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Humour


Asians - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/24/koma-comic-strip-that-was-fast/


Monster in the Bedroom - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/23/koma-comic-strip-monster-in-the-bedroom/


Anthropology


A brief history of Santa - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RbUVKXdu4lQ


Travel


The Salalah Shuffle - http://mideastposts.com/2011/12/26/the-deep-frustration-of-the-salalah-shuffle/

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Animals


Dolphin goes whale sliding - http://animalwise.org/2011/12/14/an-uplifting-dolphin-story-literally/

Turtles killed by blue lined octopuses - http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/12/14/guest-post-the-nature-of-octopuses/


More about the awesome naked mole rat - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/16/naked-mole-rat-super-power-12-they-feel-no-burn/


Bearded Dragon plays ant crusher on smartphone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpldq3myV0


Fire ants rely on local collaborators - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/05/fire-ants-conquered-america-by-monopolising-calorie-rich-food/

Science


Excellent video explaining the resurrection fern - http://creaturecast.org/archives/2398-creaturecast-resurrection-fern


Business


A Google Chrome ad demonstrates how a TN based artist is bringing back Tanjore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vt5gcX521Y&feature=youtu.be


Humour


Shit Girls Say - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-yLGIH7W9Y


Best Inception meme yet - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/15/koma-comic-strip-punny-stuff/

And that ladies, is "how it's done" - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/15/koma-comic-strip-id-rather-have-a-sandwich/

Travel


Goa - Fisticuffs and Feni - http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/dec/211211-Fisticuffs-and-Feni.htm


Sports


I wonder how many football injuries are the result of celebrations - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjAQy_LERaU&feature=related


Philosophy


The case against Santa - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/12/the-case-against-santa.html


People


Malayalis in Pakistan - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/malappuram-in-karachi/885812/0


Crime


The Stephen Bennett murder trial draws to a close - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/five-years-on-six-men-held-for-killing-british-tourist-walk-free/889502/

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Humour


American Marathons - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/11/koma-comic-strip-im-so-tired-ive-been-watching-for-hours/


How we view Dogs vs Cats - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/08/koma-comic-strip-dogs-vs-cats/


If you didn't already know how to interpret error bar graphs - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/12/10/funny-graphs-the-the-problem-with-errorbars/


A typical comments page on Memebase - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/12/10/funny-graphs-i-expect-nothing-less-from-the-comments-below/


Animals


Spontaneous tool use in a dingo - assuming no previous training - http://animalwise.org/2011/12/07/setting-his-own-dinner-table-spontaneous-tool-use-by-a-dingo/


Silverfish rub themselves on adolescent ants to disguise themselves- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/05/impostor-silverfish-rub-up-on-adolescent-ants-to-create-their-smelly-disguises/


Emphatic rats spring each other from jail - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/09/empathic-rats-spring-each-other-from-jail/


The opposite of the bee waggle dance - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/08/how-headbutts-and-dances-give-bees-a-hive-mind/


Design


Realism in UI Design - http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/01/21/realism_in_ui_design/


Science


What really happened aboard Air France 447 - http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877


Behavioural Economics: Context determines behaviour - http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/rory-sutherland-at-zeitgeist#When:18:00:57Z


Society


Sexism in selling science toys to kids - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/12/is-real-science-for-men.html


Family dances happily with dead baby as part of 'grieving ceremony'- http://mindhacks.com/2011/12/01/rainbows-of-mourning/


Edinburg had a library phantom - http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/11/29/142910393/the-library-phantom-returns?f=5500502&ft=1


Films


Short animation film - Horn OK Please - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9Tgo2BLC5_I


Food


Kalyan Karmarkar experiments with Hyderabadi biryanis - http://www.finelychopped.net/2011/12/hyderabadi-biryani-trail-shadab-cafe.html


Anthropology


Dragons as psychological projections of the monsters within ourselves - http://www.salon.com/2011/12/03/the_evolution_of_monsters/

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Science


New possibly habitable planet found - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Habitable-super-Earth-found/articleshow/11014842.cms


Woolly mammoth to be cloned within 5 years? - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/06/woolly-mammoth-cloned-within-five-years-well-believe-it-when-we-ride-it/


