Monday, 26 March 2012

JRR Tolkien, the lousy teacher

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"At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Slip Slidin' Away into a Bed of Roses

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I've never thought of Paul Simon and Jon Bon Jovi as kindred souls, until these words rolled shortly after each other o...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

Why the Irish, and Indians, rationally believe in fairies

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"Because the upside to disbelief is too small." Zigackly. I picked this gem up from Michael Lewis' hilarious new book, B...
Monday, 12 March 2012

Teaching compassion through drama

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"Why don't we teach our children compassion?".  Roshi Joan Halifax asked this question in the TED talk I posted about l...
Saturday, 3 March 2012

Compassion: Moral Outrage :: Dalai Lama : Arnab Goswami

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"Compassion has enemies...like pity, and moral outrage..." I came across these words in a TED talk by the Buddhist Roshi Joan H...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

The Dunbar number: the reason my family consists of just one hundred and fifty people

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I was at a marvellous family event in Bangalore recently: an uncle and aunt's fiftieth wedding anniversary. It was a evening of laugh...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Work-family balance: one front where Manmohan Singh has it easier than Barack Obama

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Jodi Kantor's new book The Obamas reports that "Barack refuses to miss dinner with his family more than twice a week".  ...
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