Sadhu

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A Sadhu, or a Hindu holy man, takes a dip at Sangam, confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, during the annual traditional fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India. Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus bathe at the confluence during the astronomically auspicious period of over 45 days celebrated as Magh Mela.

Can one professor teach 500,000 students at once?

Can one professor teach 500,000 students at once?

Sound impossible? Well, he’s already taught a class of 160,000 students

Inspired by that experience, Thrun has now founded Udacity, a private online university. As Nick DeSantis of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports:

One of Udacity’s first offerings will be a seven-week course called “Building a Search Engine.” It will be taught by David Evans, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Virginia and a Udacity partner. Mr. Thrun said it is designed to teach students with no prior programming experience how to build a search engine like Google. He hopes 500,000 students will enroll.

Barefoot Bandit gets 6.5 years of federal time

Barefoot Bandit gets 6.5 years of federal time



Stole cars, yachts, and planes for two years. 67 crimes. Got caught be crashing a plane in the Bahamas.

He just turned 21!