Put a billion-dollar hole in the University’s books: Wall Street titans help to fuel Ivy League donor revolt. Billionaires plan to stop donating to their preferred universities to protest how they have responded to the war.
Law Firms Warn Universities About Antisemitism on Campus: “We look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses,” the firms wrote.
Some of the largest law firms in the country have a message for the deans of law schools who have tolerated Antisemitic activities conducted by their students:
If you want your graduates to get good jobs in our law firms, stop producing Antisemites. pic.twitter.com/JBrmJdslPa
$26.3 Billion: Google spent a staggering $26.3 Billion to maintain default search engine status on browsers and phones in 2021 according to a slide made public in a federal antitrust trial. Bernstein previously estimated Google could pay Apple as much as $19 billion this year for the out-of-the-box default placement on Apple devices.
Alcohol Might Be Ruining Your Orgasm: “It does make you think, ‘Oh, I feel hornier!’. But the irony is that, in fact, it’s a central nervous system depressant.” While it may contribute to relaxation and inhibition reduction initially, it can hinder the brain’s ability to process sexual stimuli and coordinate muscle contractions, which are central to the orgasmic response
AI for Chip Design: Nvidia has unveiled ChipNeMo, a specialized large language model with 43 billion parameters aimed at bolstering chip design productivity. The tool promises to streamline various aspects of chip design by answering questions, condensing bug reports, and crafting scripts for electronic design automation (EDA) tools.
Chinese tech: Chinese Phytium's New CPU Claimed To Rival Arm's Neoverse N2
Religion of "Love": 400 years on, Native Indians still regret helping the Pilgrims survive their first Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving portrays an idea of “us seeming like idiots who welcomed all of these changes and supports the idea that Pilgrims brought us a better life because they were superior.”
The English pushed the Wampanoag off their land and forced many to convert to Christianity. “We had a pray-or-die policy at one point here among our people”.. “If you didn’t become a Christian, you had to run away or be killed.”
“For us, Thanksgiving kicked off colonization. Our lives changed dramatically. It brought disease, servitude and so many things that weren’t good for Indigenous cultures.
Yazidis still displaced in their own country: Sinjar's volatile security situation is the main reason not all Yazidis want to come back. And for many survivors, it's simply unthinkable to come back to a place inhabited by their tormentors.
"They wanted to force us to change religion". Some 12,000 people were kidnapped or killed in the first week of what the UN has characterized as the Yazidi genocide in August 2014. IS fighters kidnapped and indoctrinated children. Boys were trained to become IS fighters, and women and girls were sold into sexual slavery.
Carbon Border Tax: New ploy by rich nations? UK could hike import duties on countries that "fail to tackle climate change".
The $80 bln hole in India's climate pledge: India can deliver on its pledge, provided a $80 billion hole in the heart of the country’s power system can be filled. Discoms’ payment arrears are now nearly $14 billion, almost a fifth of which are claims of renewable power producers.
Anand Malligawad: Meet the activist cleaning up Bengaluru's lakes
Is Facebook Bad for You?: It is for about 360 million users. Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 of its users report engaging in compulsive use of social media that impacts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships
Social-curse: Instagram, FB and Tiktok addiction is a massive problem.
China Could Be Exploiting Internet Security Process to Steal Data: There are opportunities for a communist entity, a bad actor, or another untrustworthy entity to issue Digital Certificates to other “nefarious folks” that would appear to be trustworthy but aren’t.
Rwanda goes electric with locally made e-motorbikes: There will be a loss of fuel tax revenue - but the benefits include a shift to locally produced power sources, lower fuel importation costs and job creation
The Empire State Trail: A new 750-mile bicycle route from Manhattan to Buffalo to the Canadian border opened to the public. A combination of protected paths, city streets, highway shoulders and country roads that pass by small towns and cities — offers views of wetlands, waterways, grasslands and mountain ranges.
Reputation damage: 500 tonnes of genetically modified rice found in a consignment exported to the EU... India is yet to approve commercial cultivation of GM crops but allowed confined field trials resulting in “contamination and leaks” that made their way to the food chain.. "Only feeds the MNCs".
