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Book Review: Painting Borges – Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature

Book Review: Painting Borges – Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature

Posted by | Jun 4, 2012 |

Author: Jorge J.E. Gracia Publisher: SUNY Press – 303 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar As the title states, this book combines art, literature and philosophy. It contains philosophical interpretations of artistic plates that relate to literature. You may have guessed otherwise, but the artistic interpretation of literature is nothing new. As I first started to read this book, I said to myself: “Hmm this seems to be something new, a new approach to understanding literature.” But I was mistaken. In the Introduction, Jorge J.E. Gracia recounts his childhood and youth wherein, when was ten years old and fell...

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14-Year-Old Indian-American Snigdha Nandipati Wins 2012 U.S. National Spelling Bee, Becoming the 5th Desi to Become Spelling Champ

14-Year-Old Indian-American Snigdha Nandipati Wins 2012 U.S. National Spelling Bee, Becoming the 5th Desi to Become Spelling Champ

Posted by | Jun 4, 2012 | , ,

By The Hindu Oxon Hill, Maryland, May 31, 2012 – Snigdha Nandipati heard a few words she didn’t know during the National Spelling Bee, but never when she stepped to the microphone. Calm and collected throughout, the 14-year-old Indian-American from San Diego spelled “guetapens,” a French-derived word that means ambush, snare or trap, to win the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. She beat out eight other finalists in the nerve-wracking, brain-busting competition and became the fifth Desi to become the nation’s spelling champ. After she spelled the word, she looked from side to side, as if...

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Book Review: Aristotle’s Concept of Chance

Book Review: Aristotle’s Concept of Chance

Posted by | Jun 4, 2012 |

Author: John Dudley Publisher:  SUNY Press – 469 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar Is it by chance that people win in gambling? Is it by chance insurance companies make money – collecting more in premiums than paying out in claims? And is it by chance that only a few people business people become millionaires while the most of them do not? The subject of chance is interesting and intriguing not only to philosophers but to others as well :  to those who want to win at gambling, to those who want to win in the insurance game, and...

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16-Year-Old Indian Student Develops Math Equation That May Fill Gap In Isaac Newton’s Formulas Relating to Physics of Falling Objects

16-Year-Old Indian Student Develops Math Equation That May Fill Gap In Isaac Newton’s Formulas Relating to Physics of Falling Objects

Posted by | Jun 4, 2012 |

By Alan Boyle – MSNBC A research paper that claims to fill in a gap in Isaac Newton’s formulas for the physics of falling objects has drawn worldwide attention to a 16-year-old student in Germany, but physicists are reserving judgment until they’ve seen the proof. The focus of the buzz is Shouryya Ray, an Indian-born student who won second prize this month in the math and informatics category for Germany’s Jugend Forscht student science competition. Ray tackled a couple of longstanding puzzlers for physics students: How do you account for air resistance in calculating the trajectory of ball thrown...

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U.S. Jobless Rate: 12.5% in May, When Uncounted BLS Numbers Are Added.

U.S. Jobless Rate: 12.5% in May, When Uncounted BLS Numbers Are Added.

Posted by | Jun 1, 2012 | ,

By BIZ INDIA Washington, June 01, 2012 – The United States’ Bureau of Labor of Labor Statistics reported today that some 69,000 people found jobs in May, and the total number of unemployed people is at 12.72 million. But the number of people looking for full -time positions who could find only part-time work in the U.S. increased by 282,000, from 2.367 million in April to 2.649 million in May The labor agency’s count of 12.72 million. does not include the 2.7 million people who were without jobs but were not counted as unemployed by BLS because they had...

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