Life is all about your wife, says Vivek Oberoi

Source: NDTV

Vivek Oberoi talks about his friendship with Sanjay Dutt, his equation with Ram Gopal Varma and making babies in the future. You are doing back-to-back films with Sanjay Dutt... (Smiles) He is to be blamed for it. Whenever we have met, he has sh ...
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Census to state how rapidly Canada is aging

Source: Canada.com

Canada is about to step in front of the mirror and startle itself at how much grey hair has accumulated since the last national headcount was conducted in 2006. The second major batch of data from the 2011 census is scheduled for release Tuesday by ...
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Life before plastic

Source: Boing Boing

Stewart Brand sums up Susan Freinkel's Long Now talk: "What Common Objects Used to Be Made Of," a history of the world before plastic: “Bakelite was invented in 1907 to replace the beetle excretion called shellac (“It took 1 ...
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Lee Rich, Co-Founder of Legendary Production Company Lorimar, Dies at 85

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Producer Lee Rich, the co-founder of the legendary Lorimar production company — the home of classic TV dramas The Waltons and Dallas and films such as An Officer and a Gentleman — has died. He was 85. In a entertainment career that spanned more t ...
Full article at: Hollywood Reporter  More like this  19 hours ago, 1:57pm CDT

Troubling Forecasts for Federal R&D

Source: American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science

See the full program for the 2012 AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy. Political conflict and threats of deep cuts to the federal government’s investment in research and development could jeopardize the United States’ power of innovation, with si ...
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Is Long-Term Care Insurance a Good Idea?

Source: PBS NewsHour

By: Paul Solman Registered nurse Susan Eager pays a house call visit to a patient in Denver, Colo. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on ...
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Limits We are Reaching – Oil, Debt, and Others

Source: Energy Bulletin

The world is clearly reaching many limits. This graphic below shows how I see man interacting with natural systems, back before man discovered fire and back before man became intelligent enough to kill off whole species. Figure 1. My vi ...
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The Fork in the Road for Health Care

Source: The New York Times

Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. He has some financial interests in the health care field. Milliman , the global actuarial and employee benefit consulting firm, released its annual Milliman Medical Index for 2012 on May 15. ...
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The majority of the U.S.' unemployed have attended college.

Source: Wall Street Oasis

If a college grad is currently in a graduate program they don't count towards the unemployed do they? “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.” – Warren Buffett this counts the morons that never fin ...
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