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Friday, October 10, 2014

Nobel Peace Prize to Malala! Here are three videos including a song by Laal

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by Salman Hameed In the off chance you haven't heard, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi - an Indian child rights campaigner ...
Thursday, October 09, 2014

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) disrupted by protesters

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by Salman Hameed After years of court cases, it looks like the construction for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is about to start (s...
Friday, October 03, 2014

Moon Sighting or Moon Fighting?

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by Salman Hameed Last last year, I had conversation with Akif Khan of Rationalist Society of Pakistan on the topic of lunar calendar con...
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Video Contest for Eqbal Ahmed Centre for Public Education

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by Salman Hameed The Eqbal Ahmed Centre for Pubic Education is soliciting 8-minute videos for on the topic of Pakistan: How to Make a ...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Sachal Studios Orchestra plays Beatles' Eleanor Rigby

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by Salman Hameed For your Sunday evening, here is a fascinating interpretation of Beatles'  Eleanor Rigby  by Sachal Studios Orchestr...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

A bunch of articles dealing with ISIS, Beheadings, and Islamophobia

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by Salman Hameed The territory currently controlled by ISIS (from Wikipedia)  There are a lot people commentating on ISIS and what ...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Two excellent short animated films about Wallace and Leeuwenhoek

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by Salman Hameed Here is an good introduction to Alfred Russell Wallace (co-disoverer of the concept of natural selection) and Antonie va...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Too easy to shut-down liberal religious voices in Pakistan

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by Salman Hameed It is becoming a challenge to write on issues like this at a time when Islamophobia is also becoming rampant in US and ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

A new book series on "International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society"

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by Salman Hameed If you are following this blog then I'm assuming that you have at least some interest in matters related to science ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Some Twilight Zone for your Sunday evening

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by Salman Hameed In preparation for co-teaching a science fiction short film class next semester, I've been watching some Twilight Zo...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

New book on Egyptian revolution and social media

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by Salman Hameed The role of social media was debated extensively at the time of the Egyptian Arab Spring . There is a new book out, Revo...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

"Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story" on PBS tonight

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This looks interesting and definitely has an unfamiliar storyline. I will be in class at the time and will catch it later in the week. T...
Friday, September 05, 2014

In defense of a one-way trip to Mars and a comment on the 'Mars fatwa'

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by Salman Hameed Martian landscape from NASA’s Curiosity Rover. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Yes, humans will b...
Thursday, September 04, 2014

Classes this semester: "Aliens" and "Evolution in the Public Sphere"

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by Salman Hameed Students are back and classes have started (nooooo!). It is quite likely that some of the posts here will follow the cla...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

A spectacular animation showing the movement of Western culture over the past 2000 years

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by Salman Hameed Posts have been light this summer and will continue to do so for another week (just in time for the beginning of classes...