We talk a lot about the availability bias here on Neuroworld, so I don’t think I have to tell you how much you overestimate the possibility of being on a plane brought down by terrorism. Still, it’s worth taking a look at this graphic, via Gawker and based on data put together by [...]
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 December 30th, 2009 |  Tags: al qaeda, bias, biases, gawker, intelligence matter, nate, rooftops, scream, tipping the scales, yell |  Category: Government |  Leave a comment Nobody lives in this world alone. We live in a society with all sorts of knowledge, experience and notions that the world provides us. Almost all the source of our inferences about the world are outcomes of various experiences that the world itself provides us. Suppose you’re a good person, and you know [...] December 19th, 2009 | Tags: biased media, good person, haters, husband wife, inferences, living in a world, Mother-in-law, negative inference, tiny minority, wife beaters | Category: Government, News | Leave a comment By Carey Roberts Recently I attended a domestic violence conference hosted by a church in my community. “The Church’s Role in Addressing Domestic Violence in the Faith Community,” the glossy brochure explained. The program featured a Proclamation by President Barack Obama filled with heart-rending language about the “devastating impact” of [...] November 11th, 2009 | Tags: Abuse, dating violence, domestic violence, domestic violence conference, dramatic presentation, faith community, Gender Abuse, glossy brochure, intimate partners, Laws, lethal actions, motor vehicle accidents, richard gelles, serial rapists | Category: Common Cause, Government, Politics, Social | Leave a comment The decision to declare assets is a big victory. Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan tells SHOMA CHAUDHURY what else is rotting in our judiciary In public interest Prashant Bhushan has championed the fight for judicial accountability It’s great judges have agreed to [...] October 12th, 2009 | Tags: Accountability, commercial outlets, corrupt institution, Fight Corruption, judicial accountability, judicial corruption, judiciary, justice sabharwal, Laws, legal, mall developers, minor aspect, provident fund, supreme court lawyer, watershed events | Category: Government, Laws, News | One comment
The title in Hindi means Darkness right under the lamp. I got this impression with an experience I had recently at the Karnataka Information Commission, supposedly the hub of the Right to Information Act (RTI) in the state of Karnataka, when I went there personally to submit an RTI Application myself. One [...] September 27th, 2009 | Tags: bangalore, Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, cash receipt, certified copies, circulars, Information Commission, Kannada., Karnataka, KIC, own pace, pio, Right to Information Act, right to information act rti, RTI, rti application, SIC, State, state of karnataka | Category: Government | One comment The results of recent Lok Sabha elections have driven home the very disturbing fact that politics in India is fast becoming a family business. If this trend continues, as indeed it will unless major changes are made, India will soon find itself being ruled “democratically” by just over a thousand families who will [...] June 6th, 2009 | Tags: concentration, congress, death knell, democracy, Dirty Politics, Families, family business, Feminazis, Feminism, feminists, Government, lok sabha elections, mps, opposition, parliament, political families, political parties, Politics, president pratibha patil, society, women empowerment | Category: Feminism, Government, Laws, Politics | 2 comments As a daily habit Pintu was reading newspaper. Suddenly he asked his father, ” Dad! What does it mean by ‘Governance System‘ ? “ “It’s like…” father said while thinking, “See! I earn and bring money to home, mean’s I am a ‘Money Holder‘. Your mother decides where and how to spend that [...] June 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Child, common man, deep sleep, Economics, frustration, future of our nation, governance system, Government, habit, Joke, Kid, kid brother, mattress, money holder, next morning, quot quot, Understanding | Category: Government, Politics | Leave a comment Despite wealth, health and opportunity, men still more content says study by US National Bureau of Economic Research On the long and winding road to having it all, Helen Parker is making good progress. At 27 she’s forging a career as an executive with a transport company in London, she has a [...] May 31st, 2009 | Tags: 498a, change the world, control, domestic appliances, domestic violence act, dowry prohibition act, educational attainment, Feminism, feminists, gender wage gap, harassment, helen parker, husband, improvement, ipc 498a, justin wolfers, life, life satisfaction, long and winding road, media, national bureau of economic research, News, paramour, Politics, relationship, Self Improvement, sexual harassment, social circumstances, society, steady boyfriend, success, women | Category: Feminism, Government, Social | 2 comments A clear constitutional definition is overdue to save our secular quintessence, writes Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer The Constitution of India is a long, legal parchment—solemn, sublime and secular—enacted in substantial fulfillment of the ethos and aspirations of the people of India. This ‘Supreme Deed’ of independent India, bears true faith [...] May 21st, 2009 | Tags: amendments to the constitution, constitution, Constitution of India, independent india, Indian Constitution, judge, krishna iyer, Law makers, Laws, micro changes, Parliamentary, philosophy material, r krishna, social philosophy, substantial fulfillment | Category: Common Cause, Government, Laws | Leave a comment Mohammed Amir Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving member of the terrorist squad that struck at multiple locations in Mumbai last November, made a plea to retract his confession on the first day of the trial here on Friday. Defence lawyer SG Abbas Kazmi while filing the application on Kasab’s behalf, told special court judge [...] May 12th, 2009 | Tags: ajmal, arthur road, central mumbai, citizens, court premises, defence lawyer, human rights, kazmi, media persons, media vehicles, mohammad ajmal kasab, tax money, terrorist, tibetan border, traffic security | Category: Government, Laws, News, Politics, Social | Leave a comment |
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