Stanford University is organising a few free online classes - http://www.modelthinker-class.org/


Philosophy


Good concise response to the philosophers' insinuation that morals have a supernatural basis - http://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/12/can-an-atheist-have-a-code-of-ethics/


Jonathan Israel's 8 points seem like a good philosophy to live by - https://www.economist.com/user/3917426/comments


Animals


Why do naked mole rats live so long - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iqQ7GkLT0
Also read why male rats have rubbish sperm -  http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/04/the-rubbish-sperm-of-the-naked-mole-rat/

Interesting facts about odd-eyed cats - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd-eyed_cat


Pop Culture


Salman Rushdie on when the film is better than the book - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0JqkKFG5o&feature=related


India


On Russians in Goa - http://goanvoice.org.uk/gvuk_files/GQ_Apr_2010.pdf


News


America has banned the import of Kinder eggs - http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/national/04212011_2.xml


Tit for tat diplomacy is getting out of hand - http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/monkey-arrested-in-pak-for-crossing-india-border-155587

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Humour


On Science Programming - http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1452


Sheldon uses IE - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/11/22/koma-comic-strip-seriously-chuck-lorre/


Thousands of blog posts remain as drafts as Sachin misses century - http://www.fakingnews.com/2011/11/thousands-of-blog-posts-remain-in-drafts-as-sachin-misses-century/


So that AXE deo was a waste of money - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/11/30/funny-graphs-you-mean-throngs-of-women-wont-chase-me-through-the-streets/


How to get out of the friend zone - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/11/27/koma-comic-strip-how-to-get-outta-the-friend-zone/


Correlation does not imply causation - http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-11-28/


Looking for the One - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/11/26/koma-comic-strip-how-i-met-your-matrix-return-of-the-king/


Fake Walmart store discovered in Ulhasnagar during anti-FDI protests - http://www.fakingnews.com/2011/11/fake-walmart-store-discovered-in-ulhasnagar-during-anti-fdi-protests/

Psychology


On idleness & airport carousels - http://danariely.com/2011/11/21/flying-frustrations-2/


Music


Jethro Tull - 'Thick as a Brick' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toHlMD50eYY&feature=player_embedded


The Yardbirds - 'Crying Out For Love' - http://www.youtube.com/embed/QY6lnedW8P4


HIM - 'Don't Fear The Reaper' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04silSGo0h8 [For context, here's the original - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg]


Science


Richard Feynman on the Scientific Method - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw


Uncovering Da Vinci's rule of trees - http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-uncovering-da-vinci-trees.html


Films


From Cracked.com - 7 movies that put insane work into details you didn't notice - http://www.cracked.com/article_19562_7-movies-that-put-insane-work-into-details-you-didnt-notice.html


Excellent narrative by a wildlife filmmaker on trying to capture falling gulls - http://www.ironammonite.com/2008/07/update-from-field-one-small-step-for_7954.html


News


Denied permission for a serpentarium, he let loose live snakes in a govt. office - http://www.rediff.com/news/report/snakecharamer-empties-snakes-in-revenue-office-in-protest/20111130.htm

Opinions

On FDI in Retail - http://greatbong.net/2011/11/30/on-fdi-in-retail/

General

Charlie Todd, the Improv Everywhere boss, talks at TED - http://ideas-innovation.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-love-thissssssssss.html

If you're looking to buy a camera, the feature search on DP Review is very helpful - http://www.dpreview.com/products/search/cameras

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Psychology


Frans De Waal on Morality without Religion - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/11/frans-de-waal-morality-without-religion.html

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Animals


They don't merely camouflage themselves, they change camouflage mode too - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/10/octopuses-and-squids-can-switch-camouflage-mode-to-stay-invisible-in-the-twilight-zone/?


