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ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN XXXVII

March 22, 2014, 10:59 am
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ANARCHY IN MEWAR 521 the nobles ; the personal domain of the Rana, agricultural and commercial, still realized nearly fifty lakhs of rupees. After these services, though Godwar was still unredeemed, the Bundi feud unappeased, and the lands mortgaged to the Mahrattas were not restored, Ambaji assumed the title of Subahdar of Mewar, and identified […]
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Disband NSA, Impeach Obama

March 22, 2014, 1:39 pm
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NSA thoroughly hacked “security risk” Huawei, according to Snowden documents By David Meyer 58 mins ago Summary: The latest Snowden leaks show the U.S. to be hacking China, which is hacking the U.S. Huawei is caught somewhere in the middle, along with various other companies. The NSA hacked the blazes out of Huawei, according to […]
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Window Closing on Windows XP

March 22, 2014, 1:53 pm
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    Feds Aren’t Worried About Windows XP Vulnerabilities   Ted S. Warren/AP file photo   By Aliya Sternstein March 21, 2014 1 Comment   Federal agencies do not anticipate trouble when Microsoft early next month stops providing updated fixes for security flaws in the Windows XP operating system, top Obama administration officials say. The Washington […]
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Goodbye ‘H’, Hellow ‘G’

March 22, 2014, 2:34 pm
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Politics → Civil Liberties, Gay Rights, Top Stories Michigan’s Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down Pending Appeal: See How Fast The Movement Is Spreading Seventeen states now issue marriage licenses to gay couples. —By Jaeah Lee | Fri Mar. 21, 2014 7:02 PM GMT 127 Jayne Rowse (left) and April DeBoer talk to reporters outside the […]
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Bamiyan Buddhas

March 22, 2014, 10:54 pm
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Asia Pacific Countries Divided on Future of Ancient Buddhas By ROD NORDLANDMARCH 22, 2014 Continue reading the main story Video Play Video Video|2:37 Credit Shefayee/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Bamian Buddhas An inside look at the site of the destroyed Buddhas of Bamian in Afghanistan. BAMIAN, Afghanistan — They were the picture-postcard view of […]
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Climate Change is Real

March 23, 2014, 2:11 pm
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NASA Climate Predictions Show Serious Threat To Humanity Dahr Jamail says that though some journalists avoid linking weather patterns to climate change, global warming still exists –   March 23, 14 Bio Dahr Jamail has written extensively about climate change as well as the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. He is a […]
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Why Google Flu Is A Failure

March 23, 2014, 3:10 pm
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  Steven Salzberg Contributor Follow I cover pseudoscience and bad medicine, and sometimes good medicine. full bio →   Pharma & Healthcare 3/23/2014 @ 9:00AM 12,626 views Why Google Flu Is A Failure It seemed like such a good idea at the time. People with the flu (the influenza virus, that is) will probably go online […]
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Bacteria, E Coli, to Manufacture Living Chairs

March 23, 2014, 3:57 pm
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Science Rise of the LIVING CHAIRS: MIT boffins turn E coli into futuristic material factory A tweak here, a gene there, add a pinch of gold and POW! By Jack Clark, 23 Mar 2014 More Reading Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Synthetic Materials In a few years your chair could be made of a living material, […]
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Did Nasa fund ‘civilisation collapse’ study, or not?

March 23, 2014, 5:49 pm
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Environment Earth insight Previous Blog home Did Nasa fund ‘civilisation collapse’ study, or not? Journalistic standards won’t be upheld by attempting to discredit science we don’t like Douglas Gordon: The End of Civilisation Photograph: guardian.co.uk Environmental journalism’s watchdog strikes Blogger Keith Kloor, who writes for Discover magazine, claims that my article on a Nasa-funded study […]
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Why It’s Time for the Journal of Porn Studies

