Random posts that grabbed my attention:
India Design Forum - Design Within Reach - http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/03/india-design-forum?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/designwithinreach
"If India does not establish some brands soon, it will be too late since all the imports will just take over the country,” says Karim Rashid. “It was a shame that the hotel I stayed at in New Delhi had Italian lighting, Italian furniture, German sinks, German faucets, French products,”
Architecture in Osaka: When the Hanshin Expressway company and a building owner sat down to resolve a common problem they came up with a rather unusual solution! http://www.tofugu.com/2012/02/24/osaka-architecture/
TED - How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries - http://www.ted.com/talks/how_simple_ideas_lead_to_scientific_discoveries.html
TED - Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks.html
Courage under pressure: Ditching of plane in Lake Hudson
- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tE_5eiYn0D0#t=109
Book (eulogy) on MS Swaminathan: One Man's Quest for a Hunger-Free World
Falser Words Were Never Spoken - BRIAN MORTON, The New Yorker, August 29, 2011 - URL - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/opinion/falser-words-were-never-spoken.html?_r=1
Conflict of Interest and the Cure for Cancer - http://www.moneytrendsresearch.com/scientists-cure-cancer-but-no-one-takes-notice/
Obituary to a Music Director - 'Bombay Ravi' - http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/05/27/stories/2002052701090200.htm
Aage bhi na Jaane tu (Waqt 1965) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCdoqLH0hP8&feature=related
Nayak-2005-Suzuki-India Case Study - URL - http://www.ximb.ac.in/~jcr/Suzuki.pdf
Henri’s Walk to Paris: Saul Bass’s Only Children’s Book, 1962, Resurfaced 50 Years Later -- http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/21/henris-walk-to-paris-saul-bass/
New Delhi Railway Station Masterplan concept (If wishes were horses... :) ) http://www.arup.com/Projects/New_Delhi_Railway%20Station/New_Delhi_Railway_Station.aspx
My Experiments with Self - A salary-man attempts to follow the footsteps of Gandhi- http://myexperimentwithself.blogspot.in/2012/03/week-1-1.html?spref=fb
Japan can learn from Israel - http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120103zg.html#.T3g_sxuBODk.facebook
Escape Delhi (river rafting etc) - http://www.escapedelhi.com/Home.aspx?tripId=5
Devdutt - Getting Better and Better - Durga statues as a metaphor for presentation-preparation - http://devdutt.com/topics/leadership/getting-better-and-better.html
Harnessing Energy - an imaginative German advertisement - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KDLgaili8s&feature=share
Rana Hasan, ADB Papers - http://beta.adb.org/data/publications/author/238
Wave Clouds - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wavecloudsduval.jpg
Glasswinged Butterfly - http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/15-stunning-photos-of-the-glasswinged-butterfly/
Nahalal: Circular moshav (coop village) designed by RIchard kauffman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahalal
Arial Photography - http://twistedsifter.com/2011/03/25-mind-blowing-aerial-photographs/
Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence -
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_to_self_transcendence.html
Rushdie, Salman : Outside the Whale,Granta - http://www.granta.com/Archive/11/Outside-the-Whale/Page-1
Common Bird Monitoring India (CMBI) - http://www.cbmi.in/
Flying like a bird - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYW5G2kbrKk&feature=youtu.be
Delhi Dairy: Sorry, no Indian mobile = no Indian rail ticket - http://christinepemberton.me/?p=12262
Song - Roumor Has It - Mathai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSnrLqdt6oc
And the Original by Adele - Rumour has it (with lyrics) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti3t7MAwaaM
Electronic Market Research - http://www.isuppli.com/Pages/Home.aspx
Writing Rules by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwell >>> http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/writing_rules.html
Jayati-Jayati Bharata Mata (brought back memories of K V Uppal!) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF2QCl3-6BM
Painting & Interpretation - Beijing 2008 - http://vliam.com/2011/03/oil-painting-beijing-2008-bu-liu-yi/
Ghosh, Jayati (2012): Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth? The Guardian, UK, 19 Jan 2012, URL - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/19/ecuador-radical-exciting-place
SPIDERS - SOUTH INDIA: http://www.southindianspiders.org/default.htm
DEFENCE SCAMS - Clear and present danger, Josy Joseph | Mar 28, 2012, ToI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Clear-and-present-danger/articleshow/12431832.cms
.........................................................................................
Words from AWAD:
Apollonian
Def: Serene; harmonious; disciplined; well-balanced.
An Apollonian gasket is the name for a beautiful fractal composed of ever-shrinking, mutually tangent circles. It's named for a Greek mathematician, Apollonius of Perga, whose work on conic sections gave us the names of some more common mathematical objects: the ellipse, the hyperbola, and the parabola.
Dionysian
Def: Uninhibited; undisciplined; spontaneous; wild; orgiastic.
Promethean
Def: adjective: Boldly creative; defiant; audacious. noun: A person who is boldly creative or defiantly original.
According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Prometheus (meaning "forethought") had a brother, Epimetheus ("afterthought"). We all have afterthoughts, although perhaps none so dramatic as regret over Pandora, but there is no suitable adjective "Epimethean" in our vocabulary today.
Graffiti (gruh-FEE-tee)
noun: Words or drawing made on a wall or other surface in a public place.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of Italian graffito (a scratching). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gerbh- (to scratch), which also gave us crab, crayfish, carve, crawl, grammar, anagram, program, graphite, and paraph. Earliest documented use: 1851.
Gedankenexperiment
Def: A thought experiment: an experiment carried out in imagination only.
