Moonballs from Planet Earth

A Keralite King Receives Jewish Refugees  The Jews came to India in 70AD. They came in their most forsaken hour, when Jerusalem had fallen...

Mario Miranda's Goa Suppose people from a poor third world country were given the option of being citizens of a rich first world country...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO Since Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft's CEO, my Facebook news feed and email inbox have been...

Bomb at the Boston Marathon A couple of twisted young men kill innocent people at the Boston marathon, and it’s called terrorism. Oth...

Ox Travels has been resident on my bedside table for several months now. This is a collection of stories by travel writers, each story ...

This picture of Mark Zuckerberg’s wedding with Priscilla Chan was one of the few truly heart warming images from the last few weeks. Thi...

"Follow your dream" is advice I have frequently received. This is also advice I have given multiple times. However, in most cir...

Amy Chua's fifteen minutes of fame are almost over. The Tiger Mother story has played itself out as a news item. Yet, after having read ...

Having spent much of the last week vegging out watching Wimbledon and the World Cup, I am struck by the contrast between the slick appeals s...

See the player in the blue t-shirt? She is Dr Emily Ryall, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Sport at the University of Gloucestershire. ...

Here's the theory on people who work for a bank and blog for fun. Do they think of themselves as bankers or bloggers ? It boils down to ...

I had gone with my children and their cousins for a swim at the Madras Club. My 14 month old nephew was swimming for the first time. I was g...

Where does culture come from? I found myself arguing on my blog that culture is a given. More specifically, that corporate cultures are dete...

Are neo-classical and behavioural economics truly irreconcilable? Are the foundations of one of our great sciences crumbling before our eyes...

Established behavioural economics finding: people are willing to pay more for insurance against death caused by an airplane accident than fo...

We know that people tend to reject deals which they see as grossly unfair. This is most apparent in the classic economic experiment of the u...

Another fraught moral question. Does distribution matter? Is it really OK if the winners win really big if the losers are also a little bit ...

Lovely piece from the NYT on a moral dilemma I face all the time. Is gossip good? Gossip it makes cooperation easier. Gossip makes the gossi...

Nice article on the NYT on how happy women and men are. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/business/26leonhardt.html?ex=1348545600&en=59...