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The famous anthropologist Gregory Bateson liked to tell a story about New College , in Oxford, England. The main hall there was built in th...

I have just finished reading a book called “Everyday Greatness ” that is packed with wisdom from the pages of Reader’s Digest and filled wit...

( via) The International Herald Tribune had reported in Dec 2006, “ Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards...

Notice how when you ask for directions to reach a particular place, different people refer to different landmarks to guide you? Might make p...

In his book, “Pulse : How Nature is inspiring Technology of the 21st century ”, Robert Freaney provides a fascinating glimpse into advances ...

Yesterday’s edition of The Hindu has this story filed from Colombo : The serial strike by the Tamil Tigers on the main base of the Sri Lanka...

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)