Rant
Lunatics and the asylum.
You are no longer looking at lunatics from outside the asylum. You are ...
Philanthropy
Competitive eating and hunger.
I seek help from my readers to find me a good, registered charity ...
History
A warning from Pakistan.
If we teach our children the wrong history or bad science, it will ...
Right Wing
Too extreme for Savarkar?
The crackpot conspiracy theorist P N Oak was a family acquaintance of my ...
Woo
The chickenpox virus and religion.
Kymaia is allowed and in fact encouraged to mingle freely with the religious, ...
Woo
How kooky is kooky, really?
How is a decision-maker of a private entity believing that she needs to ...
Logic
How can you tell?
When religious people speak of 'superstition', how really can they tell the difference ...
Pseudoscience
Twitter being Twitter. Covid edition.
Why Twitter acts as such a nutcase-magnet will be a question that will ...
Pseudoscience
The opposite of love.
Indians have never had scientific temper as a massive public movement. And that, ...
Advice
Lock or unlock? A Catch-22.
To unlock or not to unlock is a Catch-22 situation. Damned if you ...
Society
Myths & reality.
All of us build mythologies around ourselves on which we base our daily ...
Warning
My fear is greater than yours.
The cure to a deadly disease cannot be death by starvation. The solution ...
Question
Guess Corona Corona Corona!
How easy it is to guess what political dispensation someone belongs to from ...
Woo
The post-facto experts.
Suddenly, we have "experts" warning us against overvaluations. Don't believe them. They are ...
Warning
The Idiocracy Escalation Matrix.
I predict the way silly stuff like the 'Taj Mahal is a Shiva ...
Commentary
All ‘Godmen/women’ are atheists.
If there were truly a moral, all-seeing, all-powerful, sin-punishing god as claimed by ...
Letter
A blast from the past: All positions are equally valid? Really?
This is an excerpt from a mail I wrote in the last week of ...
![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)
