07 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Hair Documentary

Hair… Covering the bodies of every species of mammal, it seems to connect us to the natural world, a reminder of our primate past. But as human beings, with a capacity for abstract thought, we have taken a simple evolutionary adaptation and endowed it with great meaning and complexity. As one of the most important [...]

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27 April 2009 ~ 58 Comments

Gurbani Anywhere – Bani on your Windows Mobile Phone

So my buddy Mr. Sikhnet contacted me and pointed me to this intriguing app called Gurbani Anywhere. This App promises to “enable fast and efficient methods to search & display Gurbani, on a truly mobile platform.” So I registered on the website and waited (not-so)patiently for a several hours to get my membership approved. (Update: [...]

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30 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision

A new study that was fundedby the National Eye Institute and the Office of Naval Research published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience shows that people who played fighting games on their PCs became up to a 58 percent better at perceiving fine contrast differences, an important aspect of eyesight. This is particularly significant because [...]

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28 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Recent Researches in Sikhism

Today I give you a pretty cool book entitled “Recent Researches in Sikhism” by Jasbir Singh Mann & Kharak Singh. Published in 1990 this book presents and clear and consice break down of all the “Modern” looks into the Sikh religion. While it was published almost 20 years ago, I can assure you almost all [...]

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