Renew your body

Of late I have come across these three interesting news concerned with
renewing the human body :

Baldness : Hair loss in humans might be reversible, suggest scientists who have helped create new hair cells on the skin of mice.

Artifical Limbs : Japanese firm unveils artificial hand with 'air muscles'.

Lasik Surgery : I don't have the hyperlink but read in yesterday's TOI that Lasik
surgery for eyes sans blade is available in India now.

Search engine for quotes/quotations

A search engine dedicated to quotes/quotations :
http://quotesearch.blogspot.com

DLF IPO as compared to GMR Infrastructure IPO

The biggest IPO in Indian history has failed to garner 100% subscription
in retail category, 97% is the number, whereas QIB quota has it around
500%. This reminds me of GMR Infra IPO in 2006. QIB quota around 10 times
whereas retail category was subscribed 0.5 times.

But in around 2 months' time it took off and was trading at 50% premium.
I expect the same to happen with DLF.

Two of the Best

Or The Two Best Romantic Movies ever :
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.

This couplet has the stuff that the dreams are made of.
The magic only the celluloid can weave.
Must watches.

Do kids want to study?

My experiences @ AID Prayas(An NGO for tutoring underprivileged kids) :

1. Do kids want to study?


I guess yes. To me it's not simply the reward/punishment logic, at times
they genuinely enjoy two numbers being added. Exercising the faculty
of brain is indeed a pleasure for them. I don't think they really know that
it can get a job for them, so it's not a necessity for sure. Nor am I distributing
sweets to the better performing ones.

2. Boys vs. Girls

With boy students I can afford to be rude, casual and cursory. In fact if
I treat them too well, they offer me a suspecting glance. With girls, if I don't
smile often enough, they tend to withdraw themselves into a shell. A lot
of persuasion goes into making them learn new things.

Boys seem to pick up math skills faster for two reasons that I can think of:

(i) The kind of games they play require some sort of counting, cricket, kanche,
or any other game that I can think of, while girls are dressing up their dolls.


(ii) Some of them work in the shops in the daytime(it's a night class), so even there
they have to count stuff, at least the money that they get.

Marriages

"...a random allocation might be better than selecting a partner on the grounds of smarts, common interests, attractiveness, how good he or she makes us feel, and so on."
Source.