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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Must Read Article – Food Shortages – Is There Such a Thing as Agro Imperialism –
This one is from the NYT and it’s a long article but it’s a must read. Talks about how countries like Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia are buying up/investing in land especially in Africa to grow food for their consumption. … Continue reading
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Intriguing Startups, PCWorld 100 Best of 2009 and Ways to Cut Healthcare Costs – misc articles.
A bunch of interesting articles: BW Slideshow (and artcile on Startups): The World’s Most Intriguing Startups: Innovation in a Downturn – BusinessWeek Then there’s the PCWorld 100 best products of 2009 BW – Cover Story – 10 Ways to Cut Healthcare … Continue reading
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Talking about Forty Years’ War – Medicines to Deter Some Cancers Are Not Taken – Series – NYTimes.com
A touch long but it’s very worth reading. Lots of interesting things here from not wanting to take preventive cancer medication, failure of some studies to show strong links between diet/obesity to cancer, lack of an easy to track marker … Continue reading
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Bangalore Mafia & Beggars – Maid rents out child of MNC couple to beggars
One more reason to be very very careful before handing out small change to the beggards on the streets in Bangalore. It’s difficult to tell who is genuine and who is not. I’m sure there are some genuine cases but … Continue reading
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Happiest US States – Want to be happier? You may need to move – Mental health- msnbc.com
Here’s the link to the original from Live Science. Interestingly the lowest is at 61.2 W.Virginia and Utah on the top is at 69.2 Quote Want to be happier? You may need to move – Mental health- msnbc.com
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Using Cellphones as Microscopes – NYT.
Interesting use of the cell phone camera for locating pathogens. This could be quite promising for remote diagnosis. I’d be interested in understanding learning more especially volume of datat that needs to go on the potentially slow cell phone network … Continue reading
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No Shortage of U.S. Engineers + Advice For Startups – BusinessWeek
There’s talk about no shortage and also that the pipeline at early stages is good but lots of kids would rather do finance/management and law. I don’t see why not, especially given that while job security is not necessarily great … Continue reading
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