Can happiness be synthesized ? [ Human beings can actually have experiences in their heads before they can happen to them in real life. They can feel mortal fear and get drenched in sweat even before the cause has materialised. This is a trick that none other animals have. _ Dan Gilbert ] Today, asContinue reading “Synthetic Happiness”
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The unpaid care giver.
Behind every successful Rehab program, there’s this sacrifice of an unpaid care giver. Yet, no credit goes to them. Let’s put some care into our health care. When a person suffers from stroke and paralysis, he becomes bed ridden for 6 month at home. He takes food in a tube, passes urine by a tubeContinue reading “The unpaid care giver.”
The Tylenol Controversy
( Although these days, car makers are regularly recalling defective vehicles, in the 1980s it was unheard of. The story of first product recall in history.) Tylenol ( acetaminophen) is a drug for fever, manufactured by Jhonson and Jhonson. It’s a fast cousin of our crocin etc. In the 1980s, it was the leading pain-killerContinue reading “The Tylenol Controversy”
Man flu
Men actually experience respiratory viral illnesses differently than women. Men are reported to take longer to recover from flu-like illnesses than women. Researchers have long known that men and women experience pain differently. After all each woman has a billion cells different from a man. They have X chromosome in each cell in place ofContinue reading “Man flu”
Future of Male Chauvinism
Women have a primeval urge to hang on to wealthy men to provide for their children during the long period of pregnancy and childrearing. In one Danish study, husbands whose wives out-earned them were found to suffer from erectile dysfunction more. Reason: the loss of breadwinner status somehow is related to impotence. …Continue reading “Future of Male Chauvinism”
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