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April 30, 2009
Category: DesiPundit
It happens when matter meets anti-matter. That there is such a thing called anti-matter never ceases to amaze me. Paul Dirac, when he arrived at the famous equation for electron-, realized that the equation predicted two particles: one was...
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April 22, 2009
Category: Creative commons
World Digital Library, the UN project to provide digital access to cultural heritage of our world. The search interface is quite interesting. Give it a go. Susan Boyle. For a few minutes, I forgot my distaste for gawdy talent shows...
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April 21, 2009
Category: DesiPundit
The accomplished author died a few days ago at 78. This, at Guardian: [As a] science fiction author [he] "wasn't interested in the far future, spaceships and all that", he explained; rather he was interested in "the evolving world, the...
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April 16, 2009
Category: DesiPundit
From his collection Death of a Naturalist. A wonderful collection of short poems. This particular poem's theme and language resonates across cultures and continents. It triggered memories of my time with my grandfather on the land picking cotton and onion,...
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April 10, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
This at the BBC. So, when he was 10, Blair's father fell seriously ill. Blair prays for his atheist father with his headmaster. "I said to him 'Before we pray, I should tell you that my father, he doesn't believe...
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April 9, 2009
Category: Creative commons
An interesting article by Nicholas Kulish on something very german: Rules. What the Germans call Ordnung (the usual translation is "order," but it is a much broader concept) is the unwritten road map of one society's concerted effort to permanently...
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April 8, 2009
Category: DesiPundit
Would you please piss-off. -Dawkins. Dawkins responds to Mr Blair, who wrote: The 21st century will be poorer in spirit and ambition, less focused on social justice, less sensitive to conscience and the common good, without a full and proper...
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Category: Creative commons
First published around this time in 1869 in The Atlantic. Stirs me whenever I read it. Some parts of the poem: Pround music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops!...
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