Category: Media & Weblogs
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That's the conclusion that Stephen Hawking has come to, in his latest book The Grand Design, written in conjunction with Leonard Mlodinow. In his introduction to the book on the amazon.com website: "How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty years ago I wrote A Brief History of Time, to…
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You know what this is. Details here.
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As a subscriber to two newspapers and multiple magazines who is fast reaching his dotage (I am almost 36), I often have conversations with people in their twenties who laugh at my "affectation" of reading print, when almost everything is available online for free, instantaneously. As the saying went in the 90s, "the information just…
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After a four year run, the Carnival of the Liberals has folded its tent. On his blog, Neural Gourmet, CotL's founder Leo Lincourt writes: Dear Liberal Carnivalers, We’ve had a good run. 102 separate editions, over four years and two months. Edition #103 was supposed to appear yesterday but after reviewing the submissions, or lack…
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Although he figures in the story, Tiger Woods is not the subject of this post. Self indulgent personal foibles of celebrities do not interest us. What strikes me as more interesting are the liberties that others take in spinning and analyzing the all too common clueless conduct of the privileged, in order to make agenda driven cultural points. The media…
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Is Krugmania an emerging phenomenon like Friedmania was a decade or so ago? [link] http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1827871374 (Thanks to Narayan for the pointer)
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If you remember having read an intelligent, interesting and informative blog post on any topic related to the arts or literature since February 21, 2009, please consider nominating it for a prize sponsored by 3 Quarks Daily. Please follow the link to find out about the rules of the contest and the deadlines for nominations…
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A very happy New Year to our readers from cold and foggy New Delhi. Hopefully, 2010 will be the start of a decade that the last one was not – peaceful. Along with whatever else you are doing to celebrate the end of the decade blow-out, please also check out the 100th edition of the…
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Is it her art or her age that charms? A Twisted Sense of Humor Is it a leaf or..?
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The 99th edition of the Carnival of the Liberals had to be outsourced to England. CotL organizer Leo Lincourt explains: Well, we might all be still sleeping off our annual November turkey-induced tryptophan comas in the US, but in the UK they don’t go in for such silliness. Instead, the Brits just prefer to burn conspiratorial…
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One of my favorite blogs, 3 Quarks Daily has announced the third of its slated competitions in best writing on blogs. This round is for the three best political blog posts published anywhere in the blogosphere during the last 12 months. Please see the contest rules and deadlines and submit a post that you consider worthy of…
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Here are the suggestions of Sujatha, the humble not-so-uber-geeky blogger, on C&Ping from webpages when composing blog posts: 1. Focus on Tested Websites, not obscurities. (Psalm 345:1-3) Notice how Sujatha extols Google first. Then, in comparison to Google, she has no need of alternate search engines. "The Google is my light and my salvation; whom…
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