Some geo"logical" coverage

This came in ToI today and apparently here's the reason why earthquakes happen. Okay, we all know that the person who made the comment isn't entirely clued in when it comes to matters of science, but my pique is with the newspaper.

Why is it that only, and only, these kind of articles that seem to appear in newspapers these days? So sad and pathetic! Whoever came up bright idea that the newspaper industry needs to go the tabloid way, has go it completely wrong.

If this is print media, then television doesn't seem to do any better. In fact, it is even more nauseating -- with every anchor is yelling at the top of his/her voice claiming a new expose in IPL. That is all they can talk about 24 hours a day. The sad part is, not very long ago, they (print and TV) used to deliver good content until, perhaps, all of them got mass injected with Soma or something like that!

Healthcare bill

Here's a very good PBS documentary on how the Obama administration passed the historic healthcare bill. However, like all Frontline documentaries it slightly dramatized though!

What kind of a leader are you?

Here's an interesting article on leadership!
"... found that many of the reliably successful leaders combine “extreme personal humility with intense professional will.” This kind of leader "knows the world is too complex and irregular to be known, so life is about navigating uncertainty. She understands she is too quick to grasp at pseudo-objective models and confident projections that give the illusion of control.She spends more time seeing than analyzing. Analytic skills differ modestly from person to person, but perceptual skills vary enormously. Anybody can analyze, but the valuable people can pick out the impermanent but crucial elements of a moment or effectively grasp a context."

Can you count happiness?

Here's an article by David Brooks on how we place emphasis on incorrect measures of happiness!
"In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones."