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Solzhenitsyn is dead...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/03/solzhenitsyn.dead/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn My impressions of Solzhenitsyn is mixed. On one hand I have high regards for his humanitarian contributions in exposing the cruelties...

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Things I learned in my last trip to Kerala
I still love rain: I landed on the 22nd to the midst of a severe spring depression in the Arabian Sea. Really torrential rains for almost three days without a pause. A very nice reminder of the monsoons. Yes, it was disastrous, with large amounts of crops...

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Northwest passage opens up
Yesterday ESA finally confirmed that the Northwest Passage has opened up and is free of ice year round. A couple of weeks ago, I was watching a program about global warming and this guy was predicting the opening up of Northwest Passage and that being...

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We need to slow down
I was going through the hundreds of very interesting comments on the Grand Challenges For Engineering global brainstorming project. While reading them, I was wondering what I think the challenges that we face. Unlike a lot of people I am not worried about...

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