When we speak, the tone and level of our voice is a direct outcome of our frame of mind. If it is calm, then our voice will be controlled and reassuring. Calmness of the mind comes from sile… Read More
There are a lot of inane questions asked during a job interview. One of them is, where do you see yourself in 10 years. This question has many variations, for instance what are your long-ter… Read More
English has always sucked up words from around the globe. However, the fear of American English swallowing British English is greatly exaggerated… more The Codicil Read More
According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, white evangelicals who largely voted for Trump are more worried about their health than about terrorism or gun violence. Accordin… Read More
6 newspaper headlines that make a mockery of the news. Leaves you wondering whether the reporters had any clue to what they were writing. Having said that, the headlines are factually correc… Read More
Be it short stories, novels, articles or poetry—they all need multiple revisions. In fact, the act of revising does not have an end by date. There are instances, when writers/poets hav… Read More
Disrupting the data landscape again with linked open data: 'Big data shattered the paradigm where organizations would only use methods designed for a single relational database. They suddenl… Read More
Infographic from MintDigital learning, has taken a ubiquitous presence inside and outside the classroom. There are experts who consider it as unavoidable as income tax. By leveraging big dat… Read More
Links to interesting articles I read last week. Will paying attention to everyday activities make us happier? It certainly does...Read onYou do not win on the… Read More
Agora - The actors & the acting The movie (AGORA) left me cold mainly because there was an unidentifiable element (for me) missing. In spite of the lavish mounting, great photograp… Read More
A team of researchers has demonstrated a relationship between negative stereotyping, mind-wandering and impaired performance in an individual's performance. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara a… Read More
Affinity cards are credit cards issued by charitable organizations, educational institutions, and non-profit groups for promoting an organization's brand and imagery. Members or supporters w… Read More
Do women find depiction of explicit sexual acts or character-based romantic stories erotic? Judging by the fact that women account for 9 out of 10 purchases of romantic novels online; it is… Read More
Scientists and philosophers have suggested everything from quantum effects to information integration to brain-wave patterns. Some deny that consciousness exists at all; others argue that co… Read More
There have been a lot of claims and counterclaims regarding the value of food supplements. A very vocal set of nutritionists insist that there is no need to take food supplements if one has… Read More
In a recent update the AP Stylebook, decreed that journalists should write "website" instead of "web site". Robert Niles, of the Online Journalism Review, chipped in to the debate by saying… Read More
Cover of Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)Quirk Classics have come out what they call an enhanced edition of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. As the name Android Karenina suggests, L… Read More
I found this fascinating quote today:There is an essay making the rounds of the Twitterverse by the distinguished editor Jonathan Galassi; it appears on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times… Read More
Image via WikipediaAre we ready for a cashless society? Visa, the payments company, believes that if not the world at least U.K. is primed and ready for cashless transactions. Visa belie… Read More
One is used to hearing about police brutality and bureaucratic indifference to the woes of a common man.But what we see here is a video of a dying policeman, who lies bleeding and the onlook… Read More
Image via WikipediaShashi Tharoor finds himself once again defending his use of Twitter, a microblogging site, to criticise his government's move to tighten rules for long-term tourist visas… Read More
We usually apply the word “feral,” which means “reverting to a wild state,” to domesticated animals that are abandoned and must survive on their own. But in rapidly s… Read More
Image via WikipediaSome health related myths have been finally found untrue. Actually some of them like men think of sex every 7 seconds, shaving makes hair thicker, men with big feet are… Read More
This rap video explains, the inner workings of what Andersen called “a $9 billion cathedral of science (CERNS Large Hadron Collider) that is in any practical sense quite useless.&rdquo&hell…Read More
Image via WikipediaMetabolic syndrome is the name for a group of risk factors linked to overweight and obesity that increase your chance for heart disease and other health problems such as d… Read More
Image via WikipediaOn the other hand, what leap of faith matches the breathtaking courage, to say nothing of the oxymoronic splendor, of the so-called atheistic humanist? To believe not only… Read More
Image via WikipediaNearly all men simply wear a perfume given to them as a gift or bought hastily from a cute sales girl offering tote bags and beach towels at a department store. This res… Read More
Image by Martin_Heigan via FlickrUndoubtedly, the whole world smiles back when we smile and here is the clincher: Kaiser remembers photographing a smiley created by soda she'd spilled on the… Read More
Image by Arno & Louise via FlickrScientists used to believe that prides—groups of a few to more than a dozen related females typically guarded by two or more males—were organ… Read More