“What’s in a name? That what we call a rose Any other word would make it smell so sweet.” In this famous quote from Act II of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless convention and the fact that he is a Montague and she is a Capulet … Read more
When Professor FO Kwami was appointed Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana in 1982, the School of Engineering lost the services of an exceptionally talented engineering educator. A German-trained engineer and natural teacher, Frank Kwami was a natural choice for rapid promotion to full professor and then vice-chancellor. … Read more
Shahnawaz Zaidi is one of Pakistan’s most talented and well-known artists. He was born on May 24, 1948. His parents immigrated to Mandibahaudin near Gujarat, Pakistan from India, Muzafarnagar and Uttar Pradesh. Zaidi was the fifth of eleven siblings. He was not allowed to go to school until the fifth grade, but learned from a … Read more
As a marketing consultant, your website and e-zine are your most effective ways to attract new customers. Nothing else comes close. How to get the most out of your e-zine… An e-zine should be a face-to-face conversation with a single person. Tell them what you saw on TV that week, or tell them you’ve been … Read more
Our skin is a complex organ that occupies most of the human body, but we often take it for granted when we over-expose it to the sun, soak it in extreme temperatures without moisture, expose it to lotions made with perfumes and chemicals coated and failing to cleanse by removing dead skin cells that build … Read more
It is widely believed that education is one of the most effective tools to eradicate poverty, promote social growth, produce creative people and create a highly innovative social environment. It is quite amazing to find that poverty and education are paradoxically linked – when one is improved, the other is reduced. Despite all other social … Read more
At the end of your action research project, or even as a formative assessment in the middle, you need to revisit your data and analyze what you really did. This article is the last of five articles outlining the process of analyzing research findings and analyzing and reporting action research. Analysis and reporting are alchemical … Read more
We live in a mysterious universe – most of it we cannot see. What is it made of and has its composition changed over time? The starlit galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters are all embedded in invisible halos made of transparent material that scientists refer to as the galaxy clusters “Dark matter.” This mysterious substance … Read more
Strange things were happening in the outer solar system when it was first born. That ice giants, Uranus and Neptune are the two outermost major planets of our Sun’s family, and they are very similar in size, mass, composition and great distance from our star. Both distant worlds are distinctly different from the quartet of … Read more
Sentence equivalence problems are a new type of question in the Verbal Reasoning section of the new GRE (coming August 2011). This type of question will give you a sentence with one word left out. You choose two answers from a list of six possible answers that give the sentence the same (or as close … Read more