political News Christian Bale Parody Joke o...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Artist of the Day

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Enough About Me. Like My Portrait? ; Donald Bachardy , the Santa Monica portraitist who is known for his drawings and paintings of celebriti...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Advice of the Day- Turkey's jewish business tycoon

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ISHAK ALATON , a prominent member of Turkey’s tiny Jewish community, has a secret to living more intensely: He built his house next to a ce...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ethics for the Real World from Engineers

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Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life Ronald A. Howard is a professor in the Department o...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Using IT to create a post-bureaucratic organization

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Bringing Change in Government Organizations: Evolution Towards Post-Bureaucracy with Web-Based IT Projects ; This paper examines the followi...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Did you Know

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Two UN agencies have declared 2009 as; Year of the Gorilla International Year of Natural Fibres

Cool link for the Day

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Crib Candy

Obamania

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Assorted at N euroanthropology Obama - Professor President Obama’s Foursquare Politics, With a Dab of Dijon ; But while Mr. Obama occasional...
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For Debate

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Corseting female sexuality The whole article is pitched to support that old tired cliché of sexuality that 'women are complicated, men ...