Archive for the ‘Curious’ Category
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
In a cricket match, they award man-of-the-match for that key player who made the difference. Rewarding just one player, inspires other men in the team, instead of letting them down, to try hard and win that title in coming matches.
Let me try draw parallels to a corporate setting. In a ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
You also may have noticed this year on year. It's a City of evening rains. In Bangalore it starts raining just after the sun set. It happens very consistently. There must be a scientific reason for this recurring pattern. Do you have any theory ?
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
What is an art ?I have asked this question myself several times. It always been abstract,vague and undefined in my mind. I think I found some answer to such and similar questions in the book I have started reading.The Emerging Mind by Vijaynur Ramachandran.The chapter Artful brain, talks about the ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
Take a closer look. Can you identify the person in the picture ?!I never thought that there would be a photograph available of the last Mughal emperor.Yes, it's Bahadur Shah Zafar !This picture is taken just after his show trial in Delhi and before his departure for exile in Rangoon ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
If humans never had the capability to speak, know what would have happened ?- I think Video Telephony would have been the first ever invention and voice telephony would have never seen the light of the day.- this would have been a place with only video-ipods !- Each one of ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
This week has been the week of Audio Books.I am ‘reading’ these…Seven habits of Highly Effective people – Stephen CoveyCatching the Big Fish – by David Lynch, (Culty Film-maker)The download of “Brief History of Time” is underway.The one which I am most eagerly waiting to hear is the Scott Adams’ ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
In my month long stay at US, I had not spent anything on books and I was curious to visit a bookstore and experience how different they are from one in Bangalore. But that didn't happen until the day before I was leaving to India. I visited Barnes & Noble ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Kids here in US got no difficulty in drawing state's sketch in geography classes.Look at them. More or less most of them have a regualr geometrical shape. Squares and rectangles. Was there some rational in keeping their shapes simple ?
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Five things probably you do not know about me.1. I am born and raised in Shimoga and graduated in Electroncis from Bagalkot engineering college. My final year project was mostly done by project mates. I was just hanging around with them.2. I hold a Post graduation degree from Bhagwan Jain ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Why is that we see this pattern in climate.Summer -> Rainy -> Winter seasonWhy notSummer -> Winter -> Rainy seasonAm curious why Rainy season follows summer. Is it a global phenomena or just it’s specific to India ?Does this pattern offer any particular advantage ?
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