Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the General Interest category.
FTOTW – Self Control, Turtle GPS!, Sugar Toxic, African Mother Language…
Filed in General Interest, April 17, 2011, 12:11 pm by SukumarTweetFine Tastings of the Week 1. RT @ArchanaRaghuram @sciam: most popular on the site now: “How Self-Control Works” by @danariely ~ vv insightful 2. RT @berkun When did girls start wearing pink & boys blue? http://j.mp/i2P6re it used to be reverse http://j.mp/ebHrBo ~ vv interesting 3. RT @sibubk @jeffpalmer: Yikes. Pretty interesting stuff. NYTimes: Is […]
FTOTW – Superstar Effect, Giftedness, Biomimicry, Teaching B Students….
Filed in General Interest, April 10, 2011, 8:45 am by SukumarTweetSome of the best links i shared last week. Hope you enjoy it. It will be very helpful to me if you comment and let me know if you agree with my ratings. For example, if i tagged something “brilliant”, do you agree with it? 1. RT @jackerhack: Why Joel Spolsky never lets employees negotiate a […]
FTOTW – Tests Fail, Genius, Khan Academy, Innovation Snobs, Worst Career Advice…
Filed in General Interest, April 4, 2011, 9:55 am by SukumarTweetProlog In case you missed the previous week’s edition where i explained the new strategy for this series. FTOTW 1. RT @jonahlehrer: Why most tests in life, from the SAT to the NFL Combine, fail to predict what matters http://on.wsj.com/g3VjmO ~ brilliant 2. /via @krishvenkatesh Michael Schrage delivers a smackdown on the Innovation snobs http://s.hbr.org/i18c3g ~ […]
Fine Tastings of the Week v2.0 – this time inspired by twitterrers
Filed in General Interest, March 27, 2011, 5:25 pm by SukumarTweetProlog I used to do this series called Fine Tastings of the Week – the fine links i came across in my journey across the Internet. Lot of people appreciated that series but i couldn’t keep up with that series due to a variety of reasons, chief among them my laziness 🙂 i did this […]
The Happiness Quotient – Part 2
Filed in General Interest, March 22, 2011, 7:00 am by Priya RajuTweetEver since the Richter 9 Earthquake struck, we’ve been haunted by images of Tsunami ravaged Japan. Its hard to describe the tragedy unfolding in that country – A woman searching for her nephew among the rubble; the swollen sea sucking school children in; Stark images of battered bodies torturing us from our TV screens. Many […]
