Yesterday I attended a workshop on Web Science. See for more details and the program. Web Science is an interesting evolving area. Since people from so many different discipline are working in aspects of the Web and its further evolution…
Subtitles to teach reading
Ish Rishabh sent me a very interesting article by Gurcharan Das. Ish writes that I never knew that subtitling the song might help people learn how to read. In fact, I used to find subtitling irritating. So it was interesting…
Knowledge Science 5: Orality and Literacy
Walter Ong’s book “Orality and Literacy” is a very interesting book. It shows how thinking changes when an oral language becomes a written language. To most of us — at least all those who are reading this — literacy is…
Knowledge Science 4
‘The Geography of Thought’ is a very readable and thought provoking book by Richard Nisbett. The most compelling message that one gets is that the way thought processes evolved in west and east (mostly Chinese) are not just different; they…
Knowledge Science 3
One would think that people from every part of the world may think in similar way. I just came across a very interesting book — The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett. This book argues how people from west think…