MIT and Harvard Just Made a Real Lightsaber. So That’s Done. Information Geographies » Age of Internet Empires. Description This map illustrates the most visited website in each country.
Data The map uses freely available data retrieved Alexa on August 12th, 2013. The company has provided website analytics since 1996. Alexa collects data from millions of Internet users using one of over 25,000 different browser extensions, and the data used for this visualization were calculated “using a combination of the estimated average daily unique visitors to a site and the estimated number of pageviews on that site from users in that country over the past month”. Histomapwider.jpg (2097×9554) How a Clear, Worthless Stone With a Brilliant Marketing Campaign Conquered the World. Indian cinema@100: 20 actors who made a difference. The quaint Ernakulam bazaar.
India’s First Commercial Passenger Train Journey. Editor's note: This story describes India's first commercial train journey.
However, according to trains were used prior to this for hauling cargo. The Indian Government has released two postage stamps that commemorate this event. Centenary of Indian Railways 1953 The above stamp was issued in 1953. Like it or not, there is no escaping the BYOD trend. Smartphones and iPads are the new indispensable IT tools in every company.
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend has changed the way information is accessed and shared by employees across the globe and has urged IT departments to consider mobility as the core of their IT strategies. The art of faff - Law schools. Mooting is a rarefied form of ECoWS.
Image above is courtesy Megha Malhotra. When this column was first given to me, I was to be a faithful correspondent, reporting on events both significant and mundane. To fulfill that duty, my focus today shall be on talking – something Law School is phenomenally good at, but deplorably without direction or purpose. Law School (and I don’t think this is restricted to the National Law School (“the NLS”) alone) teaches you one thing above all others: the ability to speak continuously without having anything significant to say. The Anti-Todo List. For some time, I’ve gradually realised that my day is not only occupied by tasks from my todo list.
Often, there are lots of other tasks which deserve time in my day just as much as those I have in my todo list. Previously, I found that these extra tasks detracted massively from my feeling of productivity and happiness. The Economist explains: Who are the Jesuits, exactly? Back and forth in time. MacIver Town?
India's elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement. My office is located in an urban village in the heart of Delhi.
Originally surrounded by fields where people grew crops, these areas now house apartment blocks and shopping malls. All that’s left of the old village is the cluster of houses in which many of the erstwhile residents live, and where a few small traders have set up offices and shops. Some old practices remain though, and there’s a strong sense of community. Come evening, houses in Shahpur Jat empty as women and children spill out on to the narrow streets where a village haat – a market where you can get fresh vegetables, fruit, fish, eggs, plastic goods and virtually anything else you care to name – springs up. Or at least, that’s how it was until about a year ago. Privilege looms large in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
It was around 6 o’clock on a late summer day, not yet dusk. Then along came a large SUV, driven by a young and obviously wealthy man. (9) This should totally be a thing everywhere! Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' It may have been pouring with rain, water overrunning the gutters and spreading fast and deep across London's Euston Road, but this did not stop a queue forming, and growing until it snaked almost all the way back to Euston station.
Inside Friends House, a Quaker-run meeting hall, the excitement was palpable. People searched for friends and seats with thinly disguised anxiety; all watched the stage until, about 15 minutes late, a short, slightly top-heavy old man climbed carefully on to the stage and sat down. The hall filled with cheers and clapping, with whoops and with whistles. Noam Chomsky, said two speakers (one of them Mariam Said, whose late husband, Edward, this lecture honours) "needs no introduction". A tired turn of phrase, but they had a point: in a bookshop down the road the politics section is divided into biography, reference, the Clintons, Obama, Thatcher, Marx, and Noam Chomsky.
Link to video: Noam Chomsky: violence and dignity – reflections on the Middle East. No sex please, we're Indian. Parents, worried about the public safety of their daughters, have been getting their knickers in a twist about the reinstatement of 16 as the legal age of consent under the new Sexual Assault Bill.
It’s easy to dismiss their anxieties, especially for those who don’t have kids. But there are a lot of things parents have to worry about.