Echoes / Bangladesh: A War Like No Other
15 December 2022
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SHOUT
Did you ever ask, why you fear maths?
4 December 2022
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Echoes
Autumn Festivals and Nobanno
17 November 2022
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Echoes
ECHOES / Religious Festivals and Holiday Blues
6 October 2022
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SHOUT
ECHOES / Checking exam scripts: One moral side of teaching
22 September 2022
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SHOUT
ECHOES / SHOUT at 9!
14 July 2022
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SHOUT
Claustrophobia, and the lack of open spaces in Dhaka
16 June 2022
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SHOUT
How I kept my New Year’s resolution
29 December 2021
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Echoes
Skill, Grades and Universities / Another side of the story
24 November 2021
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Echoes
Skill, Grades and Universities / One side of the story
10 November 2021
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Echoes
150 Years of Alice and Wonderland
On the afternoon of July 4, 1862, two Oxford Dons, Charles Dodgson and Robinson Duckworth, went on a boat ride up the River Isis, a tributary of the Thames. Three sisters – Lorina, Alice, and Edith – accompanied them.
19 August 2015
A Salty History
Where would we be without salt? In ancient Rome, we wouldn't earn a salarium. Salt derives from the Latin sal (and thus salary).
29 July 2015
John and Alicia In Thick and in Thin
We're always playing games. Sometimes we play together. Sometimes we play against each other.
10 June 2015
HAPPINESS IS A FUNCTION OF NEED, NOT GREED
You have a fixed amount of two goods: X and Y. You like both X and Y. A kind person offers you a little bit more of only X (or only Y).
20 May 2015
A good monopoly is a creative monopoly
Remember the orange bazaar in Sylhet where millions of identical oranges were selling? No seller or buyer was big enough to influence the market.
6 May 2015
The Simpsons and Economics: D'Oh!
In April 1991, Lisa Simpson's teacher, Miss Hoover took leave because she fell sick. A substitute teacher, Mr Bergstrom came.
8 April 2015
The hills are [still] alive with the sound of music
Happiness in the cinema hall starts when the film finishes. The lights turn on. You stay in your seat.
11 March 2015
There's no alternative to practice and deep thinking
A few days ago, I was humming a tune. I got curious about the lyrics.
26 February 2015