Thursday, 19 June 2014
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Homi Bhabha's Mumbai bungalow sold for Rs 372 crore
'Mehrangir', the sprawling Mumbai bungalow of Homi J Bhabha, one of India's best-known scientists, has been sold to an unknown buyer for Rs 372 crores at an auction, despite demands to turn it into a museum.
https://in.news.yahoo.com/homi-bhabha-s-mumbai-bungalow-sold-for-rs-372-crore-123103773.html
https://in.news.yahoo.com/homi-bhabha-s-mumbai-bungalow-sold-for-rs-372-crore-123103773.html
The 'Short Suit' Is Finally Going Mainstream
Retailers are starting to push a new trend in menswear: The short suit.
The ensemble looks like a regular suit from the waist up, with a sportcoat over a button-down shirt and sometimes a tie or bowtie. Instead of trousers, however, the suit's bottoms are cropped at the knee.
http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Short-Suit-Is-Finally-Going-Mainstream/articleshow/36311671.cms
The ensemble looks like a regular suit from the waist up, with a sportcoat over a button-down shirt and sometimes a tie or bowtie. Instead of trousers, however, the suit's bottoms are cropped at the knee.
http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Short-Suit-Is-Finally-Going-Mainstream/articleshow/36311671.cms
Here's How Google Makes Money From Stolen Credit Cards
The Digital Citizen's Alliance Breach of Trust report,
first spotted by Re/code, pointed out that ads for retailers such as Target
sometimes run alongside illegal videos claiming to sell stolen credit card
numbers and other private data.
In turn, Google makes revenue off these ads that run
alongside video scams.
Harvard Business School Professor Ben Edelman estimated
that Google has made more than $1 billion from these "illegal
activities" on YouTube.
Some of the most popular search terms for illegal
information on YouTube include "how to get credit card numbers that work
2014," "buy CC numbers," and "CC info with CVV," the
report says.
https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/easy-stolen-credit-card-youtube-134810904.html
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
A school for blind that gave immense musical talent to the world
Imagine a young man who climbs up on a bullock cart and sets off
to discover hidden talent in the villages along the road. He is only 22
years old, with round cheeks, a receding chin, and a mind-blowing
memory. Rigorously trained in Carnatic music, he also relishes the
Hindustani ragas that are just beginning to migrate south. By chance, he
was born blind. So when he stops and asks villagers for a little water,
he makes a special pitch: are there any blind children nearby who might
enjoy learning music?
That was the scene in 1914. It was an age when most blind children in India were kept at home, denied any sort of education. But when the travelling music school came along, it presented a new world of possibilities. The blind pupils practiced their ragas alongside other children of various social backgrounds and physical abilities. Caste was ignored. Orphans were welcome.
The man on the bullock cart was Panchaxari Gawai, an inspired vocalist who subsequently nurtured the talent of the young Puttaraj. By 1938, the school evolved from its nomadic origins and found a home in Gadag, shifting to its present location in 1944.
https://in.news.yahoo.com/can-a-school-s-worth-be-measured-in-onions-081915913.html
That was the scene in 1914. It was an age when most blind children in India were kept at home, denied any sort of education. But when the travelling music school came along, it presented a new world of possibilities. The blind pupils practiced their ragas alongside other children of various social backgrounds and physical abilities. Caste was ignored. Orphans were welcome.
The man on the bullock cart was Panchaxari Gawai, an inspired vocalist who subsequently nurtured the talent of the young Puttaraj. By 1938, the school evolved from its nomadic origins and found a home in Gadag, shifting to its present location in 1944.
https://in.news.yahoo.com/can-a-school-s-worth-be-measured-in-onions-081915913.html
Friday, 13 June 2014
Cool Kids Lose, Though It May Take A Few Years : It's good to keep yourself grounded :)
Kids who try to act cool in early adolescence are more likely to have problems with drugs and alcohol, and have trouble managing friendships as they grow older. And their popularity tends to fade by the time they're 22.
Part of the problem, Allen says, may be that as these cool kids grew older, they felt the need to do increasingly extreme things to get attention. "But their friends, as they get more mature, are less and less impressed by those behaviors," he says.
And many media portrayals of life in high school aren't helping damp down the impression that fast is cool, he adds. "What the media does, I think, is it portrays this fast life in very glamorous terms. [It] sets up an expectation that teens should be acting older."
