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 “Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.” — L. Ron Hubbard. My favorite Japanese people love fresh fish. However, the waters close to shore do not have as many fish. So the fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it tookContinue reading “The Japanese fresh fish story.”

How do our cells know when to stop, age and die ? What’s the technology ? Aging kills 100,000 people every day. That’s twice as much as any other causes all together. In developed countries it shares 90% of all death. Each of us ( from the 6 feet giant to  a 4 feet Lilliput)Continue reading “Our telomere length is a measure of our youthfulness.”

An Andhra man, working in West Bengal, gets a 100% coronary block in Odisha while driving a train at 100 miles per hour. ( A rare moment in a railway doctor’s life) At 56, half of my life on this Earth has been spent as a railway doctor. Every thing that can happen in aContinue reading “The Rescue”

An average human brain contains 100 billion neurons. Neuroscientist have counted it. It’s exactly 86 billion. Still 14 billion short of a round 100. But a baboon’s brain counts exactly 14 billion neurons. So we are a baboon’s brain short of the magical figure of 100B. Human brain weighs 1.5 kg maximum. But an elephantContinue reading “The amazing human cortex.”

  How to cool my Amygdala, a prehistoric legacy that has probably outlived its utility ? “Anybody can become Angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the Right person and to the Right degree and at the Right time and for the Right purpose, and in the Right way – that isContinue reading “Amygdala Hijack”