Overnight Obama

Though the title may sound funny enough, I came across an article this morning which I found quite interesting and is inline with the title of this post. What would you do if you find tomorrow morning that your bank account has been credited about 9.8 billion dollars OR about 49,000 crores. Yes, you...

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Venkatesh and Sudden Death Syndrome

Obvious questions on the title goes as follows, I would presume, 1) Who is this Venkatesh we are talking about...

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We eat more water than we drink

As you may have figured out already, this post is related to World Water day as decreed by the United Nations, 22 March, Every year. Funny as the title of today's blog may sound, it is very true and serious statement that many of failed to realize: "We eat more water than we think".   Let...

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Education Vs. Employability

Today I stumbled upon a recent survey conducted by Aspiring Minds on its statewise employability report. This ironically coinciding with the DOECC and RRB results that got published over last few days, created the curious gap between Education and Employability. ...

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Why Google Honored Robert Lang?

Recently Google posted the below doodle which was created by Robert Lang, who was an American Scientist and origamist. And as you may notice, the doodle was built around the design of Origamy. I initially thought Origamy was one another child's play game and wondered why Google to give such an importance...

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Nexavar deal : Side effects? Cancer treatment burden reduced. Thanks Indian Government!!

This morning, I have seen a good news, atleast for those families caught in the trap of cancer treatments. As subject says, one of the prominant effective cancer-treatment drug namely NEXAVAR, will be sold in the reduced price tag for its 120 tablet pack. The reduction amount is NOT in hundreds but...

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What is Daylight Saving time a.k.a DST?

As subject started, the DST a.k.a. Daylight Saving time started effective from today morning(11th March 2012) along with the free gift of Fatigue due to the time shift. ...

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'kolaveri": viral marketing at its best

As the subject of this post says, this is yet another post I am writing on the same topic on the success of latest viral hit : "why this kolaveri di". The earlier article was totally unrelated but an useful one if you would like to read. There is lot said and analysis paralyzed about this...

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Google Play over Google android market

Google Inc., has recently introduced its product called Google Play. Questions arise on what is wrong with the Google Android Marketplace, which the Google is trying to out"play". Here are few quick snapshots you may NOT know about Google play. ...

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Browser OR Wowser?? Welcome to Rockmelt free download

This morning, I came across a post which talked about the internet browser ratings of recent times and the surprising name was "RockMelt". I initially mis-spelt it to read as Rock Salt and after correcting myself did NOT see any difference on why that name to be. ...

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Indian Schooling Systems - Perception Vs. Reality

This post, I am writing, when the UPSC results are out in India and incidentally too many references of the schools I have been experiencing today. One with the movie I am currently watching namely Dhoni which talks about the Indian Schooling system where as the other one in family talks that went...

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Need to get rid of a habit?? Read this...

In my casual reading today, I came across an interesting article where a person was talking about how he quit the smoking just by mere understanding of how habits are created and how they work.                         His statement...

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