Do you believe cold exists? It doesn’t. It’s the absence of heat. And according to my youngest – “if there’s room, heat will go there.” However, this shows me something deeply embedded in nature. Solidarity. I understood this when I was...
When I began school, I was so excited about learning new things that as soon as I arrived home, I started teaching my younger sister what I learned. As soon as she started school, I noticed she was much better than I, and I’m happy to think I might have...
What do you want to learn today? Something mind-blowing? Something intriguing? Something unexpected? How about all three in one word: tranquility. In tranquility, you’ll find the time for the mind-blowing thoughts your chores don’t allow. In tranquility,...
One of my daughter’s teachers was walking toward class during a break. While reaching her students on the school’s corridor she said “hi!”, but nobody paid any attention. They were all interacting with their phones. When the bell rang, and they entered the class, she...
Every day you have something to say. Why? Everyone experiencing life every day, in the end, must have something to say. A life worth living is an experience worth telling. Today, it is my 100-day of posting every day. What have I tried to say for the last 100 days?...
What if you invest in a goal to advance your career which nobody cares about and sees the way you do? The outcome seems obvious. A delusion. You haven’t done anything wrong except misplacing your goals. My experience when I develop certain ideas and projects a bit...
I asked my daughter if she believed “cold” exists. She said yes, and I told her that, in fact, there’s no such thing as “cold.” Cold is the absence of heat. Then, she said something unexpected. Photo by Todd Diemer at unsplash – ”If cold is the absence of heat,...
As I was designing my day, there was so much I wanted to accomplish this week and I don’t know how to fit it all. I wanted time to stretch, but how could I do it without defying the second law of thermodynamics? “What stands in the way becomes the way.” (Marcus...
Recently I read an argument in favor of researchers using Twitter to promote their research. It doesn’t make sense. It’s true that you can reach a wider and non-scientific audience. But why would an audience understand the real value of research through a...
Using models of the past 120,000 years, a research team led by Mario Krapp from the University of Cambridge built an algorithm to simulate Earth’s climate of the past 800,000 years. Results suggest that changes in climate conditions might be what drove the evolution...
