24dec2014

Nikola Tesla pilgrimage sites

caffeine crash, why?
http://rutasleep.com/blogs/news/13159393-why-you-get-a-caffeine-crash

06dec2014

touch, decoded?
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-scientists-principal-protein-sensor.html

30nov2014

http://forbesindia.com/article/leaderhip-awards-2013/chitra-ramkrishna-queen-of-the-bourse/36367/1
the comments are interesting.

20nov2014

"When you see them pop up out of the ground, man, it's the most beautiful thing you could ever see," said Brown. He said he has never felt more successful.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-nfl-player-farms-for-good/

12nov2014

Alayne Fleischmann -- respect.

10nov2014

Keynes
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/why-john-maynard-keyness-theories-can-fix-the-world-economy

08nov2014

She is the only AIADMK leader to have ever had the guts to contest a Lok Sabha election alone. On her 66th birthday, in February 2014, she had sought from her people a very special birthday present: all of Tamil Nadu’s 39 Lok Sabha seats. She won 37.
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-invisible-empress-of-surrealistan
doff: alpha

A Shah Overthrown
A key component of these was the information bus, a software program that consolidated transactions from across the market on a single screen, in real time. The most popular one was built by TIBCO—a Silicon Valley company owned by another tech wizard from Mumbai, Vivek Ranadivé—which had digitised most of the brokerage firms and trading floors on Wall Street.
They called it the “Baba Bus,” after Rohira, who was said to behave like a hermit. His bus was a far-sighted piece of code, written for TCP, a new internet communication protocol that was unsettling the established technology, X.25. “It was a call we took at the time,” Neralla said. “And we were proven right.”
When Financial Technologies launched its marquee product, the broker terminal software ODIN, it had two unbeatable features.
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/shah-overthrown
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