India’s economic reliance on the tech outsourcing industry is making it difficult for them to keep up with their own internal infrastructure:
In 1990, civil engineering programs had the capacity to enroll 13,500 students, while computer science and information technology departments could accept but 12,100. Yet by 2007, after a period of incredible growth in India’s software outsourcing business, computer science and other information technology programs ballooned to 193,500; civil engineering climbed to only 22,700. Often, those admitted to civil engineering programs were applicants passed over for highly competitive computer science tracks.
There are various other reasons that India has struggled to build a modern infrastructure, including poor planning, political meddling and outright corruption. But the shortage of civil engineers is an important factor. In 2008, the World Bank estimated that India would need to train three times as many civil engineers as it does now to meet its infrastructure needs.
“BBC News still maintains a rather 19th-century perspective on what’s happening in the world, seeing politics as a clash between opposing views that might be resolved through elections, summits and peace processes. With this approach, the environment gets sectioned off as a subject of its own, when in fact history shows that the resilience of a civilisation often depends on the way it treats its own environment.”
“The University of Warwick campus map was drawn on foot at 1:1 scale with 238 miles of GPS tracks walked over 17 days”.
I love the compass rose, scale, and signature.
Cool concept design for an HTC / Android-based device by Andrew Kim. He should just send his resume and ridiculous salary requirements to HTC right now.
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Wu-Tang Clan x Javelin - C.R.E.A.M. Theme (Hood Internet!)
This Foxconn manufacturing campus in Shenzhen employs 300,000 workers.
The very end of Lost was the very beginning in reverse…
I think the best part about Lost’s finale was Michael Giacchino’s music.
I just randomly found this spot off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan.
The island is called Nargin, and was a former Soviet military installation. You can see the abandoned base facilities and rusting, half-sunk hulks of ships shoved close to shore.
Prez is a pro at calling people out:
“I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter,” the president said after meeting with Cabinet members to discuss the situation. “You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else. The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly wasn’t.”
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is (Gold)
“Egg-shaped warbler Aaron Neville was a Next Big Thing back when there actually were Big Things. His first single was an instant classic, and while not an universally-recognizable megahit, it has only improved with age. Alas, the next two decades saw him fade into obscurity, never coming close to his earliest triumph. He hit rock-bottom in 1989, recording a ghastly duet with Linda Ronstadt for $50 and a free month’s gym membership. It went on, of course, to be an universally-recognizable megahit, final proof that there is no justice, only Linda Ronstadt.”
Every time I hear Aaron Neville, I think of Mr. Pablo Francisco.
