A recent article (1) suggests that neurons transmit and communicate information over large distances using neuropeptides, casting serious doubts about our current understanding of the neuron connectome and how the brain processes information. This may also have implications for artificial intelligence and the design of future systems. …

As the World burns and the bodies pile up, it is important to recognize the futility of specific policies, wars, religions and the rest. As one covers avoiding the reality of homo-sapiens, efficient killers of any clans they don’t immediately recognize, it is time for a reality check. As they…

Last time, it was a rule change that prevented the black caps to go all the way. This time, perhaps the toss with a binary outcome. There is a beautiful island down South where less than 6 million people live. There, leaders are born every day from Jacinda Ardern to…

Then there were 8 billion, after half a million years of roaming around the planet and digging the graves for 100 billion. Only surface features remained, and just a few samples ever attempted to climb out of the intellectual hole. Newton, Einstein and a few dozen others tried to give…

The only game left in the World that can claim to be truly international is Cricket. However, skewed resources and country sizes have led to domination by a few countries, including India and Australia. A truly international game cannot have such domination. BCCI and ICC have to consciously try to…

India’ s young democracy has endured many challenges, over the last several decades. World’s most populous country is steeped in religious and cultural diversity, but it has been increasingly moving toward egalitarian and universal views of modern democracies. This does pose a threat to conventionalism and politicians who cling to…

A recent article discusses how humans may estimate the value of choices (1). Alternatives taken provide feedback that allows the decision-maker to assign a value for that alternative for future decisions. However, this also results in a likely biased low value for the alternative choice, not taken. No feedback can…

As religions battle against each other, autocracies against democracies and religiocracies against pretenses, one has to wonder if Cricket could cure the World. The only remaining sport for gentle men and women, it has risen beyond wealth and classes to assert the possibility of grand unification of white, black and…

It has been well known that there is a common basis, metabolic disturbances, for many diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, certain types of cancers, as well as neurodegenerative disorders. Diet has been implicated in the emergence of metabolic syndrome and its most prominent visible symptom, obesity…