Sunday, April 30, 2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
Genius - Albert Einstein's Personal Side - TV Show On National Geographic
This is a nice show around 9PM or 10 PM on Nat Geo. I think the first chapter / episode was on Apr 25th. And it comes once every week. Next on May 2nd.
Episode guide: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/articles/a-first-look-at-genius/
See this review:http://ew.com/tv/2017/04/25/genius-ew-review-albert-einstein-sex/ and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5673782/
His (female) secretary tells him: "“For a man who is an expert on the universe, you don’t know the first thing about people, do you?”"
I always thought Einstein was bad in studies while at school. When I saw the first episode I realized I was completely wrong.
His (female) secretary tells him: "“For a man who is an expert on the universe, you don’t know the first thing about people, do you?”"
I always thought Einstein was bad in studies while at school. When I saw the first episode I realized I was completely wrong.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Passive Aggression, Understanding Emotional Content
Handling Passive Aggression: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_stop_passive_aggression_from_ruining_your_relationship?utm_source=Greater+Good+Science+Center&utm_campaign=f274497438-GG_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ae73e326e-f274497438-51673647
Interesting quote from http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/whats_the_best_strategy_for_empathy/updated: "Together, these experiments suggest that people’s intuitions about how to best understand another person’s perspective are often mistaken—they overestimate how well outer behavior reflects inner states, and they underestimate the insights that can be gained from putting themselves in another person’s shoes:
SouthWestern We Are In, United We Are Out
We would have heard about the passenger who was asked to give up his confirmed seat. Here is a nice legal analysis of the incident: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-11/can-airlines-really-do-that-bumping-and-the-law-quicktake-q-a
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Beating Amazon In China
Chinese counterfeiters beat Amazon: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/01/12/why-amazon-is-losing-its-battle-against-chinese-counterfeiters/#15a72abe585c
It is interesting that Amazon got roundly beaten in China and Amazon itself is listed in one of Alibaba's sites. Something like Fortis MD going to Apollo Hospitals for a checkup.
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Guess The Gender Of The Dog
A friend of mine had once taught me to estimate the age of a woman by just looking at her from behind.
Now can any of you guess the gender of the dog below?
A brief background. This dog used to bark at me and chase me. But of late (s)he wags her tail and plops on my lap as I sit on the park bench - see below - at times even licking my mouth. I don't what caused this camaraderie.
Anyway coming back to my question... if you have not been able to figure out the gender.. I took a picture of the dog and showed the picture to him/her. And this was his interest in his own picture.
Male dogs, like males of most species, aren't very particular about pouting and selfies.
Thanking Someone
Apparently thanking someone for doing a mundane job makes them even want to do the job as per http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_to_thank_your_partner_for_doing_the_chores?utm_source=Greater+Good+Science+Center&utm_campaign=4c23a941d7-GG_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ae73e326e-4c23a941d7-51673647. Wonderful.
I have a friend who religiously and routinely thanks people for mundane jobs. And she doesn't differentiate between thanking for a routine "taking the garbage out" to being there in an emotionally traumatic situation - making one wonder whether all one did was take the garbage out or just passed the cup.
On Forgiving:
On Forgiving:
How To Be More Patient
Imagine the consequences of an action: http://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/how-you-can-trick-yourself-into-being-more-patient/615720/
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Singapore Fines And Expels Tamil Imam
This is interesting and good news - wish we could do it in India too when people indulge in divisive speeches. Or is one supposed to have such freedom of expression? In case of the imam in Singapore he was expelled.
What does one do when a citizen of the country does the same thing - for example when Muslims in UP plot jihad against Indians as a friend of mine, who is from UP, told me? Where do you expel them to? To Singapore?
Monday, March 27, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
Khalid Masood And Bombing In London
Apparently the guy was born on Christmas Day, 1964. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/khalid-masood-london-terror-attack-family-man-turn-terrorist-teacher-father-mi5-a7647121.html
Strong Mars in fiery signs in Rasi and Navamsa, Venus in Vargottama in Scorpio. And Saturn strong in Aquarius.
Turns out to be a terrorist and killed at the age of 52..Sad.
Additional reading:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/24/europe/khalid-masood-london-attacker-profile/index.html
Additional reading:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/24/europe/khalid-masood-london-attacker-profile/index.html
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Negatives Of Feeling Good
Wow.. For all those suicidal maniacs, here is something to feel good about.. http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/five_ways_feeling_good_can_be_bad_for_you?utm_source=Greater+Good+Science+Center&utm_campaign=f0fcf7463b-GG_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ae73e326e-f0fcf7463b-51673647
Unhappy people can be good (or gooder than happy people) at something.
Unhappy people can be good (or gooder than happy people) at something.
PG Wodehouse Quotes
A friend sent me this:
To all Wodehouse fans ! Enjoy !
"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
― P.G. Wodehouse
"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
"There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir."
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
― P.G. Wodehouse
"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when". "
― P.G. Wodehouse
"I always advise people never to give advice."
― P.G. Wodehouse
"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
"There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
Vintage PGW !!
One more :
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
Ring for Jeeves (1953)
"And she has got brains enough for two, which is exact quantity the girl who marries you will need".😂
Here's another
"When I see lovers' names carved on trees, I don't think it's sweet. I only wonder how many people bring a knife on a date "
The one on maturity in males and females... and the one on brains enough for two get me cracking every time.
The one on maturity in males and females... and the one on brains enough for two get me cracking every time.
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