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Monthly Archives: March 2008

India: A History by John Keay

Sunday, March 9, 2008

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Fitting tribute

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

I’ve always been slightly at a loss to explain just why I enjoy watching Sachin Tendulkar bat. Peter Roebuck describes it beautifully in his recent column: Spectators find in [Tendulkar's batting] the same satisfaction as a mathematician does in a formula. Tendulkar does not indulge himself at the crease. His style is not a style [...]

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Mathematician envy

Sunday, March 2, 2008

The scene is a hands-on workshop for developing presentation skills. Sixteen teaching assistants have come prepared with a ten minute teaching session on a topic of their choice. A biologist describes the human genome project. A chemist delights us with the tale of dimerizing a ketone molecule. An Lab TA attempts to convey the intricacies [...]

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