2-DG for Covid: Texas company to commence Phase 1a clinical trial. . . . any credit to DRDO?
Muslims not minorities: “There are 20-22 crore Muslims in the country. How can 22 crore people be a minority?”.
'Facebook post led to violence against Hindus in Bangladesh': Key suspect confesses crime
BBC: Violence in B'desh is Hindus' fault: "The BJP has stoked fear of immigration from Bangladesh, causing anger in Dhaka, and Hindu hardliners in India have called for immigrants to be deported to Bangladesh".
A German Muslim convert has been jailed for 10 years for letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun.
Lying under oath: Executives at Amazon, including founder Jeff Bezos, may have misled or lied to Congress about the firm's business practices.. A trade group representing thousands of India's brick-and-mortar retailers called for action against Amazon.
BikAss ain't BikAss: Vikas that destroys a fragile ecosystem, leads to deforestation, causes landslides, loss of lives and homes, is not vikas. Mindless construction in the Western Ghats and the Himalayas in the name of development is destroying all that is good and wonderful
₹400 crore worth of hay burnt in Punjab yearly. 2 crore ton! 77,000 ton of Nitrogen emitted. 56 lakh ton animal edible nutreants lost. 10 LT crude protein, 3 lakh ton of digestible crude protein (DCP), 80 lakh ton of total digestible nutrient (TDN) lost.
Biden told Ghani to lie: Biden called President Ashraf Ghani to help him "project a different picture" and to stop the narrative from looking bad for his presidency.
Taliban to rely on Chinese funds: “There are rich copper mines in the country, which, thanks to the Chinese, can be put back into operation and modernised. In addition, China is our pass to markets all over the world.”
The Mystery of Narayana Murthy's Retail Biz: So prolific has been the growth of Cloudtail's dominance on the Amazon platform that it faces accusations of unfair trade practices, and of crowding out small retailers
N+1: Israel’s virus czar calls to get ready for eventual 4th vaccine dose
Why You Should Stop Using Antibacterial Soap: A 2008 survey found triclosan in the urine of 75% of people tested. Antibacterial soaps acts as endocrine disruptors and have the potential to create antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Bury the cables: India’s renewable energy plants ‘Not Bird-Friendly’
World’s first charitable trust was set up by Jamsetji Tata in 1892. Rockefeller Trust, Andrew Carnegie Trust, Ford Foundation, Lord Leverhulme Trust came much later.
— Raghunath Mashelkar (@rameshmashelkar) July 1, 2021
Reliance turns to Clean tech: Apart from the four gigafactories, RIL would invest in carbon fiber manufacturing, green fertilizers and green chemicals to support the hydrogen and solar ecosystem.
Sushant Sareen on drone terrorism: 'The fact that this happened and the fact that we were not able to bring it down, we were not even able to trace from where it came from and where it went, certainly raises questions on our level of preparedness.'
- "The Army is well aware these assets and tech - like drones and drone warfare - are state-supported systems and that such threats may continue and even increase"
Break free from car-dependence: Reduce the number of traffic lanes in cities and build less parking to discourage people from driving or even owning a car in the first place, making city travel faster for everyone.. We have to start getting cars off the road—and fast—if we want to avoid cities being overrun by gridlock
Covaxin neutralises Wuhan flu: India's Covaxin effectively neutralises both Alpha and Delta variants of coronavirus, the US' National Institute of Health has said.
Social media amplifying mass unrest: Extremists across the spectrum have mastered the use of social media to mobilize supporters. Radical Left and Islamists are seeding themselves within the overwhelmingly non-violent protesters.
Wherever you find a terrorist, just raise the tail of terrorists & you will see a stamp there.. Made in Pakistan🇵🇰
This is Urooj Rehman, a Pakistani student of American #JNU .. caught red handed throwing bottle bombs in public places. Bottles & bomb making stuff was enough in car pic.twitter.com/lp9Q3b3Af1
Kerala model?
