Number of words: 943 Perhaps the biggest hurdle to humankind’s expansion throughout the solar system is the prohibitive cost of escaping Earth’s gravitational pull. So say Zephyr Penoyre from the University of Cambridge in the UK and Emily Sandford at Columbia University in New York. The problem is that rocket engines work by jettisoning mass … Read more
Number of words: 949 Observe the guy who has been driving like a moron and has finally crashed—he is stunned. It is the same expression on the man who is driving on the wrong side of the national highway and sees a truck coming at him—he is baffled. Only the cow, which crosses the road … Read more
Number of words: 202 Mary, who, with her sister, Louise, laughs at the idea of confiding in her father, also finds her father reluctant to “just talk” or “go over things” with her the way her mother does. “He sits down with me, and if we’re talking about stuff like school or job, he listens, … Read more
Number of words: 465 In mother/daughter interactions, the meanings invoked are often rooted in a girl’s past responses. A mother asks a checking-up question, and the daughter feels like a little girl again. “Do you have your keys?” or “Do you have bus money?” may seem like neutral questions to a mother, but to daughter the … Read more
Number of words: 263 The mothers in my study frequently say that they felt closer to their daughter’s generation than to their mother’s. They had clear memories of their own teenage years and though they said they ‘has changed a lot since then,’ they felt they were “basically the same person.” They expected to be … Read more
Number of words: 1,243 *THE COBRA EFFECT* : Long but very interesting read for the decision makers : Hope you know about a term named Cobra Effect? If not, it’s time that you learn about it. The Cobra Effect is a term in economics. It refers to a situation when an attempted solution to a … Read more
Number of words: 618 This work suggested that memories might fade more rapidly as we age because memory is encoded by fewer neurons, and if any of these neurons fail, the memory is lost. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay) Washington: Researchers have identified the neural processes that make some memories fade rapidly while other memories persist over time. Using … Read more
Number of words: 249 I think it fair to say that by any convetional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain … Read more
Number of words: 242 Perseverance and leadership skills, of course. What is less obvious – and much less boring – is what the speaker neglected to mention: that those traits are likely to be the charecterstics of extremely unsuccessful people, too. Think about it, Denrell observed afterwards. ‘Incurring large losses requires both persistence….and the ability … Read more
Number of words: 217 By far the most striking thing about the museum of failed products, though, has to do with the fact that it exists as a viable, profit-making business in the first place. You might have assumed that any consumer product manufacturer worthy of the name would have its own such collection, a … Read more
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