Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) I have cried reading books, but this is the first one I can remember shedding tears just three pages in. The story…
Rating: ** (2 stars out of 5) This is a short history of maths. By short, I mean really short. Which is unfortunate, because there can be no justice…
Growing up, I used to watch a lot of dubbed Chinese Kung-Fu movies. Mongoose style against the Snake style and so on. I don’t believe they used to…
After I came to the US, many of my friends got consulting opportunities in Pfizer in the New London / Groton area in Connecticut. So I made a few trips down there. I didn’t have a regular camera in those days, and mostly used throw-away cameras. This first one was taken off a lookout point…
If you are on the East Coast, Acadia National Park is a good place to visit in the summer. When we went for a visit, I thought it was a long drive (5–6 hours) and booked a room in Bangor which is about an hour from the Park. But it turned out that a visit…
The Adventure Aquarium at Camden in New Jersey is one of the better aquariums I have been to. It is across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, so you get these awesome views of the city while standing at the back side of the aquarium. Reaching the aquarium was a little tricky when I went there…