These are modern architectural wonders of the world. Offices, museums, stadiums, libraries, shopping malls – these buildings reflect the new wave of contemporary architecture. We will take you through some of the most unusual and creative buildings around the world. Construction of basketball (Ohio, USA) This is certainly the biggest basket of the world. The […]
Halving Hunger Through “Business as Unusual”
<i>Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s <a href= "http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/halving-hunger-through-%E2%80%9Cbusiness-as-unusual%E2%80%9D">Nourishing the Planet</a></i> <p><i>By Alex Tung</i></p> <p><i>This interview with Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is part of a regular interview series with agriculture and food security experts.</i></p> <p><b>Name: </b>Shenggen Fan</p> <p><b>Affiliation : </b>Director General,<b> </b>International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)</p> […]
Unusual Connections to Montgomery, Alabama
By Ed Walsh You don’t usually associated the word unusual with Alabama or Montgomery but we’ll bet you didn’t know that most of the things below happened in, or were located in, Montgomery itself. See for yourself how many you already knew of: 1.First Flying School Since the invention of […]
6 Unusual High-Paying Careers
American job titles and responsibilities are constantly morphing to suit the economic and cultural transitions of our madcap age. Euphemisms are often the way recruiters dress up old job titles to narrow the field to specialists. A "hash slinger" is now termed a "culinary resource professional." Kidding aside, today’s workers are often forced by marketplace […]
Oman: Ramadan Unusual
You might think that the recent activity at the Omani blogosphere is mostly about the religious atmosphere of the holy month of Ramadan, but strangely the majority of the posts are anything but Ramadanic. The notorious Muscat Confidential blogger recently posted a blog post about how to have sex in Muscat. His blog seems to […]
An unusual Muslim Marriage in India
A Shia woman solemnizing marriage of a Sunni couple. The nikah had only women as witnesses. Naish Hasan, an economics post-graduate and a woman rights activist had opted for an "all- women" nikah even as maulvis scoffed and scowled in the background in Lucknow. The nikahnama categorically mentioned that the husband will not have the […]