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Posted on 01-18-07 1:20 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Science 17 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5802, p. 1045
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5802.1045k

This Week in Science

Money can be exchanged for material goods that are essential for our physiological and psychological well-being, but are there direct effects of money on our psychological state and behavior? Vohs et al. (p. 1154; see the Perspective by Burgoyne and Lea) primed human subjects to think about having money and found that these subjects acted in a more self-sufficient fashion than those who were not primed. Possessing money made it less likely that subjects would ask for help in solving a problem, or offer help to another person, or make donations. In addition, subjects with money would distance themselves--literally and figuratively--from others.
 
Posted on 04-12-07 6:38 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Well! Here is something interesting...

Scientists discover a planet with water....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6544257.stm

Also, scientists discover asphalt sediments on the sea floor. They are looking for extremophile bacterias.... ;)
 
Posted on 04-12-07 7:45 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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What did I learn today??
I learnt yet again "never to wrestle with a pig.. you get dirty and besides the pig likes it."
Thats very rightly put by Shaw!! :D

On a somewhat less funny note I read this rather scary news for all the banana lovers on how edible bananas may disappear within a decade if urgent action is not taken to develop new varieties resistant to some sort/ different sorts of blights.
 
Posted on 04-13-07 1:49 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Recent studies suggest that it takes 11 minutes for a women to get sexually aroused.



(Jay Leno says: he would have slept for nine minutes by then.)
 
Posted on 04-13-07 2:13 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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1971: Swiss women get the voting right

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/7/newsid_2738000/2738475.stm

Does not this surprise you? Swiss women only get voting right in 1971 ( i.e. 2028 Bikram Sambat).

So guys do not think you are that behind in social development and gender issues ;) than so called western civilization or democracy ;).
 
Posted on 04-13-07 2:20 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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AMERICA is watching Don Imus’s self-immolation in a state of shock and awe. And I’m watching America with wry amusement.

Since I’m a second-class citizen — a gay man — my seats for the ballgame of American discourse are way back in the bleachers. I don’t have to wait long for a shock jock or stand-up comedian to slip up with hateful epithets aimed at me and mine. Hate speak against homosexuals is as commonplace as spam. It’s daily traffic for those who profess themselves to be regular Joes, men of God, public servants who live off my tax dollars, as well as any number of celebrities.

In fact, I get a good chuckle whenever someone refers to “the media” as an agent of “the gay agenda.” There are entire channels, like Spike TV, that couldn’t fill an hour of programming if required to remove their sexist and homophobic content. We’ve got a president and a large part of Congress willing to change the Constitution so they can deprive of us our rights because they feel we are not “normal.”

So I’m used to catching foul balls up here in the cheap seats. What I am really enjoying is watching the rest of you act as if you had no idea that prejudice was alive and well in your hearts and minds.

For the past two decades political correctness has been derided as a surrender to thin-skinned, humorless, uptight oversensitive sissies. Well, you anti-politically correct people have won the battle, and we’re all now feasting on the spoils of your victory. During the last few months alone we’ve had a few comedians spout racism, a basketball coach put forth anti-Semitism and several high-profile spoutings of anti-gay epithets.

What surprises me, I guess, is how choosy the anti-P.C. crowd is about which hate speech it will not tolerate. Sure, there were voices of protest when the TV actor Isaiah Washington called a gay colleague a “faggot.” But corporate America didn’t pull its advertising from “Grey’s Anatomy,” as it did with Mr. Imus, did it? And when Ann Coulter likewise tagged a presidential candidate last month, she paid no real price.

In fact, when Bill Maher discussed Ms. Coulter’s remarks on his HBO show, he repeated the slur no fewer than four times himself; each mention, I must note, solicited a laugh from his audience. No one called for any sort of apology from him. (Well, actually, I did, so the following week he only used it once.)

Face it, if a Pentagon general, his salary paid with my tax dollars, can label homosexual acts as “immoral” without a call for his dismissal, who are the moral high and mighty kidding?

Our nation, historically bursting with generosity toward strangers, remains remarkably unkind toward its own. Just under our gleaming patina of inclusiveness, we harbor corroding guts. America, I tell you that it doesn’t matter how many times you brush your teeth. If your insides are rotting your breath will stink. So, how do you people choose which hate to embrace, which to forgive with a wink and a week in rehab, and which to protest? Where’s my copy of that rule book?

Let me cite a non-volatile example of how prejudice can cohabit unchecked with good intentions. I am a huge fan of David Letterman’s. I watch the opening of his show a couple of times a week and have done so for decades. Without fail, in his opening monologue or skit Mr. Letterman makes a joke about someone being fat. I kid you not. Will that destroy our nation? Should he be fired or lose his sponsors? Obviously not.

But I think that there is something deeper going on at the Letterman studio than coincidence. And, as I’ve said, I cite this example simply to illustrate that all kinds of prejudice exist in the human heart. Some are harmless. Some not so harmless. But we need to understand who we are if we wish to change. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should confess to not only being a gay American, but also a fat one. Yes, I’m a double winner.)

I urge you to look around, or better yet, listen around and become aware of the prejudice in everyday life. We are so surrounded by expressions of intolerance that I am in shock and awe that anyone noticed all these recent high-profile instances. Still, I’m gladdened because our no longer being deaf to them may signal their eventual eradication.

The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

Harvey Fierstein is an actor and playwright.

NY Times
 
Posted on 04-13-07 11:17 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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There is more information coming to light that disproves the Aryan Invasion theory.

Check out this video. Some of this sounds a bit like propoganda because "the evidence" the video claims is not always laid out in the video, but there a quite a few interesting points made. At a minimum, this piece brings to the fore the question has too much attention been focussed on the AIT and is the truth quite different.

Warning: I have not verified the agendas, if any, of the websites mentioned in this video and expect users are sensible enough to make up their own minds and explore different sides and alternate view points about the issue.

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Excerpt:

A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. Techniques used to show this agreement include: - Marine Archaeology of underwater sites (such as Dvaraka) - Satellite imagery of the Indus-Sarasvata River system - Carbon and Thermoluminiscence Dating of archaeological artifacts - Scientific Verification of Scriptural statements - Linguistic analysis of scripts found on archaeological artifacts - A Study of cultural continuity in all these categories.


 
Posted on 04-19-07 2:11 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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I learned that If I get affiliated with Nepali Congress and get blessing from Sujata Koirala, I can smuggle white chandan as much as i Can from Nepal
 
Posted on 04-19-07 2:33 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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I learnt that I have no choice ...
 
Posted on 06-27-07 10:59 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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I learned about sunday, December21, 2012

TheDoomsday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6wI3Pbolbw&mode=related&search=


Yeah I do believe in this shit.
 



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