- Standing Rock Pipeline Protest: Another Example of How Useless Facebook Trending Stories Are
Techcrunch reported that terms such as “Standing Rock,” “Native Americans,” “pipeline,” “Missouri River,” etc. didn’t show up as Facebook Trends to any users until long after the check-in protest began over the pre-Hallo…
Topic: Social media, Trending | Read more
- 20 mobiles for a house: Or, How To Really Use Your Friend Network For Good
From the BBC, about a woman who really used her social network for good:
Xiaoli (not her real name), a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China, asked each of her 20 current boyfriends to buy her a newly la…
Topic: Social media, Trending | Read more
- The myth of the suffering artist: How true in this age of overpaid art and undertalented artists?
Looking at the current crop of artists, you would say the myth of suffering artists is over - look, for example at Damien Hirst, and all the installataion artists of his type. Look for example, at bad writers like Chetan…
Topic: Art, Trend | Read more
- Autocomplete: Is it good or bad?
There are two kinds of Autocompletes: Google-type, suggesting words as you type, or Spelling-corrector type. Both may work or fcuk up, depending on the situation. But, one area where autocomplete may be hurting us i…
Topic: Google, Trend | Read more
- After Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Nuclear, now comes Big Chicken
As the world eats more and more chicken, neighborhoods anywhere near an industrial-scale chicken farms suffer - the stench is just too much. That is the price of increasing human consumption.
And, however spokesperson…
Topic: Trend, Environment | Read more
- Why the friction of paper money defined our lives (and how bad a cashless future will be)
While the poor (and salaried) like the rise of electronic payments - the direct bank-to-bank money transfers - salary or subsidy, it doesn\'t matter, as long as you get the money fast and secure.
But, consider the f…
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- The 'sell anything' age: A list of things you can buy on this planet
In the 'sell anything' age, you can buy and sell anything. People will get rich by selling all kinds of things. Morality doesn't matter. A few samplings from how our society is getting 'debased' by the unrelenting lure o…
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- What America Sells To The World: Ironically, educational and financial services are among top exports
In 2011, America sold $2.1 trillion worth of goods and services to the world. Among the top sellers in the services segment were education and financial services. Which is ironic, considering the increasing scrutiny bein…
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- How do we reduce our sugar consumption: Impose taxes on buying sugar, put up age restrictions (like Tobacco)
SInce, there is no nutritional need for food with added sugar, soon you will find sugar on the list of things disallowed for using food stamps for: joining the ranks of tobacco, alcohol,vitamins, pet foods, household sup…
Topic: Healthy eating, Obesity, Law, Trend | Read more
- Study: 'Don't use smartphones while driving' is the new 'don't drink and drive'
A test in U.K. shows that using smartphones makes you a bad driver, more than alcohol does. Using smartphones while driving makes reaction times 37.6 percent slower. In fact, Smartphone innovations such as voice-enabled…
Topic: Accidents, Trend, Smartphones, Study | Read more
- How living alone might not be a healthy idea: Makes us eat bad
The NYT reports that 1 in every 4 American household is occupied by just one person. This might be a good idea if you are a genius in hiding, the next Hemingway (he was a pretty social man) or someone, but it might not b…
Topic: Health, Trend, Lifestyle | Read more
- The rise and rise of young life coaches, who haven't really lived
Did you know that more than 30 American universities have introduced coaching programs, including Harvard UniversityThat's not all, life coaching is not at all about elderly people like the Dalai Lama dishing out pithy q…
Topic: Trend, Self improvement, Life coaching | Read more
- Tablets will begin to outsell PCs by the fall of 2013
It had to happen eventually. Most users aren't cosumer creators and Tablets are available for $75 in certain markets. It isn't about the iPad anymore. Asymco calculates that the tablet market will exceed that of PCs some…
Topic: Geek, Tablet, Android, Mobile, Trends | Read more
- Why Indian students plagiarize: They have been taught to do so and they don't know how to write properly
Here are two reasons why Indian students plagiarize, as explained by an academic Prof. Rohini Muthuswami from the School of Life Sciences, JNU: 1. Many students don't know what is so special about plagiarism when they h…
Topic: India, Trend, Education, Scandal | Read more
- How Bangalore's Techies might be becoming fundamentalists under RSS influence (and why it might be easy to indoctrinate techies)
Helped by a BJP government, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is making successful inroads into the Indian IT hub of Bangalore (which many charitably call cosmopolitan, and which is kind of Las Vegas-style consumer c…
Topic: Trend, India | Read more
- Why Indian government servants should consider a Negative Salary: Pay to have a job
Indian government servants, not known for being sincere, honest, and hard workers, should take a lesson from their Greek counterparts, who are helping the government's austerity measures by opting for something called 'n…
Topic: Idea, Trend | Read more
- The Insta-author trend: Make short ebooks on the latest media sensation and make a killing
Latest media sensations such as basketball's latest star Jeremy Lin are inspiring content creators to churn up 15,000-word ebooks and putting them up for sale for Kindle and other devices, as quickly as they can. The ri…
Topic: Media, Ebook, Trend | Read more
- The rising trend of Rajya Sabha as the real source of power in India
There is a valid reason why people point out that Manmohan Singh is not the people-elected leader of India. Since 1991, he is a Rajya Sabha M.P. from Assam. He has won no Lok Sabha elections in his career.
We had Rajy…
Topic: Politics and Government, Indiaelections2009, Trends | Read more
- Chart: Use of dirty words in the Guardian
The Guardian has just released its full-featured API and guess whatThe First notable use of the API is a study of usage of dirty words by the well-regarded British newspaper.Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping…
Topic: Media, Trends | Read more
- Brahmins in Indian Politics
We have had quite a few Brahmin Prime Ministers, starting with Nehru and then his descendents. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the last Brahmin minister and looking at the existing political candidates and the trends, there wil…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Caste, Trends | Read more
