ब्रायनसँगै झुम्यो काठमाडौं

काठमाडौ, फाल्गुन ७ - 'नेपाल ! मेरो नाम ब्रायन हो' भन्दै स्टेजमा उत्रेका विख्यात क्यानडेली गायक ब्रायन एडम्सले शनिबार साँझ दशरथ रंगशालामा झन्डै २० हजार दर्शकलाई 'लेट्स मेक अ नाइट टु रिमेम्बर' -यो रातलाई स्मरणीय बनाऔं) सहित डेढ दर्जन बढी गीतमार्फत अविस्मरणीय मनोरन्जन दिलाए । उनको ऐतिहासिक प्रस्तुतिले काठमाडौं निकैबेर झुमिरह्यो । सर्वाधिक सफल अंग्रेजी गायकले नेपालमा आएर बृहत् सांगीतिक प्रस्तुति दिएको यो पहिलो हो । आफ्नो काठमाडौं आगमनलाई 'नेपाली समाज बाँकी विश्वसँग खुलिरहेको' टिप्पणी गर्ने गायकले भने, 'संसार आपसमा खुलिरहेको छ । आशा छ, तपाईंहरूले पश्चिमा गीतहरू अझ बढी सुन्न पाउनुहुनेछ ...

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Climate-Change is as real as evolution and the Big Bang

With snows ravaging most of the USA we thought it appropraite not to forget that in 2010, members of the National Academy of Sciences warned that “The planet is warming due to increased concentrations of heat-trapping gases in our atmosphere. A snowy winter in Washington does not alter this fact. Climate change is a theory as certain as the theory of the Earth’s age (4.5 billion years), the Big Bang Theory, and the theory of evolution." This headed a list of “fundamental conclusions about climate change” provided by the National Academy of Sciences, signed by 255 prominent climate scientists, and published in Science Magazine in response to Sen. James M. Inhofe's denunciation of climate change as a “hoax,” and the increasingly politicized debate on whether human caused climate change is really...

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What Is a Hacker?

What Is a Hacker? The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term ‘hacker’, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant. There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker,...

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