Dr. Ramakanta

From Sanatorium to Domicile treatment.

On the occasion of World TB day. Part-3 Once upon a time, Plague used to kill one third of population. People also believed that the bubo of plague could only be repealed by the smell of filth. In fact, the popular conception in those days was that bathing increased susceptibility to disease. They thought warmContinue reading “From Sanatorium to Domicile treatment.”

The MIASMA Theory

On the occasion of World TB Day Prior to Robert Koch, People believed that TB, typhoid, plague and all such epidemics arise from foul air ( Miasma) which comes from putrefaction of dead bodies. (Malaria means Mal_ Air.) [ When Koch isolated and identified the cholera vibrio by applying the Koch’s postulate, his findings wereContinue reading “The MIASMA Theory”

Kindness is a variable state.

In a given community as our wealth goes up our level of empathy goes down. In an experiment, in US a roulette wheel was control rigged so that a specific group will win twice as much as the rest. As the game went on, few people became richer and richer than the others. As theContinue reading “Kindness is a variable state.”

The Stone Soup.

A parable of sharing. Deprivation brings out the worst in humans. We have a tendency to hoard in times of deprivation. When resources are scarce, we pull back and put all of our energy into self-preservation. Nobody is richer in the process. Here is a story. ” A traveler came into a town beset byContinue reading “The Stone Soup.”

Evolution of intelligence.

It won’t be long before intelligent machines begin to argue that, since they were created from human intelligence, they too are human About 15 billion years ago, the universe was born. It was a whopping hundred million trillion trillion degrees hot. As it cooled down and solidified, gravity developed. At 10 billion years ago, QuarksContinue reading “Evolution of intelligence.”