Kin shun elderly returnees fearing COVID-19 infection. “Though it’s the
obligation of the children and relatives to take care of them, many are
trying to shirk their responsibilities. We get many calls seeking
institutional quarantine for returnees. Sadly, the family members are
not even considering their age,” said a health official.
Extra Salty: Scientists just built the best sodium battery ever.
Maithreem Bhajatha: 47 voices as ONE - Conceptualized by Sudha Ragunathan & S.Mahathi
Digested: Herb Benson studied Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and is now repackaging it as "Relaxation Response".
E-Bikes Are Having Their Moment: “I was convinced that e-bikes would completely change cities all over the world in the next 10 years, but it seems like because of this crisis, suddenly it’s all happening in the next three or four months”... In March, sales of e-bikes jumped 85% from a year earlier.
Amazon, Walmart and Specialized are sold out of most models.... "E-bikes kept me out of my car. Whenever I had a reason to go outside — like making a trip to the grocery store or dropping off baked goods at a friend’s — I preferred riding an e-bike".
1. 31 years ago, Beijing crushed dissents with tanks and guns. 31 years later, Beijing is ripping out our democratic aspiration with a tyrannical law. pic.twitter.com/Dx3xTmI5Vo
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) June 4, 2020
Caliphate gone but ISIS is alive: About 14,000 ISIS fighters are still in Syria and Iraq and are believed to have blended in with the local population.
Syrian Kurds under threat after IS 'caliphate' falls: The presence of American troops had acted as a shield against any Turkish offensive. But Trump in December shocked Washington's allies by announcing a full withdrawal of all 2,000 US troops from Syria."The Kurds are facing an uncertain future. The most urgent threat appears to be from Turkey".
Standing upto the US:
China refuses to concede on U.S. demands to ease curbs on tech firms.
Rejects requests to reduce limits on overseas data transfers and to
relax a requirement for companies to store data locally.
Google is helping China and their military, but not the U.S. Terrible! The good news is that they helped Crooked Hillary Clinton, and not Trump....and how did that turn out?
Storing excess renewable energy: German pilot project involves ripping out the boiler from an old coal plant and replacing it with a molten salt thermal storage tank that will be heated using excess renewable energy. . . . . India’s Energy Storage Market is finally starting to grow.
Fraud: IIT alumni cheat hundreds of techies in Bengaluru.
Diverting rivers; think again! It will immediately gift China the justification for pell-mell damming and diversion of all rivers originating in the Tibetan Plateau
ISIS inroads in Kashmir: 'If fighting stops in Afghanistan, Kashmir could become ground zero for terror groups'.
There is one thing I enjoy being in Germany: it's talking in my mother tongue...
Feel sorry for Indians who started school in English medium.
They don't quite know what it means to have a #MotherLanguage#MotherLanguageDay
Confrontation looming? Japan will soon help Vietnam extract gas from the South China sea. How will China respond? .... China has spent much of the past two years fortifying these islands, including placing missiles on the Spratly island chain.
Wives of Jihadis: Wave of ‘disappointed’ wives are divorcing ISIS jihadis
Rohit Prasad: The Indian engineer who is the brain behind Alexa
Indra Nooyi: “Whether you are from the IITs or the IIMs, the Indian education system dishes to foreign companies the best and the brightest. In today’s world, as we CEOs look for truly global leaders who can pilot through all of the volatility in the world, Indian leaders are rising to the top. So every time we go out to look for leaders there are usually four or five people who have been educated in the IITs or the IIMs that show up.
So the big question that I keep asking myself is if people who have been educated in India always bubble up to the top then why is it that these leaders want to leave India? Doesn’t India need these leaders? Even if they leave India, shouldn’t there be a round trip ticket for them to come back to India, so they can help India get to a better place. So I think one of the big issues we should talk about is not just lessons in leadership or what the leaders need to do today but what can India do to bring those leaders back to India, so India itself can become an even more powerful economy going forward.”
Andhra government officially organizing Jesus event in Delhi and resident commissioner is actively involved in the event.#Secularism is at peak. pic.twitter.com/lTMyEAL5sr
Lithuanian and Sanskrit:
Sanskrit: Kas tvam asi? Asmi svapnas tava tamasi nakte. Agniṃ dadau te hridi tada viśpatir devas tvam asi.
