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UPDATE (10/10/2014): PBS Series NOVA did an interesting episode on this topic.. take a look here. Nova: Why Planes Vanish (Video) UPDATE (12/29/2014): Sadly another aircraft has been AirAsia Flight QZ8501, has gone missing, while this incident seems a bit less mysterious than MH370 , it again underscores the need for real-time…
Why Planet Money Rocks! Planet Money (NPR) podcasts are awesome! the podcast on anything related to finance, economy, money with plenty of social commentary mixed in, are thoroughly entertaining, thought provoking ,downright frustrating and most of all enlightening. In my daily diet of podcasts, Planet Money are almost always universally…
My daily routine after I get home from the gym or work, is to have a late dinner and then check out the evening news that I DVR’d . I don’t watch it live because I’m not home around 6:30p, so I just record it and watch it later, plus…
So this week I came across an interesting Freakonomics podcast , which was actually just a re-broadcast that previously aired. The podcast was titled The Upside of Quitting the podcast goes on to explore from an economic angle the pro’s and cons of quitting, and challenges the old adage, Quitters never win,…
I ran across an interesting documentary on PBS recently Eat, Fast and Live Longer with Michael Mosley (watch is soon, free on-line video until 5/10). In a nutshell British journalist Michael Mosley goes about speaking with established researchers at US universities about the benefits of caloric restricted diets and how they can…
One of the fun things I’ve done in recent years, was attend several air shows, not only to enjoy the entertaining displays of aerobatic military and civilian aircraft, but also to test out my photography skills in capturing really fast action.. I love taking action photography especially of sports,cycling, auto and motor racing,…
Although I have not mentioned it much on this blog, Photography is one of my hobbies, so I’m an amateur at it, but I always like to learn , try new gadgets or apply new techniques. I’m a big fan of sports photography (even when I’m in the sport) or other action…
