Renaissance

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It is that time of year again when every body declares the * of the year. * is a wild card and dosen’t represent a Star! One can fill any thing in the place of *, man, women, dog, etc. Every body tries to promote their brand ambassador as the face of 2006.

If the mode of selection is fool proof and done by great analyst (as claimed) then how come different group publish different lists ?

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There is an interesting discussion here pertaining to the public generated contents being mediocre (targeting photos). Meanwhile I also heard this argument from various people that blogs, flickr, youtube all generate mediocre stuff, sledom one finds quality stuff in them.

Who cares if people comment on their work or not? (I don’t)  The goal is publish ones work for friends, family members who are small in number and public access to the work comes as a bonus. But I do believe that if one needs to excel in his work he needs to get good critic on his work, both good and bad.

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Math and Science are never taught in an interesting manner. I have cribs about the way Math is taught in schools and colleges. The textbooks do not inspire, instead it introduces Math phobia. The tutors/authors plan is simple. Start with each math subject with the definition and solve few example problems and then straight to list of problems. The author also publishes addendum to the textbook which has all the solved solution. There are no applied examples in math textbooks, one wonders what is the need of studing those weird stuff if there is no application. Teachers do not inspire the students in any way. I have stumbled upon only few people who inspire to learn the subjects they teach.

In my school during one of math class, we were taught about similar triangles and some postulates like Angle-Side-Angle. During the class I asked why is the proof essential, instead of the hard work we could just measure things and arrive at the answer. I was asking what is proof and why is it necessary (in fact this sounds more bigger and philisophical question now!). The teacher gave an meaningful answer stating that proof’s are essential when you have no means of measuring.

Everybody aims at getting high scores in exams and concentrate on proable questions by analyzing the previous years papers and never doing the justice to the subject. This is not a new trend but pretty old one as the following extract tells us.

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I do not believe in homeopathy.

1. There is no scientific proof that it works
2. Water cannot remember history
3. There is no such thing as holistic treatment
4. It is nothing more than placebo effect
5. It is con man’s profession