"Scientists have created two new types of materials that can bend light the wrong way, creating the first step toward an invisibility cloaking device." - Ruchira S. Datta
"_The Process of Government_ is a hedgehog of a book. Its point--relentlessly hammered home--can be stated quite simply: All politics and all government are the result of the activities of groups. Any other attempt to explain politics and government is doomed to failure." - Ruchira S. Datta
I've thought this way for a long time. What's missing from this article, though, is the temporal aspect--the conflict between short-term and long-term thinking in the political process. In hindsight those in leadership positions are condemned for shortsightedness, but is taking the long view a privilege that can only be afforded by the elite? - Ruchira S. Datta
There is also the issue of money. Harper's August issue had a fantastic analysis of Abramoff's lingering effects on Washington politics. http://www.harpers.org/archive... highly recommended. - Jason Wehmhoener
"Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption. . . . We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate."--economist Victor Lebow, 1955 - Ruchira S. Datta
I wonder if the elephant recognizes what it has painted. - Sanjeev Singh
i wonder how long it was trained for and how many paintings it does per day - seemed like they were producing them for sale - bob
There have been other instances of elephants painting which are much more free-form and less representational. Different elephants have different styles. Some elephants seem very particular and hesitate a long time before making their next stroke. - Ruchira S. Datta
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“I wonder why Gmail gave me an ad for a samurai sword at the top of my inbox.”
"Petty said the research casts doubt on the classic assertion that power corrupts people and leads them to negative actions. Instead, what power does is make people more likely to unquestionably believe their own thoughts and act on them, he said." - Ruchira S. Datta
