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Long-distance running:there is more to what meets the eye!
Image credit: Gemini When you look at athletes who are long-distance runners like marathoners, one gets amazed that how such a skinny man/woman runs for distances like 5Km, 10Km, 21Km, 42Km and even 100Km! Because for a common person, it seems difficult to even run for 1Km as we don’t need to do that in…
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The hidden price of hunger- huge cost to civilization!
Of all the basic instincts that takes us humans closer to the animals- hunger is among the biggest! Hunger of food can make a person do crazy things. An empty stomach does not remember the laws of civility and morality, and all it understands is only the language of food! If you have ever tried…
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You are not rich, not because you know less, but because you were never taught to monetize!!!!
In the real world, we see that the most intelligent, most smart and most knowledgeable people are not the richest in the world. Leave richest, they are often not even in the bracket of being called as “among the richest”. And, those who are the richest lot or the top brass are (more often than…
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What if the life suddenly comes to a full stop?
Can you imagine in your wildest of dreams that if after one fine night you don’t wake up to see the upcoming day, how life would be like for your loved ones? And if that misfortune happens in reality, without any prior intimation, due to any reason, how will the world around you change in…
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Does practice really make you perfect?
The concept of “muscle memory” Image source: Agilefingers.com It is a very old adage that “Practice makes a (wo)man perfect”. On the face of it, it seems pretty obvious, isn’t it? But, in reality, it is not as easy as it seems! There is a whole gamut of neuroscience that is operating in the background.…
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Let there be a war, an eternal war- albeit of a different sort!
In the animal world, whenever any individual animal or a group of animals has(ve) to prove dominance over the other individual animal or a group of animals, there is only one way! No brownie points for guessing- it is the WAR and only WAR! War or synonymously violence, is their only mechanism to resolve the…
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The enigma behind taxation- are we missing the woods for the trees?
Everytime, at the time of budget presentation, the media is flooded with only one rhetoric! No brownie points for guessing it right, it is none other than how much tax relief is expected for middle class, poor, businesses etc. But, is the budget only about providing tax relief? Or if tax levy is such a…
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