Of course, this doesn't mean that any kid's fate is set at 13, Allen says. "It is not a life sentence." But teens should be aware that focusing too heavily on appearance and social hierarchies can be unhealthy, he says. And parents can help by encouraging their teens to aim for fulfillment in the long term over short-term popularity."The quiet, not-so-cool kids do well in the long term," Allen says. "I would say I was part of the not-so-cool kids."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/12/321314037/cool-kids-lose-though-it-may-take-a-few-years?ft=1&f=1007
Part of the problem, Allen says, may be that as these cool kids grew older, they felt the need to do increasingly extreme things to get attention. "But their friends, as they get more mature, are less and less impressed by those behaviors," he says.
And many media portrayals of life in high school aren't helping damp down the impression that fast is cool, he adds. "What the media does, I think, is it portrays this fast life in very glamorous terms. [It] sets up an expectation that teens should be acting older."
Of course, this doesn't mean that any kid's fate is set at 13, Allen says. "It is not a life sentence." But teens should be aware that focusing too heavily on appearance and social hierarchies can be unhealthy, he says. And parents can help by encouraging their teens to aim for fulfillment in the long term over short-term popularity."The quiet, not-so-cool kids do well in the long term," Allen says. "I would say I was part of the not-so-cool kids."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/12/321314037/cool-kids-lose-though-it-may-take-a-few-years?ft=1&f=1007
Here's One Big Way Your Mobile Phone Could Be Open To Hackers
"Anything you are logged into when you reconnect it basically relogs in, so there is an opportunity for an attacker to capture the cookie or maybe even the password," he said.
And chances are good that your beloved smartphone is constantly — relentlessly — looking for networks to connect to.
"When you have wireless turned on," says Oliver Weis, who works with Porcello at their company, Pwnie Express, "your phone or your laptop is sending out what are called probe requests out to the world — saying, 'Hey, where is my network? Where is my network? Is this network around? Where is this network?' " If your phone believes the cat, Weis says, the cat can intercept all traffic going through your phone.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/13/321389989/heres-one-big-way-your-mobile-phone-could-be-open-to-hackers?ft=1&f=1019
Comcast pointed out that for a more secure system to work, it will need the cooperation of every company that makes a device that connects with the network. That takes time.
And chances are good that your beloved smartphone is constantly — relentlessly — looking for networks to connect to.
"When you have wireless turned on," says Oliver Weis, who works with Porcello at their company, Pwnie Express, "your phone or your laptop is sending out what are called probe requests out to the world — saying, 'Hey, where is my network? Where is my network? Is this network around? Where is this network?' " If your phone believes the cat, Weis says, the cat can intercept all traffic going through your phone.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/13/321389989/heres-one-big-way-your-mobile-phone-could-be-open-to-hackers?ft=1&f=1019
Comcast pointed out that for a more secure system to work, it will need the cooperation of every company that makes a device that connects with the network. That takes time.
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Fasting is beneficial to the immune system: Study shows it triggers stem cell regeneration
Fasting two to four days at a time every six months causes stem cells to
awake from their normal dormant state, and start regenerating.
Researchers discovered this practice destroyed damaged and older cells,
and caused new cells to be born, effectively renewing the immune system.
This is the first time any natural intervention has ever been shown to
trigger this self-renewal.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/8123/20140607/fasting-good-immune-system-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration.htm?utm_content=bufferef9a3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/8123/20140607/fasting-good-immune-system-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration.htm?utm_content=bufferef9a3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
How Top Leaders Handle Setbacks and Criticism
Mulally admits that when Boeing passed him over for the CEO job, he was
briefly devastated. But he quickly recovered because, he says, "a bad
attitude simply erases everyone else's memory of the incredible progress
achieved." He did not want to tarnish all "the great progress we had
made" by becoming that bitter guy. He chose, instead, to remain
a proud and gifted leader - albeit one who had suffered a professional
setback. He was promptly recruited by Ford to re-ignite another iconic
American manufacturer.
http://www.inc.com/mark-thompson/how-to-survive-criticism.html?cid=sf01001&utm_content=bufferdceff&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.inc.com/mark-thompson/how-to-survive-criticism.html?cid=sf01001&utm_content=bufferdceff&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Saturday, 7 June 2014
The World Before Her: A Documentary
The World Before Her follows the journey and fates of two young Indian women from two very different Indias. Nineteen-year-old Ruhi Singh from Jaipur left home to be a Miss India contestant and 24-year-old Prachi Trivedi, home-schooled on right-wing ideology, is a veteran of 42 Durga Vahini camps in Aurangabad that train young Hindu girls to hate Muslims, Christians and Western culture. They are both chasing dreams that actually live out fantasies of men and that too defined in a system, by the rules laid down by men.
