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Google just announced a new service for pushing Gmail contacts and Google Calendar updates to mobile devices. This is neat!
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February 9th, 2009 | Tags: technology | Category: all, content distribution, personal, technology | Leave a comment

The article does a much better job of describing one of the great questions facing humanity - ‘How do we fit in?’ Maybe we need to ask native cultures around the world the answer to this mystery. Anyway here is the article from Treehugger.
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January 30th, 2009 | Tags: climate, ecology, footprint, human, impact | Category: all, conservation, discovery, nature, personal, science | Leave a comment

Vaibhav sent me this today, please donate any amount however small
Thanks,
Sayan
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Gaurav Tandon is a 34 year old professional working with Datacraft Asia (a private IT firm) in Mumbai, India. His small family comprises wife, a 6 year old son. He has two elder sisters both are happily married and a brother who is serving [...]

January 22nd, 2009 | Category: all, personal, social | Comments (1)

This is an amazing video by Faithless.

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January 20th, 2008 | Category: all, personal | Comments (1)

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are [...]

December 14th, 2007 | Category: all, discovery, nature, personal, science, social | Leave a comment

The cyclone Sidr narrowly missed hitting India directly and instead hit Bangladesh causing widespread devastation. I encourage you all to donate to help alleviate the suffering of one of the poorest countries of the world. Coastal Bangladesh is bearing the brunt of environmental disasters - rising sea levels will make it worse. I support Direct [...]

November 19th, 2007 | Category: all, nature, personal, science | Leave a comment

All the major petro-companies are pushing for the hydrogen economy as a replacement for fossil fuels….some argue that this would allow them to keep their existing monopoly on transportation fuel.
My gut feeling is this an over-simplification. I came across the concept of ‘deep hydrogen reserves’ sometime ago. Apparently the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest [...]

November 9th, 2007 | Category: all, bizarre, discovery, nature, personal, science | Leave a comment

The article here and its accompanying video describe this invention as, “…a taut membrane fitted with a pair of magnets that oscillate between metal coils. Prototypes have generated 40 milliwatts in 10-mph slivers of wind, making his device 10 to 30 times as efficient as the best microturbines…”

November 5th, 2007 | Category: ICT4D, all, discovery, invention, personal, science, social, technology | Leave a comment

The mystical poems of the 13th century Persian poet Rumi have made him one of the best known poets of our times. UNESCO has declared 2007 as the International Year of Rumi.
Here are couple of video recitations of his poems…

Here a few more Rumi videos from Youtube (I will keep adding more as I find […]

September 26th, 2007 | Category: all, personal | Leave a comment