Jun 25, 2007

Global CogniMaps aka Links-shower 07jun18-24

The first Global CogniMap aka Links Shower had a meandering introduction which began with a mention of the dividing attribute of human intelligence.

If you see a group or coummunity, - or even a country - where, in comparison,  people are divided - and if there are no obvious causes for this division, as for instance, on the Land of Abraham and Moses - you can safely conclude that the people in that grouping are, perhaps, more intelligent than is good for them.

India is a good case in point. People here are divided in so many which ways that most public debate gets bogged down in reconfiguring those divisions, not removing them. You can also see that, globally, Indians are perceived to be very intelligent.

They have to be because, in their own country, they are constantly juggling through these divisions to get ahead in their lives.

With the same fervor as cool aka 'with-it' Anglo Saxons read People magazine, the devout north Indian Hindoos read the-most-popular-by-historical-default monthly magazine Kalyäñ, published, non-stop since 1923, from Gôrakhpûr, a city named after a saint. 

There are similarities: The former tracks the celebrities and has all manner of trivia, e.g. which of the Clinton dogs has a ear longer than its counterpart on the other side of the head. We here read Kalyäñ because it fishes out for its subscribers nuggets from our "Old Books" that reveal what our Gods had been up to.

During those long godly times, there were no papparazi with telescopic lenses that could apparantly 'see' all the way to the 'heavens-beyond-the-known-Universe'. So, it would be safe to assume most of this Kalyäñ stuff is imaginary. If you think that's a strike against it, I have two good reasons with which I can contradict you.


You (a)  are free to take the information with a pinch of salt; this will take care of sodium defficiency. They say ions of this element is what you need to keep your brain bathed so it doesn't turn turtle, and (b) find comfort in the evidence that your presumed ancestors had heads that were overspilling with the grey matter. 
 

Kalyäñ's current issue is focused on the Ganges River. Its articles are about the religious attributes of the river and I would be surprised if anyone using the English language can get them right.

One learned piece goes into explaining the 108 Sanskrit names of the Ganges that made me go, "Oof!" But if there's any information there that tells you about the woeful condition that 'holy' river is in today, I may have missed it. 
 
In the Links Shower from the last week below, there will, at most three or four links pointing to the same story. You can safely conclude that life for you, in compariosn, is still easier. There is an incomplete selection from celebrity guru Deepak Chopra's 351 blogs that's been sprinkled over them. The man seems to have a perfect Global mix. And the listen links have not be separated out because they fit, perhaps for this one time. better in the categories.  

