aliansary @ May 20, 2010 # No Comment Yet
After reading the reviews given by Christakis, author of Connected, and Taleb, author if Black Swan, two books which I enjoyed, I was excited to read Barabasi’s Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do. Unfortunately, I missed the Linked train and felt a little more compelled to read Barabasi’s next hit. The book itself [...]
aliansary @ April 25, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I wanted to take a moment to share my thoughts and photos that I took of the current Red Shirt protests in Bangkok. Mind you that this was all taken a few weeks ago and since then the demonstrations and protesting have increased. For the most part, the protests that we have seen have been [...]
aliansary @ March 19, 2010 # One Comment
We are in the final push with the Healthcare Insurance Reform. Where can you help? Well the truth is our democracy is only as strong we make it. FOUR takeaways:
aliansary @ January 28, 2010 # 3 Comments
My early days of scientific research, statistics, and biology began studying an endangered tree species with my research professor and dear friend- Dr. Roland de Gouvenian. As our relationship grew so did my focus into a different field of research. We would spend a lot of time together- lost in the woods, roaming an island, [...]
aliansary @ January 21, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I saw BumpTop a few months ago and today the Mac version has been finally released. What I am impressed about BumpTop is the creativity in presenting a new way at looking at the traditional desktop. Writing about it will do no justice, so you have to just see the video. Some quick pros: the [...]
aliansary @ November 27, 2009 # 2 Comments
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aliansary @ November 20, 2009 # One Comment
The story of New York Times journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, David Rohde is a very interesting one. Rohde travels to Afghanistan to interview a Taliban leader but he ends up being taken hostage. Soon after, the NY Times requested all media outlets around the world, including Wikipedia, to respect a media blackout in order [...]
aliansary @ November 19, 2009 # One Comment
I really missed California. | if I knew all the words I would write myself out of here. | Posted via email from aliansary’s posterous
aliansary @ November 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Lever de Soleil Lac Léman 10 meters = 32.8 feet | if I knew all the words I would write myself out of here. |
aliansary @ September 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Sunrise- Geneva, Switzerland Sunset- Granada, Spain Sunset- Istanbul, Turkey Sunset- Lausanne, Switzerland | if I knew all the words I would write myself out of here. |
aliansary @ July 22, 2009 # 4 Comments
Today, there are over 70,000 adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer per year in the US alone. For over two decades there has been little or no improvement in survival in cancer patients between the ages of 15-39, as defined by the US National Cancer Institute. Cancer is the most common fatal disease in [...]
aliansary @ June 3, 2009 # One Comment
As I sit in the midst of my dissertation writing it becomes very easy to go hours without eating something healthy or just eating in general. I would like to think of myself as a healthy eater and always conscious of what goes into my body (my body is my temple). Although, friends who have [...]
aliansary @ April 23, 2009 # 4 Comments
van⋅i⋅ty /ˈvænɪti/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [van-i-tee] –noun excessive pride in one’s appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc. This evening I went for a run on the beach. As I ran, kicking the sand in the air, trying to keep my balance, I could feel the heat insulated by the sand begin to rise. I then thought [...]
aliansary @ April 14, 2009 # 3 Comments
It has been more than 72 hours since I have landed in what I have come to call this city as DubaiLand. Construction is non-stop and it can be seen clearly that Arab wealth, European design, and Indian hands have built this city. The city does not sleep and as of tonight I have accepted [...]
aliansary @ March 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
strange adjective, strang⋅er, strang⋅est Unusual, extraordinary, or curious I came across Online College Blog today which ranked the top 15 strangest college courses in America. Berkeley gets three mentions out of the 15, this explains why the University of California is the best college in the country (personal biases). What are the three… 15. Arguing [...]
aliansary @ February 25, 2009 # One Comment
laugh⋅ter –noun 1. the action or sound of laughing. 2. an inner quality, mood, disposition, etc., suggestive of laughter; mirthfulness: a man of laughter and goodwill. 3. an expression or appearance of merriment or amusement. 4. Archaic. an object of laughter; subject or matter for amusement
aliansary @ February 19, 2009 # 2 Comments
We all know it. The next cell phone for any of us will be a smart phone. For many, this will be an iPhone. However, imagine a bunch of really cool gadgets that are out right now. Apple’s iPhone… Amazon’s Kindle… A GPS System… Okay maybe not that cool, but imagine all of them in [...]
aliansary @ January 16, 2009 # 3 Comments
Don Tapscott (author of Wikinomics) writes in his book Grown Up Digital, that his biggest concern is “They’re [us young adults/users of the web] giving away their personal information on social networks and elsewhere and in doing so are undermining their future privacy.” However, what stands out most about his book comes from his intro [...]
aliansary @ January 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Imagine putting on a piece of what seems like the inner brace of a construction helmet. However, what you have just placed on your head measures the electrical activity produced by the brain. This head set has 16 sensors that are uniquely placed to measure: conscious thought, emotions, facial expressions and head rotation. Emotiv Systems [...]
aliansary @ October 28, 2008 # One Comment
The birth of the United States was on the back of slavery, which ended in 1865. This was nearly 100 years after America fought for her independence but after almost 200 years of slavery in the US. It took congress 5 years to amend the US Constitution and in 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment to the [...]
aliansary @ October 13, 2008 # 2 Comments
The reason I have failed to update the blog has been based on multiple reasons. Mainly because of the transition of moving from the US to the UK. It has taken sometime to get adjusted and I still feel like I am in vacation mode. I have now officially started my master’s program at the [...]
aliansary @ September 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
Alright, tonight I am going to do it a little different. Music. As long as I can remember, I have always been listening to music. My interest in music comes most likely from the fact that I can always remember my dad listening to great music. Everything from flamenco guitar, to classical Indian music, to [...]
aliansary @ August 25, 2008 # One Comment
I am so sad that the Olympics are over. The Olympics represent so much to the world, expect for Russian Federation who should have waited 2 more weeks before invading Republic of Georgia in spirits of the Olympic Games. I mean, Georgia did get 3 Gold and 3 Bronze medals but no excuses. I thought [...]
aliansary @ August 19, 2008 # 2 Comments
The best thing about the Olympics is that everyone gets over their trashy television shows and everyone bonds over discussing real life topics. Key Olympians such as Michael Phelps stand out in how he went from a 19 year old Athens Olympic medal winner to a 19 year old with 18 months of probation from [...]
aliansary @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(This is a picture I took of Huntington Beach and after reading (no company proprietary data was revealed), Huntington Beach is one of the U.S. top 100 oil reserves. Profits from this picture will not be donated to any oil company (click here to view picture ).) In a television interview yesterday, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez [...]
aliansary @ June 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The definition of a celebrity is an individual who is widely known. Thus, I would like to share a short story and my encounter with a beautiful woman who has changed the way many of us have perceived her on different levels, whose enigmatic presence has created controversies. Some even go as far as questioning [...]