Posted in Books Reviews

Book Review: "Outliers" – by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell This book, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest, focuses on something completely different from his earlier ones, “The Tipping Point,” and “Blink.”…

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Posted in Tech

Singularity: A New University In The Silicon Valley

Nasa, Google and many technology leaders will lauch a new university in the Silicon Valley this summer  “with the goal of preparing the next generation of…

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Posted in EEDesign

Are FPGAs Ready To Tip ASICs?

This is a question that has been asked many times.  A recent statement by Moshe Gavrielov, president and CEO of programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc., that…

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Posted in Psychology

Do You Answer The Question Or The Person Asking?

I just saw this interesting post titled “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” by Shankar Vedantam from Washington Post’s Department of Human Behavior….

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Posted in Psychology

How Are You Primed Today?

Picture this. You walk from home to the movie theatre which is a block away. You watch a movie that has a very sombre story…

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Posted in Psychology

How Eyewitnesses Are Affected By Confessions

I was just browsing through my Google Reader this morning, and this MedicalNewsToday article caught my eye. There is an experiment described in the article. A…

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Posted in Google Apps

Google Reader Helps You Keep Up With Your Favorite News and Blogs

You have probably stored hundreds of bookmarks in your web browser to store a list of websites and blogs that you liked and planned to…

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Posted in Google Apps Web

Gmail Goggles Stops You From Emailing Impulsively

I was trying to catch up with my pending mails in my Gmail account on Saturday night, and every time I was trying to “send”…

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Posted in Web

Does Yahoo Answer?

When you are researching something, you probably try searching on the web with Google or other search engines. But there are times when you really…

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Posted in Books Reviews

"Who You See Is What You Get."

I have been listening to the audio-book “How Doctors Think” by Dr. Jerome Groopman for the last few days. I will write a review when…

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