There were special celebrations when a baby boy was born at Chennai’s G.G. Hospital yesterday (August 27, 2008). And understandably so… given that it’s the country’s first reported instance of a birth resulting from a frozen egg and also given the minuscule 2% success rate for such deliveries.
In contrast, the success rate for freshly farmed eggs […]

Well, we unthinkingly use lifts (or elevators as our American audience would call it), but here’s an article that might might make you think a little more about what you do when you step inside one the next time. If you are the timid kind, you might even try and avoid using the lift whenever […]

I wrote the other day in the eWorld blog (here and here) in another context about how our expectations regarding response has changed along with improved connectivity. Here is a blog post (in ReadWriteWeb) that looks at how faster and more stressful life is becoming.
An excerpt:
We are not going to settle for less than right […]

Here’s an interesting post that says: if you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature. The blog post (at Signal vs. Noise) is mainly based on Antony Jay’s The Corporation Man.
When you’ve got a small group, you don’t need to constantly formalize things. You communicate and you know what’s going on. If you have […]

I came across three very interesting articles that sort of help each other along in persuading me to be more careful about my identity. The first article, Are you a member of Facebook? You may have a lifetime contract, by Ben Fry, started me thinking as it was only yesterday that I posted in the eWorld […]