What makes certain objects more memorable, asks a recent paper(1). The general observation that regardless of diverse experiences of humans, they tend to remember or forget similar things, is puzzling. Memorability, thus, is a feature of the object regardless of the observer. Although it makes intuitive sense that we tend…

For nearly half a million years, they have been roaming the Earth, in tight packs that fought with each other to maximize simple objective functions. Seventy thousand years ago, they had their first taste of extinction by environmental factors, largely out of their control, when they were reduced to a…

A recent article (1) argues that competition is a bad for scientific ventures. The article asserts that the codes developed by individual groups are not shared in a competitive environment and thus are inefficiently replicated by others. This is a slippery slope. If everybody followed one gal out of Africa…

Time has been messy. Physics came to a standstill as it struggled to explain time. It simply did not fit with the theories. Human perception of unidirectional time may have interfered with their thinking. Perhaps time simply does not exist (1). Removing time from contemporary theories will solve a lot…

A recent article (1) proposes that time reflection has been demonstrated in the laboratory. As the article describes, spatial reflection of electromagnetic waves is routine. But the idea that the more fascinating part of space-time could also be reflected, has many implications. Over a century ago, a man with nearly…

The rocket scientists of banking, who just about exhausted their loot from 2008, seem to be on the run. Some sold their stock and options when the accountants informed them that the situation is dire. They have a great defense though. There is precedence. A graduate of the greatest business…

As the greatest bank of Silicon Valley, where all the world’s smartest people live, is bailed out using taxpayer money (sorry, Fed, read along!), there could be a few interesting questions to ask: Did the super smart “guys,” running this bank knew much about risk management? If the executives cleaned…

Malaria, a preventable disease that takes over 600K lives a year, mostly kids (1) has been an egg on the face of pharmaceutical companies, seeking billions in profits and humanity, more generally. An endemic parasite in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Sub-continent has not raised alarm bells in the West…

Research that speculates pathogens contribute to the selective pressures for human survival and reproduction (1) is instructive. It has been clear that the great human on top of the hierarchy are slaves to the initial inhabitants of the blue planet. …