14 July, 2010 (15:32) | 5. Sat or Sun | By: nileshbabu
Why aren’t we inundated with time travelers from the future? They should be here right now, knowing full well that we’re interested in such topics as time travel to explain just how they accomplish it from a future tens of thousands of years in the future.
- Stephen Hawking
via: ListVerse.com.
Why aren’t we inundated with time travelers from the future?
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14 July, 2010 (13:14) | 1. Mon | By: nileshbabu
Desperate heroin users in a few African cities have begun engaging in a practice that is so dangerous it is almost unthinkable: they deliberately inject themselves with another addict’s blood, researchers say, in an effort to share the high or stave off the pangs of withdrawal.
The practice, called flashblood or sometimes flushblood, is not common, but has been reported in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on the island of Zanzibar and in Mombasa, Kenya.
via NYTimes.com.
HT: Marginal Revolution.
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8 April, 2010 (15:32) | 1. Mon | By: nileshbabu
And that’s what they should get, regardless of their race, origin and gender.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 8 — In an unprecedented move, Datuk Seri Najib Razak is taking two independent MPs to the United States next week, while ordering fellow Barisan Nasional (BN) lawmakers to stay behind and ensure all government bills are approved in the current parliamentary sitting.
The spanking new Royal Malaysian Navy Scorpene-type submarine KD Tunku Abdul Rahman, which recently suffered technical setbacks, is now ready for dive trials.
Anyway, we have submarine that initially can’t dive. And PM is taking 2 independent MPs to US next week. All of these cost money. Our tax payer’s money.
And here’s a family that, was denied assistance from govt.
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2 April, 2010 (17:29) | 1. Mon | By: nileshbabu
I suggest that we stop voting politicians who says the dumbest thing. I mean, we want the nation to be led by them? Honestly. Who will ever take them seriously ? I am not saying that they have to be perfect; but they should have the ability to think before speak.
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