0 Comments March of the Metaphorical Footprints…

Recently, I posted about the carbon footprint of Spam and it seems Carbon as a currency is gaining currency! What exactly is Carbon Footprint? Here’s how the UK Carbon Trust defines it: the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly...

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0 Comments The Carbon Footprint of Spam…

We all know how irritating Spam can be. No matter what filters you use, there will always be some new spammer who find its way into your inbox. Have you ever wondered how much time and resources the world spends on creating and sending Spam and on...

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0 Comments The Unfriendly Greeting...

Are you an Indian (or South Asian, or for that matter, ANY Asian) living outside Asia? If yes, then I am sure you will connect with the post below. Although this blog comes from CricInfo - a website about cricket, the post has got nothing to do...

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0 Comments CouchSurfing: Seeing the World through the Eyes of Locals…

Cross-posted from NonSense – a PhD-To-PhD Newsletter Image Courtesy: PaperMag.com Have you ever wanted to have a local travel guide everywhere in the world? CouchSurfing is something I ran into a couple of years ago and have fallen in...

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0 Comments The Petabyte Age: Making science obsolete...??

1 Terabyte = 1,000 Gigabytes; 1 Petabyte = 1000 Terabytes Did you know that Google's servers process 1 Petabyte of data every 72 minutes? A recent issue of WIRED magazine carries a series of articles on how the Petabyte Age is changing the world....

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0 Comments Privately Smart, Publicly Dumb?

Recently read an interview of V. Raghunathan about his book "Games Indians Play". I was planning on reading the book since the title sounded interesting... but after reading the interview (available at Knowledge@Wharton website; Requires 'free' user...

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