Maybe Nisha is trying to say that The World Before Her is always a product of the world behind her.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/the-world-before-her-two-women-two-worlds/article6092738.eceVodafone blows whistle on snooping in India
The world’s second largest mobile phone company has said that India is among 29 nations that sought access to its network last year, acknowledging at the same time the existence of secret directaccess wires that are used by government agencies to snoop on private conversations, text messages and emails.
https://in.news.yahoo.com/vodafone-blows-whistle-on-snooping-in-india-062945561.html
https://in.news.yahoo.com/vodafone-blows-whistle-on-snooping-in-india-062945561.html
Friday, 6 June 2014
More Dads at home with kids because they want to be
It was only in the past few years that scientists found that men, like
women, have hormonal and neurological changes once they become parents.
When they become fathers, men, too, produce estrogen and prolactin, the
hormone associated with producing breast milk, their testosterone levels
drop and their production of the bonding hormone, oxytocin rises.
Pruett and a handful of others who study fathers have found that, contrary to the cultural view that mothers are key to child development while fathers are merely providers and bystanders, involved and active fathers strengthen child development. “Being an involved father changes him, his health, the nature of his relationships, his job satisfaction, his warmth. It changes the child, and improves the child’s chances for well-being and the ability to deal with the kinds of everyday stresses in their lives,” Pruett said.
In fact, Pruett said, the emerging science should not come as a shock. The distant, provider father only emerged as a cultural ideal during the Industrial Revolution. “During the pre-industrial period, men were very close to their kids. They worked together in the field. They spent a lot of time with them,” he said. “This artificial polarization of Dads Who Work and Moms Who Care started very recently with the Industrial Revolution. Well, the factories have shut down. Today, 86 percent of fathers feel they want to be more involved with their children than their fathers were with them. We should give them support and help, not only in the home, but also in the workplace.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/06/05/dads-who-stay-home-because-they-want-to-has-increased-four-fold/
Pruett and a handful of others who study fathers have found that, contrary to the cultural view that mothers are key to child development while fathers are merely providers and bystanders, involved and active fathers strengthen child development. “Being an involved father changes him, his health, the nature of his relationships, his job satisfaction, his warmth. It changes the child, and improves the child’s chances for well-being and the ability to deal with the kinds of everyday stresses in their lives,” Pruett said.
In fact, Pruett said, the emerging science should not come as a shock. The distant, provider father only emerged as a cultural ideal during the Industrial Revolution. “During the pre-industrial period, men were very close to their kids. They worked together in the field. They spent a lot of time with them,” he said. “This artificial polarization of Dads Who Work and Moms Who Care started very recently with the Industrial Revolution. Well, the factories have shut down. Today, 86 percent of fathers feel they want to be more involved with their children than their fathers were with them. We should give them support and help, not only in the home, but also in the workplace.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/06/05/dads-who-stay-home-because-they-want-to-has-increased-four-fold/
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Microwave test – an eye opener
It
has been known for some years that the problem with microwaved anything
is not the radiation people used to worry about, it’s how it corrupts
the DNA in the food so the body can not recognize it.
Microwaves
don’t work different ways on different substances. Whatever you put
into the microwave suffers the same destructive process. Microwaves
agitate the molecules to move faster and faster. This movement causes
friction which denatures the original make-up of the substance. It
results in destroyed vitamins, minerals, proteins and generates the new
stuff called radiolytic compounds, things that are not found in nature.
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work
The key to Google's success has been that these cars aren't forced to
process an entire scene from scratch. Instead, their teams travel and
map each road that the car will travel. And these are not any old maps.
They are not even the rich, road-logic-filled maps of consumer-grade Google Maps.
They're probably best thought of as ultra-precise digitizations of the physical world, all the way down to tiny details like the position and height of every single curb. A normal digital map would show a road intersection; these maps would have a precision measured in inches.
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2014/05/all-the-world-a-track-the-trick-that-makes-googles-self-driving-cars-work/370871/
They're probably best thought of as ultra-precise digitizations of the physical world, all the way down to tiny details like the position and height of every single curb. A normal digital map would show a road intersection; these maps would have a precision measured in inches.
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2014/05/all-the-world-a-track-the-trick-that-makes-googles-self-driving-cars-work/370871/
Monday, 2 June 2014
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