March 23, 2014, 10:59 pm
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Why It’s Time for the Journal of Porn Studies Porn is everywhere, thanks to the Internet’s effective distribution, and finally scholars have a venue for considering the phenomenon seriously. Alexis C. Madrigal Mar 21 2014, 1:59 PM ET An adult actress performs during the Eropolis exposition in France. (Reuters) The first issue of Porn Studies, an […]
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Alcoholism

March 23, 2014, 11:53 pm
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Alcoholism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Alcoholic” redirects here. For alcoholic beverages, see alcoholic beverage. Alcoholism Classification and external resources “King Alcohol and his Prime Minister” c. 1820 ICD-10 F10.2 ICD-9 303 MedlinePlus 000944 MeSH D000437 Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of […]
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Ended in Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Says

March 24, 2014, 8:39 am
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21 MINs agoWorld Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Ended in Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Says Inmarsat Data Show Last Location West of Perth, Far From ‘Any Possible Landing Sites’ Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak said the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flew along the southern corridor and its last location was in the Southern Indian Ocean […]
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What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden

March 24, 2014, 12:45 pm
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Magazine What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden By CARLOTTA GALLMARCH 19, 2014 Photo Taliban recruits in 2008 in Quetta, Pakistan, where leading organizers of the Afghan insurgency are based. Credit Alex Majoli/Magnum Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, I went to live and report for The New York Times in Afghanistan. I would spend most […]
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Leaders cancel G8 summit, excluding Russia from group

March 24, 2014, 2:27 pm
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    Leaders cancel G8 summit, excluding Russia from group STEVEN CHASE THE HAGUE — The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Mar. 24 2014, 4:14 PM EDT Last updated Monday, Mar. 24 2014, 5:12 PM EDT 17 comments     215       192       23       0 Print /License AA Canada […]
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Political Sensex

March 24, 2014, 4:07 pm
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Moneylife » Investing » Equities » Sensex, Nifty to head higher: Friday closing report Sensex, Nifty to head higher: Friday closing report Moneylife Digital Team | 21/02/2014 07:07 PM | Watch out for a close below 6,085 on the Nifty for a change in the trend A higher than forecast climb in a measure of US manufacturing in February boosted the sentiments in […]
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Disband NSA, Impeach Obama

March 24, 2014, 10:14 pm
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Hi, Print Article White House plan would end NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone data By Ellen Nakashima, Published: March 24 E-mail the writer The Obama administration is preparing legislation that would end the National Security Agency’s widespread collection of Americans’ phone data while, officials say, preserving the government’s ability to gain information about terrorists.The legislation, […]
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Disband NSA, Impeach Obama

March 25, 2014, 12:49 am
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Home> Politics Crimea Crisis Puts US Spying in New Spotlight WASHINGTON March 25, 2014 (AP) By EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press   President Barack Obama talks often by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel — at least five times over the past month. But he can no longer be as certain as he once was that […]
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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Vol. II. [VI]

March 25, 2014, 1:19 pm
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1. Historical notice of the caste. Banjāra, Wanjāri, Lahāna, Mukeri.1—The caste of carriers and drivers of pack-bullocks. In 1911 the Banjāras numbered about 56,000 persons in the Central Provinces and 80,000 in Berār, the caste being in greater strength here than in any part of India except Hyderābād, where their total is 174,000. Bombay comes […]
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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Vol. II. [XII]

March 25, 2014, 1:57 pm
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Brāhman, Ahivāsi Brāhman, Ahivāsi.—A class of persons who claim to be Brāhmans, but are generally engaged in cultivation and pack-carriage. They are looked down upon by other Brāhmans, and permit the remarriage of widows. The name means the abode of the snake or dragon, and the caste are said to be derived from a village […]
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Monster turtle fossils re-united

March 25, 2014, 10:43 pm
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. .     24 March 2014 Last updated at 22:35 ET   Monster turtle fossils re-united By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News The two halves were discovered at least 163 years apart Continue reading the main story Related Stories Satellites track turtle ‘lost years’ Fossil shows how turtle got a shell Turtles fossilised […]
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