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George Johnson is an American journalist who has achieved some amazing feats, including winning the AAAS Science Journalism Award and being the  author of many well known books such as  The Cancer Chronicles  (2013),  The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments  (2008) and  Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics  (1999). He is also the  co-director of the Santa Fe Science Writing workshop and science writer at the New York Times. He believed that there is nothing so complex that a reasonably intelligent person cannot comprehend it.  George wanted to be a guitarist when he was of the age 15-16, along with his friend Ron Light who played guitar in a mediocre 1960s-era garage band. But George soon realized his approach towards music as entirely theoretical and his lack of rhythm for playing guitar. With his aspiring scientific curiosity, he was able to learn enough of the logic of basic harmony theory to execute the mindlessly simple algorithms called bass riff

  Ravish Kumar   is a prominent Indian author, journalist and media personality. He works as the Senior Executive Editor of NDTV India.   He hosts a number of programs including the channel's flagship weekday show   Prime Time ,   Hum Log ,  Ravish Ki Report   and   Des Ki Baat . His highly convincing oratory skills and his practice of presenting news backed up with facts and evidence is highly appreciated by everyone.  He has twice been conferred with Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the  Best Journalist of the Year  and became the fifth Indian journalist to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2019. Here, We shall be seeing the summary of episode of one his series where he talks about the Government provided figures of Deaths due to COVID-19 and whether they can be trusted. According to the Government figures, the deaths due to COVID-19 are about 3 lakhs. But if we talk about the unofficial sources and their statistics, these figures go way higher. The minimum n

                                                                                                                                                          Courtesy: Google Images Recently, India launched its most awaited mission of Chandrayaan 2. The Chairman of ISRO, K.Sivan was at the Tirupati Temple to offer prayers for the success of the mission. Apparently, it leads us to an important question - Why a super-efficient scientist organisation, renowned and appreciated on a global scale needs blessings from God, for its success? Isn’t it very contradicting, and isn’t the continuous quest and endeavour to scientific knowledge sufficient? Why does support of something to back science required?  In this blog we will analyse, what science and spirituality stand for and despite being the opposites, why is it important to keep a balance of both. Their similarities and differences will be deciphered and also, what humanity needs to select in the present scenario will be pondered upon. सत्

  Courtesy: Google photos Everyone has a fear for something. Estimates say that a very large population of the world suffer from one or more phobias of some specific entity. They are among the most common psychiatric disorders. But the things that we are afraid of and the degree to which we dread them varies greatly from one person to another. But what does “phobia” mean exactly? The word “Phobia” is derived from the name of the Greek god of terror, Phobos. A phobia is a persistent, extreme, unrealistic fear of an animal, activity, object, situation, or person. It is a type of anxiety disorder. A person with a phobia either tries to avoid the thing that triggers the fear or endures it with great anxiety and distress. It can be anything or anyone in this world that might cause fear and anxiety to one’s heart and soul, ranging from fear of animals like dogs or cats to the fear of insects like spider to a specific situation like fear of heights or closed spaces. While one person might

   It was somewhere around mid February when I first heard the word "Coronavirus" and how this is spreading at an alarming rate in Wuhan, China with a threatening mortality rate. Totally oblivious of what the future holds for the whole mankind, I had an opinion that it won't affect anyone's life in India, let alone people of other countries, just like at the time of Ebola virus or influenza epidemic, which didn't have any serious consequences. Around march as some Corona positive cases appeared in Southern India, it became the central topic of conversation. Some were saying that we should take serious precautions to save ourselves, others were saying it is not that big a deal. Around 15th March, 2020 our quizzes got postponed and we were all sent home for a fortnight, completely unaware that we won't be seeing our friends and college for almost an year! On 24th March, 2020, A complete lock down was imposed on the entire country to reduce the spread and not ov

Humans fantasize about various things. It might be the existence of parallel universes, or aliens, or maybe finding out their doppelganger while going out to buy groceries! Science fiction movies surely make us think of so many possibilities that we may be unaware of. One of the most exciting and sought-out topics among these is the possibility of time travel. It’s a theory that physicists and philosophers having been debating and researching for the last century. What if we could travel between different points of time, traveling forward to the future or backward to the past as easily as pressing buttons on a TV remote. Franchises ranging from "Star Trek", "Back to the Future" to "Doctor Who" have seen people get in a time travel machine of some kind and go in the past or future, ready to begin their adventurous journey. Each of these science fiction movies comes with its own time travel theories. We all have some regretful experiences or decisions