Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget – and so important to repeat new knowledge? With the Brain…
The science of sleep [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep] has been a bit intriguing for me [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/10/19/amount-of-sleep-needed/] in the recent past. Yawning may be contagious [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/07/12/why-is-yawning-contagious/], but the biggest question is — why do…
I came across this website called CyberEconomics [http://ingrimayne.com/econ/TOC.html] the other day, that explains the various aspects of micro and macro economics. I studied economics back in school as well as in college, but the approach quoted below made much more sense than before: > People…
Would it be fair to say that more wealth makes us less spiritual. The “Wealth and Religiosity” graph [http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200803/secular-graph.gif] seems to depict so. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of religion; secular theology has gathered a more specific meaning.…
In 1957 Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador car. Sturdy and rounded, the Ambassador still races on Indian roads, ironically serving both as a taxi cab as well as a official transport for government officials. These 50 years of the Ambassador have represented India’s indigenous efforts in the…
I wrote [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/12/07/life-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/] about Bill Gates philanthropic work earlier. While Bill Gates will step down from his role at Microsoft this July, Melinda Gates talks [http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/news/newsmakers/gates.fortune/index.htm] about living with Bill,…
It takes truly magical thinking to imagine we will keep resolutions [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1699853,00.html] that experience suggests are generally impossible. One study found that nearly a quarter of us lapse within a week, the vast majority before the year is out.…
Since the approval of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 1998, almost 3 million classified files have been opened to the public – including a 1942 secret profile of Adolf Hitler. Here are some interesting excerpts [http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/17/17-strange-facts-about-hitler/].…