Meghna Das Thakur

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Don’t submit to stress

We may not be able to control stress but we can at least understand it. Do we need stress or is stress all bad? Maybe if we were never stressed, we wouldn’t graduate from grade X to grade XI.

The riddle of recall

I always thought of memory being like a filing cabinet. A memory is created and you file it away.

Meet your flip side

Everyone has heard of Alice in Wonderland, but not many know that the book’s author, Lewis Carroll, was actually a mathematician whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson. In another book by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, Alice speaks to her cat through a mirror.

How do fish sleep?

Fish don’t have eyelids so do they sleep? And if they do, how do they go about it? Yes, fish do sleep. However, some fish will do so during the day.

The mystery of Monarchs

Nature has many miracles but this is one of my favour-ites.

Shivers and goose bumps

With temperatures dropping and winter well on its way, most of us have developed little goose bumps and shivers. So why does our body react this way to the cold?

A tumour that killed the Devil

Have you heard of the Tasmanian Devil? It is the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial in the world found exclusively in Tasmania.

The scary truth about parasites

Many a horror film has tapped into that primal fear of creepy crawly things that kill a living being by attacking it from the inside, aka, parasites.

Twinkle little star

On most clear nights when we look up into the sky our eyes can spot almost 6,000 stars. The first thing we notice is their twinkle.

The flight of the bird

Bird migration is a rather mysterious occurrence and if you have never thought about it you should!

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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