“Who was that guy and the girl?” Stephanie whispered to my ear at the science lab. “I dunno, but they looked weird” I replied unpleasantly “Weird? Hey, that guy is handsome looking…I wish that I can go out with him” Stephanie said while taking down some note’s… “Hmmm” I just nodded because I was shocked [...]

TED: John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4′x5′ plywood board — and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches — spontaneous, and always surprising — go further than classroom lectures can.     Link to [...]

He was the least of the lesser privileged civilian janitorial staff of Military Dairy Factory. It was his duty to keep the main drain flowing. The main drain was a brick lined open channel for drainage of the effluent discharges from factory, consisting mainly of the washings from milk reception floors. A smoky layer of vapours arising from [...]

There was once a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a little hut close to the sea, and the fisherman used to go down every day to fish; and he would fish and fish. So he used to sit with his rod and gaze into the shining water; and he would gaze and [...]

Radio Lab: This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence–from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece [...]

Every story has a hero; a larger than life projection of human form in whatever way fathomable. A character of extraordinary faculty, a symbol of strength; more so of POWER. In a mediocre life, where “OK” is the ultimate pinnacle of excellence; a Hero is not just a mode of amusement, rather a source of [...]

During the very first week of my stay in Ghana (Africa), I observed that almost everyone there used to have a thin cigarrette in the mouth, and that almost every time. I was very disappointed to see such small boys and girls smoking. This however was not the case. I was mistaken. These were in [...]

I was walking down the familiar roads of the city that I have lived all my life in. The sounds and the smell of these little alleys which lead to the houses weaved within downtown were enchanting. It’s not like an ordered city or anything. The main road has all the glassy windowed high rise [...]

Most of the shadows of our lives are caused by standing in our own sunshine. Sometimes we tend to care so much about the opinions of people we don’t even know. If we talk with a little of logic, this isn’t right. How can we care about what someone who doesn’t knows us says? well [...]

–posted by LittleOwl It has struck me, lately, how heightened awareness of the things going on around us can present many new helping opportunities! Last week, I was driving through a local sandwich chain at lunchtime, when I saw two men sitting on the grass a few yards away conversing with each another. They very thin [...]