A little learning is a dangerous thing: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. I TAKE my title from these ...

V. Raghunathan is a former Director of the Schulich School of Business (India Program), York University, Toronto, a former professor at IIM Ahmedabad and a former President of ING Vysya Bank. A ...

A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain / And drinking largely sobers us again. —Alexander Pope How dangerous ...

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: Their shallow draughts intoxicates the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” Alexander Pope, 1711 Ayoro, ...

I spent the better part of last night reading an essay by Alexander Pope. It was a Friday night when normal kids were in party mode. People my age were busy having fun and releasing the pressure ...

Barbara Cooke is a Research Associate on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn ...

JUSTICE HOLMES’S mother taught him to read when he was three,”Mrs. Holmes read aloud from the newspaper. The identity of the names caused her to be interested in everything she read about Justice ...

Last week, in the journal Nature, Timothy Caulfield wrote about battling dangerous pseudoscience in the time of COVID-19. The “infodemic,” or the wave of misinformation that has arisen with the ...

Fire damages Waterloo home Carjacking in Cedar Falls leads to chase, shooting in Hiawatha; man critically injured Police investigate shooting that injured teen in Waterloo Cedar Falls man arrested for ...

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