nanopolitan

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think abo...

Update : I found the Wired story online, and I thought it would be fun to submit it to Slashdot. To my surprise, it made it to the main pa...

Today's quote dished out by Google's QOTD: Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anythi...

Between Patrix's announcement about DesiPundit's death and a later one about its rescue , the land of desi filter-blogging attracte...

Robert Frank of Cornell says happiness is not the same thing as welfare . More importantly, while increasing GDP may not increase happniness...

My own comment on an earlier post in this blog led to my views being sought a while ago on the almost-imminent change in the name of this g...

Cross-posted at nanopolitan 2.0 . Just drop everything, and read the NYTimes story about Eric Poehlman's fraud which made him "...

Dished out by Google Personal Page's QOTD feature: Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality...

From this essay : Anyone who has visited India and seen the sexually explicit temple carvings there will know that the Hindu tradition has ...

Having studied in a university named after these two sons of Pittsburgh, I just have to link to Matthew Price's review of Andrew Carneg...

We need to listen to our unhappiness, rather than to ease it with shopping or chocolate. This is because unhappiness is an early-warning sys...

... his book is all too easy to put down. And, that's one of the nicer things Scott McLemee says in his review of Jean-Noël Jeannene...

Here's the NYTimes story about the many ways the German higher ed system resembles its American counterpart. This caught my eye: Clas...

Will paralysis be cured if you eat white pigeons? Why do human beings, plants and animals grow vertically and not horizontally? Just a cou...

For an object to be truly invisible, it should neither reflect (scatter) nor absorb light. Instead, it should let light "slide around [...