Comics


I'll have some H2O too - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/11/09/koma-comic-strip-h2o-too/


Anthropology


The old social media problem - http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2011/11/hot-new-social-media-maybe-not-so-new-plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose/


Psychology


More Behavioural Economics - http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/michael-lewis-201112?currentPage=all

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Anthropology


Malcolm Gladwell on The Tweaker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all


Art


Lobster shell motorcycles - http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lobster-shell-motorcycles


Psychology


The Divided Brain explained - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/10/23/funny-graphs-so-artists-arent-right-brained/

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Philosophy


Intellectualism vs Science - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/10/the-world-of-the-intellectual-vs-the-world-of-the-engineer.html


Hitchens on deathbed recantations - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/10/christopher-hitchens-drops-the-hammer.html


Marshall Poe on being unable to write a big-idea book - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/meme-weaver/8625/


Defense


Protecting against tear gas - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/10/28/knowledge-is-power/


Science


Inside the mind of the octopus - http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/


There is no correlation between dog bites and full moons - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/10/31/real-life-werewolves-dog-bites-and-full-moons/


Humour


The Sunny Nihilist has some funny Graph Jams - http://sunny-nihilist.tumblr.com/


History


How the potato changed the world - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Potato-Changed-the-World.html


Psychology


Daniel Engber thinks pop psychology may be giving us too many 'Effects' - http://www.slate.com/articles/life/science/2011/10/daniel_kahneman_s_thinking_fast_and_slow_reviewed_.html


Michael Gazzaniga on Neuroscience & Justice - http://edge.org/conversation/neuroscience-and-justice-gazzaniga


Literature


How to pick a sci-fi or fantasy book - http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/scifi_and_fantasy_book_guide.jpg

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Crime

Suketu Mehta interviews Raj Rajaratnam - http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/23/exclusive-raj-rajaratnam-reveals-why-he-didn-t-take-a-plea.html

Movies

Roger Ebert has compiled terms for movie cliches into a book - http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2011/10/25/eberts-glossary-of-movie-terms/

Comics

Why Kim Jong-il is safe - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/10/23/koma-comic-strip-reframe-kim-jong-oil/

Psychology

On Dolphin Therapy - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201110/dolphin-therapy-psycho-babble-meets-bad-science

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Mumbai

Check out the Maps and Guides sections on Mumbai Boss - http://mumbaiboss.com/category/guides/

What Bollywood stars are paid - http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/bollywood-s-revised-cheque-list

India

In Meghalaya, you're ostracised for demanding information - http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/ostracised-for-demanding-information

Philosophy

God as a projection - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/10/on-the-gods-of-horses.html

Writing

10 ideas for feature writers - http://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/ten-ideas-for-feature-articles/

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Travel


The first Indian to cross the Gobi desert - http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achiever-sucheta-kadethankar-first-indian-to-cross-the-gobi-desert/20111007.htm


Psychology


Social living is not a prerequisite for social learning , at least for red-footed tortoises - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/10/05/cold-blooded-cognition-social-cognition-in-a-non-social-reptile/


Sociology


Steven Pinker on the decline of violence - http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steven-pinker-on-decline-violence


Science


They dissolved their Nobel prizes - http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story?f=5500502&ft=1


The Wick Effect explains Spontaneous Human Combustion - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2011/10/12/burn-baby-burn-understanding-the-wick-effect/


Literature


Review of new book about John Hanning Speke and Richard Francis Burton, the men who searched for the source of the Nile, among other things - http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article791521.ece


General


Christopher Hitchens recommends books to an 8 year old - http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/mason-crumpacker-and-the-hitchens-reading-list/


Animals


World's deepest known animal discovered - http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/13-deepest-animal-unearthed


Films


Kees van Dijkhuizen's YouTube feed - http://www.youtube.com/user/keesvdijkhuizen

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General


On whether we all need Personal Coaching - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/03/111003fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all


The 'Periodic Table' table - http://theodoregray.com/periodictable/


Summary of  the 21st annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/09/30/dizzy-discus-throwers-horny-beer-bottle-beetles-and-the-wasabi-alarm-clock-the-2011-ig-nobels/


Animals


Smuggler caught with birds in pants - http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/09/hummingbird-smuggler-caught-with-his.html


X-rays of weird stuff pets swallowed - http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/vet-cover-stories/they-ate-what-2011-x-ray-contest-winners.aspx?cm_mmc=4996256


Animal Behaviour primer - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2011/10/01/bio101-what-creatures-do-animal-behavior/


Psychology


How Psychology solved a WW2 shipwreck mystery - http://www.npr.org/2011/09/27/140816037/how-psychology-solved-a-wwii-shipwreck-mystery

