What once felt to me like dignified theatre seems more and more like dangerous farce.

My finger turned brown after I dipped it in a slightly concentrated solution of potassium permanganate.

Does it also mean that if a convert kept the name his parents had given him, his Islam would be lacking? I am not speaking here from the perspective of Shari'a, which I don't know.

And when you're squinting, what you're doing is you're turning that from fine grain to coarse grain.

This energy is immediately converted into a spray of subatomic particles, with detectors and computers used to figure out their properties.

That failure placed the world on the path to the negative watershed posed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

Egyptian blogger Lasto Adri , deplores how what was supposed to be a sporting event, degenerated into a nasty confrontation.

So in the three years since I talked at TED and showed a prototype, it's gone from an idea to a real laptop.

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Our employee turnover dropped to one third of the industry average, and during that five year dotcom bust, we tripled in size.

And at the same time to scrap inefficient old planes, so that if they were otherwise to come back in the air, they would waste more oil, and block the uptake of efficient, new planes.

And even though that turned out to be nothing, nothing at all merely a downed weather balloon piloted by small hairless men with slits for mouths ...

As our industrial society matured, so design became a profession and it focused on an ever smaller canvas until it came to stand for aesthetics, image and fashion.

This ice formed as snow 15,800 years ago, when our ancestors were daubing themselves with paint and considering the radical new technology of the alphabet.

The Kouchner Conversion

Turkey s Transformation

When the wildfires broke out in San Diego, in October of 2007, people turned to Twitter to report what was happening and to find information from neighbors about what was happening around them.

Why Did Putin Turn?

A Trans Atlantic Transition

Does the recently issued Joint Declaration on Defense Cooperation, which establishes intent to move beyond weapons sales to the co production of military hardware,mark a turning point, or is it merely a contrivance to placate India?

And I'm starting this at a mutation rate that is so high that, even if you would drop a replicating program that would otherwise happily grow up to fill the entire world, if you drop it in, it gets mutated to death immediately.

The first lesson is that companies are really powerful, and that matters a lot. This is a story about how Wal Mart went green, and what that means.

Great design is a never ending journey of discovery for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer turned designer David Carson walks through a gorgeous slide deck of his work and found images.

Rumors become the truth

Paddy Ashdown The global power shift

Tipping Points to Asia s Future

Now, attention has now turned to food.

His attention then turned to the north.

Amir converted from Islam to Christianity in 1931.

It will adapt. It will adapt to its environment it's a durable mutation.

James Surowiecki When social media became news

A Watershed Doctrine for America

And the cease fire had been translated into a series of sanctions resolutions, and my instructions were to say perfectly terrible things about Saddam Hussein constantly, which he deserved he had invaded another country.

Recently the debate has shifted to carbon emissions. As the Stern Review of 2006 emphasized, we must sacrifice some growth today to ensure that we do not all fry tomorrow.

How do you take what you're dreaming of and make it happen?

China is at a turning point.

The would be perpetrators also became the primary victims.

But the energy transformation must begin now.

This enthusiasm for reform marks a paradigm shift.

It merely shifted from left to right.

Controls to prevent the supply of weapons to terrorists

And in the end it turned into a real device.

It is now a wizened and humiliated husk of a party.

Suddenly, this didn t seem quite right.