March, 2016

• 23 March

  A Trip to Terrorist Heaven: Why Suicide Bombing is An Act of Utmost Fear

  

  For those of you who do follow the news, you may have seen the recent attacks in Brussels by a trio of suicide bombers who continued with their so-called “holy” plan and decided to blast themselves and several others straight to terrorist heaven (yes, they have a private heaven where …
• 22 March

  Cricket and Country: The Pseudo-Patriotism of Today

  

  My forefinger lingered over the F5 key on the keyboard occasionally to refresh the Google web page, so that I could check the scores of the match; India VS Pakistan. Why was I not in front of the TV? Because I was at work and all I could do was …
• 21 March

  The Anonymous Trump: Where do “you” come into the Picture?

  

  What’s up Internet surfer! Glad that you stumbled upon this particular website (or were probably guided to it), especially this article. But, do you know that you left a trail of breadcrumbs everywhere that you travelled on the web before you came here? Do you also know about the fact …
• 20 March

  Science Behind Emotions and How they Affect the World Around You

  

  The world around human beings does two things which are responsible for causing the flow of emotions through a person. One, is the external events happening around the person round the clock, causing one or the other emotions to fire off the handle, like the boss going on a rage …
• 20 March

  The Science Behind the Enigmatic Colors of the Butterfly

  

  Nature gifts us with a tantalizing array of phenomena, which can make us go bonkers owing to the complexity of the same. One of these awe-inducing aspects of nature includes the creation of the dazzling colours of butterflies. They get their colours from two sources: ordinary and structural colour. The …
• 19 March

  The Science Behind Lucid Dreaming

  

  Successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep, with content and purpose not definitively understood is called a dream. Our writer Tanya Patil has rightly stated in her article “Science behind dreams: Why do we forget them after waking up?” that …
• 18 March

  The Science Behind Competition

  

  I think we all have that friend in our lives who goes to extreme lengths to conceal their paper from the typical lazy bones who are determined to take a peek. Whether it’s having selective hearing in the exam hall or temporarily losing their voice to Ursula, to even developing …
• 18 March

  The Science Behind Forgiveness: A Therapy for Letting Go

  

   “It is much more agreeable to offend and later ask forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiveness,” said the philosopher Friedrih Nietzsche. Forgiving might seem like the characteristic of the vulnerable but it is the virtue of the strong. Considering forgiving as a means of healing was just limited …
• 18 March

  Science behind dreams: Why do we forget them after waking up?

  

  Many people would relate to the following situation: Having dreamt something desirable or fascinating, people try to “hold on” to the dream and try to remember it after waking up, remembering only vague scattered bits of it and wanting to relive it. Dreams are as intriguing as they are inevitable, …
• 17 March

  The Science Behind Anger

  

  You know that moment when something goes wrong and your amygdala (the structure in your brain that puts your emotions in the driving seat) which is responsible for responding to external stimuli, fires you up by releasing neurotransmitters called catecholamine which fills you with energy and builds you up for …