March 14th, 2009

Abandoned Detroit Schools

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!As they say, education is the bedrock for economic growth and prosperity. Given the state of these Detroit schools, no wonder the city is dying.

March 10th, 2009

Banning Foreign Students from American Banks

The “Buy American” clause runs counter to every conservatism principle there is given the arguments of merits, free trade (of intellectual capital, and supporting legal immigration; in fact it exposes xenophobic fears that prey on rational sensibilities. It makes a false assumption that there is a pool of American workers who are equally qualified and willing to replace foreign workers.

February 16th, 2009

Do only Atheists believe in Evolution?

The world celebrated Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday this past Thursday. Darwin, as many know, is known for his revolutionary theory of evolution. Evolution has been unanimously acknowledged by the scientific community and served as the basis of biology. But compared to other scientific theories (yup! gravity is a theory too), evolution gets the step-brotherly treatment [...]

February 11th, 2009

Banning Queer Theory in Colleges

Crumbling schools and lack of adequate enrollment in science and technology courses apparently is not at the top of some of the Georgia legislators list for reforming education. They rather harp on certain misguided notions that ‘moral principles’ of their constituents needs protecting. House Republicans in Georgia are pushing to oust professors with expertise in [...]

October 28th, 2008

State of my Dissertation Research

Following is an accurate description of the state of my dissertation:

It has been all Pollster, Five Thirty Eight, and Real Clear Politics for the past couple of weeks. Although I want this election season to end soon I wonder if anything I read after November 4th will be half as interesting. Why do I bother [...]

August 5th, 2008

The Kid with Amazing Linguistic Skills

This kid selling peacock feather fans [YouTube link] near the Hanging Gardens, Mumbai can speak a ton of languages albeit related to his trade. The guy who shot the video returns two and half years later [YouTube link] and discovers the guy still selling those peacock feathers albeit with the help of few more languages. [...]

July 27th, 2008

BitTorrenting Textbooks

First music now textbooks. The textbook industry is the biggest scam in the United States with astronomical prices for age-old basic knowledge. As fall semester approaches, Organic Chemistry 7th Edition is a hot download at Pirate Bay.

January 28th, 2008

School Vouchers in India

Ash and I have been looking for avenues to donate money to charity in India. Our previous personal donations have gone to AID India and Project Why in addition to those donation drives at DesiPundit. We prefer donating to more direct causes instead of large organizations like Red Cross which are already inundated with attention [...]

January 21st, 2008

Our Skewed Research Interests

 Sigh! So true especially the 18% slice [click to enlarge - source: PhD Comics].

October 28th, 2007

Quantum Gradnamics

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Jorge Cham truly understands our hassled souls.


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