low-throughput

Britannia used to rule the world but does not any longer. It doesn’t have much in terms of natural resources, the public transport is awful...

From The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder): “Solving a problem for which you know there’s an ...

“Shortlisted” (or even longlisted) “for Booker / Pulitzer / Orange Prize...” Did you ever wonder why it is OK for fiction authors to put...

First published 3 August 2010 @ just some words Contrary to what you read in Wikipedia , -logy is not a suffix. If anything, it is a roo...

Three months ago, I started another “low-throughput” blog, just some words . I wanted to have not-Blogger blog. But why did I choose to hos...

Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is my all-time favourite mad scientist . I don’t know in which field he is a professor but since he is teac...

From Brick Lane by Monica Ali : ‘This is the tragedy of our lives. To be an immigrant is to live out a tragedy.’ ‘What are you talking...

An amazing animation by RSAnimate, inspired by Dan Pink ’s talk at the RSA and his latest book, Drive . As long as the task involved...

I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand people who constantly talk on their mobiles. Back in 1995, Bill Bryson wrote in his Notes from a...

There are only a few buzzwords which irritate me more than this one. But what exactly is crowdsourcing? According to Wiktionary , it means ...