[Cross posted at SoulSoup] If you are not a Rip Van Winkle impersonator, you must be hearing (and unfortunately feeling) a lot of heated, depressing news about Sub-prime crisis, credit crisis and the financial melt down. If the ambiguous and jargon based headlines about the financial crisis still fly mostly over your head, you are [...]
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Sub-Prime, Credit Crisis, Impact on SMEs in Simple English
Posted in Awareness on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gujarat Riots: Tehelka Story
Posted in Atheism, Awareness, India, Indian Media on October 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Prelude: I read this report through multiple RSS feeds yesterday night, and today morning mentioned this to one of my colleague, who is a ‘person of Indian origin’ and in general I respect his intelligence and opinions. Unfortunately we do not share same point of view about religion. All hell broke loose and the following [...]
Decoding the future with genomics
Posted in Awareness, Science on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stumbled upon this interesting and persuading video of Juan Enriquez ‘s presentation at the TED conference from 2004 entitled “Decoding the future with genomics”. Juan talks about the need to utilize the Genomic data generated from the labs around the world and ended the presentation with views about knowledge-based economy determining the fate of nations. [...]
E-waste
Posted in Awareness on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An informative short video. Makes one aware about recycling electronics responsibly. Hmmm if only electronic products were more environment-friendly and biodegradable… The Basel Action Network, who contributed documentary footage to this video, compiled a list of Responsible Recyclers that will not export your old computer. Check out their list here.