Deep Trip Series

Everybody is victim to addiction in one way or another. The word originates itself from the term used in ancient Roman for ‘enslaved by’ or ‘bound to’. Addiction is the habitual psychological or physiologic dependence on a substance or practice that is beyond voluntary control. This behavioral becomes serious and …

Ever caught your phrenic nerves getting irritated by various reasons that causes your diaphragm to spasm which makes you take short breaths and then it is obstructed by the closing of epiglottis? What I mean is, do you catch yourself to be the victim of hiccups often? Of course, we …

Energy cannot be destroyed or created It transforms. It is transferred. Inspiration is like energy An uninspired poet sits across a blank sheet. Inside a dried forest, on a stump of a tree. Staring at the glazing sun for inspiration. Staring at his cigarette with introspection. He lights. It burns. …

How awesome would it be to have a formula for making people fall in love? Turns out that there is a quantifiable explanation for how love actually happens. So let’s dive into the science behind this complex and often frustrating phenomenon. The brain has a part/segment called the hypothalamus that produces …

While searching for a topic to write a 2 minutes science fix on for this week, I stumbled across an article by Martin A. Schwartz called “The Importance of stupidity in scientific research.” This article stated that “science makes us feel stupid, that we actively seek out new opportunities to …

Let it be Nick Jonas or I, we all at some point have experienced that suffocating feeling; jealousy. It is an emotion that is frowned upon, however scientifically proven it’s a natural tendency in every human. The more in tune you are with your emotions, the more you’ll feel jealous …

Sudden ignition of the frontal lobe, neural discharge with simultaneous contraction of the facial muscles–signal to the brain stem for controlling lung function–diaphragm enforces air out in the larynx–vibration of vocal chords– and Voila! That’s how you laugh! We connect through laughter, laughing on the same matter indicates the same …

Art is something that stimulates an individual’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and ideas through the senses. Recently, I came across Angappan or as many call him AG, who made me realize how art existed but not in the way it should in the lives of people. People don’t appreciate art, they …

Art is beautiful. Artists must be beautiful. What you’re reading isn’t a wisecrack by a well established smartass artist, but a slogan performance artist Marina Abramovic repeats all the while brushing her hair vehemently (rooting out almost a thousand hair follicles in the process) for a period of 60 minutes. …

Edward Munch was asked one day, “What made you try and paint ‘The scream’?” “A scarlet sunset, so intensely crimson, The sky itself was a frenzied dream.” The canvas waited, dried and cold, In pastels and in oils bedraped. Waited to answer why it really screamed, Why horror had its …