Past Present ContinuousFinance Fridays Railroads were one of the first disruptive innovations: they changed England from an island of moderate, agrarian towns into a quick, urban, industrialized country. Railroads increased productivity, diminished production costs and encouraged working class customers to purchase factory produced merchandise. Due to their job as the driving innovation of the industrial revolution, the […]
Technology Thursdays We can’t survive for a day without the internet or specifically Google. Instead of saying let me search on the internet, we are often heard saying ‘Let me Google that for you’. Have you ever wondered what it takes to manage the most popular search engine in the world? Have you ever wondered […]
Trade Tuesdays When we speak about Pepsi, military is probably the last word that would come to our mind. We’ve all read stories about how Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been on a Cola War, their brilliant marketing campaigns, but we may not know that for a brief period of time Pepsi had the 6th largest […]
Mythology Mondays In 1933, the Inverness Courier Article wrote how a businessman and his wife saw a massive upheaval along the shore of Loch Ness in Scotland. Upon stopping, they witnessed a massive creature resembling that of a whale. Shocked, they waited for over thirty minutes hoping that the creature would come out again, but […]
Finance Fridays The tulip bubble is a classic example of a financial bubble, and is known to be the world’s first bubble. When the price of something goes up, not because of its intrinsic value, but because people who buy it expect to be able to sell it again at a profit, it can have […]
War Wednesdays As kids or even now, all of us have experienced a fight between siblings over food, especially if it’s a bakery product or them doughnuts. Dunkin’ donuts, oh so good! But, while most people say it in good spirit that they would kill someone over food, they don’t really mean it. Could you […]
Finance Fridays For every superhero story we read or movie we watch, there is always a dark phase. A phase in which everything seems lost, and it looks like the world is going to end. Well, for one of the world’s largest creators of superhero stories, Marvel, this phase came in the winter of 1996. […]
Mythology Mondays The Iglesia Maradoniana is a religion, created by the fans of the retired Argentine footballer Diego Maradona. The Church of Maradona (yes literally) simply believes that Maradona was the greatest soccer player in the history of the sport and prays to that fact. On June 22 1986, four years after Argentina had failed […]
Social Saturdays “Paise kya ped pe ugte hain?” “Nahi, lekin Spaghetti toh ugti hai”. Yes, what if we told you that your favourite genre of pasta can basically be harvested and grown on trees. No, we are not crazy, after all, the BBC itself said so. In 1957, the BBC telecasted a segment wherein they […]
Technology Tuesdays Organisations around the world are protecting themselves from data breaches and are always concerned about protecting their information, but they still can’t escape from the hackers. And one of the craziest stories ever was when NASA was hacked in 1999 by a fifteen-year-old boy! Jonathan Jones known to the internet as “cOmrade” (and […]
Past Present Continuous