An Israeli blogger, Nir Ofir has a brilliant idea:

In one long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs, Preferably, Blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown Blogs, [...]

It was brought to my attention that I was mentioned in the Christian Science Monitor, which made me super excited. I was eager to find any sound bites from my interview with Charles Levinson - Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, who interviewed me over the phone while I was in Jordan (he was in [...]

Should Scientists Mix God and Science?

At a recent scientific conference at City College of New York, a student in the audience rose to ask the panelists an unexpected question: “Can you be a good scientist and believe in God?”
The answer was quick and sharp. “No!” declared Herbert A. Hauptman, a Nobel laureates who shared the [...]

Very interesting POV. Harini Calamur (TV producer, film maker, writer & teacher) writes:

When Osama asks for Bush and Blair’s head - he is a nasty terrorist.

But, when Pat Robertson, the founder of Christian Coalition and a former Presidential candidate and someone who makes our rabid right wingers seem like flower power children - calls [...]

Yes, it’s Google’s own instant messaging system, for text and also voice communications.

Google Talk goes beyond text-based instant messaging using a computer keyboard to let users hold voice conversations with other computer users.

If confirmed, the combined computer text and voice-calling service would put Google in competition with a similar service pioneered by Skype, which has [...]

A hospital doctor in the poor rural area in Vietnam has used his PC and some cheap parts to create a homemade endoscope.

Endoscope is a minimally invasive diagnostic procedure used to evaluate the interior surfaces of an organ by inserting a small scope in the body. Through the scope, doctors are able to see lesions.

The [...]

http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/ forum is providing free access to its pornographic content in exchange for pictures of war.

The forum has a section titled: “Soldier Submitted Pictures Of Iraq And Afghanistan - Open Access”, which reads:

1. Pictures From Iraq And Afghanistan - General
Pictures in this forum were submitted to the site by members of the United States [...]

In the wake of this month’s military coup, Mauritania has established its first ministry for education and scientific research. Can you believe that?

Iraq says Jordan harbouring ‘terrorists’…
The Iraqi government accused Jordan on Sunday of allowing members of Saddam Hussein’s family living there to fund a network seeking to destabilize Iraq.

Government spokesman Laith Kubba said the former Iraqi dictator’s relatives in Jordan have “huge amounts of money” to support efforts to revive his Baath Party organizations.

“We don’t want [...]

Here is a tip for searching blogs by country at blogger.com:

To search say, UAE, follow this link: http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=l&loc0=AE

See the last two letters at the end of that URL - AE? That�s the country code for UAE. So all what you need to do to search blogs by country is replacing these two letters with [...]