“The untouchable has been touched by India’s growth. Dalits are coming out from hunger and humiliation,” said Chandra Bhan Prasad, a popular Dalit newspaper columnist and childhood friend of Ram’s. “Capitalism is beginning to break the caste system,” said Prasad, who is conducting the survey. … “To me, this is the greatest social change India [...]
Read more →http://www.celsias.com/article/manufactured-famine/ EU fishing the hell out of Africa, for example. Also references “Late Victorian Holocausts” which covers the democidal activities of the Brits. The Indian Holocausts seem to have had more in common with the Ukranian Famine than the Holocaust but you get the general idea. An era that history has politely forgotten, for the [...]
Read more →http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/september10/helicopter-091008.html Somebody please, please show these people Terminator.
Read more →They take the computational fluid dynamics models and then test them against the real world. With good results. But what’s with the production?
Read more →Hm. 97% ripe on Rotten Tomatoes and with good reason. To get this and Batman in the same year really rather validates Hollywood as an institution that still has it. What Toy Story showed about friendship, and Finding Nemo said about fathers and sons, or the Incredibles said about families, WALL-E says about one form [...]
Read more →http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/the-worst-vice-presidenti_b_122491.html Brutal beat down on Lara Croft Sarah Connor Sarah Palin. If you make it through the article, here’s my thinking: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” I think people will vote for her as a mom-with-a-gun, as the VPILF (cough, hack) and as a symbol of America’s past and [...]
Read more →Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who’s willing to work. That’s the promise of America – the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we [...]
Read more →http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Tifft http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/redshift.html
Read more →http://www.celsias.com/article/energy-crossroads/http://arxivblog.com/?p=596 Implications: I think this might turn out to be the ultraviolet catastrophe of our era. It’s something which is entirely convenient to study in the lab so it should be highly replicable, and it’s weirder than all hell. Here’s hoping that it’s not some dopey measurement error due to something else which varies annually.
Read more →http://www.celsias.com/article/energy-crossroads/ Particularly on carbon sequestration, and the different approaches taken by Honda and Detroit to low emission vehicles. An excellent read.
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