Do You Feel Lucky?
A few months (rather years) back, I wrote an article titled “What is Success?” inspired by a YouTube video.
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2022
2022 Update
It’s been around 2 years since the last post and I need to come clean about some things. As we all know, life is a roller coaster ride and as with every othe...
2020
Goal Setting
I’ve been kinda busy filling out these graduate application forms. Yep I did it (just the one to be honest), but I’m figuring out things and I aim to apply t...
Phone Problems
I wouldn’t consider myself to be particularly lucky when it comes to phones. I destroyed the very first phone that I used to very small pieces (it was long b...
What is Success?
I recently stumbled upon a video titled “Is Success Luck or Hard Work?” by the famous YouTube channel, Veritasium. I loved the premise of the video. It is so...
Antiobiotic Apocalypse
It’s sad that I’ve been writing too less compared to before. I have many ideas for posts scribbled in my notes but I’m not getting the time or motivation to ...
A Professional Certificate for an Unqualified Layman
I was on a break! But I didn’t cheat on myself, so it was great. Now I’m ready to patch up with myself again I guess 
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Major Update
Yes, I know, it was Monday yesterday and I didn’t post as promised. Sorry to all my readers (if there are any except me 
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The Keystone of Ecology
With the ongoing pandemic and medical crisis over the whole globe, people are actively taking part in discussions revolving the origins of the COVID-19 disea...
Who Let the Dogs Ooze
I think many of us have heard about Ivan Pavlov. He was a Russian physiologist who won the 1904 Nobel in Physiology for his studies on digestive processes. H...
Blogging From My Phone
As many of you know, this blog is hosted on GitHub and I use Atom to update the repository with new posts to “blog.” It makes things easy for me as I don’t h...
The Most Noble Profession
Yesterday while chatting with my mother, something came up. She mentioned that being a doctor is the most noble profession on Earth as they help so many peop...
The Disintegration of Light
Most of us know Newton from his three “Laws of Motion” that we are forced to mug up in school. College folks may even know more about his discoveries includi...
Lockdown Update: Chess
It’s been a really long time now with the lockdown in place. I’ve been driven almost insane by this situation now. Everyday there are newer cases arising and...
On the Origins of Genetics
Most of us look somewhat like our parents, don’t we? It can be just a passing resemblance or a full blown mini-me. But have you ever wondered why? A 19th cen...
On the Origins of the Cells
Welcome back to the blog! As I mentioned previously, today’s post is regarding the beginning of life. Without further ado, let’s jump in to the experiment:
A New Beginning
After the kinda sad announcement yesterday and pondering upon the question at hand, I think I should give all of the things a try before deciding what to do ...
The End?
Today marks the 50th post in the “Answer Me Everything” challenge that I undertook about two months ago.
The Drug Called Love
Today’s question is something that I was asked by my bestie. It is somewhat emotional (or maybe spiritual, i don’t really know) question but I will take a st...
The Lord of the Lives
We’ve all heard crazy myths. Myths that are too hard to believe, even when you are the craziest person on Earth. So, here goes something that I find seriousl...
Illustrated Dreams
Hey guys! Sorry for not being able to post over the weekend. I was at my natives and I had a major connectivity crisis (Yes I hail from India). Thus, I will ...
Daytime Moonwalk
Before I lost my old phone, the last photo I took had the moon and the sun in the same frame. I was quite astonished that it was possible. My friend (who was...
The Lightbenders
Today’s question is probably something we have all been listening to since our childhood. This is one of the myths that I used to have as a child as even the...
Beetles That Light Up
Recently, we looked into the secret behind glow-in-the-dark stickers. We learnt that we can use different synthesized pigments to create light in the dark. T...
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
As a kid, my father once bought home a set of glow-in-the-dark stars and planets. It really made me feel happy and wonder about how it is possible. I was too...
Dark Side of the Sun
Today, many of us are seeing the solar eclipse. It’s a big phenomenon for astrophysicists and also for the typical Indian Hindus (who have lots of myths asso...
Finger-Grapes?
Today I had a long bath. It took me a while to realize, but I saw that all of my fingers were wrinkly. It is the same as I had observed numerous times before...
