Credit: TOI If it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space – Carl Sagan In May 1950, the great physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues were walking down for lunch from their lab at Los Alamos when they got to discussing flying saucers because there had been […]
Businessinsider.com: Roger Ekrich noticed many old books, including Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales“, referenced two periods of sleep being the norm in their era. Via Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep: …Ekirch […]
Credit: CNN Perhaps Han Solo said it best in Star Wars when, describing his hyper-fast smuggling spaceship the Millennium Falcon, he said, “It may not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts.” While the Air Force might take exception to being likened to the Falcon, in reality […]
Source: NY Times. It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from Qatar to […]
RT: A new virus dubbed Gauss has attacked computers in the Middle East spying on financial transactions, emails and picking passwords to all kind of pages. The virus resembles Stuxnet and Flame malware which was used to target Iran, Kaspersky Lab says. Gauss has infected hundreds of personal computers across […]
“Fact of Life” is that the State of Pakistan and its Constituent Statutes have inflicted extreme injustice upon the Ahmadiyya Community but it does not justify any Adverse Reactionary behavior from Ahmadis; who claim to be the True Followers of Prophet Mohammad (saw). It becomes overwhelmingly sad to read some […]
Source: ISDB Each winner receives a cash reward of US$100,000 along with a trophy and a certificate. The IDB established the Prizes in 1422H (2001G) to acknowledge and encourage the achievements of […]
RT: Tehran plans to remove its key ministries and state bodies from the Internet next month, calling the worldwide web “untrustworthy.” The action is the first phase in a planned Iranian project to replace the Internet with a domestic intranet. The country’s key ministries will be unplugged from the global […]
Curosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror On Sunday night, millions of miles away, a nail-biter of a landing will be executed—or not—on Mars. The Mars rover, Curiosity, which has been traveling to the distant planet for the past eight-and-a-half months, will land on the red planet by remote control. To stick the […]
Source: NY Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a nation thirsting for energy, he loomed like a messiah: a small-town engineer who claimed he could run a car on water. The assertion — based on the premise that he had discovered a way to easily split the oxygen and hydrogen atoms […]
Source IBNlive Meerwada: Life in the remote village of Meerwada used to grind to a standstill as darkness descended. Workers downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks under the faint glow of aged kerosene lamps and adults struggled to carry out the most basic of household chores. The arrival […]
The Express Tribune: Pervez Hoodbhoy Agha Waqar Ahmad deserves a medal from the people of Pakistan for his great service to the nation. In a few short days, he has exposed just how far Pakistan has fallen into the pit of ignorance and self-delusion. No practical joker could have demonstrated […]
PJMedia: by John Hawkins X-Events: The Collapse Of Everything is not a cheery book. In essence, it argues that the complexity required to underpin modern living is making it increasingly unsustainable. The crunch comes when we recognize that societies must continually solve problems in order to keep growing. But the solution to […]
Credit: The News via Wasim Sroya The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor We should, right now, be celebrating. The announcement by physicists in Switzerland last week that they have all but proven the existence of the Higg’s Boson, a subatomic particle, also known as the “God […]
Source: NT Times. By JIM ROBBINS Published: July 14, 2012 THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these days — ecosystem services — which refers to the many ways nature supports the human endeavor. Forests filter the water we drink, for example, and birds and bees pollinate crops, both […]
Source: NY Times Bits. SAN FRANCISCO — Another month, another major security breach. Yahoo confirmed Thursday that about 400,000 user names and passwords to Yahoo and other companies were stolen on Wednesday. A group of hackers, known as the D33D Company, posted online the user names and passwords for what […]
Source : NY Times. By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: July 12, 2012 Stone spearheads and human DNA found in Oregon caves, anthropologists say, have produced firmer evidence that these are the oldest directly dated remains of people in North America. They also show that at least two cultures with distinct […]
Credit: Dawn .com RECENTLY, at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), scientists have discovered Higgs Boson, colloquially known as God Particle. It is termed as the final missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. The model was developed by Dr Abdus Salam in liaison with other scientists […]
Source: NY Times. Fueled by an accelerating move to cloud computing, and by a boom in associated telecommunications services, worldwide information technology spending is increasing somewhat faster than expected, according to industry analysts at Gartner. Over all, people will spend $3.6 trillion on information technology in 2012, the research firm […]
Source : NY Times. Some of the weather extremes bedeviling people around the world have become far more likely because of human-induced global warming, researchers reported on Tuesday. Yet they ruled it out as a cause of last year’s devastating floods in Thailand, one of the most striking weather events […]