Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Controversial Drone of the Vuvuzela during FIFA world Cup 2010
Vuvuzela, a meter long brightly colored plastic that emits noisy sound, is the controversial trademark trumpet of South African football fans in the ongoing 2010 FIFA world cup. The instrument is responsible for the background soundtrack in a high volume you hear during every match to the delight of some and the profound annoyance of…
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President of Pakistan Asif Zardari is a citizen of United States?
Today’s Jang and the News published that President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari holds American nationality as claimed by a well-known US website NNDB (Notable Names Database). The websites contains over 37,000 profiles of notable people around the globe. The website introduces itself as; NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people…
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Guantanamo like Prisons of Sindh
Cries of shutting down the Guantanamo prison have been around for some time now, reason being the inhuman conditions at the prison which rather than reforming the prisoners is forcing them to become hardcore terrorists once they are released. Numerous examples could be quoted in this context. Such huge global outcry in this regard had…
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FIFA World Cup -This time for Africa
By the time I write this the most awaited sporting event of the year has been kicked off in spectacularly enthusiastic South Africa for the first time ever in the history. Despite of all odds Bafana is fully charged up to stage an event of such a high magnitude. The 19th FIFA World Cup has…
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Phet coming to Karachi? What the Media is feeding us
In the wake of Phet, the North Indian Tropical Storm that transformed into a Category 4 Cyclone when it pounded the shores of Oman, Pakistani media went crazy, as usual. Quoting DG Meteorological Department Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry, who is either misquoted or clearly not updated on his subject, media has sensationalized the possibility of Karachi…
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How to Run a Restaurant Successfully
In my opinion, the first thing is what is usually seen as the least important, and that is parking space. There are restaurants where the food is very good and the prices are very reasonable, but it becomes very difficult for families to come to the restaurant as there is insufficient parking. Many people, before…
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Domestic Abuse
It is repeatedly mentioned that education is the solution to domestic abuse. However, it can be seen that educated husbands abuse their wives and educated and working wives do nothing about it. Has education really provided a solution. And when the working woman puts up with abuse, what hope is their for woman who is…
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Cell Phones: Luxury Or Necessity?
Some teenagers in the west, native and immigrants, work part time jobs just to pay their cell phone bills. Have cell phones become such a necessity that people have to sacrifice time and money for it’s use. Instead of having the weekend to study, do homework, relax and indulge in leisure activities, it is spent…
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Cyclone Phet approaching Karachi
Hurricane Season 2010 is arriving at the shores of Pakistan in form of Phet, a tropical storm brewing in Indian Ocean. NASA’s Terra satellite flew over Tropical Cyclone Phet at 06:55 UTC (2:55 a.m. EDT or 6:55 p.m. local time/Pakistan). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument, or MODIS captured a visible image of Phet at…
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Sindh High Court directs PTA to remove obscene stuff
Sindh High Court has ordered PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) to delete/block all uploaded stuff from Pakistan on YouTube, the world’s biggest video-sharing website, which is offensive to conventional standards of decency. The court directed to inform Chairman PTA that the Court would hold him personally responsible for failure to implement its order. The decision came…
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