Fun
Random conversations about time. And colourful shoes.
We have a conversation about time. And show off our new shoes. Totally ...
Fun
Of Pancakes. Corpses. And Ciphers.
Baby and Baba bear breakfast on yummy pancakes and talk about secret messages ...
History
The Taj. And Newton.
We Indians need to realise that the West had started overtaking us a ...
Future
The AI ‘pause’.
A host of celebrities have signed a letter asking governments and private entities ...
Technology
Theseus. And his AI-powered ship.
A recent post about a teacher using AI to catch AI got me ...
Experiment(ation)
Kymaia <> Swati (STEAM)
Kymaia learns about STEAM and makes some art as part of a special ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Conversation
Baby bear’s sex education.
Little Kymaia reads Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' and gets stuck at the classification ...
Life
Total Perspective Vortex. And clouds that look like Peppa.
We discover perspective and context from the latest images sent back by a ...
History
A warning from Pakistan.
If we teach our children the wrong history or bad science, it will ...
Woo
The chickenpox virus and religion.
Kymaia is allowed and in fact encouraged to mingle freely with the religious, ...
Science
Curiosity and scepticism.
Indian children are not imbibed with curiosity and scepticism in school and that ...
Morality
Where I stand. And where I do not.
It is important to take stock of where one stands and what one ...
Debate
The azaan, loudspeakers, and religion in public life.
My stand on the use of loudspeakers is clear. Either ban them all, ...
Nostalgia
Age and the (theories of the) Universe.
I remember the currently universally accepted theories of the origin of the Universe ...
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 ...
Health
Evidence-based medicine and Indian doctors.
Why do we not have meta-data that every doctor can share with other ...
Debate
How my best is better than your worst.
We compare the worst real-life examples in other people’s beliefs with the best ...
![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)
