Source: The Hindu, India Cambridge Letter: A vision unfolds by Bill Kirkman Last week, my wife and I visited a very large estate about 10 miles outside Cambridge. We decided at the last minute to go there, because the weather was fine. We walked through a variety of woodland and well-kept gardens. There were many visitors, but because of the size of the place, no … Continue reading The National Trust
Source: Mala Radhakrishnan, assistant professor at Wellesley College, has written a book on poetry chemistry, called “Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances.” Her aim is to use poetry, but also easy-to-understand analogies to teach about thermodynamics, kinetics and molecular reactions. Source I used to sleep ‘ til my electrons would drool At P-32 element-ary school. The things we were taught were just totally boring. A mole of us atoms would … Continue reading Chemistry in Poetry
Source As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year sends a curious constellation to the multiplex: a minor cluster of romantic comedies and the couples who traipse through them, searching for love. These tend not to be people who have normal problems. She is poised, wildly successful in an ulcer-making job, lonely. He is sensitive, creative, equipped with a mysteriously … Continue reading Why are so many Americans single
Source Josh Kaufman is the author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, an international bestseller with translations in 12 languages. Josh specializes in teaching professionals in all industries and disciplines how to master practical business knowledge and skills. The Personal MBA has sold over 75,000 copies worldwide to date, and has been in the top 0.1% of all business books sold on Amazon.com since its publication in … Continue reading The Personal MBA
This was the topic for the Marks & Spencer and Cranfield University school of Management’s sustainable retailing challenge 2012. This video was made by the Warwick Business School’s distance learning MBA students and students have to address the issue of sourcing roses keeping the triple bottom line (people, planet and profit) in mind. What I found interesting is the way in which the issue was addressed … Continue reading Sustainably sourcing UK Roses
Tomas Uribe is a member of the Class of 2012 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is part of the LOWkeynotes initiative (Lives, organisations and the world). He says ‘recycling is a simple habit that has changed the world for good and can change it again’. Continue reading Tomas Uribe’s love story with recycling
Source: The Hindu, India It is time that the authorities evolve strategies to contain the emission of green house gases since the vehicle population is increasing at a rapid pace. Scientists have for the first time found unequivocal evidence of another oxidant playing a vital role in the formation of gaseous sulphuric acid in the atmosphere. Until now, it was thought that the combination of … Continue reading A new oxidant in the atmosphere identified
Source: The Guardian 30 July 2012 Lizzie Armitstead was just 10 years old when she told her parents she wanted to become a vegetarian. Yesterday, she won Great Britain’s first medal of the Olympic Games, taking silver in the gruelling 87-mile road cycling race, no less. I was brought up as vegetarian from birth and have been a long distance runner for most of my adult … Continue reading Olympian Vegetarians
In this video I employed Camtasia studio 8 to record the screen movements, Bamboo medium fun tablet to write using the Art Rage software as a whiteboard. My voice was recorded using the Yeti microphone. Continue reading Balancing chemical equations
Recording a lesson can be done by several ways: iPhone records pretty well but video size is limited to 4GB or around 50 min at maximum resolution. You will make better videos with a iPhone mount and a microphone. CNet UK has a good review on movie making with iPhones. Olympus LS20 (£280) is a superb HD video and audio recording device. With a microphone such … Continue reading Using technology in the classroom IV
Perpetual Motion of Thought 