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In his book, “Marketers are liars”, author and blogger, Seth Godin makes this interesting point : "An average frog’s brain weighs ten...

First came the news that Conservationists working in Peru got their first natural glimpse of a rare and unusual bird called the long-whiske...

Daughter to wife : Can I borrow a book from the library today? Wife : No way! You have your exams. Take out your text books. Daughter to me ...

I read these lines here and have been profoundly impacted: "It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think we a...

In the hullabaloo and hysteria over India’s loss in the World Cup, so many different theories have been put forward to explain what happened...

I am gladdened by the news that India's latest communications satellite, INSAT-4B, was successfully launched on Monday by Arianespace...

A friend – an IIT/IIM combo- works for the credit card business of a multinational bank. His job, as I understand it, is to comb and mine th...

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Guy Kawasaki links to an article titled The Effort Effect , about Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. It examines her thirty-year st...

In his book, “The Power of Persuasion ”, psychologist Robert Levine talks about a recent series of experiments, in which social psychologist...

World Cup Cricket is round the corner and it is our patriotic duty to remind ourselves of our glorious triumph in the 1983 version of the to...

In an earlier post , I had quoted some passages from a book, which gave a fascinating insight into India’s role as the epicenter of global s...

This conversation between Socratic-minded parents and children was reported in The Science Creative Quarterly. OLDER CHILD : Remember that c...

A classic 7-minute video of a sci-fi story . (via)

I heard a Political Commentary on Prannoy’s Channel that P.Chidambaram is to be Publicly Criticised for the Punishing Cess he has introduced...

Deep in thought, Mosama Po Navan stroked his seven-day old stubble. Though he shaved everyday, somehow, he never seemed to be able to clear ...

Via this blogsite , I came across a poll, where people of different countries were asked whether they considered themselves first as citize...

In case you missed out the news item, the Assamese chilli, known as Bih Jolokio Chilli, has been adjudged the hottest chilli in the world. ...

The President, Mr Kalam, has, at different times, come out with mind-blowing insights that never fail to amaze the general public. Remember ...

In their book, “The Definitive Book of Body Language”, authors Alan Pease and Barbara Pease cite the studies done, in the 1960s, by America...