Sunday, November 22, 2009

Think about for the Day

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In the United States today, democracy means that most people have essentially zero political power, and a relative handful of people have al...
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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Solutions

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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Solutions
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Book Cover Art of the Day

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Not A Chimp: The Hunt For The Genes That Make Us Human
Friday, November 13, 2009

Charter for Compassion

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Charter for Compassion
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Elinor Ostrum in South Asia

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In the south Asian context, the key contribution by Elinor Ostrom , along with other scholars (Shivakoti and Ostrom 2002) has been to provid...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Back to Nature

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via Flick
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Lévi-Strauss is dead

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A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss, in studying the mythologies of primitive tribes, transformed the way the 20th century came to understa...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Dickensian China

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Source More here
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Parenting advice for the day

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the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “ Baby Einstein ” videos that did not make children into geniuses... “My impre...
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Memo to Self- Exercise gluteus maximus

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“Ancient humans exploited the fact that humans are good runners in the heat,” Dr. Bramble said. “We have such a great cooling system” — man...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Weekend reading

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Carl Jung and The Holy Grail of the Unconscious ; Some people feel that nobody should read the book, and some feel that everybody should rea...
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What will it take in the Middle East

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A settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Assorted on Parenting

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Reader Suggestions for the Best Kids’ Books The Greatest Gift Starfall
Friday, July 10, 2009

You've the right to remain ------

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The Urumqi government said Friday that families of "innocent" people killed in the unrest will receive about $29,300 in compensa...
Friday, July 3, 2009

They Don’t Really Care About Us- The final rehearsal

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy The Life and Death of Micheal Jackson
Monday, June 22, 2009

Democracy Dreaming

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Source: NYT
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Sex in the city, Saudi version

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In Saudi Arabia and other countries where the genders are rigorously separated, many men have their first sexual experiences with other men,...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Photo of the Day - Caddo Lake

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A Passage Into the Primeval on a Bayou Lake in East Texas
Monday, May 11, 2009

Blog of the Day

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Aquanomics
Sunday, May 3, 2009

Parenting sites for the Day

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Go Ask Alice! TeenHealthFX.com
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Friday, May 1, 2009

Bees Fact of the Day

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In effect the honeybee has a daily diary that can include as many as nine appointments — say, 10:00 a.m., lilac; 11:30 a.m., peonies; and so...
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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...