Elephant paints self portrait?!
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2008 • The Global Picture • 3 Comments
Can that possibly be real? What are the implications in terms of self-awareness?
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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I wasn’t aware this had been proved…
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment
Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal? Adams HE, Wright LW Jr, Lohr BA. Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-3013, USA. The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group [...]
Read more →Excellent sustainable development video
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 1 Comment
“Out of Poverty” by Paul Polak In contrast note the difference in tone. Put Mr. Polak in that context, and he’s going to start telling you how to fix at least some parts of this situation. Hope and technology, hope is technology.
Read more →Just watched Fitna
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103 is the english version of the film. Thoughts? It’s really a piece of demagoguery. I now understand this “islamofascism” word that people use – they draw a parallel between the jew hating Nazis and the jew hating Muslims. The problem, of course, is that Islam has a pretty damn good record on human rights [...]
Read more →Free Trade v Fair Trade – Sean Gabb
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2008 • Personal, The Global Picture • 1 Comment
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc135.htm Really rather splendid short speech on free trade vs. fair trade vs. the current systems we have in place. I have a somewhat different parameterization of the problem (see Gupta’s Libertarian Observation – “free people create free markets, but free markets do not necessarily create free people”) but I think I agree with this. [...]
Read more →Solar-water heating suppliers unable to meet demand in South Africa
by Vinay Gupta • March 26, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.energynews.co.za/web_main/article.php?story=20080326021231932
Read more →Adam Smith Institute on The Causes of Poverty
by Vinay Gupta • March 24, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 1 Comment
61. “It is important for us to understand the causes of poverty.” No. There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don’t do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing and it will come. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes [...]
Read more →extinct pre-human species had 30% more cranial volume
by Vinay Gupta • March 24, 2008 • The Global Picture • 2 Comments
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/21-the-extinct-human-species-that-was-smarter-than-us hm. and died out. damn.
Read more →Wow…. does this graph about federal reserve assets mean what I think it means?
by Vinay Gupta • March 17, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment
Fixing the root causes of war?
by Vinay Gupta • March 17, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Frans de Waal stands in a watchtower at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center north of Atlanta, talking about war. As three hulking male chimpanzees and a dozen females loll below him, the renowned primatologist rejects the idea that war stems from “some sort of blind aggressive drive.” Observations of lethal fighting among chimpanzees, our [...]
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