Category Archives: Technology

ConocoPhillips Oil Spill

Subscribe to ShahidulNews As government faces increasing criticism over its controversial deal with ConnocoPhillips and pressure mounts to force the government to reveal the contract, an oil spill in China lends weight to the protesters claims that the company has … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 16, 2011
Posted in Bangladesh, Capitalism, disasters, economy, Energy, Gas, Global Issues, Governance, politics, Resistance, South Asia, Technology, World | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The World’s Largest Image: 50 Billion Pixels

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The world’s largest image shows a 360 degree view of Vienna. Taken by photographer Julian Kalmar in July of this year and assembled from 3600 shots, the image would need 25,000 television sets to be viewed in … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 16, 2010
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The Burka Ban – 1

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Europe’s Open-face Democracy By Rahnuma Ahmed France bans full-face veils in public. Women wearing the niqab cannot enter government buildings, public transport, streets and markets. Burkas are not “welcome” on French soil, says Sarkozy. It is a … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 1, 2010
Posted in Colonialism, exploitation, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Islam, Oil, politics, Rahnuma Ahmed, Technology, Terrorism, war on terror | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

His Life

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Gita L. Vygodskaya Translated from the Russian language by Ilya Gindis Published in School Psychology International, Vol.16 Nobody in our family studied or took up religion. I only knew from the nanny, who took care of … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 13, 2010
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THE POLITICS OF WEATHER: LOCAL AND GLOBAL

`Owning’ the weather? PART IX By Rahnuma Ahmed Does something lie behind the global warming agenda, behind the UN Summit at Copenhagen where world leaders had met to agree on how to tackle global climate change? Has weather warfare, as Michel … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 1, 2010
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THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING

`Owning’ the weather? PART VIII By Rahnuma Ahmed Ten years from now, no, five years from now, you’ll feel ashamed for having written this. Definitely. He hung up. This was last Monday, the day `Global Warming, Or The Greatest Scientific … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 30, 2010
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GLOBAL WARMING OR, THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC FRAUD?

`Owning’ the weather? PART VII By Rahnuma Ahmed The theory of global warming, a `theory’ which we know to be `real,’ according to which the temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and that of its oceans has been rising since … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 15, 2010
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Undisclosed Clouds Over Western Skies

`Owning’ the weather? PART VI By Rahnuma Ahmed “Our goals are not to gain political control, monetary wealth nor military power, but rather to pray and to promote the welfare of all living beings and to preserve the world in … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 11, 2010
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`Owning’ the weather? PART V Katrina and Haiti

By Rahnuma Ahmed The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present—and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 2, 2010
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