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Research. Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK "The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar.

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" —Nature ImprobableAdvertisers The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize Winners The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded on Thursday night, September 18th, 2014 at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Winners The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 12th, 2013 at the 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. Sain Zahoor. Life[edit] For some time, he studied music under Raunka Ali of Patiala Gharana, whom he met at Bulleh Shah's dargah (shrine), and who became his first teacher for Sufi verses.

Sain Zahoor

He also studied music with other Uch Sharif-based musicians. James Gosling & The Massive Popularity Of The Java Desktop. How To Write Unmaintainable Code. The 20 Best Platformers: 1989 to 2009, Feature Story from GamePro. Computer Science » After Btech. Apr 3, 2014 Apply online, Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, Freshers, IS, IT, Job After Btech, Software Development, Without Experience Lam Research is recruiting Entry Level Software Engineers and as such invites online applications for the same.

Computer Science » After Btech

Lam Research Corporation having its presence worldwide is a major supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry, where company has been advancing semiconductor manufacturing for more than 30 years. Post Name: Software Engineer 1 Job Location: Bangalore. Manushi article. MANUSHI/Issue 108 Nabaneeta Dev Sen Epic poets the world over are men singing the glory of other men, armed men, to be precise.

Manushi article

In a study I did a couple of years ago, I noticed that out of the thirty-eight basic things upon which most epic narratives of the world are based, only nine are associated with women. The ideals of the epic world obviously do not have much to share with women, nor do the women enjoy the heroic values. There is little they can do there - other then get abducted or rescued, or pawned, or molested, or humiliated in some way or other. For me it all started in 1989 with an accidental re-reading of the text of Chandrabati Ramayana.

Sita Sings the Blues. Movies. 5 Annoying Trends That Make Every Movie Look the Same. Faking the Documentary Look, Even When it's Not a Documentary Have You Ever Noticed: We're not talking about movies that have actual documentary elements (aka Cloverfield), but rather little touches designed to make you think what you're seeing was filmed by a fly-on-wall documentarian with a handheld camera, rather than a gigantic film crew on a sound stage.

5 Annoying Trends That Make Every Movie Look the Same

Even when it makes absolutely no sense for that to be the case. Even worse, they do this by painstakingly inserting elements that used to be considered embarrassing mistakes. About Us « C2C Livewire. C2C Livewire – India’s Biggest Off Campus & Skills Assessment Model for fresh engineers. C2C Livewire connects over 5,00,000 engineering students and freshers from over 3000 engineering campuses across the country to more than 500 Top IT and Technology Recruiters across Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata. Recruiters have adopted C2C Livewire as the most effective off campus hiring model to get pre assessed talent pool for strategic hiring or just-in-time hiring. How does C2C Livewire Work? First we should understand why companies prefer to conduct off-campus drives through C2C Livewire. Let us keep ourselves in a recruiters shoes. Alice Cooper. Look and Learn: TV on Animation.

Television is the natural medium for animation magazines: a place to simultaneously show and analyze, erasing the myth that a picture's worth a mere thousand words.

Look and Learn: TV on Animation

Great Purge. Partial view of a plaque with photos of victims of the Great Purge who were shot in the Butovo firing range near Moscow.

Great Purge

The photos were taken after the arrest of each victim. The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership, and widespread police surveillance, suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. In Russian historiography, the period of the most intense purge, 1937–1938, is called Yezhovshchina (Russian: Eжовщина; literally, the Yezhov regime), after Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the Soviet secret police, NKVD. In the Western world, Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror popularized that phrase. Introduction[edit] The Great Purge has provoked numerous debates about its purpose, scale and mechanisms.

One red paperclip. The paperclip that Kyle MacDonald traded for a house. The website One red paperclip was created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who bartered his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year.[1] MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better, and the site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions. "A lot of people have been asking how I've stirred up so much publicity around the project, and my simple answer is: 'I have no idea'", he told the BBC.[2] Trading timeline[edit] MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, 2005.

He reached his goal of trading up to a house with the fourteenth transaction, trading a movie role for a house. See also[edit] Straw Millionaire. List of Internet phenomena. This is a partial list of social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet, such as popular themes, catchphrases, images, viral videos, jokes, and more.

List of Internet phenomena

When such fads and sensations occur online, they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth. Advertising Animation and comics. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Business Directory of Top Companies in India, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune. Intern with IBM, Google or ITC - Yahoo! India Education. Google Fails To Hire The ‘GooglePleaseHire.Me’ Guy. Remember Matthew Epstein, the guy that wanted to work at Google so badly that he created an interesting campaign in order to get the search and advertising giant’s attention?

Google Fails To Hire The ‘GooglePleaseHire.Me’ Guy

Well he did get their attention, partly because we urged Google to hire Epstein as fast as human-resourcesly possible. That said, at some point the company apparently lost interest in communicating with Epstein. In an update posted to his blog this morning, Mr. Moustache says he has landed his ‘dream’ job – but not at Google. >>GC's official site version 3.0 :.. How to select the best students in India -an IIM tutorial. We all know someone who went to a top notch MBA institute; something like an IIM, FMS (for people familiar with DU colleges), IIFT, XLRI… and the list goes on forever.

How to select the best students in India -an IIM tutorial

These guys are people you’ll never know personally; they will be your Mum’s office friend’s third cousins’ uncle’s grandson or some variant of that. India Pakistan border visible from space. By Chris Parsons Updated: 06:50 GMT, 6 September 2011 Snaking for hundreds of miles across the earth's surface, this spectacular picture shows one of the planet's land borders like never before. The dramatic picture shows a bright orange line jutting across the earth, indicating the border between India and Pakistan.

Alien Carnage. In May 2007, John Passfield and 3D Realms released Alien Carnage as freeware.[1] Plot[edit] Gameplay[edit] Halloween Harry screenshot In the game, the player has to shoot zombies and aliens with his flamethrower and other weapons, rescuing hostages along the way. Instead of jumping, Harry uses a jetpack to reach higher platforms. Kinnari, Chapter 1. Draw - Google Correlate. Freddie Mercury. . India Innovation Labs - IIL . Blog Archive Sequencing the Startup DNA on LinkedIn « What makes entrepreneurs different, and where do they come from? Are they born or taught? Are they unusually mobile in their careers?

Does geography play a role? Do mentors and relationships matter? Numerous studies explore these questions by surveying hundreds of entrepreneurs. Our infographic above shows the top over-represented business schools among entrepreneurs – with Stanford, Harvard and MIT Sloan taking the top spots. The value of a formal education for startup founders is a hotly debated subject. Some companies are breeding grounds for entrepreneurs – they’re more likely to appear on founders’ profiles than others. Are some industries harder to break into than others? Also, most “academic” startup founders (those listing higher education as their previous industry) are in nanotech, biotech and medical devices. Relationships and mentors are crucial to entrepreneurs’ success – and this is reflected in the connections they have on LinkedIn. MBA sarpanch leads Soda to be India's first IT-enabled village - pictures - Pictures/Videos - News in Pictures.

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