A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services and even handed out birth and death certificates
Tag: india
Skeleton Black Market
Investigative journalist Scott Carney has been working for the last half a year or so on a story about grave robbers in Calcutta who steal skeletons and sell them to medical supply companies in the US and Europe. “To research the story I combed the state of West Bengal and saw huge piles of police-confiscated bones. I even spoke to some of the people who deflesh human bodies for a living.”
makes sense, since we already outsource many of our medical studies to india as well. medicine will be increasingly catering to indian people i suppose 🙂
Does not compute
india:
only 13% had a computer (only 23% had ever tried one) and 39% lacked even a phone. 75% of those without a phone plan to get one. But ask people if they plan to get a PC, and they will shrug.
Sunday
Sunday gives busy people the resources of a 24/7 personal assistant, available via telephone and Internet, at a fraction of the cost of other options.
The Outsourced Life
I decided I needed to outsource my worry. For the last few weeks I’ve been tearing my hair out because a business deal is taking far too long to close. I asked Honey if she would be interested in tearing her hair out in my stead. Just for a few minutes a day. She thought it was a wonderful idea. “I will worry about this every day,” she wrote. “Do not worry.”
i would totally pay for someone to do all the nonsense for various bureaucracies.
Is TV good for Indian women?
The effects are large, equivalent to 5 years of education, and move gender attitudes in rural areas much closer to those in urban areas. These results have important policy implications, as India and others attempt to decrease bias against women.
hand-lettered newspaper
The Musalman, a daily liberal Muslim paper published in Chennai, India. Local calligraphers letter the Urdu stories, then the paper is run on an American surplus offset printer salvaged in the 1950s.
pretty!
Google Maps India
Google Maps for the country of India now features the ability to search for points of interest and addresses.
meanwhile, the much touted yahoo maps india finds not one of these examples.
2007-07-26: welcome to crowdsourced google maps
Medicine stagnation
Opportunities to develop cutting edge medical practices are fast disappearing in the United States. When it comes to developing a new, improved way to treat patients, he can do it “quicker, develop it better, and have the ingredients to really take it much further” than he could in the same amount of time in the US Here, he can combine his clinical practice with scientific research and technological development, all at a breakneck pace. Clinical research and translational research is down 70% in the US
First, he blames “the lobbies, restrictions, confidentiality problems, insurance companies regulating what needs to be done, what can be done, what cannot be done…the usual ambulance chasing that occurs.” In the US there’s too much red tape.
Second, there’s an “inhibition of intellect coming together.” Because “provisions for funding are few and far between,” there is a huge amount of “talent divided among 200 universities” that don’t always collaborate.
us medical research too risk averse. and that does not even factor in the bible thumpers yet
Jatropha
the tree is widely used for getting biodiesel in India, and is being promoted as a very easy to grow biofuel crop in 100s of projects throughout India and the third world.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 