Realizations on how unnervingly important it is for me to not blindly give in to the culture in order to stay high on (in) life! I am not the socio-cultural space that ‘they’ provide me! I am turbulent, free-flowing; with many more dimensions… I am not gonna be among the …
Read More »Do we really live in the land of Khajuraho & Kamasutra?
(Rhetorical question intended) A plethora of young people have been openly opposing the recent porn ban in India. But do we actually get to have a voice? (Pun intended) Don’t talk about it, don’t even watch it. How do you expect Indians to know anything about what Lord Krishna regarded …
Read More »It’s not crazy to quit your job and travel around the world!
The capitalist dream of the current world is what keeps you from traveling & experiencing more within the short span of your lifetime. Right from the childhood, we are prepared just to sell ourselves to some brand name & taught how to live for money. In fact, it has gotten …
Read More »Cosmos Week Recap: 9 things we didn’t know before this week
Pluto & Charon together form one planet As discussed in this article, Pluto & Charon are in fact one planetary system! They together behave like one planet around which other moons Styx, Nix, Hydra & Kerberos revolve. The center of mass of this planetary system lies in the space between …
Read More »Star Trip #3: Rebirth of a star; resurgence of the information!
For Stars, there is life after death. For Cosmos, there is a constant drift towards ‘Information Complexity’. The soul of the star hangs around the white dwarf remnant of the star in the form of a gas cloud. This would eventually become a stellar nursery which would produce a new …
Read More »Star Trip #2: We are no different from the Stars!
Are planets & stars different? No, they start as one unit. As it comes out of the stellar nursery, a star is at this stage a huge ball of dust & gas, called a protostar. The core of this protostar is very dense & gravitationally collapses the outer part of …
Read More »Star Trip #1: Birth to Youth
Where are stars born? Stars are born in Stellar Nurseries which are basically huge clouds of gas & dust. Light cannot penetrate the stellar nurseries & we do not know what exactly happens there. But there is some information that is being given to the stars here before they are …
Read More »Scientists develop brain in a supercomputer
Can we prototype a human brain? The answer is yes! Neo-cortex, as we know it, has been the final upgrade by the Universe for the technology called ‘brain’. This has been the ultimate upgrade, responsible for social interactions & other complex cognitive functions. Now what if we can replicate or prototype …
Read More »Dissecting Experimental Cinema #1: Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run (1998), Rotten Tomatoes – 93%; IMDb – 7.8/10 Director: Tom Tykwer Chapter 1: Background Run Lola Run is a German movie released in 1998. The movie is essentially a 20-minute sequence in the life of the protagonist ‘Lola’. Lola receives a call from his boyfriend Manni who …
Read More »7 Scary Facts You Didn’t Know About Your Brain
You think you know your brain? Well, think again. It is our most important organ, no doubt! But it can indeed trick you & the scare the shit out of you. Let’s scare ourselves spot on & in the final point you will see how being scared can be positive …
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