Category Archives: Stories

How Do You Know a Great Person When You See One

In the still-raging debate over my two posts about why “Great People Are Overrated,” the one (and perhaps only) question that went under-discussed might be the most important question of all: How do you know a great person when you see one? Is “greatness” purely a matter of raw brainpower and technical virtuosity, or is it impossible to discuss individual… Read More »

Sagar! A Student at MesCom Committed suicide

Mangaluru, April 11, 2020:  Mangalore Electricity Supply Company (MESCOM) has said that its customers will receive monthly bills as usual and may pay the bills through digital platforms. There is no direction from the Union Power Ministry to ESCOMs to postpone bill collection, a release from the company said. Monthly bills would be generated through average billing amount or… Read More »

We Also Had A Time

Also, as well and too are adverbs and mean ‘in addition’. Also Also is commonly used in writing, but is less common in speaking. Also occupies different positions in a sentence. We use also in front position to emphasise what follows or to add a new point or topic: It’s very humid. Also, you can easily get sunburnt. [on the telephone] OK, I’ll phone you next week and we can… Read More »

Dr. Abraham of Los Angeles Performed Experiments to Determine The Weight Of The Human Soul

In 1907, a Massachusetts doctor named Duncan MacDougall performed an unusual series of experiments. Intrigued by the idea that the human soul had mass, and could therefore be weighed, Dr. MacDougall put together a bed fitted with a sensitive set of beam scales, and convinced a series of terminally ill patients to lie on it during the final… Read More »