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Film


The Glasses picture quiz - http://www.empireonline.com/features/movie-glasses-picture-quiz/


Humour


All round condemnation of terror attacks kills one terrorist - http://www.fakingnews.com/2011/09/all-round-condemnation-of-terror-attacks-kills-one-terrorist/


Jobless for 10 years, JNU student insists US imperialism his biggest concern - http://www.fakingnews.com/2011/09/jobless-for-10-years-jnu-student-insists-us-imperialism-his-biggest-concern/

Animals


Poaching and Kaziranga - http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Number-One-With-a-Bullet.html?page=all


General


Rickshaw pullers: Delhi vs Colorado - http://ourdelhistruggle.com/2011/09/26/boulder-rickshaw/


Indian woman spends 16 months in Antarctica - http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/true-life/16-months-in-antarctica?



Women in India not allowed to work as make-up artists - http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/make-up-chauvinism



Photography


Judging photography competitions - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2011/09/26/i-dont-understand-photography-competition-judging/


Landscape photography cheats - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2011/09/28/lighting-a-landscape-photograph-pre-photoshop/


Demographics


Asia and the flight from marriage - http://www.economist.com/node/21526329


Grammar


When you should and shouldn't use hyphens - http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/369b4a34-bfc5-4e10-9ef8-444f3f7974dc.aspx

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Humour

Shaving truths - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/15/funny-graphs-ill-drown-in-this/

Evolution of the Hipster. How many do you know? - http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/4/2010/10/1c953a1c422b9e6eb4d05117716b0ea2/original.jpg

What you think of after watching a romantic movie - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/20/funny-graphs-ill-never-have-your-quirky-love-story/

Animals

Wildlife advocate proposes poisoning rhino horns to protect them from poachers - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2011/09/15/return-toxic-avenger-rhino-advocate-poisoning-horns-poachers/

Ant-lions have lunar clocks - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2011/09/19/the-mighty-ant-lion/

Business

New company offers 'corporate libraries' - http://www.kwench.in/kwench/newHome.do

General

Last surviving witness of Abraham Lincoln's assassination appearing on a 1956 US game show - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk

Dancing JCBs! - http://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Oman/Dancing-Diggers-show-to-be-held-this-week-during-Infra-Oman-event

Journalism

Check out this free online Science Journalism course - http://www.wfsj.org/course/en/

Science

Robot fish help control pollution - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/09/19/synchronized-swimming-patrolling-for-pollution-with-robotic-fish/

An interview with Richard Dawkins - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/science/20dawkins.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=science

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Humour

My favourite Gordon Freeman quotes - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/09/funny-graphs-deep-stuff-man/

How IT people see each other - http://www.bonkersworld.net/roles-in-the-it-world/

Assailant suffers injuries from fall - https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OAuHkOy43rk/TmGTKqmXqmI/AAAAAAAAOBw/zGiqN8UrCko/s800/3toox.jpg

Typical Ping Pong game - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/10/funny-graphs-its-all-covered-in-hair-now/

Just Chilling - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/09/13/koma-comic-strip-tenso-just-chillin/

God's day off - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/09/13/koma-comic-strip-gods-day-off/

Alleged gossip from Goldman Sachs' elevators - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-tweets-from-gselevator-the-gossipy-twitter-account-goldman-wants-to-shut-down-2011-8#-8

This spoof of 'Open letter to a Delhi boy' is funny - http://www.schmmuck.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-mumbai-eunuch.html
(For context, here's the original - http://raagshahana.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-delhi-boy.html)

Music

Check out this acoustic cover of 'Rolling in the Deep' by Siddharth Basrur - http://soundcloud.com/arman-and-sid/adele-rolling-in-the-deep/ (For context, here's the original version by Adele - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&ob=av2e)

Technology

Enter the Petabyte - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/07/funny-graphs-now-youre-thinking-with-petabytes/

Business

Rediff reports on a new cooling tech start-up - http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achievers-this-start-up-is-all-set-to-be-worth-rs-1000-crore-in-10-years/20110914.htm

Movies

Unnoticed plotholes in famous films - http://www.cracked.com/article_19435_6-movie-plot-holes-you-never-noticed-thanks-to-editing.html

