Keep Calm and Drink Beer

Enough said!

(To know more...)

Get 'em when they're young

The best pupils of propaganda and indoctrination are young children. It only takes an elder, a role model, a school text book, media, to reinforce an idea, any idea. It's sad to think that the world today is just a manifestation of all those collective ideas of hate and intolerance that has been festering over decades.

Read this article, and no, it's not only limited to Israel and Palestine...one only needs to dig a little deeper to see how this exercise has been operating in other countries

The story of X

While growing up, I used to come across stories with the same theme-the good ol' charming prince rescuing princess, and how boys are big,brave and burly whereas girls are always the one waiting to be rescued etc., it's kinda twisted that we force our expectations and gender stereotypes on kids early on.

Till I came across this story- it's charming and worth sharing with your child :-)

NeuroImages

What a cool website!

Spent an hour looking at/ being amazed. How cool is the brain?!

The scientific baby

So Alison Gopnik is visiting the city and giving a series of lectures...pretty amazing stuff.

It's also pretty scary and exciting that I get to do a 10-minute presentation of my research ideas and she'll be a part of the audience! Gulp! Think my life is finally heading in the right direction

Here's a link of Alison's TED talk...go science and go babies!

Evolving emotions

Apparently one of Darwin's creepy experiments 

It is when you look at the physician's face, what joy to poke someone's face

Poof! And I'm back...

Yes, yes..2011- current hasn't been exactly great; in fact it was one with a lot of changes and you know how neurons take their time to restructure and accommodate some new connections. Ok, so that's Geek for 'I was preoccupied'

So, blogosphere, let me have a go one more time, no promises like last time :-). 

Here's to a journey in a new country