North Korea Nuclear Threats Increase, Will Peace Prevail?

War is For the Helpless The emptiness in youAimed the mindless missileTowards me Like it would somehowFill the bottomless voidOf your soul I curled as you hurledWithdrew into myselfInto the gentle...

Data-driven Science in the Age of Exponential Information Growth

Science and technology researcher Eric Drexler, on his new blog Metamodern.com, comments on the history and evolution of the Scientific Method. Hypothesis followed by experiments has been a mainstay, even a dogmatic paradigm in Science. However, with today's computing...

Current restrictions on marijuana research are absurd

"The human brain naturally produces and processes compounds closely related to those found in Cannabis sativa, better known as marijuana [see "The Brain's Own Marijuana," by Roger A. Nicoll and Bradley E. Alger. These compounds are called endogenous cannabinoids or...

All of Us, the Arbiters of News

Arbiter: 1.    a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.2.    a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.This is an article about how human nature and the Network Age are forcing the corporate media to bend to our will, and...

Guantanamo: Illegal and Unjust

"Rights-free zones: illegal and unjust Mukul Sharma The Guantanamo model signifies the abandoning of basic principles of human rights. It de-legitimises us. “O Father, this is a prison of injustice. Its iniquity makes the mountains weep. I have committed no crime and am...

Major Paradigm Shift for our DNA

A fundamental shift in the way biologists view and understand how our genetic code works is underway.  This comes a few decades after molecular biologists first produced a coherent model for how genes are...

Bill Gates calls for more powerful computer security

"SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates addressed thousands of computer security specialists gathered at a San Francisco conference, calling for a "powerful paradigm" to thwart online...

'The AJAX Moment' Mushrooms into The Web 2.0 Movement - Posted by Michael Fomkin

"Early in 2006, before the general Internet-using public was aware of what I began referring to—in editorials, blog entries, and SYS-CON’s Internet TV webcasts—as “The AJAX Moment,” there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches, if not...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

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