Auctions: Another Nobel Prize in Game Theory
This year Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Today we talk about auctions, but with no jargon.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Pahela Agrahayan and Nobanno
Emperor Akbar may have changed Pahela Agrahayan to Pahela Baishakh centuries ago, but people don't give up traditions easily
4 November 2020, 18:00 PM
There is no Nobel Prize in Economics
Let's debunk a myth. There is no "Nobel Prize in Economics".
21 October 2020, 18:00 PM
The Joy of Listening to Radio
My listening ability developed better than my reading ability due to circumstances in life. I spent my initial childhood (1974-1979) in Aberystwyth in Wales,
7 October 2020, 18:00 PM
It was easy then, but not now
After an event happens, it seems more inevitable we had always known its outcome. This is the hindsight bias.
23 September 2020, 18:00 PM
The Beauty and The Beast of Our Times
I completed 25 years of teaching in July this year. I belong to a generation where teachers taught on blackboards in the style of "chalk and talk".
9 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Chatga With a Chandrabindu
I was born in Chatga. Ever since I knew I was me, I've been visiting Chatga once in a while. Over the years, I've seen the change of a city, while nothing changed at all.
26 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Do you fear maths?
Why is it most of us can't think like Gauss? The answer lies in the way math has been perceived over millennia.
12 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Public Universities in Changing Times
Today's Echoes tries to explore where constraints lie for public universities. It's based on the experience of economics students of Jahangirnagar, Barisal, Mawlana Bhashani and BUP.
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM
A Tale of Two Laptops
We have two laptops. And a beautiful story to tell.
1 July 2020, 18:00 PM
The Days of Our Lives
If you didn't develop a skill, read no books, watched no movies during the pandemic, or didn't do what your friends did, ask yourself: does it really matter?
17 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Online classes in the time of coronavirus
For health safety, education institutions had to be shut down. The next question was: for how long? Once again, nobody had an answer. The pandemic appeared as a black swan. Nobody was prepared.
3 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Online Addiction - Finding an answer to life
In this concluding part, we start with the questionnaire from the last Echoes (published Dec 6, 2018) that tested a participant's online addiction.
26 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Online Addiction - Asking Yourself Questions
In January 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's first iPad. For more than one hour, Jobs tried to argue that everybody should own an iPad.
5 December 2018, 18:00 PM
An Integrated Admission Test in Public Universities of Bangladesh
My batch and I sat for the HSC exam three decades ago in 1987. Our results came out at the end of that year. Like everybody else, I was faced with the question: which university, and what subject?
15 February 2018, 18:00 PM
The Rise of Emoticons and Emojis
In April 2015, the British tennis player, Andy Murray, married Kim Sears. Andy tweeted in celebration. The tweet was unusual.
5 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Too much sugar is not sweet
Two of your friends work out. After the workout, one friend receives 12 oranges to eat.
26 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Food for thought about wasting food
Today people have more food to eat than ever before. Technology has made it possible to produce surplus food in many countries.
25 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Re-thinking Public University Entrance Exams
As a nation progresses, it faces new challenges. The road that brought it to where it stands is usually never the road that will take it forward furthermore. University admission (entrance) exams have undergone changes to keep up with the times.
28 December 2016, 18:00 PM
ROALD DAHL 100 - Still a Little Nonsense Now & Then
Had I been alive today, I would have celebrated my 100th birthday on September 13, 2016 with all of you. As you know, I left the world on November 23, 1990 when I was 74.
7 September 2016, 18:00 PM