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September 28, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Alright. Now, you have no excuses. Send it in before I come and snatch it. Here is the link to go to, if you have not heard about the contest....
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September 22, 2009
Category: Creative commons
Since I am not posting much on the blog, the wife suggests I leave a few links she supplies. So here they are:- http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article22217.ece Since Indian rural workers under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme do not get their wages in...
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September 13, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
via BBC. Norman Borlaug is the Father of Green Revolution whose research has saved many many millions from starvation. To me, he defines effective compassion like no other. It is a shame his work is not as well known...
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September 7, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
Paul Krugman on How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? in today's NY Times. India's Moon Mission is over, somewhat prematurely--on 28 August, after nearly 10 months in moon orbit, Chandrayan-I stopped talking and ISRO had to declare the mission...
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September 5, 2009
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A poem from the book I am reading at present. The Mirror Maker by Primo Levi. I had an epiphany few weeks back--an epiphany that I was unable to describe--, an epiphany that I have now found the words for...
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September 2, 2009
Category: Creative commons
From the beebs: Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city's surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch...
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September 1, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
A very limited list of things that nobody knows (as compiled by yours truly, a very limited human). As you may notice, most of the list treads close to things that may be broadly classed as epistemological questions. Do extend...
Posted by Selva at 7:20 AM • 6 Comments •
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
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Tim Lambert 11.18.2009
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