Lithuanian: Kas tu esi? Esmi sapnas tavo tamsioje naktyje. Ugnį daviau tau širdy, tada viešpatis dievas tu esi.
English: “Who are you? I am a dream in your dark night. I gave you fire in heart, then you become a God”.
Macaulay's children: India slipping further down the global startup hub rankings Rank Region
1 Silicon Valley
2 New York
3 London
4 Beijing
5 Boston
6 Tel Aviv
7 Berlin
8 Shanghai
9 Los Angeles
10 Seattle
11 Paris
12 Singapore
13 Austin
14 Stockholm
15 Vancouver
16 Toronto
17 Sydney
18 Chicago
19 Amsterdam
20 Bengaluru
Indian Army's lack of direction:
First invest in human beings – not platforms. As every growing
economy has realised it is the soldier, not the machine that wins wars.
First they need to get rid of the sahayak system, and over the top perks
enjoyed by the officer core, including golf courses and golf carts.
Then they need to start investing in serious body armour, and rifles for
soldiers, while selling their many priceless properties that they don’t
need.
Our next East India Company: E-commerce in India is growing faster than other Asian countries. Amazon gains a firm footing against homegrown rival Flipkart.
Erdogan's jihad: When Turkey’s armed forces finally seized control of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, it was presented as a victory by “Islam’s last army” in a holy war.
Afghan women in 1972: This 1972 photo of women in Afghanistan helped persuade Trump to commit to war in Afghanistan
Comment on NYT: "Where did you get the bit about the US paying billions to India? A quick google search should help clear this up. India has spent billions of its own in Afghanistan to build roads and infrastructure" - nytcalif.
India already helps: India has given $3 billion in assistance since the Taliban government was toppled by coalition forces in 2001. And over the years India, Afghanistan’s biggest regional donor, has built more than 2,500 miles of roads, dams, hydropower plants and the country’s new parliament building
India already gives Afghanistan billions in aid. Now Trump says India must 'help us more.' https://t.co/3le2UakUgH
Another Comment on NYT: Pradeep Bangalore, India:
Thin ray of hope for India always comes from Republicans. Right from JFK, Democrats have unpleasant relationship with New Delhi. Bill Clinton's obsession with Kashmir followed by hard sanctions post nuclear tests hurt Indians. Obama's failure to throttle strategic partnership has propelled Indians to hope the hard hitting current President will do some constructive damage to Pakistan vis-a-vis declaring it a paraiah state.
Republicans however, other than Nixon, have not failed to recognize India as a strategic Partner. Regan's negotiations to help India find nuclear suppliers is not forgotten. Bush Jr accepted India as a nuclear power by concluding 123 agreement, a watershed moment for India's strategic posture.
Ramadan special: ISIS blows up 800 year old Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul.
Bibi: 1 | BBC: 0: BBC backtracks after a badly misleading headline about the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem
Border 'wall': Pakistan fencing its border with Afghanistan
Rohingyas manage PRCs, buy property in Jammu: Intelligence agencies have already asked the local authorities to keep a strict vigil on the Rohingyas after some reports published that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba was trying to exploit them for carrying out terror activities in India and Bangladesh.
10 million: Number of dogs killed in China every year for their meat.
India’s bees are dying: The union and state governments are promoting non-indigenous bees, mostly Apis mellifera, a Western European bee. “Since the government is promoting mellifera, indigenous species such as Apis dorsata (rock bees) or Apis cerana indica (Indian hive bees) have declined.”
India's Solar boom: Tesla is also eyeing India and could enter the market as early as this summer.
Mexico followed Kerala model: Mexico had long been a hearty producer of corn, but its output has steadily declined over the last two decades. As heavily subsidized US corn and other staples poured into Mexico, producer prices dropped and small farmers found themselves unable to make a living. Some two million have been forced to leave their farms since Nafta. "It was after trade deals such as NAFTA and others that Mexico became more dependent on American exports".
