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Category: Creative commons
So, I am in India for a short trip and was in Coimbatore yesterday. A truck almost collided with the autorickshaw (three-person tincan with an engine strapped on) I was riding in, then a bus gently nudged me as I...
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Posted by Selva at 11:27 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
Read On Writing by Carver if you harbor ambitions, then print the good lines and stick it on your wall. I came by this piece via an article in Guardian by Stuart Evers. I am going to skip what Stuart...
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Posted by Selva at 11:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
This is and will be a burden on the World's conscience, the dark continent of our time. The images are devastating. Xuanwei (宣威) in Yunnan province is a cancer village. Every year there are more than 20 people die of...
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Posted by Selva at 7:22 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
Something to read while having it. Why do people still drink it although there are no malarial mosquitoes where it is now had (such as, by me right now in Amersham)? Well, what can we say except that history is...
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Posted by Selva at 4:37 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Prime Stream
They are already here, they are amidst us, they zip through our heads affecting LHC funding, they come from future and cunningly prevent their production at LHC by affecting the present. Meet Bosons from the future. So, this in short,...
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Posted by Selva at 5:31 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
Inspired and inspiring young man from Africa William Kamkwamba. Watched him on The Daily Show just now....
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Posted by Selva at 4:11 PM • 2 Comments •
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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Posted by Selva at 10:03 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
There's a reading at Kings place tomorrow. See here for details. You'll have to buy tickets. If you read Neruda, I don't have to tell you it will be worth the money. I hear there will be a screening of...
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Posted by Selva at 6:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
Saw a post on the crazy-dangerous-pathetic-dude on Pharyngula. One comment(#8) stood out as an answer to the question "When you get rid of God, what do you fill the void with?" : Earth..:If you have a void that was filled...
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Posted by Selva at 7:39 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Creative commons
Dropbox works very well. To keep notes and to keep them synchronized, I use Tomboy + Dropbox. LifeHacker has pointers on this....
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