No more mediocre life
This will probably have no impact to your day job but, it is interesting though. NYTimes reports a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, offers a new light on gravity. But what if it’s (gravity) all an illusion, a sort of cosmic frill, or a side effect of something else [...]
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 [...]
About 10 years ago I was having my annual holiday party, and my niece had come with her newly minted M.B.A. boyfriend. As he looked around the room, he noted that my employees seemed happy. I told him that I thought they were. Then, figuring I would take his new degree for a test drive, [...]
photo credit: mariachily At 28,251 feet, K2 is almost 800 feet shorter than Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. But while Everest has been largely demythologized by a seemingly constant stream of films, books and magazine articles, K2 — distant and reclusive — has retained an aura of mystery and danger. Among hard-core mountaineers its [...]
photo credit: stefernie In 2002, Eddie Murphy starred in The Adventure of Pluto Nash – a USD 100 million movie but worldwide tickets sales was only USD 7 million. Also, Eddie Murphy charges USD 20 million a movie plus a cut of the gross sales. If his movies no longer spells box-office, why Hollywood studios [...]
