Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Quick notes: Appeasement gone wild, Petcoke ban...

  • Land of the pure: Telangana to set up IT corridor, industrial estate for Muslims. Chief Minister says minorities should have a 10% quota in the state’s double-bedroom housing scheme for economically weaker sections.


  • Overdue: SC bans petroleum coke, furnace oil to clean up toxic air in Delhi-NCR 


  • Lesson for Indian cities: Singapore bans additional cars to keep traffic from getting worse


  • Lucknow-Agra Expressway: Aircraft of the IAF land on a stretch of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway



  • Basis for calculus: Five ways ancient India changed the world – with maths


  • India unwittingly aiding North Korea in cyberattacks: “Large, large, large amounts of data transfers between a number of Indian science and technology research centers and Philippine government research centers. It’s not clear what was happening there, but it certainly looked like the organizations themselves, and maybe their researcher technology is certainly of interest to some North Koreans"


  • Reverse diabetes with Intermittent Fasting: Intermittent fasting is an increasingly trendy diet that involves going without food for anywhere from 14 hours to several days. The fad has picked up fans in Silicon Valley, including author and podcaster Tim Ferriss, Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross, internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose (who created an app that lets fasters track their progress), and nearly the entire team at "smart drug" startup HVMN.


  • White Jesus:


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