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David Bodanis , a popular science writer, in his book E= MC2 , says that one of the many similarities between Newton and Einstein was that b...

He was the last passenger to board the plane at Dubai. Armed with two large shopping bags that had been picked up in the duty-free shops at ...

This has been an action-filled week. The sequence of events so far..... Aug 22, 2006 : At a meeting in Prague, the International Astronomy...

In his e-book, The Diamond Invention , the American investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein says that for over a hundred years, a singl...

All over the blogosphere, poems on love are being churned out with effortless ease and at an amazing frequency . Some bloggers even narrate ...

Two achievers, in two different fields, have revealed the secrets of their respective success. Ms. Indra Nooyi ( on being appointed the CEO-...

As per this Readability Test , my blog scores 11.19 on the Gunning Fog index- which means it is as easy to understand as the Wall Street Jou...

I remember a story that I heard a few years back on BBC about a punter from London, who sold his entire assets for something like 200,000 po...

An argument, put forward by those who hold creationist beliefs, goes like this. If, some aliens were to visit Mount Rushmore and see the col...

Famous sayings get famous in the first place, not because they are worthy of fame, but because they are uttered by famous people…………… Ralph ...

In his book titled, “The Pig that wants to be eaten ”, author Julian Baggini provides this thought experiment, a modern version of the alleg...

Earthlings had known and enjoyed the effect of hallucinatory substances for a long time. But serious research on this subject began only in ...

Sowmya refers to this fascinating lecture by Richard Dawkins in which he describes how astronomical wonder can be presented to children, u...

Around July every year, herds of wildebeests cross the River Mara, on the boundary between Kenya and Tanzania, lured by the greener pastures...

After the 7000th shave of my life, I have learnt that I have been doing it wrong all along. I always shave before I take a shower; now wiser...

R.K.Narayan, in one of his short-essays, describes the agony of a musically-challenged man, forced to attend a Sunday evening concert of Car...

Entrepreneurship, taking calculated risks, the power of an idea that will help you stay ahead of competition- all these are fairly recent bu...

Alvin and Heidi Toffler , authors of the ground-breaking books ‘Future Shock” and “The Third Wave’, have published their latest book, “Revol...

Wimbledon tournament is underway in London. London is where the Queen lives, in her palace, built on the banks of the Buckingham Canal. Unfo...

One of the first things that the present Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Mr.Karunanidhi, did on assuming office was to visit the Museum where t...