E59 – Bias, Hidden in Snow?
On 28th Oct, 2022, the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) announced pay equity for Indian women cricketers.
E58 – In the Night Club
“On one hand you have Yuvraj Singh and on the other Rahul Dravid. Both assets…
E57 – The Personnel Checklist
*Apocryphal Story: * A story of doubtful authenticity…
E56 – The Dhoni Twist
Did Dhoni know something that Kumble didn’t? Perhaps…
E55 – The Perfect Want Ad
Would you ever join a team which promised “hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months…
E31 – Human Computers
There was an African-American girl called Dorothy Vaughn who was born in 1910. She was very good at her studies and did well through college and she went on to become a…
E28 – The Pygmalion Effect
Today’s story in a small way involves one of my favourite movies the Audrey Hepburn & Rex Harrison Classic – ‘My Fair Lady’. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s classic ‘Pygmalion’, the movie mesmerizes us about possibilities as Professor Higgins demonstrates…
E25 – Miasma ?
In 1846 Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was an assistant doctor at Vienna General Hospital which had two maternity wards 1 with interns being trained, & the other midwives are trained. Many pregnant women were dying at child birth due to ‘puerperal fever’ or childbed fever…
E03 – Creating an MRI adventure
In 2007, there was an industrial designer from GE, called Mr. Doug Dietz. He had been working for two years to build the MRI machine. Finally, his design comes to fruition as it gets installed at the hospital. Like a proud papa Doug goes to see this machine……….
E02 – The One in which Gillian Danced
In the 1930’s , there was a little girl called Gillian Lynn. One day she brought home a letter from her school informing her parents that Gillian was very fidgety and a disruptive element in her school and that she probably needed to be…