Fun
Laughter is the best…?
After her morning training session, Baby bear does laughter therapy with her team. ...
Fun
A week of firsts. And an announcement.
A week of many firsts ends on a joyful note, with only one ...
Sport
The end of long distance.
After 3 years, Kymaia will now stop working on long-distance running and endurance ...
Commentary
Denial and self-deception in Indian society.
Why are so many educated, well-heeled, well-spoken Indians in denial about how much ...
Health
Update on Covid.
Our cute Quarantine Manager has a colourful Covid Progress Chart monitoring our health ...
Health
News Flash – We are positive.
The entire bear family tests positive for Covid and is quarantined for the ...
Parenting
Oh my darling, quarantine!
Life in quarantine, from the Bear household. Kymaia seems to be enjoying the ...
News
We’re positive.
Kymaia tests positive for Covid. She seems asymptomatic for most purposes, but we'd ...
Family
An eventful weekend at the bear household.
Kymaia has a wonderful time with Raavi, her cousin, but then develops some ...
Health
Evidence-based medicine and Indian doctors.
Why do we not have meta-data that every doctor can share with other ...
Pseudoscience
Twitter being Twitter. Covid edition.
Why Twitter acts as such a nutcase-magnet will be a question that will ...
Commentary
Fragility and humankind.
Why does everyone just assume everyone else is emotionally strong and is able ...
Family
A Satyagraha. And its aftermath.
On the morning of the 7th October, at around 0500h IST, a Satyagraha ...
Fun
Our (current) physical philosophy.
I keep talking of Kymaia’s fitness routine, but because we were so focused ...
Adventure
Week 1. We live. And we learn.
For those of you who are wondering why I have not updated any ...
![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)
