Starting March 28th, The New York Times is going to go behind a paywall, again – with a lot of caveats. Free access every month for the first 20 articles, videos or interactive features. An experiment in 2005, Times Select, where you could read all the articles, except the Op-ed, was abandoned in 2007. Since then, …
Only a few have the ability to express themselves economically. People meander, testing the patience of their listeners who are mentally pleading, “Get to the point” This could be anyone from lecturers in class to bosses who try and impress subordinates. When asked for an opinion, most people provide streams of rambling thought. Media savvy …
Being surrounded by books is a lot nicer than just seeing them displayed on a screen. There’s a physical feeling of being in the middle of thoughts and ideas that have emerged from obscurity and seen the light. And behind every book, there is a story – one that never gets out. The rows and …
It’s fine to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ within the confines of home or the office but to use it on screen or in a public performance, you have to fork out money to the Warner Music group. A ditty converted from ‘Good Morning to All’ has provided revenue since 1935 and the copyright will remain in …
We are all irritated by different things. People take long detours in order to avoid stopping at a couple of traffic lights. Others cannot let anyone cut ahead of them in a line. Or bear to be left out of a particularly juicy bit of gossip. We have all felt the collective exasperation when a …
Is immortality the paradise it is made out to be? David Murdock of Dole Foods is planning to live to 125. He’s currently a healthy 87 and a headache is one of the rarities in his life. He eats only fruits and vegetables; seafood, egg whites, beans and nuts. He completely avoids dairy products, red meat, and …
Today’s young women have to thank a couple of actresses from back in the 1950s – Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. They made dark red lips fashionable at a time when it was still frowned upon in civil society. The history of lipstick goes back 5000 years but it is filled with stories of betrayal …
Being paid $1.2 million for every episode would be enough for anyone to get down to work, you would imagine. Charlie Sheen, the now infamous lead of ‘Two and a Half Men‘ shot himself in inconvenient places when he called his producer names and ranted that the only reason the show as a hit was because he …
In a chilling series of photographs featured in the New York Times, the scale of the tsunami in Japan is brought to heartrending light. It shows what the affected areas were just a few months ago. And then it shows how the entire landscape just got wiped out in a few minutes. In one-half of the picture, …
With the price of oil and the geopolitics that go with it, the search for alternatives has been on for several decades. The halfway options – a battery for cruising and oil for power with cars like the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight have been on the roads for nearly a decade. While they provide a …
