The US can go to Jupiter but they can’t get men out from some ice in Antarctica. There is an article in this month’s National Geographic about a plane which crashed in the Antarctic in 1946. They were claimed by some to be the last casualties of WW2 since this happened the day before Truman […]
Found a useful, quick, how-to list for using Testflight to share your beta app. Cross-posting from here. 1. Create an account on TestFlight (http://testflightapp.com) and with “Developer” option checked. 2. Log in to the TestFlight web site and “Add a team” for your app. 3. Add teammates, either testers or developers. (PS. Recruiting testers from […]
Programming has always been seen as a boy-thing in the US and UK. Wendy Hall explains why Indian girls seem to not suffer from this gross and inaccurate generalization. What went wrong in the UK/US? she says: In earlier years, up to a third of the students studying computer science at the university had been women. […]
I had once tried to walk the distance between 2 stations on the London underground thinking they were not very far apart. How one can be fooled by this official map… I’ve now found the geographically correct map for the London underground! Apparently there are some stations which are so close to each other, its […]
Philip Roth, author of the Human Stain, faced a weird situation recently. He wanted to make some changes to the Wikipedia article about his own book – which claimed the work was ”allegedly inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.” According to Philip, however, the work was inspired “rather, by an unhappy event in the life […]
I am guilty. I am an incredibly randomized person. I have more than one folder on my computer named random. I have a few facebook photo albums named random-this and random-that and I use the word, consistently, at least once a day in conversation. In fact, I had sudden urges to use the word random […]
I have been pretty excited about the prospect of being able to take classes online for free taught by some of the leaders in their respective fields. Coursera is truly on the cutting edge of education. But I am one of the many students who have yet to see myself through a course from start […]
