Society
How do diviners divine?
How do diviners achieve consistent results? Are there methods and patterns? SUNY Buffalo Anthropologist Barbara Tedlock probes into the chaos, building a theory of divination. Tedlock’s theory is all encompassing (as far as contact spirits is concerned).
Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research writes in Guardian.
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Recording industry conceding defeat to MP3?
International Herald Tribune reports that in the ongoing recording industry meet there is a hot talk about all the major labels ditching DRM in favour of MP3’s interoperability.
Hard to believe! Is the heat too much to bear?
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Big Brother : MJ Akbar’s view from India
Guardian features this nice take of M J Akbar on the Big Brother scene. Well written.
…the Times. This august organ, unable to verify such a lofty incident for itself, reported that the Indian media had:
“also noticed an exchange between Jade Goody’s boyfriend Jack Tweedy and Shilpa. In the incident, featured in the Celebrity Big [...]
Time varying weightage of obscenity
Andrew Brown follows the change between society’s taboos being primarily sexual to primarily racial in the last half century.
Jade Goody’s boyfriend had not called the Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty a “paki”, but a “cunt”, the spokesman explained. The latter word - he felt - was clearly less obscene than the former. He’s probably right, [...]
The economy of apple picking
You pick your own apples; you pay through your nose. This Slate story is true; but not complete. I am for one a sucker for the fall ritual and yes, my kids love them too. For us it is more of a healthy outing on a chilly fall day rather than bundling inside the house [...]
The myth of the new India
Pankaj Mishra’s Op-Ed in New York Times The Myth of the New India though has some very valid issues of concern in modern India, is largely couched in a language that is nothing but fearmongering.
The myth of the new India
Pankaj Mishra’s Op-Ed in New York Times The Myth of the New India though has some very valid issues of concern in modern India, is largely couched in a language that is nothing but fearmongering.
BBC Radio program on Ancient city of Musiri
BBC World Service -Discovery
This week Aubrey Manning goes in search of the ancient town of Muziris on the South Western coast of India. Muziris is mentioned in local Tamil texts dating from the 4th Century as an important trading town with the Romans. It was famous during Roman times because it was a stopping point [...]
Prominent US Physicists Send Letter to President Bush
Prominent US Physicists Send Letter to President Bush
Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”
Rajkumar obituary in NYTimes
New York Times has published this obituary on Rajkumar.
“On hearing of his death, thousands of Mr. Rajkumar’s fans spilled into the streets of Bangalore, India’s technology hub. They mourned him by hurling stones at buildings, burning buses and cars and rioting near his home, in the fashionable Sadashivnagar neighborhood, and the police caned some in [...]