Bookend – Where reading meets review

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) The inextricably linked duo of “Free Market” and “The Invisible Hand”, are, arguably,  solid contenders, for two of the most…

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) Imagine four clocks bearing an asymmetric relationship to each other. The first clock represents the ‘reality’ of climate change. In…

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) Harry Erickson has an estranged marriage, a thankless job at an assisted living facility, and a doting daughter who puts…

(Image Credit: Penguin Random House) Four centuries. Future bleeding into the past. Present intermingling with the future. “Sea of Tranquility” is Emily St.…

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) On Friday, December 18, 2020, Carlota Vinals, head of regulatory affairs for infectious diseases at Moderna received a nine-page letter…

“Sisu” is an enigmatic Finnish word that does not lend itself to any precise translation. The closest that one can get to deciphering…

(Image Credit: Penguin Random House) In December 2012, Starbucks launched an ambitious PR campaign to enhance their brand value. In collaboration with Twitter,…

(Image Credit: http://www.imaginedthings.co.uk) Allow yourself the liberty and license to engage in an electrifying thought experiment. You are a party of five sailing…

(Image Credit: http://www.vacationrenter.com) “Art is whatever I say it is”, exclaimed French painter, sculptor and artist Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp, before proceeding to exhibit a…

(Image Credit: http://www.energiesmagazine.com) Remember the basic photosynthesis equation that was drilled into your heads at school? I didn’t, until I laid my hands…