Weekly Roundup
Astrology, Tarot, Numerology, oh my! Divination's been all over the news lately. Here's your weekly roundup:
Ambitious Arithmetic The Economic Times of India reports that an increasing number of firms -- many of them financial institutions -- are turning to numerologists to ensure that their professional names will be condusive to success. According to reporter Vishakha Talreja, corporate India is increasingly dependent on numerology.
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Don't Mess with Karma
A blogger at the New Zealand Herald announced that Sharon Stone's poorly chosen remark about China's recent and deadly quirk could end up costing her in her court. After Stone tried to connect the devastation of the natural disaster to the Chinese government's purported human rights abuses, survivors were outraged, illustrating that you simply can't call "karma."
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Celestial Games
An ancient gadget -- called the Antikythera -- is now believed to have been used to keep track of celestial cycles and, in four-year increments, to help the ancient Greeks to schedule Olympic events.
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