For so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To … Continue reading For so work the honey-bees
Basil’s Twist’s The Rite of Spring. Basil Twist, one of America’s premier puppeteers, is preparing a piece to Stravinsky’s world-shaking ballet score “The Rite of Spring” for the Carolina Performing Arts festival “The Rite of Spring at 100,” in Chapel Hill. At the end of February, I went to a deconsecrated church in Bushwick to see how the rehearsals were going. The church was unheated, with … Continue reading Spring Beckons US – II
Avec le temps Avec le temps, va, tout s’en va On oublie le visage et l’on oublie la voix Le cœur, quand ça bat plus, c’est pas la peine d’aller Chercher plus loin, faut laisser faire et c’est très bien Avec le temps… Avec le temps, va, tout s’en va L’autre qu’on adorait, qu’on cherchait sous la pluie L’autre qu’on devinait au détour d’un regard … Continue reading With time, it all goes, goes away
Ozymandias by P B Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand … Continue reading Senescence
As a student at IIT Delhi in the period 1997 – 1999, I used to visit the library every day without fail. One of the things I did was to copy down (printing was too expensive) quotations and poems onto my notebook so that I can share them with others. I wrote one poem a day on the blackboards of Waste Treatment Lab and Bio-Process Lab and … Continue reading Quest
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw … Continue reading Spring beckons us
Marcus Du Sautoy Everything is mathematical Prof Sautoy’s blog Books by Marcus Du Sautoy Video on prime numbers Cedric Villani Quiz series in Le Monde Andrew Wiles Fermat’s last theorem Mathematics Journals Azim Premji University’s Publications Journal Collections Continue reading The curious case of numbers and symbols
Compounds present in exhaled breath can act as a “fingerprint” for individuals, scientists say. These “metabolites” represent the waste products of the body’s chemistry – but their uniqueness had never been shown. Read more on BBC’s website *** Abstract: “The metabolic phenotype varies widely due to external factors such as diet and gut microbiome composition, among others. Despite these temporal fluctuations, urine metabolite profiling studies … Continue reading Metabolomics
Professor Stew Friedman on Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life Continue reading Total Leadership
To find out how high achievers organise their lives we asked seven top business people to run us through their working day – including the bosses of AOL and Ericsson. Introducing the interviews, Tim Dowling discovers that a very early start is the key to success. Read more… Continue reading Rise and Shine
Perpetual Motion of Thought 