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Archive for December, 2007

Best site on the internet

Posted: Friday, December 21st, 2007 @ 11:30 pm in Science, Web | No Comments »

I will now just call this the best site on the internet. I can’t even embed the interesting talks on TED, because they all are fabulous. Just go and watch this talk by Daniel Goleman on courtesy and compassion. Fabulous. Just go and add the TED RSS Feed to your Reader, if you don’t […]

Murray Gell-Mann and Beauty

Posted: Thursday, December 13th, 2007 @ 10:51 pm in Movies, Science | No Comments »

A very remarkable talk by Murray Gell-Mann, who introduced Quarks into Physics, on the topic of why beauty is the fundament of Physics.

Good Eating Choice

Posted: Monday, December 10th, 2007 @ 10:41 pm in General | No Comments »

If It’s Fresh and Local, Is It Always Greener? - New York Times
The distance that food travels from farm to plate is certainly important, he says, but so is how food is packaged, how it is grown, how it is processed and how it is transported to market.
I like it when articles try […]

Change of Mind

Posted: Monday, December 10th, 2007 @ 1:39 pm in General | No Comments »

Sometimes, but only sometimes, psychologists find out interesting things. That our mind works in a way then after we have changed our mind about something, we are unlikely to remember why. Sometimes, we even cannot remember we ever changed our mind. Politicians, rejoice, some more questions you can easily answer now. “What made you change […]