> The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today … whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries. Sounds overly optimistic? A Cambridge University geneticist, and many other researchers,…
Past research has suggested that certain activities like gardening, cooking, philanthropy, yoga etc. are almost therapeutic in effect. These activities are said to “heal our soul.” For some people, its even judged rejuvenating. But, what about meditation? I’ve always been curious to know, how does praying, a spiritual meditation…
A day after my birthday last week, I came across an article, ironically, titled ‘Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older? [http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i39_yaffe.html]‘ by Philip Yaffe, in which the author contemplates: > It seems as if there is never enough…
Earlier this year I worked on an experimental sci-fi short film, “Memoirs of a Spore [http://www.vimeo.com/5445784]” (Chapter I, The Rains). Plot Summary: Once in a long past future, a cyborg ponders their rehabilitation in a metabolic society ravaged by the war, continuous rains, and other artifacts.…
Thanks to the thousand odd people for subscribing the blog feed [https://www.nilkanth.com/feed/] and following me on Twitter [http://twitter.com/voidmonk]! I’ll try to keep up the occasional rants. Recently, a friend was exhibiting his paintings for the first-time. At the small gallery, he was…
For decades, intelligence has been defined too narrowly. Either you are considered to be genius, or stupid, not just as a child but also in your adulthood. What’s more worrisome is that it can make most kids (and some adults) to deprave their own self-esteem. Last week, I was…
I met Kuldeep about 6 months ago. It had just been a few months since he arrived in Melbourne. As we conversed, Kuldeep mentioned that he’s studying cookery at one of Melbourne’ lesser known universities. He didn’t like cooking much, but this particular course, expensive as it was,…
> I went to a train station today and learned that the distance between railway tracks is always 143.5 centimeters or 4 feet and 8.5 inches. Why this absurd measurement? I asked my girlfriend to find out and this is what she discovered. When they built the first…