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Abstract painter and collage artist Lee Krasner was born in 1908 and had the misfortune of graduating in the midst of the Great Depression of 1930. She had to take whatever job she could find, including modeling and waitressing to support herself. But she didn’t give up her dream of making it as a full-timeContinue reading “Pollock Krasner story”

The Four Minute Mile. Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister is the first human to run the mile under 4 minutes time. Up until he did it in 1954, most people thought the four-minute mark was impossible to break. They thought the human body couldn’t physically go that fast. No one could run a mile in lessContinue reading “Nothing is impossible, the Roger Bannister story.”

People are great in doing nothing. An example: The organ donation rate is highest in Spain. Not that Spaniards are a great conscious, humanitarian society. It’s because of a regulation that Spain has brought in few years back. The rule makes each Spaniard an organ donor unless he opts out. And people are great inContinue reading “Nudge as I understand”

Coding the steps of a surgery. How to capture the steps of a surgery and write the code for it so that a robot can operate independently ? Up till now robotic surgery is synonymous with tele surgery. The doctor sits in front of a screen inside a console and controls the instrument panel onContinue reading “The Artificial Surgeon”

Western culture provides a lot of “How to do ” books. But our almanac always recommends “when to do” any important thing. It seems they are quite accurate.   We don’t perform or feel the same way at every given moment of a given day.   Our mood fluctuates throughout the day. It’s a cycleContinue reading “The “When” moments.”