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Feedback looks into a swell tale about mice testes and fizzy beverages, is puzzled by a diagram of a bicycle and brings you all the latest nominative determinism news ....
বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান ও কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম। এ দুই মহাপ্রাণের জন্ম না হলে বাঙালি পেত না তার কাঙ্ক্ষিত স্বাধীনতা। দুজনের বয়সের সংখ্যাগত পার্থক্য ২১ বছর। দুজনের জীবনের বাস্তবতা হলো, নজরুল যখন সৃষ্টিকর্মে উদীয়মান, বঙ্গবন্ধুর তখন জন্ম। অন্যদিকে বঙ্গবন্ধু যখন আন্দোলনের তুঙ্গে তখন নজরুল নিভে যাওয়া এক আগ্নেয়গিরি। ....
The strange case of Mr Boot and Mr Foot: can your name really influence your career? As Terry Boot takes over from Peter Foot as finance chief at Shoe Zone, we explore the fascinating world of nominative determinism at work 10 March 2021 • 3:27pm Everyone feels a little self-conscious when they start a new job, but the incoming finance chief of Shoe Zone will be feeling the eyes of the world on him more than most. He found himself trending on social media this week following the announcement of his appointment. It wasn’t the contents of his CV that had attracted attention, but rather the name on the top: Terry Boot. It’s a rather humorous coincidence made all the more so by the fact he is taking over the role at the shoe retailer from Peter Foot. ....
photo credit: Bigstock On Christmas Day I sat by the fire in my house in France and read a charming little book, Tea With Walter de la Mare, by Russell Brain, published in 1957. Walter de la Mare, who died age 83 in 1956, was a poet, novelist, and short-story writer who was once very famous and popular, but of whom I don’t suppose many people under the age of 60 have heard. Russell Brain was one of the most prominent neurologists of his day, whose textbook went through nine editions. The very title evokes a long-lost world, for who would now bother, as Brain did, to conjure up the conversations he had at afternoon tea with an author? Who, indeed, recalls the genteel ritual of afternoon tea? But Brain defends what he calls tea-talk: ....