Necessary Illusions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Author(s) Noam Chomsky Publisher South End Press, Pluto Press Publication date June 1989 Media type Paperback Pages 422 ISBN 0-89608-366-7 OCLC Number 19457706 Dewey Decimal 302.2/3 19 LC Classification P95.8 .C48 1989 Necessary Illusions: […]

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: This article relies on references to primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject. Please add citations from reliable and independent sources. (April 2012) Plato’s Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna Part of a series on […]

5 signs you’re a grown up now

Source: ET: The small moments before the milestone of ‘30’ that make you realise that you’re no longer a teenager. 1. You actually start avoiding junk food Double-decker burgers with cheese oozing out of them make you cringe rather than drool. You no longer trust your metabolism and on those […]

Jirga declares 13 girls vani in Dera Bugti

Source: ET The decision was taken to settle murder-related conflict between Bagirani and Shahwani tribes. PHOTO: FILE DERA BUGTI: A jirga in Dera Bugti, Balochistan declared 13 girls vani on Monday while settling a murder-related conflict between two tribes, Express News reported.  The conflict was between the Bagirani and Shahwani tribes […]

Polish Hardware on Mars

Source: The Warsaw Voice: NASA’s Curiosity rover, which successfully landed on Mars Aug. 6, is fitted with infrared detectors developed and manufactured by Poland’s Vigo System company. The Curiosity mission was one of the most important NASA projects in recent years. Curiosity, which weighs almost a ton, touched down on […]

Happy and clueless

Source: ET Out of the blue there comes news of hope. In a survey conducted by the till-now-unknown New Economics Foundation, we are told that Pakistan ranked 16th among 151 countries of the world on the Happy Planet Index (HPI) 2012, beating India and the United States, which ranked 32nd […]