TheScian SF Contest Results on 22nd
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Folks, the SF contest results will be delayed by a week. Unforeseen travel has intervened. I'll get the results out next Sunday, 22 Nov....
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TheScian SF Contest 2009 - Closed for submissions
Category: Creative commons
Congrats to all the participants who took the critical first step by courageously sending your baby into the wild. The number of submissions this year is eleven which is not too many. I hope to provide good feedback to authors...
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Links from the other half, and me
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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Why Democracy Matters
Category: Behind Curtains
Even with all it's shortcomings, democracy matters because there is hope of representation for everyone, however poor one is. Unlike this disgusting corruption reported at NY Times that ruins poor young lives in China with no way for them to...
Posted by Selva at 2:42 PM • 1 Comments •
Whereabouts and other updates
Category: Behind Curtains
I'll be back in the UK tomorrow. There is quite a lot of material that I have accumulated in the many weeks here: interviews with scientists, social entrepreneurs, ideas for articles, stories and more. I'll start publishing them in the...
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Tears For Obama Supporters
Category: Behind Curtains
Wife and I looked at this slideshow a few minutes ago and tears started rolling down our eyes. Through the hopeful and tearful eyes of these men and women, we glimpsed history. Our own spontaneous tears seems to be...
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TheScian.com (was) down
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I'll holler when it's up. (The site message is courtesy of Shakespeare, Henry the Eighth.) Update: It's up!...
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No more blogroll
Category: Behind Curtains
Instead, we'll have a regularly updated set of 'Today's Recommendations' (on the left, heading may change) that'll display the intertube bits I have read or heard that I'd love to share. This includes blog posts (not blogs themselves, which I...
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Brother, I'm Dying
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An article in NY Times about an immigrant who has lived half his life in the US dies in custody due to systemic negligence and apathy. This is not a one off case, if you are tempted to dismiss it....
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Wandering around the world
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What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. -Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet....
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