In the past few years, I have seen and read about a lot of crazy shit happening on Facebook. From stalkers to crazy people to love affairs to divorces. But nothing could have prepared me for this bizarre-ness. It seems some dead people have started hitting like buttons on Facebook for things that they never cared when alive. Last month, while wasting a few moments on Facebook, my pal Brendan O’Malley was surprised to see that his old friend Alex... Read more
Sonia waited the tables when she was young, while Rahul waits the chair. May his wait be lifelong. Read more
America is changing. And it was obvious in this year’s election as the African American and Hispanic vote beat the majority of White vote (70% of it) to elect Barack Obama as the President. By 2024, it is projected to become a country of minorities, when the Whites will lose the majority status, if the current trends keep up. United States will become a nation of minorities in 2043 when whites will cease to make up a majority of the... Read more
This is absolutely amazing! If this new technology of microchip could be incorporated in a smart phone, then it could become a high resolution X-ray machine! …thanks to tiny inexpensive silicon microchips developed by a pair of electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The chips generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves, called terahertz (THz) waves, that fall into a largely untapped region of the electromagnetic spectrum—between microwaves and far-infrared radiation—and that can penetrate a host of materials... Read more
What was the world searching for in 2012 on Google? Well, the results for India are the most fascinating. What surprised me was that Sunny Leone (Porn Star-turned-Bollywood actress) was the top search in “People” category, followed by yester-year Superstar who died in this year – Rajesh Khanna. For the year it seems that Salman Khan and Akshay Kumaar movies remained the most searched. (Source – Google Zeitgeist) For US the trends were as below. Whitney Houston topped all... Read more
In an interesting finding, an Indian origin researcher, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, at Houston’s Rice University has found that plant extract from te plant Rubia tinctorum, can use turned into a cathode for lithium-ion batteries. This may be significant if this can be made commercially viable to fight the environmentally unfriendly impact of lithium-ion batteries that are in use today. Researchers say a plant extract can be turned into a highly effective, natural cathode for lithium-ion batteries. The madder plant,... Read more
One person wants to know from Sadhguru on what should he do to raise his children properly. Sadhguru discusses the role of a Parent from a very fundamental perspective. Listen. Photo Credit: Nina Matthews Photography Read more
DR. Subramanian Swamy discusses how he tried his level best to get the many companies started by Chidambaram’s son, but couldn’t get a list of them, until someone on Twitter started giving out the list. He said that helped him a lot. Who did that? “Probably someone from his own family!” he quips. Read more
The social media is sharing the year in review views of all kinds. Personal – for your own – and the platform in general. Facebook has the Facebook 2012 in Review view. Twitter has a video on it as well as a whole series of tweets Golden Tweets: The top two Tweets that generated the most Retweets for the year, plus honorable mentions for a few others that caught attention around the world. The pulse of the planet: Some of... Read more
Ravi Shankar is no more. He passed away at the age of 92. Last Thursday he underwent heart valve replacement surgery at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego, California. His body couldn’t withstand the strain of the surgery and gave way at the ripe age of 92. The maestro leaves behind a large body of work – in classical music, in popular music, Western musical world, Bollywood music direction, and fusion music. His encounter with George Harrison may have been... Read more
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