Friday, April 24, 2009

Blog of the Day

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Think Geek

A credit worthy face?

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Women, for instance, judge men by their face s. Testosterone levels are reflected in the face, and who is seen as a one-night stand and who ...
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Japanese clean Paris

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Japan syndrome ” hits about 10 Japanese tourists to Paris a year. The victims are so disappointed at the dirty streets and rude waiters that...

Costs and Benefits of Friends

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A 10-year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period...
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Understanding and debating Islam

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One of the scholars at the Notre Dame conference whom I particularly admire is Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, an Egyptian Muslim who argues eloquentl...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Photo of the Day

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Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

The great career experiment

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“ In choosing careers, young people look for signals from society, and Wall Street will no longer pull the talent that it did for so many ye...
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An Urban Love Story

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As she entered the train, she noticed a man standing and reading “ History of Philosophy, Volume IX .” That impressed her. “ I infer that pe...
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Hope!

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After reciting the Oath of Allegiance, 144 people became American citizens during a special naturalization ceremony in Washington. The open...

Co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Biz Stone comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest T...

G-20 and John Nash

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Essential task for G20 leaders is a cinema trip to see 'A Beautiful Mind' by Mohamed A El-Erian and Mike Spence; The US is in the g...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Seeking your advice: Which Economics Department do you recommed?

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Maryland , NYU Economics or GMU Economics ?
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Happy Marriage fact of the Day

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a marriage is worth almost £80,000 ($110,000) a year ; this reflects partly the fact that marriage makes people happy, but also the fact tha...
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Is World Bank a pyramid scheme?

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Dambisa Moyo comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contes...
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 ...