India Design Forum - Design Within Reach - http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/03/india-design-forum?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/designwithinreach
"If India does not establish some brands soon, it will be too late since all the imports will just take over the country,” says Karim Rashid. “It was a shame that the hotel I stayed at in New Delhi had Italian lighting, Italian furniture, German sinks, German faucets, French products,”
Architecture in Osaka: When the Hanshin Expressway company and a building owner sat down to resolve a common problem they came up with a rather unusual solution! http://www.tofugu.com/2012/02/24/osaka-architecture/
TED - How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries - http://www.ted.com/talks/how_simple_ideas_lead_to_scientific_discoveries.html
TED - Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks.html
Courage under pressure: Ditching of plane in Lake Hudson
- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tE_5eiYn0D0#t=109
Book (eulogy) on MS Swaminathan: One Man's Quest for a Hunger-Free World
Falser Words Were Never Spoken - BRIAN MORTON, The New Yorker, August 29, 2011 - URL - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/opinion/falser-words-were-never-spoken.html?_r=1
Conflict of Interest and the Cure for Cancer - http://www.moneytrendsresearch.com/scientists-cure-cancer-but-no-one-takes-notice/
Obituary to a Music Director - 'Bombay Ravi' - http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/05/27/stories/2002052701090200.htm
Aage bhi na Jaane tu (Waqt 1965) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCdoqLH0hP8&feature=related
Nayak-2005-Suzuki-India Case Study - URL - http://www.ximb.ac.in/~jcr/Suzuki.pdf
Henri’s Walk to Paris: Saul Bass’s Only Children’s Book, 1962, Resurfaced 50 Years Later -- http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/21/henris-walk-to-paris-saul-bass/
New Delhi Railway Station Masterplan concept (If wishes were horses... :) ) http://www.arup.com/Projects/New_Delhi_Railway%20Station/New_Delhi_Railway_Station.aspx
My Experiments with Self - A salary-man attempts to follow the footsteps of Gandhi- http://myexperimentwithself.blogspot.in/2012/03/week-1-1.html?spref=fb
Japan can learn from Israel - http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120103zg.html#.T3g_sxuBODk.facebook
Escape Delhi (river rafting etc) - http://www.escapedelhi.com/Home.aspx?tripId=5
Devdutt - Getting Better and Better - Durga statues as a metaphor for presentation-preparation - http://devdutt.com/topics/leadership/getting-better-and-better.html
Harnessing Energy - an imaginative German advertisement - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KDLgaili8s&feature=share
Rana Hasan, ADB Papers - http://beta.adb.org/data/publications/author/238
Wave Clouds - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wavecloudsduval.jpg
Glasswinged Butterfly - http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/15-stunning-photos-of-the-glasswinged-butterfly/
Nahalal: Circular moshav (coop village) designed by RIchard kauffman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahalal
Arial Photography - http://twistedsifter.com/2011/03/25-mind-blowing-aerial-photographs/
Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence -
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_to_self_transcendence.html
Rushdie, Salman : Outside the Whale,Granta - http://www.granta.com/Archive/11/Outside-the-Whale/Page-1
Common Bird Monitoring India (CMBI) - http://www.cbmi.in/
Flying like a bird - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYW5G2kbrKk&feature=youtu.be
Delhi Dairy: Sorry, no Indian mobile = no Indian rail ticket - http://christinepemberton.me/?p=12262
Song - Roumor Has It - Mathai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSnrLqdt6oc
And the Original by Adele - Rumour has it (with lyrics) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti3t7MAwaaM
Electronic Market Research - http://www.isuppli.com/Pages/Home.aspx
Writing Rules by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwell >>> http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/writing_rules.html
Jayati-Jayati Bharata Mata (brought back memories of K V Uppal!) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF2QCl3-6BM
Painting & Interpretation - Beijing 2008 - http://vliam.com/2011/03/oil-painting-beijing-2008-bu-liu-yi/
Ghosh, Jayati (2012): Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth? The Guardian, UK, 19 Jan 2012, URL - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/19/ecuador-radical-exciting-place
SPIDERS - SOUTH INDIA: http://www.southindianspiders.org/default.htm
DEFENCE SCAMS - Clear and present danger, Josy Joseph | Mar 28, 2012, ToI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Clear-and-present-danger/articleshow/12431832.cms
.........................................................................................
Words from AWAD:
Apollonian
Def: Serene; harmonious; disciplined; well-balanced.
An Apollonian gasket is the name for a beautiful fractal composed of ever-shrinking, mutually tangent circles. It's named for a Greek mathematician, Apollonius of Perga, whose work on conic sections gave us the names of some more common mathematical objects: the ellipse, the hyperbola, and the parabola.
Dionysian
Def: Uninhibited; undisciplined; spontaneous; wild; orgiastic.
Promethean
Def: adjective: Boldly creative; defiant; audacious. noun: A person who is boldly creative or defiantly original.
According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Prometheus (meaning "forethought") had a brother, Epimetheus ("afterthought"). We all have afterthoughts, although perhaps none so dramatic as regret over Pandora, but there is no suitable adjective "Epimethean" in our vocabulary today.
Graffiti (gruh-FEE-tee)
noun: Words or drawing made on a wall or other surface in a public place.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of Italian graffito (a scratching). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gerbh- (to scratch), which also gave us crab, crayfish, carve, crawl, grammar, anagram, program, graphite, and paraph. Earliest documented use: 1851.
Gedankenexperiment
Def: A thought experiment: an experiment carried out in imagination only.
No comments:
Post a Comment