Society

On gender equality in Kerala - http://www.mutiny.in/2011/09/14/an-ode-to-the-breastless-keralite-women/

Apparently, Omar Abdullah married a minor (going by the comments) - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Omar-Abdullah-divorcing-wife-of-17-years/articleshow/9989687.cms

Science

5 iconic science images, and why they're wrong - http://scienceblogs.com/sciencepunk/2011/09/five_iconic_science_images_and.php

Psychology

Knowledgeable individuals protect the wisdom of crowds - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/13/knowledgeable-individuals-protect-the-wisdom-of-crowds/

Animals

The Nile crocodile is actually 2 species - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/14/nile-crocodile-is-actually-two-species-and-the-egyptians-knew-it/

Is this creature caught in the Philippines, the largest crocodile ever? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14800299

Parasites that attack and control brains - http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/parasite-brain-control/

On the futility of attempting to count species - http://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/08/counting-species/

The Pacu fish has human-looking teeth - http://ellerg.blogspot.com/2010/10/fish-with-human-like-teeth.html

Mumbai

City's best art supplies store? - http://mumbaiboss.com/2011/09/14/ask-a-shopkeer-himalaya-stationery-mart/

Media

The Indian media is at risk of being non-objective - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/09/the-problem-with-the-indian-media-and-why-you-should-care-by-hartosh-singh-bal.html

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Animals

Sharks DO get cancer - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2011/09/01/mythbusting-101-sharks-will-cure-cancer/

Humour

Meta Infograph - http://flowingdata.com/2010/02/15/data-underload-9-big-graphic-blueprint/

Uncapped Pakistani youngster announces Test comeback - http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/story/519134.html

Music

Rock Timeline - http://www.cracked.com/article_19423_rock-timeline-from-classic-rock-to-modern-crap-5Bcomic5D.html

Psychology

This article combines 2 of my favourite subjects - comparative psychology & behavioural economics. When it comes to money, monkeys are irrational too - http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/90920

What can a highway engineer learn from a neuroscientist - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/08/18/mathematics-cities-and-brains-what-can-a-highway-engineer-learn-from-a-neuroscientist/

Pop Culture

Where's Wall E? - http://gadgetsin.com/uploads/2011/08/wheres_wall_e_poster_2.jpg

T.V

No soup for her - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L06udJXhfK0&feature=player_embedded#

Philosophy

Christian Capitalism and Socialism - http://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/08/christian-capitalism-and-socialism/

Politics

How to Kill a Report (The govt. version) - http://pragmatic.nationalinterest.in/2011/02/19/how-to-kill-a-report-the-government-version/

Journalism

25 Commandments for Journalists - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/jan/19/manifesto-simple-scribe-commandments-journalists

General

World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ravensburger-jigsaw-puzzle-32000-pcs-Keith-Harring-Doub-/190511448405

In defense of P.G Wodehouse - http://www.drones.com/orwell.html

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Language

What's a Congruent Conflation? - http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2011/06/08/congruent-conflations-in-a-thumbnail/

Public Service

A website that tells you if it's a dry day in Maharashtra - http://dryday.in/maharashtra/

Business

Pawan Hans is accident prone - http://openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-flying-coffins-of-the-northeast?

Family politics in India's largest law firm - http://business.in.com/article/boardroom/indias-biggest-in-law-amarchand-mangaldas/15382/0

General

The 10th US President born in 1790 has a living grandson - http://www.who2.com/blog/2009/03/wait-john-tylers-grandson-is-still.html

Maslow's Hierarchy has been updated - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100819112118.htm

A radical pessimist's guide to the future - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1750609/singlepage/#articlecontent

Food

Pune's Burger Barn has a challenge - http://pune.thetossedsalad.com/2011/06/burger-barn-wtf-challenge/

Art

A Banksy work - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2011/08/22/cleaning-up-lascaux-paintings/

Health

Decision Fatigue - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html

The truth about cold water - http://gcaptain.com/cold_water/?11198

T.V

The Big Bang Theory team takes questions at Comic Con - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxEAauNTk8k&feature=youtu.be

Animals

Snail eating a worm - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xNxQfVNVR8&feature=youtu.be

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