A day last week began very badly. My cab driver, despite instructions to stick to his own half of the road, didn’t do so, and bumped into a two wheeler. To be precise, our car hit the ankle of the lady who was riding pillion. It obviously hurt her, she was sobbing. The driver was…
I completely missed Bigg Boss 6. Except for knowing that the arrested-for-sedition cartoonist and Sapna Bhavnani were participants, my exposure to it was limited to lunch conversations at office, where two of my friends seemed to be avid followers. 🙂 I thought my ignorance was only fair, since they are usually clueless when I mention…
Purpose. I remember bringing this up earlier in ‘Coincide‘ and mentioning that different life stages manage to give us short term purposes which leave little time for this line of questioning – a larger purpose of life itself. Like I told a friend recently, as though we took a life API and churned out all…
Giulia Enders When you think of it, it’s quite amazing how emotions we might attribute to the mind find metaphors related to another part of the body – ‘gut feel’, ‘butterflies in the stomach’, ‘sh*t your pants’, ‘pit in your stomach’ and so on. The metaphors are based on actual physical sensations, and so on…
Daniel Z. Lieberman, Michael E. Long The ‘molecule of more’ whose machinations make you desire what you don’t have, and drives you to seek new things. That which offers rewards when you obey it, and punishes you when you don’t. Dopamine, whose fingerprint is visible in most of the thoughts and actions we do on…