Not really one for making new year resolutions but my daughters took it upon themselves to stop eating any animal product for January. Veganuary is a UK based non-profit that encourages people worldwide to try a vegan diet for January as a compassionate response to the cruelty of animal farms and a responsible action againstContinue reading “Veganuary”
Category Archives: Social
The Past Tense
Be wary of insecure people who look backwards into foggy memories of their past and claim those were the good times. These are incomplete musings of the fortunate who form the majority of our society’s demographic. Heavily dosed with innumerable biases, such memories are selective and most times don’t feature the unpleasant, or as aContinue reading “The Past Tense”
71 Million Americans Can’t be Wrong! Or can they?
As I write this, the still on-going 2020 US elections has shattered the mirage of safety that Americans, and the free world by extension, had built around themselves founded on the principles of democracy. People in their personal, official and social capacities interpreted current affairs in polarizing variability, not as Republicans and Democrats but asContinue reading “71 Million Americans Can’t be Wrong! Or can they?”
Experiments with Truth
Democracy is a ticket to experiment. This is the essence of everything good and correct – experimentation. As a scientist, you experiment with different options until you arrive at what you think is a satisfactory outcome, and when new evidence presents itself you are happy to change your mind. As a builder, you experiment withContinue reading “Experiments with Truth”
Inertia of Servitude
With hindsight 20-20, I am increasingly boggled by what kept me religious way into my 40s! What conspired to blind me to live a life built around irrational belief states? Why didn’t I ask questions that now seem so obvious for me to ask and challenge the indoctrination I was subjected to? The answer thatContinue reading “Inertia of Servitude”
‘Sapiend’ing Perception
Have you considered the distance between two galaxies? How about the empty space between electrons zipping around the nucleus? When a scientist says “I don’t know” to a question can you measure the depth of knowledge required make that proclamation? Can you articulate the magnitude of synaptic firings that begin as you attempt to recallContinue reading “‘Sapiend’ing Perception”
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