The Hole in Our Stars
The question today is serious. It’s something that many people have wondered about and others still don’t know it existed. This one is for them physics guys....
Childhood Wonders
Today the question is simple but it’s something that I used to wonder a lot as a child.
Reading the Screen Digitally
In this golden age of communication, even blind people have enough tools to go out and experience different sites and services that the internet offers. So o...
Chicken or Egg Part Two
You have probably had people argue about which came first: DNA or RNA. But have you ever wondered the same about DNA and Proteins? Let’s ponder today.
Is Our Earth Rich?
Today is probably one of the craziest days in my life and I think I might have finally stumbled upon the most crazy question:
Regulate Me
We all have used fans and wondered how a regulator works. I’ll explain that, but let’s take it a step further. Today’s question:
Does Your Body Think You Are Wise?
Yesterday, we talked about teeth in general. Today, we focus on a particular type of teeth that supposedly come to only wise people 
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Our Dental Society
The human body is full of wonders, don’t you think? Even after 22 years, I still can’t get enough of it! Today we look at one of the hardest parts of the hum...
Fire Education
In a previous post, we looked at the shadow of fire. After that I have been wondering what fire is actually made of? Today, we take a closer look.
Fireworks of the Gods
Starting from Zeus (Greek mythology) to Indra (Hindu mythology), our forefathers have often personified and depicted various Gods to be the harbingers of lig...
All the Way to the Pop
It’s fascinating how fast you can go from a packet seeds to fluffy popcorn before a movie. Popcorn has been one of the relished snacks since a long time. Anc...
Ringa Ringa Roses
Most of us remember this: Ringa ringa roses, Pocket full of posies Husha busha! We all fall down!
Yellow Yellow Dirty Fellow
As with yesterday, we are going to cover something colourful today. Today we look at the question:
The Smurfs Among Us
The human body is fascinating. Previously we had discussed about the human eye, and yesterday, we discussed the origins of the Adam’s apple. Today, as indica...
The Apple We All Ate
The blog was started to shed light on some of the mysterious things that we find around. With the rise of feminism, we are challenging and questioning the ba...
Be Afraid, Be Bury Afraid
This is probably an unusual site for most of you (the rest, I don’t know what to say). But it is something that cartoons have normalized for ostriches.
The Rainbow in Your Pee
Okay, this may sound odd. My friend once said that she believed that pee should be yellow and “white” pee is something unnatural. I had a discussion with her...
To Infinity and Beyond
It’s always fun to look at the numerous images formed when sitting at a barbershop, or standing in a lift. But have you ever wondered:
Falling to Death
Today we discuss about a serious situation that you may find yourself in. Ever since the first time I was stuck in a lift, I have had dreams of a lift fallin...
Birthing in Movies
Movies have different kinds of actors. A lot of movies have little children and even newborn babies. Honestly, adopting a child everytime you make a movie is...
God’s Camera
As an amateur photographer (yeah, have a look here), the human eye always fascinates me. It is probably the best “camera” that one can ever possess, but can ...
Deleted Permanently?
Last month, I had to transfer stuff to my laptop as my hard disk failed. In a bid to create space, I deleted some files that I needed later. After furiously ...
Entomophagy
Humans suffer from overpopulation. Trends show, it is here to stay. The world population is estimated to be somewhere around 9 billion by 2050. Although ther...
Hot Stuff
First of all, for all those dirty minds who came here to read some “Hot Stuff”, this ain’t what you think it is. The rest of you, let’s continue. Every spice...
Bloody Muleta
In the last post, we found in bull fighting, bulls charge irrespective of the colour of the matador’s cape (muleta). Naturally the next question that comes t...
Red Bull
As a colourblind person, colours often intrigue me. Many a times I have heard people ask a lot of different questions on color. Even I have had some very int...
The Shadow of Fire
Today’s question is something that is mostly debated by my physics friends. Let’s get straight to the point:
The Next Nuclear Fallout
Another question that you must have heard or listened to online (if you are online most of the time like me!) is:
The Random Elevator
In our AB(Academic Building - the place with all the labs and research equipment), we have a special lift/elevator. It has a random behaviour but to some ext...
