Profile: Zong Qinghou, Wahaha
Nick Rosen profiles Zong Qinghou, boss of drinks and clothing firm Wahaha and one of China's richest men.
The Sun lets loose a HUGE explosion | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Astronomy | Early this morning, the Sun erupted with an explosion I can only describe as ginormous. We're in no danger from it, but the size and scope of this thing are sim
THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS, The New Yorker, 5/29/95, pp 45-53
ON a warm June day in 1978, William J. LeMessurier, one of the nation's leading structural engineers, received a phone call at his headquarters, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from an engineering student in New Jersey. The young man, whose name has been lost in the swirl of subsequent events, said tha
CS 525, Spring 2011 : Course Schedule
Pastry: scalable, distributed object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems, A. Rowstron et al, Middleware 2001.
Hasnain says:
Treasure trove for people interested in distributed systems.
Posted on 2011-06-01T11:07:35+0000
» The Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men
A maverick Indian scientist has developed an elegant, injectable, easily reversible birth control method for men.
Hasnain says:
Interesting how they use a concept from physics to solve a medical problem.
(big warning: the snapshot from the video is a bit gruesome. scroll down at your own risk on the first page)
Posted on 2011-05-31T16:26:49+0000
HTC pays Microsoft $5 for each Android phone it sells
Mobile phone makers HTC is paying Microsoft $5 for every handset it sells with the Google-owned Android operating system installed. According to a report on Business Insider, a Citigroup ...
Hasnain says:
Interesting... windows phone isn't making money, so let's get some money off those android phones!
Posted on 2011-05-27T18:54:27+0000
China using prisoners in lucrative internet gaming scam | World news | The Guardian
Labour camp detainees endure hard labour by day, online 'gold farming' by night
Hasnain says:
This is interesting... being forced to play World of Warcraft all night just to sell ingame gold...
Posted on 2011-05-27T09:57:13+0000
Memo to Foxconn Workers: “You Aren’t Allowed to Commit Suicide While Making iPads” – TechOrange Glob
Foxconn, China’s largest private employer, is responsible for churning out millions of Apple’s popular products like the iPhone and iPad. It also manufactures consumer electronics for companies like HP, Sony, and Nokia.
Nature News Blog: Italian seismologists to be tried for manslaughter
« Atomic agency outs Iran's nuke warhead project | Main
Hasnain says:
This is one reason for staying away from any sort of applied research.
Posted on 2011-05-25T23:42:25+0000
Physics of drinking dogs revealed
Dogs use the same complex technique as cats to lap up liquid, scientists are surprised to find.