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It's not just the TLD 'ie' that is intriguing about this  article  and the website it is on. About the CIA's snooping on the  Senate . About  Silicon Valley culture . A  conversation with Paul Davis  about the flow of time. Something about  lightning . The loss of the  night sky . http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/peter-matthiessens-homegoing.html http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-colonize-another-star-system-16654747?click=pp http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/04041306-masursky-david-scott.html http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/04/03/298778615/the-power-of-poop-a-whale-story http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/04/03/hiding-in-plain-sight-evidence-that-nsa-isnt-wrecking-internet-security/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/24/future-europe-interview-george-soros/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/busine...

Since I am a die-hard Apple user -- use iPods, iPhones, iPads, MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros -- I thought to share a few innovation tips to the guys at Apple tearing their hair over what new features to add to their upcoming iPhones that will keep the competition at bay. Here are my top suggestions -- have an expandable external keyboard and screen. Let me explain and expand that. The iPhone screen of 3.5 inches can stay that -- but you can have a folded screen that will expand in a fun way when the user needs a larger screen, say to work on that document/spreadsheet/presentation while waiting for the flight or inside the flight. Oh and the user will of course need a full-sized physical keyboard as well. So include a full keyboard which nicely folds into the back of the phone. The material needs to be thin yet sturdy. Carbon fiber or carbon nanotubes might do the trick. You all of course know about the ever expanding storage. So I need not advise you to include 1...

You think you know what all your tax money accomplishes? Well you might find a few surprises. Apart from a bunch of Kendriya Vidyalayas and IIMs and IITs and the training colleges for everyone and the Indian Council of Medical Research and the PGIs and the astrophysics research and the particle physics research and the jute and textile research, here are a few more esoteric activities the Government sees fit to associate with: The Government of India does  fusion research . And it is planning a  mission to Mars . But does the government of India do research into pomegranate? Sure it  does . What else does it do?