Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Brazilian student sells her virginity online for $780,000
A twenty years old Brazilian student, Catarina Migliorini, has sold her virginity in an online auction for US$780,000 as part of a documentary organised by an Australian filmaker Jason Sisely. She was the subject of 15 bids, with a Japanese man named only as Natsu winning on Wednesday night, according to the website of the film “Virgins Wanted”.…
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What is Hippocratic Oath?
While watching 3 Idiots, I heard this (Hippocratic Oath) term when Kareena said ” is hippocratic oath ne doctoron ki waat laga di”. Many of you might not know what a Hippocratic oath is and how it is related to doctors so let me tell you, it is basically an oath taken by medical students/doctors that they will…
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Everything that you should know about iPad Mini
Yesterday, Apple announced the iPad mini. The 7.9-inch and 1024×768 pixels new iPad device will come in both Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi with cellular configurations. It is the fifth overall generation of the iPad line and the first to feature a reduced screen size. It features the same internal specifications as the iPad 2, including its display…
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Latest Durga Puja Greetings Cards and Wallpapers
Durga Puja, also known as Dussehra is one of the biggest festivals of Hindus. This festival marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the evil demon Mahishasura, thus epitomises the victory of Good over Evil. It also marks the beginning of the festive season. While Durga Puja is celebrated with ten days of fast, feast and worship,…
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26 Amazing Sand Art Designs
Sand art is actually modelling sand into an artistic form, such as a sand brushing, sand sculpture, sandpainting, or sand bottles. There are two basic building ingredients, sand and water, mainly used for this art. They are available in abundance on a sandy beach, so most sand play takes place there, or in a sandpit.…
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Shalini Singh raises a maze of questions for Robert Vadra
On Monday The Hindu published an article naming “Behind Robert Vadra’s fortune, a maze of questions”. In the article Shalini Singh, Deputy Editor The Hindu, excellently articulated and raised the grey areas between the relationship of DLF, a real-estate giant and Robert Vardra, son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi. In my opinion, it was the best journalistic…
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Ramayana retold in the age of facebook
Ramayana is my second favorite story. Of course the first one is Mahabharata. Ramayana is one of the great Hindu epics, which beautifully describes the duties of different relationships. It portrays ideal human characters such as the ideal father, ideal mother, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. Most of the us have heard this story…
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Who all are participating in Bigg Boss 6?
It’s a good news for all the Bigg Boss fans. The most awaited list of 15 participants of Bigg Boss season 6 participants is out. The participants of ‘Bigg Boss 6’ range from politicians to cartoonists. These participants will be locked up today inside the Bigg Bose house for the next three months. It is…
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Is Robert Vadra Corrupt?
Do you think it is possible for a normal common man in India to grow his wealth from 50 lakh to 300 crore in 3 years? There is a person who did this almost impossible task. His name is Robert Vadra. His wealth grew from Rs 50 lakh to over Rs 300 crore in a period…
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AdSense Account Disabled :: What to do next?
On 23rd September, I saw empty white space coming in place of Google Ads on abhisays.com. At that time, I ignored those boxes but later I realized that Google had banned my website from Adsense ad serving. This was big shock for me as I was using adsense on abhisays.com from last five and half years…
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