Monthly Archives: March 2015
Why ‘Mein Kampf’ in 2016 will be more ‘readable’ than ever, not less
The first four fifths of this article are fascinating. It’s titled “The future of Mein Kempf in a meme world”. Though I’ve not consumed historically significant events with consistent interest, World War II has been an exception by far. And belonging to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, attention spans, crowd-sourcing, Gavriel Rosenfeld, knowledge dissemination, Mein Kampf, memetics, Millennials, Nazism, network effects, virality
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NASA readies to test history’s largest, most powerful booster for its new rocket
NASA’s massive heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, which will one day ferry humans to deep-space destinations and back, has become notorious for the scale of engineering backing it. In September 2014, agency administrator Charles Bolden had unveiled the world’s largest … Continue reading
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Tagged Ares rocket, Charles Bolden, Constellation Program, deep-space exploration, Delta IV, NASA, Orbital ATK, Orion crew capsule, Saturn V, Space Launch System, Space Shuttle program
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Curious Bends – India’s business-friendly budget, vanishing women farmers, a water-supply scare and more
1. For its ignorance of human capital, the 2015 Budget was a step back into the Third World “Oddly, the recent Budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) junks these insights and goes back to the days of Jawaharlal Nehru, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 NDA Budget, desertification of Mongolia, human capital, Jean Dreze, water stress, water-borne diseases, women farmers
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