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Dashrath Manjhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dashrath Manjhi(1934[1]-August 17, 2007[2]) was born into a poor labourer family in Gahlour village nearGayainBihar,India.[1]He is also known as Mountain Man.[3][4]Dashrath Majhi's wife, Falguni Devi died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a Doctor was 70 km away from the...

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Hasnain says:

Real life Minecraft:

"Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he single-handedly carved a 360-foot-long (110 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) road by cutting through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982."

Posted on 2012-09-23T04:14:22+0000

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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.

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Russia reveals shiny state secret: It's awash in diamonds

'Trillions of carats' lie below a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile diameter asteroid crater in eastern Siberia known as Popigai Astroblem. The Russians have known about the site since the 1970s.

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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

The Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life on the official site of The Atlantic Magazine.

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Hasnain says:

There are many productive things that I *should* be doing right now. But I decided to read a 30 year old article on diamonds instead.

Posted on 2012-09-18T05:31:44+0000

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The Distress of the Privileged

In a memorable scene from the 1998 film Pleasantville (in which two 1998 teen-agers are transported into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV show), the father of the TV-perfect Parker family re...

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Harvard investigates 125 students for cheating on final exam - The Boston Globe

Harvard University is investigating about 125 undergraduates accused of jointly submitting responses, some word-for-word identical, on a spring take-home final exam in violation of an explicit no-collaboration policy. The incident is the largest Ivy League cheating scandal in recent memory and could...

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Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the 'anternet' | School of Engineering

On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the tra...

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Where's Waldo? » Blog Archive » The Bozo Event Horizon

I’m on a Harvard mailing list for some folks interested in startups and innovation. A recent thread of discussion was around hiring, and in a posting to the group I talked about making sure that you did your hiring so that you avoided the bozo effect. I was asked by a number of people what I meant b...

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Stranded Jet Skier Breaches Multimillion Dollar Security System At JFK Airport : NPR

A jet skier runs out of gas in water near JFK airport. So he swims to shore, climbs an airport fence and walks across two runways to find help. He is never detected by security officials.

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