By the way, if you find a site that lists the many names the the Rhine, or the Nile, the Missisipi, or, the Amazon post a comment to link me up.
IT Technology Engineering Energy
Police smash paedophile ring
Half of Britons 'e-mail addicts'
ISS computer woes irk Europe
The Tech Lab: Niklas Zennstrom
The Tech Lab: Dave Winer  Tele-link for power supply
From here to cyberspace  E-vote 'threat' to UK democracy
Glimpsing the mobile future Shoot first, ask questions later?
The craze to digitally self-chronicle
Leopard operating system for Mac computers
mPay the embedded blackberry for no-cash payements  
Expectations high in countdown to iPhone
New INTEL chips on the block 
Yahoo to launch internet for mobiles in 12 countries
Social networking sites use GPS to track users' whereabouts
Can Jerry Yang turn around troubled web giant Yahoo?
Sony's bite-sized versions of classic TV shows on MySpace
Protect your broadband account - TT-KH-TechFile
Skype's Niklas Zennstroem on disruptive technologies
Now wirelessly charge your mobile phone - A Parthasarathy
Shuttle repaired on spacewalk
Atlantis heads back to Earth
Computer tracking reviewed
Badger cull 'not necessary'
Bid to cut UK carbon footprint
YouTube founders interview
Science
Until Fri audioListen to Science in Action to hear Professor James Dumesic on Dimethylfuran's superiority to ethanol
Chris France explains how biomass-to-energy be done
Michael Emerman tell why humans & not primates host HIV
First ever test-tube sharks in New South Wales, Australia 
Health-Biology-Climate-Agriculture
Protein mutations link to autism How Unlimited Is Our Brain?
Coffee 'could prevent eye tremor'
Coffee drinking protects against an eyelid spasm
Curbing the obesity epidemic
Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height
Million-year-old forest discovered in east China
Children of smokers have higher levels of toxin
Agent Orange appeal in US court
Sea squirt drug 'treats cancer'
Child mental health ills 'rife'
Measles kills Nigerian children
Rise in UK abortion numbers
Tories pledge 'independent NHS'
Pureed baby food is 'unnatural'
Rose-hip 'remedy' for arthritis
Widow urges new laws on suicide
Public wants NHS 'de-politicised'
Key hearing loss gene identified
Measles kills Nigerian children
Heart survival 'higher in obese'
UK endorses girls' cancer jab
Breastfeeding declines in Asia
Huntington's hope from lab sheep
Gene cancer tests 'need review'
Libya sets date for medic ruling
Ban on rerun of eggs TV advert
Incidence and impact of nosocomial infections
Can planemakers meet environmental concerns?
Vibrating condom arouses fierce debate in India
Israel outlaws animal testing for dumb uses
US Congressional House overturns abortion aid ban
Until Mon audioListen to Health Check in which
Geoffrey Pasvol talks about an easier TB Tesing method
Haemophilics get relief from "Factor 8" L1-L2
Spirituality slows Alzheimer's Disease - Dr Yakir Kaufman
Wife inheritance & HIV amongst Kenya's Luo tribe.
Until Wed audioListen to Discovery to learn on Toothpaste 
Business
Monet masterpiece sells for £18m
Brussels braced for vodka battle
ICICI Bank FPO oversubscribed 1.29 times in 2 hours 
RBI launches multi-lingual site for common person
Ambanis & bourses: made for each other
Tata Motors rolls out new Magic & Winger
18 RelianceFresh outlets in Cuttack-BBS in 6 months
Temasek appetite for ICICI pie UK hotelier partners Emaar
Sterlite shines on NYSE debut Jet issue to raise Rs 1645cr
Bhel extra effort to meet power target
Yahoo Inc taps Jerry Yang to replace CEO Terry Semel
Indian business forum in Singapore
Hyundai Heavy Industries to set up plant in Chakan
NCDEX seeks unified licence - 7 states approached
Tetra Pak keen to tap dairy industry
China betters India on 'consequences of economic success'
Kingfisher to buy 50 Airbus aircraft
iGATE sets up new centre in Bangalore
TCS issues over two-lakh digital signature certificates
India-Canada Free Trade Agreement task force
India-Iran gas pipeline pact by next Luly
Amul to open 10,000 parlours by 2010
Autoline calls off deal to acquire Belgium firm Stokota
Wockhardt gets USFDA nod for Cefprozil tabs
Indiabulls in talks with MIDC on stake in JV
Rockwell Collins expands tie-up with HCL Technologies
1,048 acres to Jindal aluminium company in Vizianagaram
Law to curb MNCs' entry in agri-market on cards
Israeli firm to develop commercial centre in Kerala
Bhutan's GDP growth hinges on Tala project
Thaksin Shinawatra bids £81.6m for Manchester City
Starbucks in Ethiopia coffee vow US retalks Korea trade pact
Strike bites in Nigerian cities  Yen falls to four-year dollar low
Ghana 'will be an African tiger'
Blackberry ban for French elite
Murdoch 'in talks' on Yahoo deal
Whitbread in Indian hotel move
Strike disrupts flights in India 
QE2 set to become floating hotel
Qatar 'eyes Sainsbury's takeover'
Deutsche Telekom in union deal
Aeroflot commitment lifts Airbus
China calls for currency fairness
Chinese oil firm plans share sale 
Buoyant industry cheers as Paris kicks off 
Airbus superjumbo for private use
The Indian Market Is A Donkey - Mark Tully
Baby formula marketing - a global problem - G Monbiot
Prompt regulations for economy to gallop - A mukherjee
Freud portrait breaks art record
Fired worker wins Wal-Mart case
Japan's May exports boost surplus
Dow Jones chiefs to take bid lead
France starts African cash probe
Children and Pakistan's Taleban
BP sells Siberia stake to Gazprom
Evanomics - BBC Economics Editor's blog - Glastonbury
Swaminomics - Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar's articles list
Ancient gold unearthed in Sudan Using Japanese grey power
India - A land of "Medical Tourists & Medical Refugees"
Family is a faraway world. Friends are the backbone
Sponsoring a music festival is no longer enough 
Can planemakers meet environmental concerns?
Tony Blair's many job opportunities in the US
Equity firms in spotlight
Deutsche Telekom union deal
LSE in merger talks with Milan 
Russian commercial jet on show
Ghanaians discuss their country's oil find
Until Tues audioListen to Global Business which takes a look The pharmaceutical industry  - Pfizer, Ranbaxy, ChemGenex
Features
Rig Veda among heritage items in UNESCO culture list
Ghanaian and Kenyan teacher exchange classrooms
Until Mon audioListen to Culture Shock to learn about
Pay-to-stay prisons in California @ $100 a night
Singapore' drinks for the indecisive "Anything & Whatever"
Australia's Indigenous weather knowledge project 
Until Tues audioListen to The Word in which are discussed: 
Sebastian Faulkes' novel on a conscience-free serial killer
Dickens World theme park in Kent. Serious fans interested?
Crowe & Oltermann's How I Write: TheSecretLivesOfAuthors Until Thurs audioListen to The Beat - Glastonbury Festival 
Until Sun audioListen to The Ticket it features Christopher Hitchens' book God is not Great –The Case Against Religion
Dinaw Mengestu's book Children of the Revolution 
Amiina, Icelandic all-girl group that plays on 146 instruments
A discussion on La Vie En Rose a movie on Edith Piaf's life
World
Madagascar leader is mixing church and state
India


Image provided by NASA shows the profile of the atmosphere and a setting sun. This feature was photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station recently. Photo: AP/NASA

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