February 2010
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An email I should have sent a long time ago...
Brother in the Bond, How does one go about getting taken off this mailing list? I don’t frat hard enough to enjoy comments like this anymore : ) »> <—————-@auburn.edu> 02/26/10 8:59 PM »> Brother in the Bond, Willie, the bus driver, guess what color he is. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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Swadeshi in the 21st Century
“Swadeshi is that spirit in us which requires us to serve our immediate neighbors before others, and to use things produced in our neighborhood in preference to those more remote. So doing, we serve humanity to the best of our capacity. We cannot serve humanity by neglecting our neighbors” — Mahatma Gandhi
The wheel in the center of India’s flag is the Ashoka Chakra — which represents the Wheel...
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Belief In Climate Change Hinges On Worldview →
“People tend to conform their factual beliefs to ones that are consistent with their cultural outlook, their world view,” Braman says. via azspot
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Blackwater Diverted Weapons Intended for Afghan... →
The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing today on the private military firm Blackwater’s operations in Afghanistan. On the eve of the hearing, the committee released findings showing Blackwater seized hundreds of US-supplied weapons intended for the Afghan army. A Blackwater official allegedly signed for the weapons at a US weapons bunker by using the name of a cartoon character....
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Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant →
vruz: is god against this too? if god made man intelligent enough to make stem cell transplants, then god thinks this is good. if god doesn’t want man to mess with man’s own biology, then why make man intelligent? if god doesn’t want man to cure HIV, how is god benevolent? yeah, kaboom indeed.
—via danielholter:theoriginaljoefisher:
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“Our government is not broken; it’s been bought out from under us, and on the...”
– Bill Moyers (via azspot)
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Dick Cheney's Waterboarding Confession →
You won’t find too many people willing to brag about being torturers. Sure, there’s Sayed from Lost. And that really large man from the opening scene of Slumdog Millionaire. But advocating…
via conflictvoice
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WatchPublic Option Returns to Reform Debate
unburyingthelead: We need a hero.
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Why was the Industrial Revolution British? →
Why did the Industrial Revolution take place in eighteenth century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Answers to this question have ranged from religion and culture to politics and constitutions. In a just published book, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, I argue that the explanation of the Industrial Revolution was fundamentally economic. The Industrial Revolution...
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The end of a long day
Last Tuesday I slept in until about 12 — went to my 12:30 class and then somehow stepped into a timewarp of projects or homework. I’m going to bed now after 36 hours awake and working. I didn’t really have that much work. In fact I was able to knock out two assignments in the short span of ~8 hours. The project that I spent most of my time on is also the one I’ll do the...
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“Other mammals almost exclusively walk on their toes, but researchers discovered...”
– We evolved to walk on heels in order to save energy while out hunter gathering @ Telegraph via braincraft
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The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind' →
One reason that graduate school is for the already privileged is that it is structurally dependent on people who are neither privileged nor connected. Wealthy students are not trapped by the system; they can take what they want from it, not feel pressured, and walk away at any point with minimal consequences.
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Their daughter goes to graduate school, earns a doctorate in comparative...
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