Introduction: Peak performance has always been a subject of interest among researchers, athletes, and the general public. The question of what makes some individuals perform better than others has led to a lot of research in the field of genetics. This chapter will explore the genetic ...
Read More...Before joining the Indian Police Service ( IPS) I used to be a sedentary person, never really interested in physical activity. However, after joining the Indian Police Service, I found myself struggling with the rigorous outdoor training. My body rebelled against the intense physical dema...
Read More...Introduction: It was the winter of 1990, and I had just got married and moved to the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. I was a PhD scholar in Microbiology, and I had my sights set on a bigger goal - cracking the civil services exam. But things weren't easy. The Mandal Ag...
Read More...Humans are naturally curious and driven to seek improvement and growth in various areas of their lives, including their performance. Peak performance refers to a state of optimal functioning in which individuals can perform at their best, whether it be in sports, academics, work, or other are...
Read More...INTRODUCTION Epigenetics is the study of how environmental factors can influence the expression of genes without changing the underlying DNA sequence. Epigenetic modifications can be passed down from one generation to the next and can play a significant role in the development of various...
Read More...Vertical farming is a revolutionary concept that has the potential to revolutionize the food production industry. It is an innovative way of farming that uses vertical surfaces, such as walls and ceilings to grow crops, enabling the production of food in areas with limited space. This method of ...
Read More...Consciousness is a peculiar experience. On the one hand, it's a state of heightened awareness when you genuinely and deeply connect to the world around you. On the other hand, it's an insular place where you experience a brief window of self-reflection and introspection. The term for this is "self-a...
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The ongoing debate over the origins of the COVID-19 has lately been garnering a significant amount of attention and interest. The contest has been relentlessly growing during the last few days with the emergence of new findings. For instance, a recent study by British professor Angus Dalgleish and N...
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The ongoing debate over the origins of the COVID-19 has lately been garnering a significant amount of attention and interest. The contest has been relentlessly growing during the last few days with the emergence of new findings. For instance, a recent study by British professor Angus Dalgleish and N...
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The world today is under the clutch of a “Twindemic” of vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19. A twindemic is a portmanteau of “Twin” and “Pandemic”. Vitamin D deficiency is considerably under-diagnosed, and under-treated nutritional deficiency that is more pandemic than the Coronavirus toda...
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A law and order bundobust can get schemed and is, to a large extent, predictable, but a pandemic is entirely unpredictable. None or few people or few hundreds may die during a law and order situation, but thousands or millions could die in a pandemic. The worst flu pandemic in contemporary history w...
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It's a pandemic time. Lock down's are in place in several countries. Bingeing during the pandemic is not just about Netflix. People are ploughing through the pandemic with portions and portions of food, as stress-eating and boredom are propelling them through their lockdown provisions, and making pe...
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Movies have prophesied some far-fetched things that have unbelievably come true. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), foresaw video calls and Siri-like artificial intelligence. It also anticipated space tourism, on which Richard Branson and Elon Musk are working. Ridley Scott’s “Blad...
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On a beautiful April day in 2013, Henneberry decided to check on his boat which was sitting in the backyard of his house in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA. He noticed that something was off his boat when he put his ladder on the side of the boat and climbed it. He noticed blood and something which ...
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Bradley Waldroup lived in a camper home in the cliffs of Tennessee. On October 16, 2006, when the police responded to a call and strode into his home, the entire place looked like a battlefield. There was blood every place, there was blood on the carpet, on the walls, even on the Bible Waldroup had ...
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During my early Superintendent of Police days, my sister, who lives in the USA presented me with a book written by Gary Zukav titled “The Seat of the Soul”. The book blew me away. Impatient to lay my hands on other books written by Zukav, I bought myself his first book, “The Dancing Wu Li M...
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Archana religiously exercised every day. She was a teetotaler and never smoked cigarettes. Being married to an influential bureaucrat, she took good care of herself. She always began her day with a green juice, ate clean and led a stress-free life. But her skin experienced frequent breakouts; It alw...
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Although bioterrorism might seem a problem beginning in the late twentieth century ,a short story, written by H.G.Wells in 1894, portended the threat of an attack with biological agents. It tells the tale of an anarchist who steals a vial of what he believes to be cholera bacilli to poison the water...
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Rampage”, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is a 2018 Hollywood sci-fi monster movie which is slated for Indian release on April 13, 2019. In the film, a biotech company “Energyne” under the guise of researching a cure for diseases, decides to advance CRISPR research to use it as a biolo...
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In the fictional novel “Coma” written by Robin Cook and made into a movie by Michael Crichton, a quizzical physician (Genevieve Bujold) discovers that nefarious seniors are drugging healthy patients into a comatose state, killing them, and selling their organs to wealthy patients in desperate ne...
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When I saw the movie “Lara Croft-Tomb Raider” back in 2003, I was blown away to watch Angelina Jolie perform her own stunts. The way she galloped on a dark horse, spun a shotgun from side to side and fired at alternating targets amazed me to no end . She not only was an epitome of paramount fitn...
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