Archive for June, 2011

The Michael Jordan Problem
June 13, 2011, 4 Comments

Sporting immortality, greatness and a positive answer to the ‘Michael Jordan question’ will have to wait at least an ...

Peter Thiel’s 20 under 20 program
June 12, 2011, No Comments

Peter Thiel's 20 under 20 program gives $100,000 scholarships to students to stop out of college and pursue their scienc ...

By Crook or by Crook: A Response to “Swami and Friends c.2011″
June 9, 2011, 2 Comments

[A response by Manav Bhushan to the earlier post 'Swami and Friends c.2011' ] Only time will tell if India is indeed ch ...

Swami and Friends c.2011
June 7, 2011, 15 Comments

Why the police crackdown on Ramdev was a politically clever move by the government

Five things we learned from Roland Garros
June 7, 2011, 11 Comments

1. Roger Federer isn’t yet the greatest of all time: It is nigh on impossible, I believe to make such an assertion in ...

Djokovic ousted; Federer regains a touch of the old aura
June 4, 2011, No Comments

As much as people may try telling you otherwise, no one really saw this coming. Roger Federer, crushed in three straight ...

Time to make science popularization popular
June 3, 2011, 6 Comments

Back when I was in college, “science popularization” was a dirty phrase. Popularizing science was considered ...

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
June 1, 2011, 1 Comment

Everybody is predicting this to be the year Pixar ends its four-year Academy Award streak. The question is, will Kung Fu ...

Thank You Scholesy!
June 1, 2011, 5 Comments

It had to happen someday, but Paul Scholes’s retirement – announced yesterday – has stricken me beyond imagination ...