Can You Pop Out your Eyes
There are just some questions that are really hard to not notice. I have always wanted to know what happens if someone tries to sneeze with their eyes open? ...
Identical Twins
Today’s question is something I have wondered before I even took up biology in my college. Probably you have thought of it at some point in time too. Without...
The Resistant Roosters
The period of national lockdown has certainly increased the number of flying visitors to the town. Many different kinds of birds can be seen freely moving ar...
The Horrors of a Frozen Brain
Normally I don’t each much ice-cream. But today, my sis made it and asked me to eat it. I obliged. As with everything else, I devoured a big chunk of it with...
The Tears That Live in an Onion
I’ve started cooking recently. The only thing that is more annoying than forgetting to put salt, is the constant flow of tears while cutting an onion. So tod...
The Killing Coin
We’ve all heard the Urban myth at least once. Throw a coin from the top of the Empire State Building and it hits and impales the person standing on the groun...
The Best Thing on Chrome
Honestly. this is a surprise. While browsing I found this functionality of chrome all of a sudden. This is not really a question that I had been looking to a...
The Mirror
As I was looking at myself in the mirror today, I had a thought. Is the mirror silver? I knew why it reflects and how we can see ourselves in it. But I reall...
February 29
What do you do on your birthday? My friends expect a lavish treat in addition to the number of beatings that I have to endure the night before. I have known ...
Chicken or Egg?
The age old question still remains,
The 5 second rule
I dropped food while eating. It fell on the ground. I picked it up and ate it. Justified to myself that it was on the ground for less than 5 seconds so it wa...
RO Purifiers Waste Water!
It’s been sometime now, that I’ve been living with my uncle. He has an RO water purifier. I noticed the other day that there is an outlet for water from the ...
Copying files with Python
Although I said the series will not be about coding, it is an important part of my life! Thus, the first question had to be about it. Here goes the first que...
Plan for Lockdown
I’m bored officially. I tried doing everything that I could during the lockdown, and now I have nothing more to do. Adding the fact that I can’t get out of t...
Breaking Bad
This past week I have been up to no good. Most of the day I had been watching Breaking Bad. I finished the series in about 7 days. This is probably the first...
Life with a (not so smart) phone
It’s been a month since I lost my phone. I have not been able to buy/order a new one due to the COVID-19 lockdown. So I have been relying on my backup phone ...
The day I got robbed
It’s been almost a month since my phone got stolen. I am now calm enough to write a proper post about it. It happened on 10th of March 2020. I went out to ha...
Ten Days of Lockdown
On March 24th all of a sudden, the GoI (Government of India) announced a 21-days lockdown all over India. It started effectively on 25th of March 2020. Since...
The Corona Pandemic
It’s been some time now since the world was struck with the infamous Chinese Coronavirus. Recently, the WHO has declared the disease as a pandemic. The first...
Programming & anime
Are you also a fan of anime? Some of my favourites include One Piece, Monster, Naruto and Death Note. Yep, watched most of them (didn’t really complete Narut...
Webpages & stuff
Since the last few days, I have been working on different things. I was keen on learning web development, thus I started learning about flask from an online ...
Happyness & Blogging
It’s been quite sometime since I started writing posts on medium. The general topics tend to be related to statistics or programming with a few digressions l...
Being more active
It’s been a long time since I’ve been ignoring my body. I abuse my body a lot with random amount and quality of food and a very strainful life including irre...
Pictionary
What games do you play with your friends?
Game Development
I had always dreamed about developing my own game to play but I never really looked into it in depth till a few days ago. At some point in my life earlier, I...
Joker - Finally!
Finally after thinking about it but doing nothing for over three months, I downloaded and watched Joker (2019) last weekend. This came after a series I watc...
A belated HNY!
A greatly belated Happy New Year 2020 to everyone who is reading this blog!
2019
Lifehacks to score well
I just got done with my semester and it went well. I was waiting for this feeling of fulfilment before writing this post (yeah I had planned this long ago). ...
Back to Home
Coming home after almost half a year. Still feel like something is missing (It’s not TV though). I got plenty of TV to watch at home and without the power of...
Hello World!
Hello World!