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How Complex Is Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy?
Many consider Immanuel Kant as one of the most abstruse thinkers of the modern day philosophers. His thoughts were originally in German language that got translated into English, which could have made it somewhat complex. But many believe that what is more complex are his thoughts as he dealt with some hard-to-explain concepts of human…
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Searching Aliens in the Stars
Can there be in any of the billions of stars packed in endless number of galaxies in this vast infinite universe a form of existence that can act on its own with a sense so complex and similar to that of our species on Earth? Is there anyone accompanying us within the boundaries of an…
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The Legacy of Nelson Mandela
To avoid a pre-arranged marriage In 1940, a 22-year-old African young man fled ‘The Great Palace’ at Mqhekezweni to Johannesburg. The biggest of the South African cities gradually started showing him its awkward face demurred with the system of racial segregation. Apartheid firmly spread roots as an official policy of South Africa in 1948 as…
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Pluto & the New Horizons beyond
In history, the first man-made object has flown past the smallest yet the controversial planet of our solar system. They call it an age of exploration coming to an end. But, as an optimistic race we are bound to consider it as the beginning of a new age where we are unshackled to go beyond…
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The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Eighty years before, today Lhamo Thondup was born in a small village of Taktser that was politically a part of Qinghai, the Chinese Province. When he was three years old, he was identified as the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso. In 1950, when Tibet was in a political turmoil due to the…
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Leap second – How 2015 Gives You An Extra Second To Live?
Time is an indefinite concept; an illusion of multiple dimensions. The only purpose of our quest for knowledge is to interpret and understand the beginning of time or the events that precede its dawn. Thus in some way, time is an entity that becomes the hindmost juncture of our understanding of the origin and life…
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Yoga, Energy & The Misunderstanding
If you understand yoga as a series of exercises or stretching muscles and body parts, then you are mistaken. Rather it is the union of mind, body and the spirit. No wonder our understanding of yoga attributes only the physical phenomenon leaving behind the mind and spiritual phenomena, as our senses are familiarized in the…
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How Politics and Religion Demonize Each Other
Religion is not as old as the human life span on earth. Yet it has been successful in captivating the belief systems of billions of people and in creating a delusional ideology- that only the set of beliefs followed by oneself is superior over the rest- among most of the believers, if not all. We…
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The Eternal Language Of A Beautiful Mind
Mathematics is not just a tool for analysis but a language of divine nature that was skillfully wielded by the acumen of ‘A beautiful mind’ to herald this world, the sanctity of togetherness and unity. Equations are what mathematicians combat with, to prove their theories and corroborate with evidence to make them facts. John Forbes…
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Megathrust Earthquakes- The Big Ones
Is an earthquake of magnitude 10.5 possible? They call it as a megaquake and scientists say it is theoretically while practically not possible. Let us discuss some basic understanding of earthquakes, the megathrust earthquakes and the possibility of a 10.5 ‘Big One’. Earthquake is a natural phenomenon the earth surface or the tectonic plates have…