Prediction/Forecast
RaGa and the liberals.
Amit Shah knows that the liberals will abandon Rahul Gandhi at the first ...
Democracy
A systemic (and expensive) failure.
The complete smothering of the free press in India have long-term repercussions that ...
Future
The AI ‘pause’.
A host of celebrities have signed a letter asking governments and private entities ...
Love
A letter from Team Kymaia.
As Kymaia grows towards puberty, we, her parents, remind her that while she ...
Society
If money was no object…
I love hypothetical questions. But a recent one on Twitter about money being ...
Morality
The Second Law.
The products of the future may come with the politics of the manufacturer ...
Democracy
My Republic Day 2023 wish.
I have never understood why history and civics are combined in Indian schools ...
Question
Why is Google laying people off? No, really.
Sundar Pichai's emotion-laden letter to his employees regarding the layoffs rings hollow in ...
Ageing
Honest question.
I am constantly told to behave age appropriately. And now, I have started ...
Technology
Theseus. And his AI-powered ship.
A recent post about a teacher using AI to catch AI got me ...
Woo
Crypto, crapto.
Cryptocurrencies have been the subject of much chatter amongst my friends for the ...
Travel
Bharat Jodo Yatra 2022: The prep.
I chronicle my journey to Nanded and back to participate in the in ...
Warning
Planet A. Planet B.
It isn't just the lack of infrastructure that seems to be the problem ...
Hope
Brihanmumbai and Leningrad.
Will BMC prove to be BJP's Leningrad. Or will Uddhav let it walk ...
Power
तीतर के दो आगे तीतर…
When faced with a choice of perpetuating or dismantling a system of oppression ...
![Mr Baba: 'Would you like to take off the backpack now that you've been downstairs for like 30 minutes?'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'I like it like this. You should try it. It's very comfortable.'
Mr Baba: [Pulling on his backpack] 'Hmmm, you're right. That's rather snug.'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'Twinning! Yay!'
#LuckiestManAlive #BearFamily](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416920031_3373151642830342_6696851954454537274_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=ZMLmjPdSAEUAX8nnJex&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfB0olvUVmnenPKd2wCllMDehg5gzDgAbc4BDsGLqIm6pA&oe=65BA4561)
![Kym: 'Mr Baba, can I tell you something wierd? You can actually get tired from doing nothing!!'
Me: 'It is called boredom.'
Kym: 'Noooo. I mean, like physically tired.'
Me: 'One can get tired and sleepy due to boredom. I remember reading about it somewhere. Let's find out.'
[Some Googling later]
Me: 'It says here that "A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications finds that a part of the brain that is associated with motivation and pleasure - the nucleus accumbens - also can produce sleep. The new findings may explain why we have the tendency to fall asleep in the absence of motivating stimuli, i.e., when bored." Isnt it interesting?'
Kym: 'I already knew that. Why do you need to research things we already know?'
Me: [Finding a subject worth talking about now]: ' Ah well, that's what we'll talk of tomorrow on your morning run. It's very interesting the way science is done and our understanding of the universe is expanded.'
Kym: 'Can we talk of unicorns instead?'
Me: 'Sure. How do you know they exist? That's an interesting question too that you can use the scientific method to answer.'
Kym: 'Do they have to exist for us to talk about them? We can just pretend they do for an hour and have fun.'
Me: [Laughing] 'Yes, sure. We can do that too.'
#BabaBabyConversations #BearFamily #KymAndI](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416410840_383105434396466_2267910263456009774_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=LIozs445JFcAX_48wGC&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfDQ2qbb0yO_wUmLj_L0ZxF61eDdwlIN-vyrd8GZe_pBMQ&oe=65BAFA57)
