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What is common behind "X-Men Days of the Future Past" , Matrix", "Avatar" and numerous Hollywood flicks. They all have fascination with "Power of Mind". Numerous story lines have got etched into Hollywood hall of fame by just twisting the context and goals. Question is - is mind going to be so powerful ever that it can transport you to totally different worlds ? Sometimes the world is made of other layers created by other minds. Sometimes world is made of past events. Sometimes world is made of bits and bytes created by computing systems. As we have seen in the past, quest for humans in terms of next innovation does seem to influence kind of film-making. So is harvesting the power of mind going to be the next big playground where future scientists are going to try their luck ? Idea of creating the world with your mind may seem fascinating to some and delirious to others. As much as crazy it sounds, but it does seem to be catching attention. H

6 years - 70 nations involved and 72 million dead because of unnatural cause. Biggest casualty in history of mankind. This is World War II for you ! Interestingly, there are lot of causes that have been attributed to this war and like every story, efforts have been put to get one VILLIAN and one HERO. Even the names were chosen like ALLIES and AXIS which almost sound diagonally opposite. Seemingly, most of the wars that were fought in 18th - 20th century had "ECONOMICS" angle the most strong one and WWII was a stark example. While discussing the causes of WWII war, one of our profs recently gave an interesting economic angle - Germany, though having given lot of reasons for taking over its neighbouring countries like "Attrocities on Germans" etc. , but the main advantage below all this was to take care of "natural resources" like rubber/steel or manufacturing prowess like "Skoda car making in Czech". It wanted to be self-sufficient in all the re

It is a lie, damn lie ! How confident are you ? Well, damn confident. Ok, can you go ahead and confront him . Of course YES - but why should I ? I can see that you are not so confident :), otherwise you had nothing to lose. How do you claim that ? S tatistics and nothing but Statistcs ! Well, here is what we can call a classic marriage of lies and statistics ! What was the confidence interval of the probability that the stance you have taken in accusing Mr X is is highly likely ( close to 1). I can tell you for sure that you can't possibly confront him until your confidence interval is more than 95% !. Alright, so above para might sound gibberish to some and familiar to some ! Point is , how much of real world problems can be solved by complex mathematics. It definitely gives you lot of fun to convert these problems into equations and numbers - Doesn't it ! And how do you solve those complex problems in class anyways - if not the real worl problems. Yeah - now that is inte

Title of this post is same as "Realty Show for Talent Display" on Fox TV - In India it comes on one of the channels that I don't remember the name. On this show, performers will have 30 seconds to impress an audience and a panel of judges with their skills. Each week's winner will win a cash prize of $25,000. Another intersesting thing that happens is that studio audience can vote the contestant out even before 30 seconds are over if they don't really like the performance or contestant. And believe me, 30% cases, contestants are voted out even before 30 seconds. It is really interesting and intriguing concept but at the same time a scary proposition if you link it to the real world scenarios where you are possibly judged "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down" probably within first 30 seconds of you meeting someone, within 30 seconds of you conducting trainings/sessions/presentations, within 30 seconds of you meeting a date, within 30 seconds of talking t

Deep down in the time wrap the dark hue has totally covered my part of the earth, pigeons had gone into sewer holes in my apartment complex to sleep and only tone that contributed to the decibel-level outside were occasional cell-phone polyphonic tunes or wind-chimes getting excited by occasional summer gust of wind. It was time to strech out of my comfort zone in my apartment and lug outside for my recommended 20 min walk. It is kind of biological alarm that starts ringing with all the technological frills - like stern faces of doctor gazing down into my eyes and threatning with model of heart in his hand showing how bad cholestrol was winning the marathon in my veins and leaving its won-plaques littered on the way - clogging my good cholestrol. In my brain, there is this royal parliment that has two zones clearly marked out - proponents and opponents and believe me the sounds, shrieks and thumping of opponents really have such an impact that little and my muscles in legs suddenly g

"Old Order Changeth yielding place to new " If I remember correctly, this is the right quote. It summarizes the essence of the change which is - It is not "If" but "When". Not very far off , there is a huge river that meanders by through beautfiul valleys and dangerous gourges. Everyone of us is trying to cross this river to reach to the other end where I can see lush green meadows, fruit-laden trees and shrubs and everything else that anyone can ask for as perfect utopia. Recently, I had to make a choice of moving forward towards the other end and that is when I stepped on to another rock in this river.This rock is much smaller than the one that I was standing for more than five long years and as you can imagine my legs had started aching and my muscles had started getting stiff. That big rock is one of the most shapely rocks in this river with seemingly right kind of surface where you can perch and enjoy the chill and cold water flowing by you. Isn'