Category: Science
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Posterity — Why Should I Care?
Attributed mainly to Groucho Marx, the quote: “Why should I care for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?” has turned into quite a philosophical debate. The two little questions, if read merely on the surface, make a lot of sense. Why should it matter to me what happens to the universe and its…
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The Grey Irony — Featuring Dr James Watson
Background problem: Racism in the use of genomics Case in Point: Dr James Watson of Watson and Crick Model fame, a Nobel laureate if you please. Also, the founding director of the ever-famous public Human Genome Project What Happened: Talking about the “prospects of Africa,” he made the following remarks to the interviewers in 2007: “All…
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Cannot Engine
98.5% of our DNA is junk, it is the rest that makes me a clunk. 5% of the Universe is visible to us whatever remains is darkness. And then there is sunlight 1% used by plants to live and photosynthesize. Even much less of it becomes biomass moving through the cycle of life. Plenty of sperms and menstrual blood go down the drain with faeces and worms; remnants of Mama’sdelicious…
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The Confessions of a Celestial Being
This story is written as part of a writing challenge–WRINGO (writing BINGO), which is proposed and played by my office friends. There is a grid with different genres for each grid. Every week, we are assigned a genre that is decided by a dice-roll. I will be sharing my stories here. Genre for this week is Romance. I loved…
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Fission or Fusion?
Hey you! Yes you. You ugly thing. I know you. You are the one who knows how to detonate bombs. Right? But that is only what you tell other people. I know you better than this, to fall for your lies Or not ? You are the exact opposite of what you claim…
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The Man under the Tree
I cannot be certain Of how and what happened. The other day, or was it the night? Perhaps a movie with the old theme, Of a Dr. Jekyll And a Mr. Hyde! or was it because of the two pieces of the cheese laden pizza? I don’t know the reason but it happened so I…
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The Failed Experiment!
You were the red cherry, Hanging on a tree. I was the snow, Covering the hills. I wanted to fall On top of you To form something pink. A pink house, Probably, With a garden, Not of your thorns, And definitely not my roses But Of OUR lillies. It was simple maths, Genetics…