Dr. VS Ramachandran is the Director, Center for Brain and Congnition, University of California, San Diego and a well-known neuroscientist. He delivered the Reith Lectures in 2003 which were titled "The Emerging Mind." He essentially studies the neurological basis of various factors that make a human being "human". He uses the examples of Phantom Limb […]
Armageddon and You
Global Warming. The term has reached a pivotal point in its existence as an -ism, a state wherein people are finally ready to make an informed decision on what it means vis-Ã -vis their lives. For many years, this ominous phrase has lived in a tug-of-war between two political camps, and could not exist outside this […]
History of the World – Part II
As you will remember from our previous chapter of “The Mid-Western History of the World”, just over seven thousand years ago Adam and Eve were deceived in the Garden of Eden by the theories of the evil serpent Charles Darwin and his corrupt, British sense of humour. Their indiscretions were punished by the Lord who […]
Digg to Feature User-Generated Content
Digg, a news website that ranks links according to user votes, may be ready to shake things up a little more. A friend familiar with the matter tells me that the self-proclaimed "user driven social content website" has plans to start featuring user-generated content. Presently all listings on Digg point to external sites. What would […]