Churches attacked in coastal Karnataka

"In what appears to be a planned series of attacks on church-goers in different districts of the state, separate groups of miscreants unleashed violence on churches in Udupi, Mangalore and Chikmagalur on Sunday morning.Around ten prayer centres in Mangalore were vandalised,...

A Perpetual Student Pursues Education to the Nth Degree

"Benjamin B. Bolger's story seems like a hoax. At age 32, he says, he has just earned his 11th advanced degree: a doctorate that Harvard University awarded him on Thursday.Mr. Bolger's unlikely story has another twist: He is dyslexic. "

live for ever in space

         Our mission is to help disperse human genes and memes throughout outer space, to other galaxies, thereby giving them much longer life spans than they have here on earth. Outer space is far less dense than earth, and the...

From NYTimes to Wiki in Record Time

I was visiting New York this weekend, so I was out and around and didn't spend a couple of hours reading the NYTimes, so I glanced at Mark Helprin's Op-Ed called A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?   but didn't go over it, nor did I blog about it....