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Violent Death in the Animal World: Stunning Photography | Scienceray

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Violent Death in the Insect World: Stunning Photography | Scienceray

Awesome photographies with awesome quotes. This page shows how complex the life is and how wonderful to be a human. This article again proves that food and reproduction are the basic instincts of any life form. Of course both actions could be either construed as gross or beautiful depending on how you look at it.

On the contrary, the following is a disturbing video put out by PETA. Warning: It is extremely graphic.
After watching the above, the following video shows how cruel the exotic animal skin trade makes the animals to suffer. I don’t have problem watching gory videos with blood, but this video troubled me a lot. I’ll definitely think twice/thrice before buying any leather products. This video makes the above photographs beautiful in retrospect, don’t you agree?

Last Updated on March 26, 2010 by SK

eBook – Took the plunge today

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eBook Reader was the biggest category of devices in this year’s CES 2010 at Las Vegas. We have witnessed tons of companies introducing competing eBook Readers. And if you follow engadget or gizmodo you see there are more and more companies jumping on to the band wagon.

There is also this confusion about what constitutes eBook Reader. Is iPad (Jesus Tablet) an eBook reader? Is iSlate (HPs iPad equivalent) a eBook reader? In my book, if a device has an LCD screen

Last Updated on March 25, 2010 by SK

Euro Hits 10-Month Low

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The headline in WSJ screamed “Euro Hits 10-Month Low” at $1.34. Does not look so good for EU countries. British pound doesn’t fare very well either, it is at $1.49. The woes at Greece and now with Portugal heading that way doesn’t bode well for EU countries. Portugal’s rating downgrade by Fitch weighing heavily down on the Euro over all.

Last Updated on March 24, 2010 by SK

Does God Have A Future?

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This is a fascinating discussion between Michael Shermer and Sam Harris on one side and Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston on the other. Highlight of the discussion: A quantum scientist (Leonard!?) asked Deepak Chopra if he would like to have short course on Quantum mechanics to straighten his “misuse” of quantum notations. The scientist went on to say the term “consciousness non-local” is not correct. Deepak’s definition of “Consciousness”: Super position of possibilities. The scientist replied “all right, I know the meaning each of those words but not with them together”.

Last Updated on March 22, 2010 by SK