Category Archives: promoting things
How Big is Our Solar System
Ahh, the Universe. It is so freaking huge. The smartypants at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) managed to land the one ton SUV-sized rover called Curiosity, that doubles as minerals lab, on the surface of Mars, with exacting accuracy in the early earth-hours of this monday and it marks yet another step in our species’ […]
Waiting For Superman
Did you like going to school ? Ok, you don’t have to answer that. When I was young, school was the daily routine that happened whether I liked it or not and, for all intentions, I hated it. There were exceptionally few days when I would wake up in the morning and felt good about […]
How To Design a Fantastic Infographic
When we hear the word ‘infographic’ we often remember the commercials that show statistics in a fancy graph or an animated bar chart. But the science of infographics goes beyond just advertisements that show us how micronutrients in the new health drink is 4 times more than the leading brand. If it is true that […]
A Revolution in Education
Learning comes naturally to all of us, but, when we hear the word ‘School’, many of us don’t have a warm and fuzzy feeling. Schools tend to emphasize blind memorizing as opposed to learning the subject and gaining insightful knowledge that can be used to further fuel our learning and understanding of the world around […]
The Best Beer in the World
Did you know that Trappist Beer is considered to be one of the best tasting beer in the entire world ? It is very rare to acquire but people who have tasted it swear by its deliciousness. Did you also know that Trappist beer gets its name from the monastery where it is brewed? That is right, […]
How To Make The Best Coffee, 1960s Style
Coffee needs no introduction. It is what you are drinking right now, or what you were drinking just a while ago. At the very least, it is the drink you are looking forward to drinking after you finish reading this. I honestly think that for many, all three previous statements are true. If that is […]
More on Design and Why Podcasts are Awesome
More and more I am realizing, what I hope is known to lot of people already, that a great deal of information and insight is being broadcast around the airwaves through podcasts. There are my personal favorites like This American life, How To Do Everything podcast, and Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, but, for sure, […]
Top Ten Design Quotes from Donald A. Norman
I am learning all sorts of fascinating things about how products are designed and how those designs tug at our emotional and cognitive impulses to make us decide and act in ways we just take for conscious behavior. Donald A. Norman‘s book, ‘Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Every Things’ is an awesome book […]
20 Ways To Improve a ToDo List
As part of an online course I am taking, I was asked to day to come up with 15 or more ways a todo list can be improved. After twisting and bending my brains I could squeeze out 16 to make a better ToDo list, but for making it a round number I inflated it […]
The Raid: Redemption
Do you love non-stop, hair-raising martial-art fights and stunts ? Then ‘The Raid‘ will be an unforgettable movie experience for you. Its very rare these days to find even a decent quality, old-fashioned, hand-to-hand combat rich movies, but this little Indonesian flick will remind you what you have been missing in this genre. The plot […]
