Science & Technology
Podcasting
From blogging to audio blogging (popularized as podcasting) to video blogging, the Web has allowed everyone to become publishers, radio DJs and TV personalities to a seemingly infinite audience. The technology underlying the ability of podcasting is RSS or Really Simple Syndication.
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Science & Technology
The Biological Clock
As more and more South Asian women enter the workforce, couples are pushing back the time when they’ll have their first child. Dheepa Chari speaks to Dr. Frederick Licciardi, a leading specialist in in-vitro fertilization and egg donation in New York, to discuss fertility options for couples in their thirties and beyond.
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Reviews & Previews
Comedy in The Muslim World
In Looking For Comedy in the Muslim World, Albert Brooks (who plays himself) is sent by the U. S. Government to India and Pakistan to find out what makes the over 300 million Muslims in the region laugh. In fact, that is Brooks’ message: If there is one thing common among people of all nations, it’s humor.
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Economy & Politics
Program Trading
Program trading is increasingly becoming the business on Wall Street with banks using computer programs to execute trades to get to the market and its arbitrage opportunities quicker for years. This article introduces general concepts in program trading, including the strategies and technology infrastructure necessary for it.
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Bollywood
The Stranger Everyone Knows
In cinema, the archetype of The Wandering Stranger is no stranger to western audiences. Clint Eastwood made The Man In Black famous in such films as “A Fistful of Dollars”. Rachel Astarte Piccione ponders the role The Stranger fills in film imagery in the light of Amitabh Bachan's character in “Ek Ajnabee”.
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Art & Culture
Mary Anne Mohanraj
In the seven years since she started writing erotica, Sri-Lankan born Mary Anne has been editor-in-chief of "Clean Sheets" an erotica magazine, edited “Aqua Erotica” and “Wet” (both printed on water-proof paper!), printed her own erotica stories in “Torn Shapes of Desire” and run an “Internet Erotica Writers Workshop” .
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Science & Technology
Memes
The concept of meme (pronounced ‘meem’) comes from Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene, which explores how a gene propagates itself across generations. A cultural meme or idea, so to speak, would be similar to a genetic meme in the sense that it has the ability to live beyond the life of the organism.
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Economy & Politics
Notes from the Overground
"The capitalist conquest of Russia has not been pretty, but it has certainly been quick. Many concerns vexed me as I began my first foray into the “riddle wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma,” as Churchill famously described Russia." Our favorite Egoiste Parag Khanna gets acquainted with Russia.
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