Gasoline-backed currency in Zimbabwe
by Vinay Gupta • August 15, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=156 Nothing unexpected, but confirmed sightings.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Archive for August, 2008
Children as pension-providers in China
by Vinay Gupta • August 15, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Parents go to such lengths in part because Chinese culture has always emphasized success, but also for a more pressing reason: Traditionally, children support their parents in old age. With only one child to carry the load, parents’ fortunes are tied to their child’s, and they push (and pamper) the little ones accordingly. “In China, [...]
Read more →Nature Is Scary
by Vinay Gupta • August 14, 2008 • Science • 0 Comments
it’s just a little shark, but watch the slowmo…
Read more →The (divorce) Pill
by Vinay Gupta • August 13, 2008 • Science • 0 Comments
Summary: the pill gives women a sexual preference for men they won’t want to stay with later. They go off the pill, have kids, then discover they can’t stand their partners. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are involved in immune response and other functions, and the best mates are those that have different MHC smells [...]
Read more →The frightening evolution of the King Cobra
by Vinay Gupta • August 12, 2008 • Science • 0 Comments
Many snakes produce only small quantities of weak poison that is just adequate for their various small prey. But other snakes’ venom can be deadly for large animals—including humans. This is certainly the case for the king cobra, which is the world’s largest poisonous snake and might be capable of killing an elephant with a [...]
Read more →Modern Hindu Religious Iconography
by Vinay Gupta • August 12, 2008 • Personal • 0 Comments
I commissioned these from http://yirmumah.com/will-draw-anything/ To say that I am pleased with the results would be the most profound understatement.
Read more →I’ve decided it’s time to formally do some meditation teaching
by Vinay Gupta • August 12, 2008 • Iceland, Personal • 5 Comments
It’s a bit interesting. The question is, given my perspective, why? There’s a ton of sources out there, written, books, tapes and so on that are perfectly adequate. I’m not qualified to teach advanced practices (being trained in a thing is not the same as being trained to teach people a thing, as anybody who [...]
Read more →Why do nations exist?
by Vinay Gupta • August 11, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
If we follow Augustine, however, the history of Europe’s political failures is not only the history of misguided ideas, but of misplaced love. The nations of Europe rebelled against their foster-mother the Church, and abjured their loyalty to the People of God, that is, the common Christian congregation to which all the tribes of Europe [...]
Read more →new water filtration technique based on the structure of water?
by Vinay Gupta • August 11, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
In 2003, Gerald Pollack and his colleagues at the University of Washington, Seattle, discovered a process known as the “particle-exclusion phenomenon”. They found that particles dissolved in water naturally move away from a hydrophilic, or water-loving, surface, leaving pure water behind. What was really surprising was quite how far the particles would move – up [...]
Read more →The Corporate Biomass Stove
by Vinay Gupta • August 11, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
Coming of the Corporate Biomass Stoves – Mass Manufacturing to Save the Day? For the last year or three there has been a huge amount of activity in what I call “corporate stoving” – it is not as if corporations of one kind or another have not always had wares for sale (certainly in the [...]
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