The lowdown: HCL Tech to hire high-school students to train them as software engineers. “It is kind of a cosy internship model and catches talent young. The reality is the more time they spend on the job more value they get.”
Presstitute spin: Indian engineers are so unemployable that a tech giant will train high-school graduates itself
Movement to end tuition at Harvard: Harvard's endowment was $37.6 billion at the end of last year, making it the largest university endowment in the world..
Genius Grant: Kartik Chandran's innovative work in wastewater treatment.
Melt Snow: Raj Parikh invents geothermal snowmelt system
Scientists Swab C-Section Babies with Mothers' Microbes: To restore the microbiomes they missed. C-section babies have a slightly higher risk of developing obesity, asthma and other ailments than do children born vaginally.
"Voice of the Caliphate": US destroys radio station used by the Islamic State. Taliban sets up "special forces" to crush IS.
Original ISIS:
'Gandhi became the first non-Muslim to lead a jihad'. On the Indian
subcontinent, Muslims joined Mahatma Gandhi after he accepted leadership
of the first movement for the restoration of the caliphate.
The Real ISIS: “As fighters, the Islamic State militants have mostly been a disappointment. Their numbers don’t seem that big and they’re eager to run away. ISIS has successfully made themselves seem bigger and scarier than they are in reality through social media”.
“They’re not some giant, holy juggernaut of ultimate damnation for unbelievers. They’re just a bunch of filthy, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging pigs who run away at the first sign of resistance. Really nothing more than a thorn in the side.”
Democratic revolutions, the manufactured kind: “After the end of the Cold War, a single center of domination emerged in the world, and then those who found themselves at the top of the pyramid were tempted to think they were strong and exceptional, they knew better. Then, adopting policies based on self-conceit and belief in one’s exceptionality and impunity this single center of domination, the United States, began to export so-called democratic revolutions".
How did it all turn out? Says Putin: “An aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen destruction of national institutions. … Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster. Nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life.”
(1) A moderate Muslim states that ISIS is wrong, they aren't "true" Muslims, and Islam is a religion of peace.
(2) A questioner asks: what about verses in the Quran like 4:89, saying to "seize and kill" disbelievers? Or 8:12-13, saying God sent angels to "smite the necks and fingertips" of disbelievers, foreboding a "grievous penalty" for whoever opposes Allah and his Messenger? Or 5:33, which says those who "spread corruption" (a vague phrase widely believed to include blasphemy and apostasy) should be "killed or crucified"? Or 47:4, which also prescribes beheading for disbelievers encountered in jihad?
(3) The Muslim responds by defending these verses as Allah's word -- he insists that they have been quoted "out of context," have been misinterpreted, are meant as metaphor, or that they may even have been mistranslated.
(4) Despite being shown multiple translations, or told that some of these passages (like similar passages in other holy books) are questionable in any context, the Muslim insists on his/her defense of the Scripture.
“Attacking in India is the Holy Grail of South Asian jihadists”: The document warns that “preparations” for an attack in India are underway and predicts that an attack will provoke an apocalyptic confrontation with America: “Even if the U.S tries to attack with all its allies, which undoubtedly it will, the ummah will be united, resulting in the final battle.” "Striking in India would magnify the Islamic State’s stature and threaten the stability of the region”.
Giving up on govt schools: Rajasthan government's basic premise that private schools are better than the government schools, is grossly flawed. In fact, a five-year study between 2009 and 2013 by the Azim Premji
Foundation in rural Andhra Pradesh suggests that private schools are no
better than the government schools. The parents preferred sending their wards
to private institutions, mainly because of uniforms, discipline,
attendance in school (both of children and teachers), and social
standing in the community.
Environment Minister's "achievements": Until November 2014, a total of 12,05,138 hectares of forest land was diverted for different projects in the country. Actual compensatory afforestation done over non-forest land received was just 7 per cent of the requirement.
Of Rasam and Rice: The Humble Lifestyle of Former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Falling demand: Coca-Cola India effects first production cut in a decade
Good news of day. @bsindia reports #cocacola has cut production because of falling sales. Good for our #health
